About Sopra
Sopra was founded in 1968. It is one of Europe's longest established IT services company
Sopra is a leader in European consulting market. Sopra provides IT services & software solutions for various domains such as Banking, Insurance, Telecom & Media, Airlines, Real Estate, Manufacturing, Human Resources & Public Sector.
Sopra has made its presence in 12 countries all over the world with a total global employee strength of 14000+. Sopra has a very strong employee strength in India and its is continuously growing
Placement Procedure
The placement procedure consists of 3-4 rounds and it is conducted online at Sopra premises
Round 1: Time = 90 mins Number of Questions = around 30
This is a elimination round.
The first round consists of Technical written test. This test checks your knowledge at Data Structures, C. and DBMS Most of the Questions are based on the basics of pointers, stacks, array, queue, linked list, trees. If you have good command on the data structures then you can clear this round pretty easily.
Database related questions are very basic. These questions are based on basic understandings of JOINS, KEYS (FOREIGN KEY, ALTERNATE KEYS etc.)
Round 2: Time = 60 mins Number of Questions =11
The second round is Aptitude test. These questions are a mix of algorithms & aptitude. You will be given some algorithm and a problem. You have to find out the solution using the algorithm.
Some of the questions also test your problem solving abilities using backtracking methodology. You may be given an output & you will have to find out the inputs for producing this output.
This round is also the elimination round.
There are different types of questions asked in this round. These questions can be broadly divided into following categories :
- Sopra Steria Aptitude Questions - Type 1 - Question 1
- Sopra Steria Aptitude Questions - Type 1 - Question 2
- Sopra Steria Aptitude Questions - Type 2 - Question 1
- Sopra Steria Aptitude Questions - Type 2 - Quetions 2
Round 3: Group Discussion
This round is non elimination round. You will be divided in groups and given a general topic to discuss upon.
Basically in this round the communication skills of the candidates are tested
Round 4: It can be a Technical/HR Interview round.
This round can be HR only or Technical only or both the interviews can be conducted separately. This may be dependent on your performance of the above rounds.
Technical interview: This round is really tough. They can ask you any question varying from Algorithms, DBMS to Networking. They could also ask you about the Software Development Life Cycle. They can ask about your projects undertaken during your academics like Database schema, Architecture, etc.
HR Interview : They generally ask questions from your Resume. So be prepared with your Resume. They could also ask puzzle Questions which can be prepared from Shakuntala Devi.
Basically they check your communication skills, confidence, adaptability and other qualities.