Z S Associates
Company operates in an attractive domain: Consulting. There was a large number of students appeared for the process. Company visited MNIT Jaipur on 2-3 August, 2010
Offer by the company:
Eligibility
B.Tech
Profile Offered
1) BOA (Business Operational Associate)
2) BTA (Business Technical Associate)
Location
Across India
Placement Process Detail:
Procedure
Status
Comment
Short listing
Yes
Higher CGPA preferred
Written test
Yes
--
Group Discussion
Yes
General Topic
Case Study
Yes
Data Interpretation based
Behavioral Interview
Yes
Technical + HR
Interview
Yes
1 round (Tech+HR)
Result
Available
7 Students selected
Other Description:
Recruitment for BTA Profile: (Experience shared by Mr Ravi Kanthaliya)
Shortlisting: Short listing of CV has been done on basis of CGPA only.
Written Test:
The written test was of around 1 hour duration. It includes 5 questions.
Q. 1) What are your future goals in your career? How ZS will help you to accomplish these short term and long term goals?
Ans.) The answer can vary person to person. I wrote that I want to improve my business and management skills and my leadership skills and ZS as a sales and marketing consultancy will help me to achieve them by giving some experience in that field and additional responsibilities etc.
Q.2) (A situation was given. ) You are a project manager in your company. The company is going to fire some employees after the completion of current project. How do you encourage the people working under you to work in that project?
Ans. ) I will tell them that there are few chances that you will get fired and also if you do not work then the chances will be more but if you do work in project and if you will make a good contribution to project than it may possible that you may get appraisal from the company. So have faith in yourself and do your best.
Q.3) Some tables are given and we have to perform data checking (Means how will you perform quality checking) ( A tougher one out of 5 questions )
Ans.) For this, It will be a great advantage for you if you know the data validation methods. I have read this from wikipedia on the morning of 2nd only and get this question right. Here is the link...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_validation#Validation_methods
Q.4) Write an algorithm to match a string against a wildcard string. For e.g. "Here is t* l?nk." should me matched to "Here is the link.".
Ans. ) You can get it from here...
http://vijayinterviewquestions.blogspot.com/2007/07/write-c-program-which-does-wildcard.html
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/string/wildcmp.aspx
Q. 5) It was a quite easy question. Two people are at 2/3rd portion of a tunnel suddenly they heard a signal of a train. They started run in opposite direction at an speed of 10km/hour and both of them were able to get out of the tunnel just before the train could hit them. Find the speed of the train?
Ans. ) Answer is 30 km/hour
Note: A total of around 180 students have appeared (for BTA and BOA) for written test, out of them 50 were shortlisted for 2nd round.
Group Discussion: There was a group discussion round in the process. Current affair topics were discussed. Focus on clarity of thoughts.
In this round they made a group of 8-9 peoplen and the topic of GD in my group was "WHICH IS A BIGGER THREAT TO INDIA - TERRORISM OR NAXALISM". It was around a 10-15 minute group discussion and at last every person was asked to summarize about the topic (1 minute at max)
Note: - 28 candidates were shortlisted for the 3rd round.
Case Study:
In this round the groups of 4-5 people were made and they have to solve a case study. They gave us some papers , we have to study them and then solve the 4 questions given at the end of the case study set. We were given a 30 minutes of time.
The case study was about a game developing company which is going to launch its 3rd game.
The already launched 2 games were not of that much profitable for the company so this time company has conducted a survey to get the interest of the people of different age groups in the game.
The survey data was given. Also due to limited budget, the company cannot launch game in every gaming center in the country so some data was given for around 30 gaming centers like no. of consoles at each gaming center, int annual income, the interest of age groups in %, the location of center, its affiliation, the city in which the center is located, the center ID etc. (This data was given in 2 tables)
We have to analyze the two tables and the survey data and answer these questions:
1) Make a strategy to select gaming centers by using the given data.
2) Make some formulas to select gaming centers by analyzing the given data.
3) Perform some quality checks on the given tables.
4) What new data should be there in the table, so that you can improve your strategy?
After this an there was an interview of around 20 minutes. In which the interviewer asked me about the answers of the above questions. All you have to do is explain the answers of the above questions and logic behind your strategy.
Note: - 21 students were shortlisted for the 4th round. This was the last round of the day. The 4th round was on the next day.
