Syntel is one of the leading U.S based level 5 companies throughout the world wide in providing their business services in the field of Information Technology (IT). The company has established in the year 1980 by Bharat Desai. In the year 2010, on February 1 Prashant Ranade was appointed as C.E.O for Syntel. Before the post of C.E.O Prashant Ranade has worked for Syntel as a Director from June 15^th, 2007.The company headquarters are located at Troy, Michigan with 16 centers in India & U.S. The company has started in the year 1980 with initial investment of $ 2,000 & from starting year on wards the company investments has reached to $30, 000. The company involved with many governments related projects.  Every year Syntel organizes many off campus/walk in drives for fresher’s/experience. Recently in the year 2013, Syntel recruited the candidates from various fields by conducting off campus drive. The candidates get selected based on their performance in the selection process. The company involves 4 rounds in the selection. The Syntel placement paper written exam need to write through online, that means you need to write the online test containing 90 questions in 60 minutes. There is no need to worry about negative marking & make sure that to answer more questions as much as possible. Don’t spend more time on particular question.

Selection procedure in Syntel:

The selection process of Syntel placement paper, involves mainly 4 rounds.

• Round 1-Written test (online)
• Round 2- Group discussion
• Round 3- Technical
• Round 4-HR

Written test

• Time duration: 60 minutes
• Questions: 90(no cut off marks for wrong answers)

In written exam the sections are divided as: Verbal ability, Analytical ability & Numerical reasoning.

• Each section contains 30 marks.

Topics to be focused on written exam: Number series, Blood Relation, Direction sense, Coding, Decoding, Analogy, Problems on series.
Recently asked HR interview questions:

• Tell me something about yourself?
• What is your family Background?
• Why you have chosen Syntel?
• Tell me about your strengths & weakness?
• Why should I hire you in my company?

Technical questions:

• What is the difference between C and Java?
• What is dead lock?
• What is abstract class?
• What is the address of pointer value?
• Why we use Serialization?
• What is a Cursor, How do you replace a Cursor?
• Write a program for Fibonacci series?
• What is Runtime Polymorphism?
• What is the Difference between Application and Session?
• Write a program for linked list?
• What is the difference between Data-set and Data Reader?
• What is heap memory?
• Where are temp tables?
• What is an interface? Is there any relation between interface and performance?
• How do you Host a Service?

Frequently asked questions in written exam

1. One pipe fills in 4 hrs and another in 5 hrs when they both work alternately how much time will be taken to fill the tank.
2.  Mr. X position in a class is 13th from first and 17th from last, and 8th from the first and 13th from last in passed  candidates list, then how many candidates failed in the exam
3.  In a school there are 1000 students in the year 1999. The number of students increased by 20% in the year 2000. And it  is increased by 15% in the year 2001. But it is decreased by 18% in 2002. Then what is the strength in 2002.
4.  If 8 men 8 hrs per day works for 8 days get 45/- then how many men required if the work is 5 hrs per day for 10 days they  get  60/-?
5.  Marked price of a commodity is 35% above the cost price. If he gives a discount of 15%, how much he gains on the deal.
6.  (1 ½ /((3/4-2/5 )/(2/3+4/5))) * ((2 ¾/((4/3-2/5 )/(5/3+6/5))) (Numbers different)
7.  5 mangoes + 4 oranges = 7 mangoes + 1 orange. Find the ratio of mango to orange.
8.  The difference between the simple interest and compound interest for 2 years?
9.  A: B =2:3 and B:C=5:6 then find A:B:C
10.  An article sold at a profit of 20% if both the cost price and selling price would be Rs.20/- the profit would be 10% more.  What is the cost price of that article?
11.  Perimeter of the back wheel = 9 feet, front wheel = 7 feet on a certain distance, the front wheel gets 10 revolutions more  than the back wheel .What is the distance?
12.  A man leaves office daily at 7pm a driver with car comes from his home to pick him from office and bring back home. One day he gets free at 5:30 and instead of waiting for driver he starts walking towards home. In the way he meets the car and returns home on car He reaches home 20 minutes earlier than usual. In how much time does the man reach home usually?
13.  Perimeter of front wheel =30, back wheel = 20. If front wheel revolves 240 times. How many revolutions will the back wheel  take?
14.  One monkey climbs a poll at the rate of 6mts/min and fell down 3mts in the alternately. Length of the poll is 60 mts, how much time it will take to reach the top?
15.  If on an item a company gives 25% discount, they earn 25% profit. If they now give 10% discount then what is the profit  percentage.
16.  Three circles with same radius r are drawn with centers as three vertices of a triangle. What is the sum of areas of the  intersections of these circles with the triangle?