KEANE- INTERVIEW QUESTIONS 2008

##6 September 2007

In Keane there are FIVE rounds

1)WRITTEN TEST
(Generalaptitude(15),English(10),Logical(10))

2)GD

3)TECHNICAL

4)MR(family background and situation)

5)HR

Total time was 1hr 15 minutes
15 minutes for eassay i.e atleast 10 lines
in our college they given: any college tour

WRITTEN TEST:
Written test consists of TWO SETS i.e is SET6A,SET6B
THEY GIVE ONE SET IN ONE COLUMN AND ONE IN ANOTHER
IMPORTANT: QUESTION IN EACH SET ARE JUMBLED

Aptitude:

Try to prepare R.S.Agarwal that is safficient

The questions are in the following order
Please dont neglect this questions if your aim to get a job in Keane

1) 3 Cat can kill 3 Rats in 3 minutes then how much time 50 Cats will take to kill 100 Rats?
a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 d) 6

Ans 6

2)) From a chess board three blocks are chosen at random. What is the probability that the three blocks are from same diagonal?

Ans:1/372

3)Three types of animals, cockroach, mice and crow are there in a room. There are totally 50 heads and 150 tails in the room. No of cockroach is twice than the no mice. What are the no mice in the room?
a) 5 b) 10 c) 15 d) none of these
be aware that no of legs of cockroach is 6, mice 4 and crow 2.

Ans:5

4)A and B can do a piece of work in 15 and 20 days respectively. They worked together for 6 days then B is replaced by C.The work was finished in next 4 days . In how many days C alone can do the work.

Ans:c alone can do it in 120 days

5)Average tempt between Monday –Wednesday is 37 and average tempt between Tuesday-Thursday is 34. Monday’s tempt 4/5th of Thursday’s tempt. What is the tempt on Thursday.55

Ans :by solving the above one we get thurday=5*monday/4
by checking you get the answer.

6)Inside a square a circle is inscribed. What is the ratio of areas of circle to that of square?

Ans: let side of the square be x
so radius of the circle is x/2
area of circle to sruare
(3.14)(x/2)^2:x^2
(3.14):4

7)two rockets(X,Y) starts simultaneously. X launched from place of Y and Y launched from place of X. fixed dist b/w X n Y. if X landed in Y’s place in 1 sec and for Y it is 9 sec then X is how much faster than Y.

Ans: x is 9 times faster than the y

8)7 horses eat 7 carrots in 7 days,then 14 horses eat 14 carrots in how many days??

Ans:7(please prepare chain rule in r.s agarwal)

9)If two person start from same place and same time and walk in opposite directions 3miles and both turn towards their left and walk 4 miles .
What is the distance between them.

10)A cube of 3*3*3 id divided in to 1*1*1* and is coloured in green two opposite sides and red in adjacent sides and blue in other side.
How many number of cubes are uncoloured

11)A number divided by a divisor gives the reminder 24.if twice of that number divided by the same divisor it gives reminder 11.
What is the divisor.

VERBAL:

IN THIS SECTION THERE ARE A TOTAL OF 10 QUESTIONS

1) Sharmi is always late she never come___ time
a) at b) with in c) on d) before

Ans:WITH IN

2)It is very nice .. before i came here i didnt see it _________
a) any where b) anyone c) every one 4) every where

Ans: any where

3)She is very angry _____
A) isn`t she b) aren`t they c) didn`t she

Ans: is n,t she?

4)You should come to the college_______

Ans: Should n,t you?

5)One adjective question

Ans: for that one is handsome

6)She is with me for a long time . she is my friend ____ 1999
a) since b) still c) until D) on

Ans: since

like that another four questions are there but I dont remmeber they very easy don,t panic about this section

logical:

I don,t say this section is very very tough some what tough try to solve the R.S Agarwal reasoning book.


1) Blood relation question

2)Seating arrange ment

3)How many prime no.s are there in 5 successive no.s of avg 7.