Behavioral Interview
On the next day I was the 3rd person who was interviewed. Interviews are going parallel in 3 rooms.
For BOA it was totally managerial interview. For BTA profile it is a tech plus management interview.
The person interviewing me has worked in Infosys for 8 years (As he told me.). The interview process was like this
Q.) Tell me something about your summer internship.
A.) I told him that I have done my summer intern on CLICKER RESPONSE SYSTEM in IIT, BOMBAY. It was basically a device used to conduct quizzes in classrooms. My work was on hardware part. After hearing this he asked me that oh, so you have worked on hardware? I replied, Yes. Then he asked, On which platform? I replied that in Embedded C. Then he told me ok, then leave this. (I think he was much interested in software part)
Q.) Tell me something about your other projects which you have done in you college and what is your area of interest.
A. ) I told him my area of interest is Computer Networking and then told him about some of my projects like ATM system implemented in JAVA and describes a little bit.
Q.) Why did you use JAVA, why not other language?
A. ) I told him that It is platform independent, open source and GUI development is easy in java.
Q.) How do you implement GUI in JAVA?
A.) In core Java by using AWT packages and in advance java we use swing packages.
Q.) Why are you interested in JAVA more?
A.) I answered that it was in our course in 2nd year and till that time we know a little bit of programming as we have already learned C in our 1st year. Also I have done coaching of JAVA from NIIT in the summer vacations of 1st year and devoted my whole 2nd year for JAVA only. That's created my interest in JAVA.
and then I told him that It's not like that I have worked only in JAVA, I have also made 3 websites. (The turning point of my interview because after saying this most of my interview was based on websites only.)
Q.) Tell me something about the websites, you have made.
A.) I described about all 3 websites. Then he asked me about the backend used; in websites.
Q.) What is client-server communication? How it is implemented?
Q.) How a request is sent to a server, when you open a website?
Q.) What is difference between a request to a web server and a normal client-server communication?
Q.) Tell me a moment in your career when you feel proud to be yourself?
Q.) Tell me a situation in which you were caught in a problem and no one knew how to come out of that problem, and then suddenly a solution arises to your mind and you solved the problem.
Then he gave me two puzzles to solve.
1st) Write an algorithm to reverse a string word by word and also maintain the case of alphabets place by place. (For e.g. "My nAme is rAVi" is input then output should be "Ym eMan si iVAr" )
Ans.) I explained to break the string into tokens using space(" ") as a delimiter and store it to a string array. Then reverse each element of that array maintaining the case as in the original string("nAme" will be "emAn").
Now take the difference of every letter of every element of string array and if the difference is greater then 32 then change the case else maintain the case
2nd) Water-Jug problem. How to measure a 4 liter of water using a 5-liter and a 3-liter jug without using any measuring device
After giving answers to both the puzzles, He said do you want to ask any questions?
I asked him that what will be the chances to get a promotion in you company and What type of work I will have to do in your company and Is there any training provided by the company?
Overall it was a good interview experience.
Personal Interview (Duration: 20-25 mins)
It was the interview with the head of ZS ASSOCIATE in India. He asked me very simple questions like :
1) How is your interview experiance till now?
A) I answered that It's NICE. Then he asked me NICE....hmm...then tell me how is it nice? Then I answered that I have explained quality checks well in case study part and also the behavioral interview was mainly based on my strong points like JAVA, DBMS and I have also made 3 websites.
Then he asked me some questions about the websites which I have made
2) Why do you want to join ZS?
3) What are business skills? (As I have mentioned this term in the answer of the above question)
4) What is the difference between a technical oriented software and a business oriented software?
A) I told him that Languages upto 3GL's are used in the former one while 4GL languages are used in the later one.
5) What are 3GL and 4GL languages? What are the differences between them?<br />
6) Where do you see yourself after 10 years?
Then he told me that do you want to ask any questions? I have asked him on which type of platform I will have to work, will it be OLAP or 4GL tools or some other and can I switch between them?
Finally they selected 7 people out of 21. (2 for BTA and 5 for BOA)
Company profile:
ZS Associates is a global management consulting firm specializing in sales and marketing consulting, capability building, and outsourcing.
ZS has deep expertise across the sales and marketing spectrum, from the strategic to the tactical. ZS has served clients in more than 70 countries and across more than 25 industries.
