The KPIT campus hiring process, explained

Every round of KPIT’s Associate Engineer campus process in India, what candidates report at each step, and free practice for the games that show up in the test.

By the Game Assessment Prep research teamUpdated September 11, 2026How we research

The KPIT Technologies interview rounds at a glance

  1. 1Registration on Superset — KPIT’s graduates page sends applicants to app.joinsuperset.com/company/kpit. Every campus report from 2023 to 2025 says the test link and the interview links arrived through Superset.
  2. 2Pre-placement talk — On-campus drives open with a pre-placement talk. In the September 2023 and November 2025 reports the online assessment ran the same day.
  3. 3Online assessment, about two to three hours — Technical MCQs, an English essay, two coding problems, and a short section of three timed game-style tasks. Candidates in two drives name Aon as the platform; two 2024 drives report Mercer Mettl with no games.The games, in detail
  4. 4AI-recorded interview or live technical interview — The November 2024 and November 2025 drives ended with an AI-recorded interview of 12 to 13 questions. Other drives, including July 2025, ran a live technical interview on Superset instead. Which one you get depends on the drive.What each interview asks
  5. 5HR interview, offer, Genesis training — In drives with live rounds, a 20 to 30 minute HR conversation follows the technical interview. New hires enter KPIT’s 9-month Genesis training program.Dates and deadlines

What games are in the KPIT Technologies assessment?

Candidates describe three timed tasks in the gamified section, each roughly six to ten minutes depending on the drive. Only one of them recurs across drives: a motion or ball-routing task. Three other Aon challenge games come from a single September 2023 report and appear in no later account, and two of the tasks candidates describe are ability-test formats rather than challenge games, so we do not have simulators for them. Practice below in that order of confidence, and take the in-test tutorial before each task rather than skipping it, which is the one piece of advice every report repeats.

Practice the KPIT Technologies set

The 4 games on this page, in order, with a summary at the end. Lineup maintained from first-party candidate reports — invitations, interviews, and post-assessment feedback.

Motion Challenge

Exact simulator

Multiple sources

The one task with support across drives. Named "motion challenge" in the September 2023 report, described in August 2023 as "a game in which we need to get the red ball into the black hole in minimum steps", listed as "Motion Challenge (6 min)" in November 2024, and included as "motion challenges" among the three capabilities tested in the November 2025 drive. Four drives, four descriptions of the same thing. It is a sliding-block planning game: route the ball to the hole in as few moves as possible by shifting the obstacles around it. The scoring instruction is fewest moves, so plan the whole route before touching a piece. A fast messy solve scores worse than a slower clean one.

Source: Four GeeksforGeeks candidate reports, August 2023 to November 2025

Practice Motion Challenge

Grid Challenge

Exact simulator

Single source

Named in one September 2023 report and nowhere else. That report lists "grid challenge, switch challenge, motion challenge, digit challenge, and some data interpretation questions", and no KPIT report from 2024 or 2025 mentions it again, so treat it as one drive’s configuration rather than part of a standing battery. The game itself is a dual-task working-memory exercise: hold a sequence of dot positions in mind while answering symmetry or rotation judgments in between, then reproduce the dots in order. Worth one practice pass so the controls are not new to you.

Source: One GeeksforGeeks candidate report, September 2023

Practice Grid Challenge

Switch Challenge

Exact simulator

Single source

From the same single September 2023 report, with no corroboration in any later drive. Four symbols pass through a switch and you choose which of three four-digit position codes rearranges them into the output shown. Later items chain two switches together. The technique is to number the input positions 1 to 4 and read the output row back as positions; the code then writes itself instead of needing to be guessed.

Source: One GeeksforGeeks candidate report, September 2023

Practice Switch Challenge

Digit Challenge

Exact simulator

Single source

Also from the single September 2023 report, and the weakest-supported of the four. Fill the blanks in a short equation using the digits 1 to 9, each once, so the equation reaches its target. It is arithmetic under a constraint rather than digit recall, so start from whichever operator restricts the answer most, usually a multiplication before an addition, and let the remaining blanks follow from it.