Ans: Two(5,6,7,8,9)


GD ROUND:

In this round there are 216 people are there

They divided us to 18 batchs of 12 each

For ur batch they given
Why we are giving more importance to cricket than oter games

Some other topics were

1)Bcci vs icl

2)Air pollution

3)Influence of pictures on youth

4)Global warming

5)Reservations in higher education

6)Love marriage vs arranged marriage

7)Women managers vs men managers

and some other topics I don,t remmember

prepare general topics try to start the g.d and give some valid points they check only if you are talking or not

from our bath they take 10 out of 12 in some other groups they take only 3 to 4 be care ful

TECHNICAL ROUND

There are of total 7 panals 5 selecting and 2 rejecting in rejecting panals they mainly concentrate on unix, linux ,java so be care ful

My interview

I : May I come in sir

Sir:Come in

I : Good evening sir

Sir:How are you Chinna?

I : Fine sir

I : How are you sir?

Sir : Oh great

Sir: Tell me about yourself ?

I : I done it nicely,at that time he is observing my C.V
Sir:Can tell somethig about your p.p.t

I : I done it nicely

Sir:What are your areas of interests

I : Replied c,c++,dbms,java

Sir: What about os

I : Little bit sir(but actually i know os very well)

Sir: What is segmentation?,page fault,can you explain any pagereplacement algorithem,explain deadlok with an example,how can you avoid deadlock,fragmentation,paging,schduling,schduling algorithems and some oter questions

I : Answered most of the questions

Sir: What is the diff between C and C++

I : I explained ten differeces

Sir: What is the diff between structures and unions in the case of initialization

I : I explained vey well

Sir: Explain the features of c++

I : I explaned very well

Sir: He write one program i.e related to virtual functins
I : I explaned very well

Sir: He asked about friend functions

I: I explained very well

Sir: What is dbms?,explain multivaluedependency with an example?
I: I explained very well

Sir: He smiled ,we will meet again

MR ROUND

In this round they simply ask about your family background ,emcet rank,if your having any backlog don,t (i.e if you are failed once and cleared is also a backlog) attempt for this company . They check your original certificates at time of MR so be careful.

HR ROUND

There r three HR panals two men and one lady

They called me for H.R

I: May I come in sir

Sir:Wait a minute

I : After that I again may I come in sir

Sir: Come in take your seat

I : Thank you sir

Sir: Tell me about yourself

I : I told

Sir: What your areas of interest

I : Suddenly i wonder is it h.r or t.r

I : I once again explained C,C++,dbms,java

Sir: Ohhh dbms nice ma

Sir: What are diff types of dbms

I: I explained hyrarcial,relational etc

Sir: He asked a question in hyrarcial

I: Sir we don't have hyrarcial we are having only relational
Sir: Ok explain primary key,candidate key

I : I explained neatly by taking tables

Sir:What is the diff between primary key and candidate key
I: I explained

Sir:Explain forigen and super keys

I: I explained

Sir: What is meant by normalization?

I: I explained

Sir :Explain first and second normal forms

I: I explained nicely

Sir: When you are going to write gre?

I: I am not intersted

Sir: Why?

I: My first preference is job sir

Sir: Do have any questions?

I: What are the roles and responsibities in ur company ?
Sir: In ur company nice ma

I: Ok thak you sir

I know what you are egarly waiting for

i.e compensation they tell 2.9lack per anum in training period it is lasted for 4 to 6 months only
once they confirm your services they said they will increase up to 3.8 with in 16 months

at last the results were announced i am one of the person in the final list

so friends do n't panic if ur not selected in early placements try untill u succeed .remember friends this is my 7th company

ONE DAY UR ALL WILL BE SELECTED MAY GOD BLESS YOU



KEANE PAPER ON 20th AUGUST AT UTTAR PRADESH

Aptitude:
This section was easy, but you should focus on accuracy because it has the maximum wattage.
RS Agarwal (QA) is sufficient... especially chapters like time & work, time and distance, ratio proportion, average

Question mainly came from following sections…
1) 3 cat can kill 3 rats in 3 minutes then how much time 50 cats will take to kill 100 rats?
a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 d) 4

2) Three types of animals, cockroach, mice and crow are there in a room. There are totally 50 heads and 150 tails in the room. No of cockroach is twice than the no mice. What are the no mice in the room?
a) 5 b) 10 c) 15 d) none of these
be aware that no of legs of cockroach is 6, mice 4 and crow 2.

