Big Tech, Big 4 & IB Campus Interview Preparation

Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Flipkart, Big 4, investment banks and analytics-consulting campus interviews

The elite campus loops: Amazon Leadership Principles and coding rounds, Microsoft and Google DSA and design rounds, Flipkart-style machine coding, Big 4 case and guesstimate rounds, investment-bank accounting and valuation grills, and APM product-sense interviews. Every round is talk-through and scored on structure, specifics and metrics, the way the real panels score it.

The companies themselves, through campus placement cells and off-campus hiring programmes: Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Flipkart, Swiggy and Zepto for SDE roles; Deloitte USI, EY GDS, KPMG and PwC for analyst roles; Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley, Barclays, Citi and HSBC for analyst and graduate programmes; ZS, Mu Sigma and startups for analytics, product and business roles 4 roles 2 languages 9 AI interviewers

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What this interview looks like

These companies hire from campus through an online assessment followed by two to four interview rounds held on a single day or across a week. Amazon runs coding rounds and a Bar Raiser round built entirely on Leadership Principles stories; Microsoft and Google run DSA and design rounds plus a culture or 'Googleyness' discussion; Flipkart, Swiggy and Zepto add a machine-coding or low-level design round. Deloitte USI, EY GDS, KPMG and PwC run a group discussion or case, a technical or case interview and an HR round. Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan and Morgan Stanley run two or three back-to-back interviews that mix accounting, valuation, markets and behavioural questions; Barclays, Citi and HSBC lean on strengths-based and competency interviews. ZS and Mu Sigma run data cases and guesstimates; APM programmes run product-sense, metrics and execution rounds. ExamPilot compresses the loop into one 17-minute panel: an HR screen, a hiring-manager round in the Amazon Bar Raiser style on your real projects, a role round that talks through code, a case, a model or a product problem, a Leadership Principles STAR round, and a closing. Real loops are pass or fail per round and the hiring manager or bar raiser holds a veto; here every round is scored against the corporate rubric with feedback on the specifics and numbers you did and did not give.

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Choose your role

4 roles available

Each role has its own panel, rounds and domain list.

What to expect

5 rounds, one after another

A private-sector hiring loop compressed into one sitting, the way most Indian companies run it: HR screen → hiring-manager round on your actual work → role/technical round led by a lead → communication & behavioural (STAR) round → closing on expectations and your questions. Works for software, product, sales, finance, HR, support and campus hiring by swapping the role bank.

  1. Round 1

    HR screen

    · 3:00

    Understand background, motivation for this role and company, and basic logistics; check that the resume story holds together.

    Ms. Neha Kulkarni
    2–3 questionsup to 1 follow-up each
  2. Round 2

    Hiring-manager round

    · 4:00

    Assess ownership, judgement and how the candidate actually works: what they shipped, closed or ran, their specific part, and how they would approach this job.

    Mr. Karthik Venkataraman
    2–3 questionsup to 2 follow-ups each
  3. Round 3

    Role / technical round

    · 5:00

    Test role knowledge and problem-solving in the chosen specialisation: fundamentals, one scenario to think through aloud, and trade-offs.

    Ms. Ananya Sen
    3–4 questionsup to 2 follow-ups each
  4. Round 4

    Communication & behavioural round

    · 3:00

    Assess collaboration, conflict handling, resilience and clarity of expression through Situation–Task–Action–Result examples.

    Mr. Karthik Venkataraman
    2–2 questionsup to 1 follow-up each
  5. Round 5

    Expectations & closing

    · 2:00

    Cover practical expectations and let the candidate ask questions; close professionally.

    Ms. Neha Kulkarni
    1–2 questions

Meet the panel

Your AI interviewers

Distinct personas, voices and questioning styles, briefed on this interview.

Ms. Neha Kulkarni

Chair

HR member

HR business partner, IT services

Friendly, efficient, detail-checking.

Female voice · 4 languages

Mr. Karthik Venkataraman

Hiring manager

Senior Engineering Manager and Bar Raiser, Amazon (Bengaluru); sits on SDE campus and SDE-1 loops across India

Calm, data-hungry, relentlessly specific, never impressed by adjectives.

Male voice · 2 languages

Ms. Ananya Sen

Technical lead

Staff engineer / technical lead

Curious, precise, collaborative.

Female voice · 3 languages

Mr. Rohit Deshmukh

HR member

Campus talent-acquisition lead, IT services

Energetic, encouraging, checks fundamentals of attitude.

Male voice · 4 languages

Ms. Devika Nair

Hiring manager

Senior Manager, Consulting (Strategy and Analytics), Big 4 firm (Gurugram); leads campus case rounds for analyst and consultant hiring

Sharp, structured, encouraging when the candidate thinks aloud, impatient with memorised frameworks.

Female voice · 3 languages

Ms. Shalini Krishnan

Technical lead

Senior functional lead — business roles (finance, sales, marketing, HR, CX, product)

Practical, scenario-driven, warm but exact.

Female voice · 4 languages

Ms. Tanvi Bhatia

Hiring manager

Vice President — skip-level manager on promotion and leadership panels

Senior, listens more than she speaks, tests judgement.

Female voice · 3 languages

Mr. Siddharth Mehrotra

Technical lead

Vice President, Investment Banking Division, global bank (Mumbai); interviews analyst and summer-analyst candidates from campus

Fast, numerate, direct, respects honest 'I don't know' over a confident wrong answer.

Male voice · 2 languages

Mr. Vikram Malhotra

Hiring manager

Engineering manager / Regional manager (hiring manager)

Direct, outcome-focused, fair but demanding.

Male voice · 2 languages

Languages

Answer in the language you think in

Interviewers speak and understand each language natively. Switch mid-answer if you like.

  • English
  • Hinglish (Hindi + English)Hinglish

How scoring works

A report you can act on

  1. Every round is scored on the rubric

    Each interviewer scores only the criteria their round covers. Weights add up to your overall score out of 100.

  2. Only what you actually said counts

    Feedback quotes your own answers. Rounds you skip show as “Not assessed” rather than a zero.

  3. Communication is always measured

    Fluency, clarity, confidence and structure are tracked across the whole interview, in any language.

  4. Pass mark, then a plan

    You see the pass mark for this interview, your gaps, and the courses that close them fastest.

Scored on

  • Role knowledge30%

    Depth and accuracy of role/domain knowledge; understands the tools, concepts and trade-offs of the job; grounds claims in real work.

  • Problem solving & structure25%

    Breaks problems down, asks clarifying questions, reasons about trade-offs and edge cases, structures answers (context, action, result).

  • Communication25%

    Clear, concise, confident; listens and answers the question asked; adapts the explanation to the listener; professional register.

  • Culture & attitude20%

    Ownership, honesty about limits, coachability, collaboration, motivation for this role and realistic expectations.

Pass mark 65 / 100 · Corporate interview — HR, hiring manager & role round (panel)

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