Source: One GeeksforGeeks candidate report, September 2023

Practice Digit Challenge

Deductive shape-grid puzzle (no simulator here)

Category practice

Multiple sources

Described in August 2023 as "a game in which there were some shapes that need to be filled in every row and column" with no shape repeated in a row or column, and consistent with the "deductive reasoning" task in the November 2025 drive. This looks like one of Aon’s non-game reasoning tests rather than a challenge game, and no candidate identifies it by name, so we have no simulator and are not going to point you at a game that only half matches. Prepare it on paper instead: 4x4 and 5x5 Latin-square grids, filling the rows and columns that have fewest empty cells first and reasoning from what a cell cannot be.

Source: GeeksforGeeks candidate reports, August 2023 and November 2025

Chart and graph questions answered Yes / No / Cannot Say (a section, not a game)

Category practice

Multiple sources

Candidates loosely call this a "graph-based game", but it is a data-interpretation item set and worth treating as one. Reported four times: "some graphs and pie charts on the basis of which we need to say the answer is Yes, No, and Cannot Say" (August 2023), "data interpretation questions" (September 2023), a "Graph-Based Game (6 min)" (November 2024), and "graph and chart-based problem-solving" (November 2025). The discipline is the third option: if the chart does not contain what you need to decide, the answer is Cannot Say, not your best guess. Read axis labels and units before you read the statement, because most errors here are unit and period errors rather than arithmetic.

Source: Four GeeksforGeeks candidate reports, August 2023 to November 2025

Good to know: Treat the named games as one drive’s configuration rather than a fixed lineup. Only the motion task recurs across drives; Grid, Switch and Digit challenges come from a single September 2023 report and appear in no 2024 or 2025 account. A November 2024 report also lists a "Gap Challenge" we have no simulator for, so the named set is not exhaustive either. And two 2024 drives had no games at all. If your test link or tutorial shows different exercises, practice those instead.

Who gets the KPIT Technologies assessment?

KPIT Technologies, the Pune-based automotive software company, hires most of its entry-level engineers through on-campus and pool-campus drives in India for the Associate Engineer and Associate Software Engineer roles. Registration, test links and interview links all run through Superset, the campus recruiting platform KPIT links from its graduates page. KPIT’s own careers pages describe the 9-month Genesis training program and the NOVA university partnership, and say nothing at all about the selection test.

If you landed here looking for "the KPIT game assessment", start with this: the games are a small part of the test. Across every candidate report we could read, the gamified section is one block of roughly 20 to 30 minutes inside a test of about two to three hours whose bulk is branch-specific technical MCQs, an English essay and two coding problems. A candidate who prepares only the games has prepared for a fraction of the assessment.

The second thing worth knowing is that the test is not the same in every drive. Candidates from a September 2023 drive and a November 2025 drive say the assessment ran on "the AON platform", and two more reports describe Aon-style tasks without naming a vendor. But two 2024 drives, one for diploma trainees and one restricted to EC and EEE branches, report a Mercer Mettl test of aptitude, core subjects and coding with no game section at all, and one April 2024 report names a different platform again. KPIT confirms none of this. Practice the games, but let your own invitation and the test tutorial settle what your drive actually contains.

Associate Engineer / Associate Software Engineer (campus and pool-campus hiring, India)

KPIT’s entry-level engineering role for B.E. and B.Tech graduates in CS and IT, AI/ML and data science, and circuit branches such as ECE, EEE and instrumentation. Hiring runs through on-campus drives at partner colleges and through pool-campus drives where students from many colleges gather in one city. Eligibility quoted by candidates is 60 to 70 percent throughout with no active backlogs. This is the role every assessment report on this page describes.

Multiple sources

Source: GeeksforGeeks candidate reports, 2023 to 2025

Genesis (9-month new-hire training program)

KPIT’s graduates page says new hires join a 9-month Genesis training program covering the automotive and mobility domain and core technologies including AI, machine learning, data engineering, embedded C and C++, MATLAB, OOPS and Linux, followed by a month of Practice Incubation on live client projects. It begins after the offer. It is not part of selection and there is no test to get into it.