3) From a chess board three blocks are chosen at random. What is the probability that the three blocks are from same diagonal?
4) A and B can do a piece of work in 15 and 20 days respectively. They worked together for 6 days then B is replaced by C.The work was finished in next 4 days . In how many days C alone can do the work.

5) Average tempt between Monday –Wednesday is 37 and average tempt between Tuesday-Thursday is 34. Monday’s tempt 4/5th of Thursday’s tempt. What is the tempt on Thursday.55

English:
This section was very easy. Generally general use of prepotions, Adjectives.

Logical Reasoning:
This section was little bit tough. Questions were lengthy. U have to concentrate.

Few questions were,
Blood-relation was given among 10-12 people, they asked no of male in that…
One question of sitting arrangement on round table of three different couples, they asked some body’s husband.

2)GD
You can say that this is elimination round. Communication Skills is very important. Please give some valid and different points but don’t fight in GD. If they say u to wait then you shoul...

from our group they have taken 9 members out of 10. but in other groups they took 4-5 only. Try to start the GD or finish.
They told every body to give some positive and negative points on the discussions one by one.
1) IT impact on India
2) Impact of Indian cinema on youth
3) Politics
4) Ideal procedure of selection

3) Technical Interview
Interviewer was very cool...They used to check the essay also so write it clearly, avoid spelling and grammatical mistakes...they asked to me, branch related questions. specially if u r a non IT student... then why do u want to switch...About ur Projects... Training...My Interview duration was 45 minutes..30 minutes was average...

Question asked to me were,
Introduction
I cleared WIPRO’S Exam, they asked many questions from that.
They asked many question from Data Structure, C++, C specially from pointers.
So be clear and confident in giving ur answers.

4) HR Interview
It was the last process for the KEANE, My HR interview was very cool, Interviewe was very cool. In this round they used to asked some general questions.

Question asked to me were,
1) introduce urself
2) I am from west UP so she asked many questions about politics,
3) I m from UP Board so she asked which board is best UP or CBSE. About higher education?
4) What location u will prefer to work?
5) About UP and Karnataka politics... there current position in IT field, Economical view.
This round last around 30 minutes

So friends be confident in giving your answers. In Both interview they are going to check your confidence and communication skills specially in HR... Finally result announced and I was one of them.

Have faith in urself and GOD. See you at KEANE!!!


KEANE PAPER ON 21st SEPTEMBER


1-Written:-
it was very easy . first we were asked to write an essay (5-10 lines) 5 min. were given .then question paper was distributed there were 35 ques.
(i)15 apti each 4 marks,
(ii)10 verbal each 3 marks
(iii) 10 logical reasoning each 1 mark.
there was sectional cut off of 60% and no negetive marking.
each section was easy. only reasoning ques. were looking long,but they were also easy.
My suggestion to u is don't get scared with the length of reasoning ques.
for apti. refer to R.S.Agarwal,that is enough. ques. were frm trains,time &work, mixture rule, average, profit & loss.

u need not worry abt Verbal section.
logical resoning section consists of ques. like seating arrangement.

2-Group Discussion:- 9 groups each of 11 students were constituted . frm my group 6 were selected. Some of the topics given were-
Mobiles should be banned in clgs or not
20-20 cricket

KEANE PAPER ON 28th SEPTEMBER 2007

1) Written test:
Written test consists of 3 sections
Mathematical (15 questions each 4 marks)
Logical (10 questions each 3 marks)
Verbal (10 questions each 1 mark)
Time=1hr
Sectional cut off was there (So attempt from all sections) but no -ve marking.

