Capgemini on-campus — communication test, tech assessment, and a 20-minute interview

How I applied

Through an on-campus drive. The process had more layers to it than I expected going in.

Round-by-round

1. Communication assessment (online)

Not the usual grammar-and-vocabulary test — the format felt genuinely different from anything I'd prepared for elsewhere, so I had to adjust on the spot.

2. Technical assessment

A decent spread: pseudocode-based questions, core CS fundamentals, and a couple of coding problems mixed in. Nothing wildly difficult, but enough to make sure you weren't coasting on aptitude alone.

3. Video interview (15–20 min)

Opened with a self-introduction and drifted naturally into my project work. I spoke about being an evaluator at a Smart India Hackathon, which the interviewer was genuinely interested in — it gave the round an easy flow rather than a rapid-fire Q&A.

The technical questions stayed grounded, nothing requiring deep specialisation:

• Call by reference in C++
• What DML means (DBMS)
• Two SQL queries — pattern matching, and counting records in a table
• The classic Stack vs Queue comparison
• APIs at a conceptual level
• Encapsulation from OOP

Takeaway

For a 7.5 LPA role it stayed surprisingly approachable throughout — nothing designed to trip me up, more a check on whether my fundamentals were solid.

Verdict

Selected — confirmation came about 10 days later.