Official source

Source: KPIT careers, graduates page

NOVA University Connect Program

KPIT’s industry-academia partnership with more than 30 engineering institutes in India: mentoring, internships, training sessions, hackathons and technical assignments, presented as a pathway into KPIT hiring. Some prep sites list NOVA as an assessment. It is not one. It is a partnership program, and students outside NOVA colleges are told to watch for off-campus drives instead.

Official source

Source: KPIT careers, graduates page and the NOVA program site

KPIT Sparkle (student innovation contest)

An annual design and development contest for science and engineering students, with prize money in the lakhs. KPIT’s own pages do not tie it to recruitment, so treat it as a contest rather than a hiring route. One candidate does report an HR interviewer asking about their Sparkle entry, which is a reason to be ready to talk about it if you entered.

Official source

Source: KPIT Sparkle contest site

Experienced hires and roles outside India

KPIT is headquartered in Pune and lists operations in the USA, Germany, the UK, Japan, China and elsewhere, but its overview and experienced-professional pages describe no selection process, and we found no candidate report of a game-based assessment from outside India or from an experienced-hire route. Everything on this page is an India campus finding. Do not assume games if you are applying as an experienced hire or outside India.

No evidence found

Source: Scope of the evidence reviewed September 2026

How does the KPIT Technologies assessment work?

The games are one section, not the test

Multiple sources

This is the most important thing on the page. Every report that describes the assessment puts the gamified section last and short: three timed tasks, roughly 20 to 30 minutes in total, after a much longer run of technical MCQs, an English essay and two coding problems. The whole sitting is about two to three hours. Budget your preparation the same way the test is built.

Source: GeeksforGeeks candidate reports, August 2023 to November 2025

Not every drive includes games

Multiple sources

Two 2024 drives report a Mercer Mettl test with no game section at all: a diploma trainee drive in January 2024 ("The test platform was METTL", aptitude and CS MCQs plus two coding problems) and an EC and EEE only drive in June 2024 (a three-hour test of aptitude, C, microcontrollers and analog electronics plus coding). A July 2025 report names Superset for the test and mentions puzzles with no Aon reference. Whether your drive has games depends on your drive.

Source: GeeksforGeeks candidate reports, January 2024, June 2024 and July 2025

The platform, per candidates

Multiple sources

Two candidate reports name the platform outright. A September 2023 report from a circuit-branch candidate says the assessment arrived by email "with login credentials for the AON platform". A report from a drive on 11 November 2025 says the assessment "was conducted on the AON platform". Two further reports, from August 2023 and November 2024, describe tasks matching Aon’s challenge format without naming any vendor. That is the whole basis for the Aon call here.

Source: GeeksforGeeks candidate reports, September 2023 and November 2025

KPIT confirms nothing

Official source

KPIT’s graduates page covers Superset registration, Genesis and NOVA. It names no assessment vendor, no test format and no round count, and nothing on kpit.com mentions games. There is no Aon case study naming KPIT either. Every platform claim on this page is a candidate’s account, not the company’s.

Source: KPIT careers, graduates page

One report names a different platform

Single source

An April 2024 report says its game was "hosted on the ION platform". ION is a real assessment platform used in Indian campus hiring, so we are not going to write that off as a misheard "Aon". Read it as what it is: evidence that the provider is not the same in every KPIT drive.

Source: GeeksforGeeks candidate report, April 2024

The full test, section by section

Multiple sources

Consistent across the August 2023, November 2024 and November 2025 reports: (1) branch-specific technical MCQs, 20 to 30 questions in 30 minutes, covering OS, DBMS, DSA and networks for CS and IT, and embedded systems, microprocessors, signals, control systems, power electronics and VLSI for circuit branches, with AI/ML topics for AIML branches; (2) an English essay of roughly 180 to 255 words in 25 to 30 minutes; (3) two easy-to-medium coding problems in 40 minutes; (4) the gamified section of three timed tasks. Some reports mention camera proctoring.

