verizon test paper 16 june 2004
Total Durtation of the interview : 45 Minutes
Step 1: We were asked to write a 100 word write-up on " Your greatest strength(s)that would help verizon".
We were asked to take the write-up with us when we go to the interview..
Step 2: Actual interview
The interviewing team introduced themselves.( there were two people - One person was asking technical questions and other person was asking HR questions) Both were asking questions alternatingly.
They went thru my write-up, and the HR person asked me an hypothetical situation " Assume you r working on a bidding . You quote a price after lot of analysis. At the last moment your boss says that you shud quote a lower price. what will u do"
he kept asking subsequent questions to corner me and was focussed on making me accept that i didnt have the quality that i mentioned in the write-up.
Technical person asked me wat i was comfortable with, c,c++ or java. i told Java.
What is inheritance
what is a constructor
can a constructor be private
can we OVERRIDE a constructor
are there pointers in java
why is there no pointers in java
Identify classses...for bus,car,cycle tricycle
The HR person took over and asked
Instances where i hav exhibited my leadership qualities.
How do i motivate my team members
What is my biggest achievement in life so far
what is my biggest failure and wat i learnt from it
The Technical person saw my Area of interest to be " DBMS" and started asking on DBMS
What are different types of databases
difference between RDBMS and File based databases
even in RDBMS the data is stoored as files , so why go for it
Three layered architecture
Can you change physical design
Write a simple employee and dept table
then he asked me to retrive all employees working in MCA dept( i wrote a nested subquery)
wat is the advantage of nested subquery. will it improve or reduce the performance
The HR person took over and
he saw that i have won prize in Marketing in Login and asked me what the event was and asked me how we won the event.
what i have learnt in college or wat the college has taught me apart from subjects
The technical person asked me what other subjects i hav learnt so far in curricular and he interrpted me when i said "Software quality Management"
what is quality
what is quality management
Difference between softwre engineering and SQM
The HR person took over and asked me one last question
I just want to know why you are wearing a tie
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They were focussed only on what we have mentioned in the resume and in the write-up.
So we must write things that we actually know in the resume
These were jus some of the questions that i could remember. There were lot of questions from my answers. So we need to be really careful while answering.