Student Name: Mridhul Iyer

Current Course: MSQE

Degree Before Masters: B.E. Mechanical Engineering

Company Name: Aptivaa
Job Role: Management Trainee
Duration of the Job Role: Full time

Hiring Process Overview:
Test + 1 interview

Questions Asked in Online Aptitude Test (if applicable):
4 sections, Personality test, Business math (arithmetic/quant aptitude type questions with DI questions), reasoning (typical cat LR questions), English(Mostly basic questions related to grammar and vocabulary. About 10 mins for each section. No negative marking and going back was not allowed so it was a test of speed.

Number of Interview Rounds:
1

Questions Asked in Round 1:
Questions related to my internship, was asked what methodologies I used for imputation, how did I modify it for my context. What are different types of model risk. Was asked 4 probability questions.

  1. Monty Hall Problem
  2. Probability of winning 5 times consecutively in a game of roulette.
  3. If there are 3 ants which could occupy any one of the sides of a triangle then what is the probability that no 2 ants end up on the same side.
  4. If I break a stick twice, what is the probability that the broken pieces form a triangle.

Then they moved on to behavioral questions.

  1. If I throw a ball and I have to make it stop voluntarily and come beack to me, how will I throw it?
  2. Why MSQE after engineering, why didnt I continue with engineering. Will I be satisfied with working 50 hrs a week on a problem statement at aptivaa. What kind of problems do I like to solve?
  3. Do I drink/smoke? I said I don’t smoke so they asked if a client asks me to join them on a smoke break, will I accompany them. What if they ask me to smoke, what if I am not in a position to deny?
  4. How will I build a rapport with my client? The expected answer was to take them to dinner/ have informal interaction with them.
  5. If I have a client and I have to build them a model for some regulatory purposes, if I build a suboptimal model, it will be better for the client since the regulator will ask the client to commit less capital, but an optimal model will lead to them commiting more capital, but a suboptimal model can be caught by the regulator who will then blane the client and client will pass on the blame to us. How will we prevent this situation altogether? What if the client doesn’t listen to you? 6.Am I an introvert or an extrovert? How many friends do I have here?

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Suggestions for Candidates (including resources, books, websites):
Interview is very random, be prepared for any kind of question, just make sure to have witty answers.

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