Source: GeeksforGeeks candidate reports, August 2023 to November 2025

Coding languages changed between drives

Multiple sources

The 2023 and 2024 reports say C and C++ only, which is a real constraint if Python is your first language. The November 2025 report lists Java and Python as allowed. Confirm the rule for your own drive rather than assuming either, and be ready to write in C or C++ if your invitation does not say otherwise.

Source: GeeksforGeeks candidate reports, 2023 to November 2025

Game timings vary by drive

Multiple sources

There is no fixed rule here. A November 2024 report gives six minutes per task, a November 2025 report gives nine minutes each for three games, and an August 2023 report describes about ten minutes per part. A September 2023 report gives no timing at all. Plan for roughly six to ten minutes per task and read the timer your own test shows you.

Source: GeeksforGeeks candidate reports, August 2023 to November 2025

What happens in the KPIT Technologies hiring process?

The campus drive, as candidates describe it

Reconstructed from reports of drives between July 2023 and November 2025. The 11 November 2025 drive is the most recent and the most detailed.

  1. 1Register on Superset through the link on KPIT’s graduates page or through your placement cell. Eligibility quoted by candidates is 60 to 70 percent throughout 10th, 12th and degree with no active backlogs.
  2. 2Attend the pre-placement talk. In several drives the online assessment ran the same day.
  3. 3Sit the online assessment, about two to three hours: technical MCQs, an English essay, two coding problems, then the gamified section. Some reports mention camera proctoring.
  4. 4Wait for the shortlist. In the November 2025 drive 145 of 700 to 800 candidates moved on the same evening; in a November 2024 drive it was 128 of about 500; in a July 2023 drive 94 of 231 were called to a live technical interview about a week later. Those are individual drives, not a published cutoff.
  5. 5Interview: either an AI-recorded interview the same evening, or a live technical interview followed by an HR interview on Superset. Both patterns appear in recent drives and which one you get depends on your drive.
  6. 6Offer, then the 9-month Genesis training program. Reported joining locations are mainly Pune for CS and IT and Bengaluru for circuit branches.

Source: GeeksforGeeks report of the 11 November 2025 on-campus drive

The AI-recorded interview

The November 2024 and November 2025 drives both ended with an AI-run interview on the same evening as the test, with no interviewer present. No source identifies who supplies this interview, so we are not going to name a vendor for it.

  1. 1Format: 12 to 13 questions shown on screen one at a time, about 20 seconds to think and 1.5 to 2 minutes to record each answer, roughly 45 minutes in total.
  2. 2Technical questions reported: introduce yourself and your area of expertise; explain BFS and DFS; stack versus queue with C++ examples; operating-system basics such as Linux process management; polymorphism and inheritance, including multiple inheritance in Java; lvalue versus rvalue in C and C++; describe your project; overfitting for AI/ML candidates; a small coding task such as finding the minimum in an array.
  3. 3Behavioral questions reported: working in a team, meeting commitments, and a travel experience.
  4. 4Outcomes in those drives: results the next day at one college and about 20 days later at the other, where 48 candidates were selected. Neither report describes a human round after the AI interview, but the July 2025 drive had human rounds and no AI interview, so do not assume the AI interview has replaced them.
  5. 5Preparation that fits the format: two-sentence definitions for the fundamentals above, one STAR story each for teamwork and a missed commitment, and a timed rehearsal with a real 20-second pause before you start speaking.

Source: GeeksforGeeks candidate reports of the November 2024 and November 2025 on-campus drives

The live technical interview

In drives without the AI interview, including July 2023, August 2023, September 2023, November 2023 and July 2025, a KPIT engineer interviews on Superset, typically 8 to 10 days after the test, for 30 to 60 minutes.