Company operates in an attractive domain: Consulting. There was a large number of students appeared for the process. Company visited MNIT Jaipur on 2-3 August, 2010
Offer by the company:
Eligibility
B.Tech
Profile Offered
1) BOA (Business Operational Associate)
2) BTA (Business Technical Associate)
Location
Across India
Placement Process Detail:
Procedure
Status
Comment
Short listing
Yes
Higher CGPA preferred
Written test
Yes
--
Group Discussion
Yes
General Topic
Case Study
Yes
Data Interpretation based
Behavioral Interview
Yes
Technical + HR
Interview
Yes
1 round (Tech+HR)
Result
Available
7 Students selected
Other Description:
Recruitment for BTA Profile: (Experience shared by Mr Ravi Kanthaliya)
Shortlisting: Short listing of CV has been done on basis of CGPA only.
Written Test:
The written test was of around 1 hour duration. It includes 5 questions.
Q. 1) What are your future goals in your career? How ZS will help you to accomplish these short term and long term goals?
Ans.) The answer can vary person to person. I wrote that I want to improve my business and management skills and my leadership skills and ZS as a sales and marketing consultancy will help me to achieve them by giving some experience in that field and additional responsibilities etc.
Q.2) (A situation was given. ) You are a project manager in your company. The company is going to fire some employees after the completion of current project. How do you encourage the people working under you to work in that project?
Ans. ) I will tell them that there are few chances that you will get fired and also if you do not work then the chances will be more but if you do work in project and if you will make a good contribution to project than it may possible that you may get appraisal from the company. So have faith in yourself and do your best.
Q.3) Some tables are given and we have to perform data checking (Means how will you perform quality checking) ( A tougher one out of 5 questions )
Ans.) For this, It will be a great advantage for you if you know the data validation methods. I have read this from wikipedia on the morning of 2nd only and get this question right. Here is the link...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_validation#Validation_methods
Q.4) Write an algorithm to match a string against a wildcard string. For e.g. "Here is t* l?nk." should me matched to "Here is the link.".
Ans. ) You can get it from here...
http://vijayinterviewquestions.blogspot.com/2007/07/write-c-program-which-does-wildcard.html
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/string/wildcmp.aspx
Q. 5) It was a quite easy question. Two people are at 2/3rd portion of a tunnel suddenly they heard a signal of a train. They started run in opposite direction at an speed of 10km/hour and both of them were able to get out of the tunnel just before the train could hit them. Find the speed of the train?
Ans. ) Answer is 30 km/hour
Note: A total of around 180 students have appeared (for BTA and BOA) for written test, out of them 50 were shortlisted for 2nd round.
Group Discussion: There was a group discussion round in the process. Current affair topics were discussed. Focus on clarity of thoughts.
In this round they made a group of 8-9 peoplen and the topic of GD in my group was "WHICH IS A BIGGER THREAT TO INDIA - TERRORISM OR NAXALISM". It was around a 10-15 minute group discussion and at last every person was asked to summarize about the topic (1 minute at max)
Note: - 28 candidates were shortlisted for the 3rd round.
Case Study:
In this round the groups of 4-5 people were made and they have to solve a case study. They gave us some papers , we have to study them and then solve the 4 questions given at the end of the case study set. We were given a 30 minutes of time.
The case study was about a game developing company which is going to launch its 3rd game.
The already launched 2 games were not of that much profitable for the company so this time company has conducted a survey to get the interest of the people of different age groups in the game.
The survey data was given. Also due to limited budget, the company cannot launch game in every gaming center in the country so some data was given for around 30 gaming centers like no. of consoles at each gaming center, int annual income, the interest of age groups in %, the location of center, its affiliation, the city in which the center is located, the center ID etc. (This data was given in 2 tables)
We have to analyze the two tables and the survey data and answer these questions:
1) Make a strategy to select gaming centers by using the given data.
2) Make some formulas to select gaming centers by analyzing the given data.
3) Perform some quality checks on the given tables.
4) What new data should be there in the table, so that you can improve your strategy?
After this an there was an interview of around 20 minutes. In which the interviewer asked me about the answers of the above questions. All you have to do is explain the answers of the above questions and logic behind your strategy.
Note: - 21 students were shortlisted for the 4th round. This was the last round of the day. The 4th round was on the next day.
