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Student Experiences and Success Stories from Placements and Internships at IIT KGP

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I reached Atlassian after a late start and steady preparation

The Online Assessment had three graph and greedy questions, followed by interviews on real-world coding and Atlassian values.

I prepared broadly for SDE roles and cleared D. E. Shaw’s three rounds

The OA had three coding problems, while my second interview moved from Range DP to OOP and Operating Systems.

I prepared for a quant role across maths, probability, ML and coding

My five interview rounds included deriving distributions and mean and variance formulas on paper, alongside puzzles, DSA and classical ML.

I applied for Honeywell SWE and was interviewed for Data Science

My interview moved from AI agents and graph coding to pure-Python regression and a fire-related building automation case.

I got Millennium’s Treasury Intern role after a rough preparation phase

A poor semester in April 2025 left me in a bad mental space; I stayed awake through Day 0 and still cracked the interview.

I got my Texas Instruments internship by building from digital basics

My first question was a 2:1 MUX truth table, and a 10-second job took me three minutes.

I prepared for bp’s subsurface geophysics internship in one week

My work will cover shallow geohazard evaluation and AI-assisted seismic interpretation for offshore drilling.

I used my summer vacation to prepare for Microsoft’s software role

I faced a CV shortlist, OAs, and two interviews, with DSA questions that were on the easier side.

I got the FinMechanics tech internship by knowing my projects cold

The process had one offline test and two interviews; my panel focused on CV grilling, APIs, databases, and OOPs.

I prepared for DE Shaw with a year of competitive programming

After two rejections, my Day 0 ran from 2:30 AM to 8 AM, with an extended-list interview in between.

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