  1. 1Resume and project cross-examination first. Internships and competitive-programming claims were probed in detail, so be ready to defend anything on the page.
  2. 2CS and IT track: OOP including compile-time versus runtime polymorphism, constructors and destructors, abstraction and inheritance; C versus C++; pointers, storage classes, malloc versus calloc, unions and preprocessor directives; JDK versus JRE versus JVM and Java platform independence.
  3. 3Live coding in the Superset terminal: palindrome, Fibonacci both iterative and recursive, swapping without a third variable, prime and Armstrong numbers, odd or even.
  4. 4Circuit-branch track: embedded C, microcontroller versus microprocessor, diodes, BJTs, Zeners and MOSFETs, amplifier operation, Faraday’s law, resistor color codes, relays and motor circuits, PWM, logic gates and K-maps, DAC and ADC, bitwise multiply and divide by shifting, and C fundamentals such as function pointers and memory layout.
  5. 5Occasional aptitude puzzles. DBMS and SQL were rarely asked.

Source: GeeksforGeeks candidate reports, July 2023 to July 2025

The HR interview

A 20 to 30 minute conversation, sometimes 5 to 10 days after the technical round. One May 2024 report notes that many rejections happened here, so it is not a formality.

  1. 1Why KPIT, and what you know about the company and about automotive software.
  2. 2Willingness to relocate to Pune or Bengaluru, and whether you will actually accept the offer.
  3. 3STAR-style scenarios: a conflict during an internship, a missed deadline, working in a team versus working alone.
  4. 4Strengths, weaknesses, hobbies, greatest achievement, greatest fear, and how you take feedback.
  5. 5Short and long-term goals, a five-year view, and any academic gaps or low marks. One report also had the interviewer ask about the candidate’s KPIT Sparkle ideas.

Source: GeeksforGeeks candidate reports, July 2023 to July 2025

When is the KPIT Technologies assessment?

KPIT sets dates per college through Superset, so there is no national calendar to watch. Every dated report we have describes the first semester of the final year, and the one 2026 listing we found has already closed.

CycleApplication datesLikely assessment windowEvidence
On-campus drives, July to November of the final yearSet per college through SupersetTest on the drive day; interviews within about two to three weeksMultiple sources

Dated candidate reports cluster in July 2023, August 2023, September 2023, November 2023, July 2025 and November 2025, which is the first semester of the final year. In the November 2024 and November 2025 drives the assessment and the AI interview ran on the same day, with results the next day in one case and about 20 days later in the other. In drives with live rounds, the technical interview came 8 to 10 days after the test and HR about 10 days after that, roughly 15 days end to end in a July 2023 report. For the 2027 batch, expect the same July to November window.

Source: GeeksforGeeks candidate reports, 2023 to 2025

Pool Campus Hiring Drive 2026 (2026 pass-outs), September 2026Registration closed 6 September 2026, 8:00 PM ISTIn-person drive days 9 to 18 September 2026 across eight citiesSingle source

KPIT ran a pool campus drive for 2026 pass-outs with in-person drive days in Pune and Bhubaneswar on 9 September, Kolkata on 10 September, Chennai and Kochi on 10 to 11 September, and Hyderabad, Bhimavaram and Warangal on 17 to 18 September. Reported terms were 2026 batch only, 60 percent throughout with no active backlogs, in-person attendance mandatory, a six-month re-apply bar, INR 4.5 LPA at joining and a two-year service agreement. This comes from job boards reposting a Superset listing we could not open directly, and the listing did not publish its selection rounds, so we cannot say whether this drive used the campus test or the games. Both the deadline and the drive days have passed.

Source: Job-board repost of the September 2026 Superset listing; the underlying Superset page is login-gated

How to practice for the KPIT Technologies assessment

Prepare this test in the proportions it is actually built in. The coding problems, the technical MCQs and the essay are most of the sitting and most of what separates candidates; the games are 20 to 30 minutes at the end. The games are still worth an hour of your time, because they are the section nobody else prepares for and the one where unfamiliar controls cost real points, but they are not where the test is won.

Our practice metrics show your improvement game by game. KPIT publishes no cutoff and no scoring model, and the shortlist numbers in candidate reports are one drive each rather than a standard.

