Tips for freshers

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Explore what you would want to pursue after your graduation.  In the first year, there is ample time to explore different paths. If you are interested in  branch change , then focusing solely on it might be a good option too. CPI matters a lot.  You should have a CPI of at least 8. Whatever happens, you should not let it go below 8, and in the worse case below 7. It's not like this should be your goal for the four years here, but just that you should maintain a good CPI, it helps you a LOT. Attend classes and tutorials.  It becomes a lot easier to get a good CPI if you are regular to classes. Sometimes a professor may suddenly fail students having attendance below 75% to create an example for the future batches, so it's always better to attend classes even after knowing professors past behavior. Play a sport or join a club or one of the fests . Explore different clubs but join only one, this is my opinion, you are free to decide for yourself. Join a fest, if you like it, t
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Summer Internships

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An internship is an experience of what the future holds for you, it is one chance of knowing what you are going into. In corporate, it gives you an insight into the company culture, quality of employees, work-life balance, presentation and communication skills and so on. Most importantly it allows you to understand what kind of work is currently being done in the industry.

Corporates lag behind the academic developments. There are many things that students venture in their college life like Machine Learning and Big Data that have still not been extensively applied in the industry. It is often hard to find work in these new regions as they are still taking time to penetrate the industry applications. Most often new academic research is applied by startups, it is best to look for opportunity in them if you are interested in that.

Coming to the internship season of IIT Guwahati.

The internship season is for pre-final year students only. It starts from the month of August and the companies keep visiting till the summers. As with all placement activities the most popular companies come early in August and the rest follow.

Week 1 usually includes Adobe, DE Shaw, Google, Goldman Sachs, JPMC, Microsoft, Rubrik, Tower Research, Uber. Mostly these companies come for Software Development Internships. Some also take Data Science, Quant and Design Interns.

From here on I will be discussing about Technical(Mostly Software Development) Roles only.

The usual procedure is an online test followed by interviews. Online test is conducted week(s) before the interview. The shortlist can be released anytime before the interviews, going as close as 12 hours before the interviews start.

The online test is mostly based on Data Structures and Algorithms. It is conducted on platforms like hackerrank, cocubes etc. Questions are framed as per usual competitive programming standards. The difficulty level varies between each company. Most important topics are dynamic programming, trees, graphs(its related algorithms also), strings and pointers. Getting good exposure to competitive programming is very essential for this. You can practice from interviewbit, codeforces, hackerrank.


Interview pattern differs for each company. The interviews can be broken down into three major segments: Coding, Coding + CV + Design(Usually taken by a manager) and HR.

To be Continued....

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