Sapient Placement Paper
Company: sapient
marks of the students is
given, U have to calculate the percentile of the
students aaccording to this rule: the percentile of a
student is the %of no of student having marks less
then him. For eg:
suppose
Student Marks
A 12
B 60
C 80
D 71
E 30
F 45
percentile of C = 5/5 *100 = 100 (out of 5 students 5
are having marks less then him)
percentile of B = 3/5*100 = 60% (out of 5, 3 have
markses less then him)
percentile of A = 0/5*100 = 0%.
2) The code was given for a problem and u have to identitfy the logical error in it. That was simple.
The code was to merge the Danagrams of 2 words. The danagram of a word is the letters of word arranfed in sequential order. eg danagram of abhinav is aabhinv. merging of danamagram is to merge the danagrams of 2 or more words such that the highest no of occurance
are coming for each alphabet.eg merging of aabhinv and abbhhixz is aabbhhinvxz.
Technical interview:
discussion on the written paper. how did u solved the
problem? expain him about that. small discussion on yr
project for a while. simple techinal questions related
to project. simple langugae question : Collections in
java.. types of joins in SQL. if u want to ask
something about sapient etc?
HINT: ask something good. eg kind of projecst they are
doing.. processes they follow .. how do they capture
the requirements .. etc..
Business Inteview:
Hr inteview.. behaviorial questions.. how will u react
in some conditions.. how how did u reacted..
1) give an example when yr boss is not aggreed with u. what did u do?
2) give an example when u had a clash with yr peer. what did u do?
3) give an example when u faced some ambigious situation.(when u are not understanding the things
properly ) what did u do?
4) give an example when u faced some stressful situation.what did u do?
5) did u make some decision of yr own to carray out something. and suggested this to yr boss and yr boss aggreed?
Sapient Placement Paper