IIT Bombay RA Interview

Indian Institute of Technology Bombay - Research Assistanship

One of the best programmes for people with rank > 300 .

After getting GATE results , it becomes very difficult situation for people with rank between 300 and 1000.
IIT B is to rescue.
I have seen people with rank > 700 getting selected and 200 being rejected in the written round itself.

IIT B has a 3 year M.Tech CSE Research Assistanship programme.
You enjoy 3 years of M.Tech (Believe me , M.Tech is enjoyment ).
The courses which you had to do in 2 years , you do in 3 years in a relaxed manner.

My experience ( 2015 )

Written
Test similar to GATE.
25 marks paper  - MCQ based.
High cutoff .

After the written and before the results were announced there was a PPT , where all project in-charge( the faculty) presented their projects. LISTEN TO THIS CAREFULLY.

Programming round
1 question . 1 hour. Program in C/C++ ( Documentation was also provided). Easy question.
 It was basically adding two polynomials and printing in ascending order of degree.
( I made a mess of it in  order to optimise my solution ).
Its kind of online coding competition. where input comes from stream.



Preference of RA
Our preference of RA projects was asked.
There are various projects available. You can select a few or all . But getting a chance in the interview is sort of luck .
There are chances that your neighbour gets chance in 3 interviews ( of different projects ) but you only one.

Many faculty members during our time only took interview of those people who set their project priority on top .( THIS WAS NOT INFORMED TO US).


Interview

I got one interview chance for Application Software Center(ASC).
I was asked about my various projects of my job/B.Tech . Most of my projects were Android or Python based.
They asked various questions related to security such as CSRF, XSS, man in the middle , Session hijacking, Tokenss etc which I was able to answer.
At the end they asked whether I knew servlets.  My answer was I know server side scripting (in PHP , python etc.) and have done Java for Android ,I can learn this too.
But interview ended abruptly after this.

Result
Not selected