INTERVIEW-1

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Here is the experience of a person who actually appeared for L&T interview and have been

placed successfully . 

  

Name

Anjali Thorat

Branch

Electrical

College

sardar patel college of engineering

Company

Larsen & Toubro Limited

Month and year of interview

7/25/2015

Company profile

L&T is a core company.It is US $ 15 billion company & is engaged in Oil & Gas , infrastructure , power sector , Process industries , defense & heavy engineering. Infrastructure sector consists of mono rail/metro rail , large bridges & highways , airports etc. Recently new international air port at Mumbai i.e. Terminal 1 is built by L & T. Besides this , it is also in real estate sector. Apart from these , L & T is also in the business of IT & financial services .

Group Discussion Topic

Group discussion topic was "Is democracy hampering India's growth?"

Technical Round

The interviewer asked me my favorite subject and topic. On that basis the further questions were asked. 

1. Draw the equivalent diagram of transformer and explain what each element in the circuit represents? 

2. Draw the phasor diagram for transformer circuit. 

3. If we want to increase the efficiency of transformer what will you do?

4. How can you decrease iron losses? 

5. What is saturation? 

6. Tell about the different types of motor? 

7. In squirrel cage motor, rotor has 34 bars out of which 2 bars are broken . How is it going to affect the performance of the motor?

HR round

Hr interview: They first asked me to introduce myself. Then after all the technical questions, then started with HR round. They asked me in which area ( operation, projects, designing etc) I m interested in working and why? I answered that my area of interest is projects and gave my reason. 

     Then the interviewer gave me situation that if I was travelling from Mumbai to Assam for my project and I have to reach in two days. but on my way ,all my luggage gets stolen in Bihar. Interviewer asked me to consider him as TC and asked me to convince him my situation and make sure I reach my destination on time.

Any advice

There are few important things: 

1. Know well about the company and companies ongoing projects. 

2. Be well prepared with common HR questions. 

3. Be truthful. Don't fake yourself ,as interviewer can easily catch it.

Hope this help's you.

PLACEMENT'S

 

 Hello everyone,

         
             I first thought of creating this page when i spent days searching the net for some detailed information on interviews and the placement procedures of the companies that were going to visit our college campus  for placements ,but  i failed to get a good source of information available on the net about interviews and campus placement procedures conducted by core ELECTRICAL companies .So on this page you will find interview information of most of the core companies related to  ELECTRICAL engineering field.

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 The first company about which i am going to tell you about is:

   Yes this is dream company for many fresh electrical engineers including me, and now we will have a look at the placement procedure of this company.

  The company recruits many engineers every year through campus placement drives conducted in reputed colleges across India as "GRADUATE ENGINEER TRAINEES".

   The placement procedure goes as follows(may have minor changes which will be mentioned):

   1. Aptitude test(general and technical) : 

The aptitude test is the elimination round from which approximately only 40 to 50% candidates are selected for further rounds.

The general aptitude is generally long having basic sections like VERBAL,LOGICAL,NUMERICAL,the duration of the test is 60 min(may change) having nearly 20-25 questions in each section so nearly 60-70 question in all.

The technical aptitude is concepts based consisting of core topics from your 3 years of engineering syllabus

Major topics to be prepared for:

Basic Electrical engineering concepts(star-delta transformation, RMS concept of current and voltage,AC circuits etc)

Machines:This is most important topic but not everything is important from placement preparation point of view focus on topics like 

Transformer(Hysteresis and eddy current losses,efficiency,ratings of transformer and equivalent circuit etc)

Induction motor(Go through concepts of synchronous speed,slip,torque characteristics and different starting methods in both 3-phase and ,1-phase etc.)

besides this all go through concepts of Dc machines(types of dc motors/generators etc) and synchronous machine.

Power system: another important topic,but very vast so study selected topics like 

per unit system,faults(types and fault current levels),Circuit breakers(types and ratings),concepts of earthing and neutral and there effect on system,insulation grades with temperature ranges etc.

topics like control system,emf,micro-controllers are not asked generally as they want to test your core subjects knowledge

point to remember: test has a sectional cut off so be prepared for each section equally ,every section is important and you need to cross the cutoff in each section.

where to prepare from: 

General aptitude: No special book for preparing as such, because the test is basic so be clear with the basics, you can refer any aptitude book for this.

Technical aptitude: There are many book available you can refer your old engineering book they are more then sufficient,i would list some of them like

P.S.Bhimra or J.B.Gupta for machines,C.L.Wadhwa or Nagrath kothari for power system and Badriram for protection ,for Basics you can refer B.R.Patil.(this were the books i referred you may refer any other book you feel comfortable understanding)

so hope you find the above information useful and be successful in clearing this round and now lets have a look at the next round

 2.Group Discussion(G.D) : Chill!!! this is not a elimination round but there is weightage for this round as well which will be considered further so give your best shot.

In the next post i will post experiences of some people who have actually appeared for L&T interview and have been successfully placed.