Apart from that 1 hr they will give time for essay writing (To us they told to write essay on first, 10 min was there for that, In that time they distributed the question papers)

Aptitude: This section was easy, but you should focus on accuracy because it has the maximum weightage.

For this section you better go through RS Agarwal (QA) especially chapters like time & work, time and distance, ratio proportion, ages, allegation & mixture, average, SI,CI, Train problems..

Question mainly came from following sections..
1) 3 cat can kill 3 rats in 3 minutes then how much time 50 cats will take to kill 100 rats?
a) 1 b) 2 c) 3 d) 4
2) Three types of animals, cockroach, mice and crow are there in a room. There are totally 50 heads and 150 tails in the room. No of cockroach is twice than the no mice. What are the no mice in the room?
a) 5 b) 10 c) 15 d) none of these
Hint: no of leg of cockroach is 6, mice 4 and crow 2.
3) From a chess board three blocks are chosen at random. What is the probability that the three blocks are from same diagonal? (Sorry I can't remember options)
4) There are two bottles of alcohols, one is having 40% alcohol and other is having 19% alcohol. Some part from first bottle is replaced from 2nd bottle. Resultant mixture in first bottle is having 26% of alcohol. How much part from 1st bottle was replaced?
a) 1/5th b) ¼th c) 1/3rd d) none
5) A and B can do a piece of work in 15 and 20 days respectively. They worked together for 6 days then B is replaced by C. The work was finished in next 4 days. In how many days C alone can do the work.
6) Some problem related to train in which two different trains are starting from two different stations but not at same time. At what time they will meet in between?
7) Average tempt between Monday -Wednesday is 37 and average tempt between Tuesday-Thursday is 34. Monday's tempt 4/5th of Thursday's tempt. What is the tempt on Thursday.
8) Inside a square a circle is inscribed. What is the ratio of areas of circle to that of square?
9) One problem was related to age (it was easy only)

English: This section was very easy, with average knowledge of English u can clear this section. Generally general use of articles, prepotions. Some general uses of English

Reasoning: This section was really very tough. Questions were very lengthy; pattern was similar to TCS reasoning. U have to concentrate hard on this section.

Few questions were,
12 people blood-relation was given, they asked no of male in that..
One question of sitting arrangement on round table of three different couples, they asked some body's husband.
One question related to van diagram,
Some question related to DI.


KEANE PAPER ON 24th MARCH 2008

Hi friends, I am jaseem, doing my 6th semester btech electronics and communicaton in college of engineering perumon. Keane had come to my college on 24th march 2008. There were around 265 students for the test. In that about 120 cleared the test ,about 70 cleared GD,50 cleared Technical interview and finally about 41 got selected. And 30 was from our college.

The test pattern was same as previous placement papers. There is no negative marking. There was an essay writing about how college life has improved ur career. Then the test

had 15 quatitative,10 english and 10 logical. The english section was quite easy. simple grammer questions were there.

First of all before attending the test have a look on all the placement papers of keane from freshersworld website. Then select the common questions. This was what i did . Then i selected the chapters like

Time and work
Time and distance
Average
Percentage
Chain Rule
Probability

It is worth to buy R.S Agarwall text books.. Do the problems of above chapters from this text. At least do all the worked out examples.. Be thorough with the examples. And do some questions..Do more if u have time.. But never go for the test without looking the above chapters. The questions from above chapters are sure. but for me the first queston was from stocks and shares.but i didnt read only.

Then in the english section its based on ur knowledge in english.. A person who can speak english normally can do this section..

Then about verbal.. If u can concentrate well on the question u can do it..Be in a mood to do logical questions during the test. Ur mind should not be disturbed..

