I applied through university. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at Schneider Electric (Manipal) in Sep 2012
Interview
An online written test followed by a Pre Placement Talk. After that they released the shortlist for the group discussion round. Later followed by interviews. There were two rounds of interviews, once technical and one HR. Later based on the result from these interviews, they released the list of selected candidates.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Indexing is used to access the database faster. Now give me a situation where indexing will be an overhead. Assume that the number of tuples to be inserted is very large.
Other question was based on the implementation of abstract classes in Java in a given scenario.
Initial round, got an email to conduct a video interview before a dateline, they gave preparation time before answering questions, but i felt the time to answer was too short
Easy to moderate.
Projects ,future goals.
Personality alignment with job description
Basic of engineering subjects, hobbies , situation based questions.
30 mins online virtual interview
Family background, team collbration ,
Soft skills
I applied online. I interviewed at Schneider Electric in Feb 2026
Interview
The first interview was a HireVue with typical behavioral questions, then, based on that, another interview was scheduled. The second interview was focused on describing what the job requires and whether the applicant met those requirements.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
1) Describe yourself and include something not on your resume
2) Based on your experience, what makes you a good fit for the job
3) Why Schneider
4) Describe a time you solved a problem and the results
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