MINDTREE CONSULTING LTD
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Company profile
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MindTree Consulting Limited is an international IT consulting company that was started in 1999 by 10 industry professionals who came from Cambridge Technology Partners, Lucent Technologies and Wipro. Currently co-headquartered in Warren, New Jersey and Bangalore, India, it has 3 development centers in India and 15 offices spread across Asia, Europe and the United States. The founding team was led by Ashok Soota, who was at that time vice chairman and president of Wipro.
MindTree crossed USD 100 million in revenues in April 2006; the fastest Indian IT company to achieve the target. MindTree is also the world's youngest company to be assessed at both CMMi and P-CMM.
MindTree has been involved in the creation of Bluetooth technology and is an Associate Member of the Bluetooth Special Interest Group . Their Bluetooth protocol stack is licenced to NEC

MindTree Placement Papers and Sample Papers

1. What is not common among threads in a process.?
Code,
stack,
heap,
libraries,
none of the above

2. Process address space includes which of the following components?
Memory heap,
user stack ,
shared libraries,
all of the above

3. Some file transfer is in progress. The connection break s and then
later after some time is restored. then on the file transfer continues
from the point where it left off, which OSI layer handles this?
Presentation,
application,
TCP, IP,
Session

4. Sliding window protocol is best for
Transmission,
reception ,
error and flow control,
Duplication
detection, all

5. FTP works at which layer?
Presentation ,
application,
IP,
Data link,
none

6. Size of '0', "0", '\0',0(stored as an int)?
1,2,1,4;
2,8,1,2;
1,1,1,1;
2,2,0,4;
none

7. Virtual memory depends on
Address Lines,
Data bus,
disk space ,
all , none

8. Which of the following is the fastest IPC mechanism???
Pipes,
FIFO, Semaphores, Shared memories, None

9. Which of the followiun is the fastest IPC mechanism???
Pipes,
FIFO,
Semaphores,
Shared Message queues,
None

10. Semaphores are used for (Synchronisation among)
a. processes
b. threads.
c. Interrupt handlers
d. One more choice

11. if(n & (n-1))
return false;
else
return true;

what does the code snippet above do???
a. check if the no is divisible by 2
b. check if the no is not Divisible by 2
c. check if no is a multiple of 2
d. check if the no is a power of 2
e. none


12. Interrupt latency ==
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MindTree Placement Paper Conducted On 19-Sep-2003
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45 quesitons and 60 mins.
Every wrong answer carried -1 marking and every right question carried +3 marking.

1. A person losses and gains 10% on selling a object for 20

2. Sum of 1 to 100 is divisible by 1. 1,2,4,8 2. 2 & 4 3. 2 4 none

3. 10 consonants and 4 vowels , how many words with 3 consonants and 2 vowels?
1) 720
2)7200 ... complete series

4. How many numbers start and end with 2 b/w 100 and 300?

5. If a sphere of diameter 3 cm is melted & formed into 3 spheres , the diameter of 1st is 1.5cm and that of second is 2.0 cm , what is the diameter of the third?

6. There are 4 novels like thriller , mystery , romance , fiction written by ,a,b,c,d not necessarily in the same order and published by e , f , g , h, not necessarily in the same order...and questions on this

7.. 6 people compete in a race a,b,c,d,e,f b is not in the 1st place there are 2 runners b/w d and e a is ahead of d ( one more condition ) and 2 quesitions
8. If prizes are increased by 25% , by how much should I reduce the consumption to keep the expenditure same??

13. How many factors divide 6400
1)24 ,
2) 25
3)32.

14. "COURTESY" - how many words can be constructed with C in the beginning and Y at the end

15. My mother's husband's father in laws son's child,what is the relation?

16. 3 glasses containing mixture of water and alcohol in ratio 2:3 , 3:4 , 5:9 when all 3 are mixed what is the new ratio?

GD topics.

1. If both husband and wife are working in the same organisation.
2. Co-ordination between educational institutions and companies.
3. Linux Vs Microsoft . Which will perish?.

Programming question

We have to write program(This program will be evaluated if you are qualified for Interview).you will be given choice(ie write one out of two given) both the programs are on files

1. We have to count the 3 letter,4 letter and 5letter words from a file and print the number of 3 letter,4letter and 5letter words. Delimiter is space,tab,hifen.Also we should not consider the line in the file after we encounter # in that line.(ie after # we should not consider the portion of line)

2. In file count the number of characters, number of words, number of line. Delimiter between words is given as command line argument. 1hour 15 min is given for the test. we have to answer both apptitue and program with in this time. some of the apptitue questions.

1. The is a meeting organized, every person shake hands with the other only once .If there are 60 shake hands, how many persons are there in the meeting?.

2. A father has 8 children ,he takes 3 at a time to a zoo.
What is the Probability of a child going to the zoo?

3. A father has six children .all the children are born at regular intervals. If the sum of their ages of all the children and father is 186. Calculate the age of the elder son, when the younger sons age is 3.

4. Count the numbers between 100 and 300, that starts with 2 and ends with 2.

5. Some reasoning questions

1. There are six steps,5 people a,b,c,d,e .
Conditions are , a is two steps below c,no two people are on same step, b is next to d. 4 Questions based on this 2. 5 people participating in the race .conditions are given about the positions.

6. A ball is dropped from a height of 10 feet. Every time it rebounces to half of the height. how many feet it traveled ?

7. There are 3 jars. The ratio of spirit to water in each of these jars is 3:2,4:5,5:7. the three jars are mixed into a single jar. What is the ration of spirit to water in single jar.

8. What is the relation with your mother's sister's brother's wife's child with you.?

9. What is the relation with your mother's husband's father-in-law's son's child with you?

10. Number series, alphabet series questions .