Harman international Interview Expereince For Associate engineer
Round 1: Online assessment ( Elitmus test (2 hrs) + Technical assessment by Harman (3 hrs)
CGPA < 8.2 was shortlisted for round 1
- Elitmus pH test consisting of aptitude questions with great difficulty though sufficient time is given.
- Technical assessment consists of CN, OOPS, OS and two coding questions.
- After 17 days, we got results for the interview and three days before the d day.
- I was asked to submit (mail)my previous 4-semester marksheet, and ID card to talent acquisition.
8 out of 117 students were shortlisted for round 2
Round 2: Technical round
It was a virtual online interview.
- I was asked to introduce myself. When I started introducing myself and switched to my projects and skills. He interrupted me and told me ” I want to know more about you, why don’t you describe your hobbies and college life?”. I started talking about my hobbies.
- He asked me” What challenges did you face in your college life?”
I told them I had a backlog and about my denial phase. - He asked me “Your 10th and 11th marks are good, but your Btech marks are not upto it’s par.”
I have told about my health reasons. He asked me “Is your health good now?” - Then He started questions about my resume. ( Be prepared)
I was asked about every project. The questions included about every project are:
- Are you a team player or team leader?
- If you are a team leader, what challenges did you face? how did you make your teammates productive? what roles did you contribute and how did you allocate the responsibilities, etc..
- Are you more suited to be a team player or team leader?
- What are the modules of each project?
- Which tech stack have I used?
- Then He asked me which language I was comfortable in.
I told “Python and c. But I use Python for competitive programming” - He asked me “Do we use Java or C++ for programming? How do you cope?”
I told ” It’s all about logic, logic is the medium to solve a program, not syntax” - He asked me ” Does Python support OOPs?”
I said yes. - He asked me “What are OOPs and explained with examples.
I said ” OOPs are nothing but representing real-world elements in the programming world. I took a bottle beside me and said bottle is the class and opencap() and closecap() are methods.” - He asked me ” Why can’t you do OOPs in C? It has structures, right?
I told ” C doesn’t support pillars of OOPs” - He asked me ” What are the pillars of OOPs?
- Then I was asked to code for polymorphism in Notepad.
I did examples of shapes - He asked me to design the algorithm for string reversal
I did a most efficient pointer approach and he was impressed. - Later, he asked me if there were any questions.
I have asked :
- Are there any upskill programs in Harman?
- About work culture?
- Any feedback for me?
Round 3: HR Round
4 out of 8 are selected
- Tell me about yourself
- Work location choices
- Invention vs innovation
- What will you do as a team manager if your team member is not working?
- Any questions
After 13 days, our results are out.
3 out of 4 were selected. I was one of them.
Suggestions from my side:
- Don’t give up at any point in time.
- Be confident
- Ask the right questions if they tell you to ask any questions. This makes it builds the conversation.
- Be prepared with a resume fully ( very important)