Tuesday, February 26, 2008

Lehman Brothers -3

Submitted By -Pratik Kulkarni
Email: pratikkul@yahoo.com
Lehman Brothers:
Position Offered – TDP (Technology Development Programme) DeveloperNo. of rounds – 3 (Aptitude test + Technical interview + HR interview)

About the Aptitude Test:
Conducted by Meritrac. Very similar to Accenture. Quite easy………and no essay!!!
Verdict – 91 out of around 200 shortlisted for interviews

HR Interview:
I was the first person to be interviewed!!! So I did not have any idea about the questions asked. Just went in to face it…..
It started with typical questions like Tell me about yourself, family background, why Lehman….. I was then given a couple of puzzles to solve. I had to think but ultimately got the right answer. One important tip – Speak whatever you are thinking. They want to see the way you go about solving it. They’ll give you hints if you are in the right direction. I was also asked about my projects. Which is your favourite project? On what platform did you implement it? Then started the real HR questions. What difficulties did you face during your project….difficulties in terms of man management, leadership? How did you tackle them? What weakness did you find out in yourself while working on the project? What did you do to overcome it? You need to remain cool and confident while answering such questions. Be consistent in your answers.
They focus on HR a lot. Some students had multiple HR interviews, stress interviews…

Technical Interview:
The main focus is on OOP concepts and databases. We had a kind of debate on why OOP exists and what are its advantages over procedural languages like C. They asked me about algorithms but it was far too simple. Different types of joins in Databases had to be revised. Overall, technical interview was relatively simple. Make sure you have your OOP concepts and database concepts strong.

Final Result – 39 people got through in Lehman Brothers!!!

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