Step 1

Play Motion Challenge first

It is the one task candidates name across four drives, so it is the highest-value practice on this page. Aim for the minimum move count on each board rather than the fastest solve, and only skip a board when it is clearly beyond the time you have left.

Step 2

Take one pass through the other three Aon games

Grid, Switch and Digit challenges rest on a single 2023 report and may well not appear in your drive. One pass through each is still worth it: the cost is about half an hour and the benefit is that no format is new to you on the day.

Step 3

Rehearse the two non-game tasks on paper

Ten minutes of 4x4 and 5x5 Latin-square grids for the deductive shape puzzle, and a few chart-reading sets answered Yes, No or Cannot Say, holding yourself to the rule that missing data means Cannot Say rather than a guess.

Step 4

Give coding and the essay their own sessions

Two easy-to-medium problems in 40 minutes, where strings, arrays, sorting and simple recursion cover the reported set. Check which languages your drive allows, because 2023 and 2024 reports say C and C++ only while a November 2025 report allows Java and Python. For the essay, practice 200 to 250 words in 25 minutes on a general topic.

Step 5

Prepare for both interview formats

You may get an AI-recorded interview or a live one, and you will not necessarily know which in advance. Write two-sentence definitions for BFS and DFS, stack versus queue, polymorphism and lvalue versus rvalue, prepare one STAR story each for teamwork and a missed commitment, and be ready to defend every project on your resume in conversation.

Step 6

Set up the drive day

A laptop with a working webcam, a quiet room, notifications off, and one uninterrupted sitting of up to three hours. Take the tutorial before each game rather than skipping it; every report that mentions the games gives that same advice.

KPIT Technologies assessment FAQ

Does KPIT use Aon games in its online assessment?

Candidates from two India campus drives, in September 2023 and November 2025, report that KPIT’s online assessment ran on "the AON platform" and describe Aon-style challenges. Two further reports describe tasks matching Aon’s format without naming a vendor. KPIT’s own careers pages name no assessment provider, and other drives report a Mercer Mettl test with no games at all, so this is what candidates say rather than something the company confirms.

What is the KPIT online test pattern?

Per candidate reports from 2023 to 2025: branch-specific technical MCQs of 20 to 30 questions in 30 minutes, an English essay of about 180 to 255 words in 25 to 30 minutes, two easy-to-medium coding problems in 40 minutes, and a gamified section of three timed tasks at roughly six to ten minutes each. The whole sitting is about two to three hours, and some reports mention camera proctoring. The games are the smallest part of it.

Which games are in the KPIT assessment?

A motion or ball-routing task is the only one candidates name across several drives, described as getting a red ball into a black hole in the fewest steps. A single September 2023 report additionally named grid, switch and digit challenges, and no later report mentions them, so treat those three as one drive’s configuration. The other two tasks candidates describe, a deductive shape-grid puzzle and a chart section answered Yes, No or Cannot Say, are reasoning-test formats rather than games and have no simulator here.

Does every KPIT drive include games?

No. Two 2024 drives, one for diploma trainees and one restricted to EC and EEE branches, report a Mercer Mettl test of aptitude, core subjects and coding with no game section at all, and a July 2025 report names Superset with puzzles and no Aon reference. One April 2024 report names a different platform again. Your drive may or may not include a game section, and your invitation is the only thing that settles it.

What happens after the KPIT online test?

It depends on the drive. The November 2024 and November 2025 drives ended with an AI-recorded interview the same evening: 12 to 13 questions on screen, about 20 seconds to think and 1.5 to 2 minutes to record each answer, roughly 45 minutes in total. Other drives, including July 2025, ran a live technical interview on Superset 8 to 10 days after the test followed by an HR interview. No source names the vendor of the AI interview, and neither pattern has clearly replaced the other.

What score do I need to pass the KPIT assessment?

KPIT publishes no cutoff and no scoring model. The shortlist numbers in candidate reports are single drives rather than a standard: 145 of 700 to 800 in one November 2025 drive, 128 of about 500 in a November 2024 drive, 94 of 231 in a July 2023 drive. Focus on accuracy across the whole test rather than on a target number for the games.

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