Behavioral Interview
On the next day I was the 3rd person who was interviewed. Interviews are going parallel in 3 rooms.
For BOA it was totally managerial interview. For BTA profile it is a tech plus management interview.
The person interviewing me has worked in Infosys for 8 years (As he told me.). The interview process was like this
Q.) Tell me something about your summer internship.
A.) I told him that I have done my summer intern on CLICKER RESPONSE SYSTEM in IIT, BOMBAY. It was basically a device used to conduct quizzes in classrooms. My work was on hardware part. After hearing this he asked me that oh, so you have worked on hardware? I replied, Yes. Then he asked, On which platform? I replied that in Embedded C. Then he told me ok, then leave this. (I think he was much interested in software part)
Q.) Tell me something about your other projects which you have done in you college and what is your area of interest.
A. ) I told him my area of interest is Computer Networking and then told him about some of my projects like ATM system implemented in JAVA and describes a little bit.
Q.) Why did you use JAVA, why not other language?
A. ) I told him that It is platform independent, open source and GUI development is easy in java.
Q.) How do you implement GUI in JAVA?
A.) In core Java by using AWT packages and in advance java we use swing packages.
Q.) Why are you interested in JAVA more?
A.) I answered that it was in our course in 2nd year and till that time we know a little bit of programming as we have already learned C in our 1st year. Also I have done coaching of JAVA from NIIT in the summer vacations of 1st year and devoted my whole 2nd year for JAVA only. That's created my interest in JAVA.
and then I told him that It's not like that I have worked only in JAVA, I have also made 3 websites. (The turning point of my interview because after saying this most of my interview was based on websites only.)
Q.) Tell me something about the websites, you have made.
A.) I described about all 3 websites. Then he asked me about the backend used; in websites.
Q.) What is client-server communication? How it is implemented?
Q.) How a request is sent to a server, when you open a website?
Q.) What is difference between a request to a web server and a normal client-server communication?
Q.) Tell me a moment in your career when you feel proud to be yourself?
Q.) Tell me a situation in which you were caught in a problem and no one knew how to come out of that problem, and then suddenly a solution arises to your mind and you solved the problem.
Then he gave me two puzzles to solve.
1st) Write an algorithm to reverse a string word by word and also maintain the case of alphabets place by place. (For e.g. "My nAme is rAVi" is input then output should be "Ym eMan si iVAr" )
Ans.) I explained to break the string into tokens using space(" ") as a delimiter and store it to a string array. Then reverse each element of that array maintaining the case as in the original string("nAme" will be "emAn").
Now take the difference of every letter of every element of string array and if the difference is greater then 32 then change the case else maintain the case
2nd) Water-Jug problem. How to measure a 4 liter of water using a 5-liter and a 3-liter jug without using any measuring device
After giving answers to both the puzzles, He said do you want to ask any questions?
I asked him that what will be the chances to get a promotion in you company and What type of work I will have to do in your company and Is there any training provided by the company?
Overall it was a good interview experience.
Personal Interview (Duration: 20-25 mins)
It was the interview with the head of ZS ASSOCIATE in India. He asked me very simple questions like :
1) How is your interview experiance till now?
A) I answered that It's NICE. Then he asked me NICE....hmm...then tell me how is it nice? Then I answered that I have explained quality checks well in case study part and also the behavioral interview was mainly based on my strong points like JAVA, DBMS and I have also made 3 websites.
Then he asked me some questions about the websites which I have made
2) Why do you want to join ZS?
3) What are business skills? (As I have mentioned this term in the answer of the above question)
4) What is the difference between a technical oriented software and a business oriented software?
A) I told him that Languages upto 3GL's are used in the former one while 4GL languages are used in the later one.
5) What are 3GL and 4GL languages? What are the differences between them?<br />
6) Where do you see yourself after 10 years?
Then he told me that do you want to ask any questions? I have asked him on which type of platform I will have to work, will it be OLAP or 4GL tools or some other and can I switch between them?
Finally they selected 7 people out of 21. (2 for BTA and 5 for BOA)
Company profile:
ZS Associates is a global management consulting firm specializing in sales and marketing consulting, capability building, and outsourcing.
ZS has deep expertise across the sales and marketing spectrum, from the strategic to the tactical. ZS has served clients in more than 70 countries and across more than 25 industries.
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