John Deere India visits Madras Institute of Technology, Chennai

Offer by the company:

Eligibility	B.Tech (Mech, Prod,  Auto, Manufacturing, Agricultural)
Salary	B.Tech- 4.0 (Approx.)
Profile Offered	Graduate Trainee
Location	Pune

Placement Process Detail:

Procedure	Status	Comment
Short listing	yes	CGPA (> 6.0 + no backlogs)
Written test	Yes	Aptitude + Technical
Group Discussion	No	NA
Interview	Yes	1 round, Tech and HR both
Result	Available	10 student got the offer

Shortlisting: Short listing of CV has been done on basis of CGPA only. Minimum CGPA required was 6.0. This is minimum criteria for appearing for written test.

Written Test: Written test is divided in 3 parts:

1) Aptitude (General questions related to math, level of toughness is medium)

Aptitude had vocabs, verbal, analogies and basic time distance, probability Q etc..

1.Which Process has highest Efficiency(isothermal, adiabatic, Isobaric, Isochoric)

2. What are the dimensions of A0 sheet?

3. A problem on Eccentric Loading of Hollow cylinder.

4. Current Assets – Current liabilities =??

5. How Electro Chemical Machining removes material(mechanical erosion,chemical erosion, all of these)

6. Lead pitch relation in double thread

7. Hooks chains are made of what material?(wrought iron, cast iron et all)

8. A problem based on relation between % change in fuel inflow and change in power(or speed)

9. A problem on finding the moment of inertia of flywheel.

10. A body of mass ‘m’ placed in inclined plane of triangular c.s Now we apply a force P on the Vertical side of triangle. What is the minimum force to keep the body from sliding down.There is no friction between mass ‘m’ and surface it’s placed on.

11. What causes movement of dislocation (slip et all)

12. Ideal sample size for Control charts

13. If Control limits are changed how the mean changes

14. Some problems on Heat transfer.

15. Emissivity temperature relation.

16. Which contains more items in ABC analysis?

17. Steering wheel gear used for Trucks?

As far as Aptitude was concerned there was 10 questions from English vocabs, 2 analogies, fill in the blanks with prepositions. then rest was quantitative aptitude along with logical reasoning.

English

-askance

-virtuoso

1.     PROMISE – how many words can be formed with no two vowels coming together.

2.00004761 ^ 1/2

3.11075 how much u should subtract to get perfect square?

4. x^n-y^n is definitely divisible by (x-y,x+y,xy et all)

5. Average of six no is 30. Average of first four is 25 and average of last three is 35. What is the 4th no:.

6. Two inequality Equations on x,y were given like x+y>5 and x-y>3. what are values x can take.(x<3,x>4,3<x<4 et all)

7. 2,7, 14,23,X,47. whats X.

8. A problem on Ratio of heights of similar triangles if  areas are given.

9. The no numbers which have the no 6 in between o and 70.

10.4 people need to cross a river in a boat. The conditions set are

-only two people can travel at a time.

-a gal can’t row the boat hence and forth continuously.

-a guy A can row only if another guy B is with him (sounds gay)

Like this and the question is Who should row the boat twice continuously. (this problem  i don remember full data)

11. Sides of triangle 13 14 15 . What is Circumradius.”

Interview:

Interview was based on technical questions and very few lesser important HR questions. Technical Questions are varying from basic to in-depth. Tough questions were asked from some of student candidates. They try to grill candidates very much on certain technical questions

It was mostly TECH

HR questions…

1) Tell me about yourself?

2) Why Production engineering? Many questions are related to summer training.

TECH QUESTIONS (PRODUCTION ENGG)

1) Why the rear wheel of tractor is big?

2) Draw OTRQUE CURVES?

3) Properties of crank shaft, con rod etc….

4) When should u go for forging?

5) What is lapping of engine valves?

6) Properties of engine valve etc.