Lehman Brothers 1

My Name: Jinal Shah
Email Add: Jinal_gshah@yahoo.co.in
Company Name: Lehman Brothers
Location Offered: Mumbai
Position Offered: TDP Developer
Date of Campus: 14th Dec,2007
Their planned Batch Size: 80 for 2008
There were 3 rounds:
Aptitude Test on 14th Dec
Technical Interview on 18th Dec
HR interview on 18th Dec

Aptitude Test (75 mins):
Aptitude test consisted of 3 sections: There were 3 separate sections and each section had alloted time after which paper was taken and next section paper was given.
1. Verbal Ability and Reading Comprehension (20 mins- 25 questions): this had questions on finding incorrect sentences, rearranging sentences to form logical paras and RC's . You have to be very fast!
2. Maths (very very easy) ( 30 mins-25questions): there were different venn diagrams and logical reasoning questions.
3.Attention to details (very very easy) (25 mins- 25 questions) : questions on find the odd man out amongst the figures etc.

MeriTrac agency had set the papers.

Technical Interview:
There were panels of 2 people . Questions were based on projects done mainly from your resume.
I was asked about my java project done in 5th sem. My role in the project. How did we go about it ie.stages of development and few technicalities.
Few things from my resume.
Any situation where i faced bottleneck and then managed well out of it.
Some students were asked questions on data structures, C and C++ And yes in the end some puzzles were asked!

HR Interview: (Some people had stress interviews too!)
HR Interview were general.
Questions like
why lehman?
Why not other offers that you have? Why not Google or Microsoft?(He insisted on this one)
Strengths/ Weakness?
Family Background?
From resume.. Some pleasant acievement?
What kind of projects you would like to do?

Some people had more than 2 rounds of interviews (ie. Upto 4 interviews)
After aptitude test 91 people were shortlisted and after interviews 39 people were selected from VJTI.I was one of them too...