Role: Business Technology Solution Associate (BTSA)
College: B.E. (Tier 2)
Interview Date: August 2023
Interview Type: On-Campus, Full-Time
Result: Selected
Difficulty: Medium to Hard (Unstructured Problem Solving was toughest)
Rounds: 4 rounds
Topics Asked: Reasoning Ability, Analytical Ability, Problem Solving, Unstructured Problem Solving, Numerical Ability, Critical Thinking, Verbal Ability, Communication Skills (Reading, Speaking, Writing), SQL (Debugging, Joins, Pattern Matching, Group By, Aggregate, Window Functions), Programming (LeetCode Easy-Medium), Guesstimates, Projects, Internship Experience, Managerial Questions, Situational Questions, Team-based Questions
Experience:
This candidate was selected for the BTSA role on-campus.
Round 1 (Online Assessment - 59 Questions | 6 Sections | 52 Minutes):
- **Section 1: Reasoning Ability (25 Questions | 5 min):** Fast-paced, questions on series, alphabetic patterns, mirror images, overlapping images.
- **Section 2: Analytical Ability and Problem Solving (8 Questions | 8 min):** Questions on directions, encoding/decoding, blood relations, Venn diagrams.
- **Section 3: Unstructured Problem Solving (2 Questions | 14 min):** Toughest section. Involved guessing a number in a range based on a case study with 12-15 data points, requiring filtering relevant data.
- **Section 4: Numerical Ability (8 Questions | 8 min):** Questions on Probability, Permutation, Sets, Profit/Loss, Simple and Compound Interest.
- **Section 5: Critical Thinking (8 Questions | 12 min):** Inferring insights from options after reading paragraphs.
- **Section 6: Verbal Ability (8 Questions | 5 min):** Questions on Tenses, Fill in the blanks, jumbled sentences, error correction, paragraph rephrasing.
Round 2 (Online Assessment - Verbal Assessment):
- **Section 1:** Reading and recording multiple statements/audio clips (some 16 seconds long, played once).
- **Section 2:** Given a topic on the spot, 1:45 min to think, then speak for 60 seconds.
- **Section 3:** Paragraph played once, followed by MCQs and fill-in-the-blanks.
Round 3 (Online Technical Assessment - 60 min for 3 sections): This was a major eliminatory round.
- **Section 1 (MCQ based on SQL):** Not specified detail, but general SQL MCQs.
- **Section 2 (Programming Question):** 1 LeetCode Easy-Medium question. C++, Java, Python were mentioned as allowed languages, but C++ was not available during the test.
- **Section 3 (Writing SQL query):** 2 SQL queries, mostly on JOINS, Pattern Matching, GROUP BY clause. Also basic query debugging questions based on DROP, SELECT, GROUP BY, Aggregate and Window Functions.
Round 4 (Technical + HR): This 1-hour interview was with a BTS manager.
- Questions around Guesstimate, SQL, Hackathon attended and problems solved during it.
- Project discussion focusing on database aspects.
- Previous Internship experience.
- Managerial Questions, understanding of BTSA role, situation-based questions, team-based questions, handling and solving event-related problems.