Jay Finechem

2025-26 · Placement

1. 1

   Online test

   Online chemical engineering test
   Superset (recalled, not certain)onlinehardeliminatory

   chemical engineering core

   Taken from academic blocks, not hostels. JEE-like formats; GATE-level difficulty. 7-8 engineering candidates shortlisted.

2. 2

   HR interview

   Round 1: interview with owner and two HR members
   campus interview roomofflineeliminatory

   long-term commitment · career plans and higher studies · relocation to plant town

   4 engineering candidates shortlisted, plus 4 chemistry candidates by test scores. No specific questions asked in this account.

3. 3

   Technical interview

   Round 2: plant-site written test, plant visit and MD technical interview
   company chemical plant60 minoffline

   heat transfer · fluid mechanics · reaction engineering · separation processes · process calculations · project calculations and assumptions · internship work · HR-style written answers

   Company covered travel, food and stay. One-hour pen-and-paper test (mostly repeated from round 1) with HR questions, then plant tour, then about 1 hour technical interview; MD scores out of 10. Whole process took over 3 weeks.

4. 4

   HR interview

   Round 3: psychologist round
   offlineeasy

   drawing and free writing · hobbies · well-being

   Cognitive activity round, common to all shortlisted candidates.

5. 5

   HR interview

   Round 4: final HR with owner
   offline

   long-term commitment · why R&D · written HR answers

   Owner followed up by email before results; results came in about a week.

Advice from candidates

19 pieces of advice, in their own words. Names removed.

• But after the test I realized that practising previous year gate questions would have been a plus. I did have a look over, but rigorously practising GATE chemical engineering questions would tremendously improve your performance.

  online_test · 2025-26

• The company expects the candidate to give them a long term commitment and not leave them mid way. So make sure to give honest answers about your career plan such as higher studies, etc.

  interview · 2025-26

• Give them honest answers and show them that you are willing to give them long term commitment.

  interview · 2025-26

• Make sure to actively participate and ask questions.

  interview · 2025-26

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Question patterns reported

The kind of problem, not the problem itself. Our practice questions are written to match these patterns.

• Technicalexplain your own calculations from the morning paper