First do the questions which u know.. at least try questions which u hav lukd.if u didnt get dnt worry.try once more..in the first round u will be able to do atleast 15 to 20 questions. and at least 5 from quantitative. Then u will be left with some 20 minutes..In this time u can give a guess work..But not all. Try doing the quantitative section. try to eliminate the wrong answers if u are giving a guess work.

After this we had the GD. The topic was "Reservation good or not" .Try saying what u know But dnt say nonsense.Me and another guy was against reservation. But all others were for reservation. All together there were 10 students.

So 8 were against me. They were telling against me. So i was able to reply back to them..the people who eliminated didnt have good voice. But they told points. So try to speak loudly and clearly.in my batch GD 4 were eliminated.

Then we had the technical interview. The interviewer asked me my favourite topic. I told microprocessor. He asked several questions from 8086.also some from disital.then some general knowledge about my branch. Be confident with ur answer. The other candidates who told digital s there favourite subject were asked to draw gates, and other logical gates..

After tht i had the hr INERVIEW. In that the interviewer asked mt to introduce myself. And then asked me whetr i am interestd in highr studies,.....

Tell everytng clearly.. And have a smiling face.

So if u really try u will surely get placed.. Placement papers from freshers world helpd me a lot to clear the test.. The rest is in you.. Be Cool Calm and Confident.. One more thing.. never thing that only those who have luck will get.. luck is more for those who whave workd for it.Have faith in god... GOD BLESS YOU.....



KEANE PAPER ON 24th MARCH 2008

HAI FRIENDS I am Jinu Shamsudeen pursuing my 6th sem b-tech studies at college of engineering ,Perumon. in electronics and communication .I am here to share my experiences while attending the Keane selection process. Keane came to our college at 24th march 2008. around 256 students attended the selection process , and around 41 were selected.



Keane has mainly 4 selection rounds.
1. APTITUDE TEST
2. GROUP DISCUSSION
3. TECHNICAL INTERVIEW
4. HR INTERVIEW

The test pattern was same as previous placement papers. There is no negative marking. There was essay writing about how college life has improved ur career. The test comprised of 15 quantitative, 10 english and 10 logical. It is just easy to clear.Freshers world helped me a lot.Go through previous questions uploaded in this site. Also refer R.S AGGARWAL for quantitative questions. Plz go through chapters like time and distance, time and work, chain rule, ratio and proportion, averages, probability, profit and loss before going for the test.

Abt english those who have a fair knowledge of basic grammar is able to clear the test. Logical section was also easy. Questions from syllogisms, and seating arrangements were asked.

After the first round from 256 students about 125 cleared the test.

The next round was the gd. The main factor wat the keane was looking for was how confident ru. So be confident. Believe in urself. The GD group consists of 12 memebers . ther wer almost 13 gd panels. The topic of our group was “ GOVERNMENTS CONTRIBUTION TOWARD IT INDUSTRY”. Be confident while u speak. It doesn’t matter whether u support or oppose the subject..The matter is how confident r u while u speak.

70 cleared the gd .

The third round was the technical round. Here also be confident don’t be panic. They only ask u basic questions, go through the basic programs of C like reverse the string, palindrome,etc.The technical round is intended just to check how keen r we in studying our subjects. So I repeat be cool and confident while u speak. Don’t care abt how much right is ur answer. Whatever u know say it clearly with confidence.

50 cleared the tech interview

The fourth round is the hr round. In this round they ask questions based on ur resume. So have a good resume . They ask questions like introduce urself, then ur strengths etc. Just read the company ‘s profile before going for the test. It will be very useful. Be confient while u answer. Have a pleasant face.

Finally 41 were selected after hr interview.

Don’t be upset loosing one or two chances. This is my 5th attempt. I have been rejected at Infosys,Siemens, Satyam, L&T. Frankly speaking I havent cleared the first round of all these companies. So don’t loose ur confience.Believe in urself. And above all ALMIGHTY GOD.

There are all only 3 ways to success- confidence, confidence, &confidence.

So all the best and see u all at Keane.