Placement Preparation Resources

Quantitative aptitude and basic programming, in parallel, starting well before the placement season. Almost every recruiter screens on those two first, so weakness there means you never reach the interview rounds where your project work and communication would count.

Less than for a product company, but not none. Most IT services assessments test arrays, strings, basic recursion, sorting and searching, and simple problem solving under time pressure. Product companies go considerably deeper into trees, graphs and dynamic programming.

An aptitude round tests quantitative, logical and verbal reasoning under tight time limits, usually as multiple choice. A coding round asks you to write working programs judged by test cases. They need different practice: aptitude rewards speed and pattern recognition, coding rewards correctness and edge-case handling.

Prepare specific, honest examples rather than rehearsed lines. For each common question — a strength, a weakness, a conflict, a failure, why this company — have one real situation you can describe in terms of what happened, what you did and what changed as a result.