Cummins India hires engineering freshers as Graduate Engineer Trainees mainly through campus drives: a written test (older drives reported 30 aptitude and 30 technical questions in 60 minutes, with negative marking), a technical interview on fundamentals and your projects, and an HR interview. Reported GET base pay is about ₹30,000–38,000 a month.
Who can apply
- B.E. / B.Tech in Mechanical, Civil or Oil and Petroleum engineering (reported)
- 60% throughout: Class X, Class XII and graduation (reported)
Key facts
- Written test
- 30 aptitude + 30 technical questions in 60 minutes, 0.25 negative marking (reported in older drives, including 2011) [source]
- GET base pay
- ₹30,000–38,000 a month, about ₹3.6–4.6 LPA (reported, 7 salaries, low confidence) [source]
- Shortlist in one campus drive
- 15 of 60 candidates cleared the test (2011 drive, reported) [source]
What Cummins India asks — practise by section
Biggest topics to practise
Mechanical engineering: interview questions · core companies that hire · jobs through GATE
Interview process
- 1Written / online testOlder drives reported 60 questions in 60 minutes: 30 aptitude and 30 mechanical technical (thermodynamics, machine dynamics, heat transfer), with 0.25 negative marking.
- 2Technical interviewBasic core questions with heavy stress on projects and training: Otto cycle, second law, bending moment diagrams, thermal expansion, material properties.
- 3HR interviewIntroduction, hobbies, resume claims (for example MS Office skills), why Cummins. Be honest about everything on your resume.
Questions to expect in Cummins India interviews
Drawn from reported fresher tests and interviews (sources below), with short answers. Practise more on placd.
Tell me about the Otto cycle.
The air-standard cycle for spark-ignition engines: isentropic compression, heat addition at constant volume, isentropic expansion, and heat rejection at constant volume. Efficiency = 1 - 1/r^(gamma - 1), where r is the compression ratio, so efficiency depends only on compression ratio; knock limits how high r can go in petrol engines.
Explain the second law of thermodynamics.
Kelvin-Planck: no cyclic device can produce net work while exchanging heat with a single reservoir, so no engine is 100% efficient. Clausius: heat cannot flow from a colder to a hotter body without external work. Both are equivalent, and together they imply that the entropy of an isolated system never decreases.
What is ductile-brittle transition temperature?
The temperature below which a material, typically a BCC metal such as carbon steel, changes from ductile to brittle fracture. It is found from Charpy impact tests, where absorbed energy drops sharply over a narrow range. FCC metals such as aluminium, copper and austenitic stainless steel do not show a sharp transition.
What are the differences between pneumatics and hydraulics?
Pneumatics uses compressed air, usually around 6-8 bar: it is clean, fast and cheap but compressible, so force and position control are limited. Hydraulics uses nearly incompressible oil, often at 100-300 bar: it gives very high force, precise and stiff control, but needs pumps and filtration, and leaks are messy and a fire risk.
Draw the bending moment diagram for a simple cantilever beam.
For a point load W at the free end of a cantilever of length L, bending moment is zero at the free end and rises linearly to W x L (hogging) at the fixed end, a triangle. For a uniformly distributed load w per metre, the diagram is a parabola with maximum w x L^2 / 2 at the fixed end.
What happens when a rod is heated?
A free rod simply expands: change in length = alpha x L x change in temperature, and no stress develops. If both ends are fully restrained, the expansion is prevented and a thermal stress = E x alpha x change in temperature develops, compressive on heating and tensile on cooling.
About Cummins India hiring
What is the Cummins GET test pattern?
Older drives reported 60 questions in 60 minutes: 30 aptitude (quantitative, verbal, logical) and 30 technical questions from thermodynamics, machine dynamics, pulleys and heat transfer, with 0.25 negative marking. Recent patterns are not published, so confirm with your placement cell. Those who clear it face technical and HR interviews.
What is the Cummins India GET salary?
Data is thin. Glassdoor shows a reported base of ₹30,000–38,000 a month, about ₹3.6–4.6 LPA, from only 7 salaries and marked low confidence. Confirm the current package with your placement cell.
What does Cummins ask in the GET technical interview?
Reported questions are basic core mechanical: Otto cycle, second law, enthalpy, ductile-brittle transition, pneumatics vs hydraulics, cotter joints, gear drives, bending moment diagrams and thermal expansion. Interviewers stress projects and training, so know your resume thoroughly.
Sources
- Cummins Test Pattern and Selection Process - Hitbullseye
- Cummins Interview Questions - Hitbullseye
- Cummins India Placement Paper and Interview Experience, 30 July 2011 - IndiaBIX
- Cummins Graduate Engineer Trainee Interview Questions - Glassdoor India
- Cummins Graduate Engineer Trainee Salaries - Glassdoor India
Checked on 25 Sep 2026. Recruitment rules change each cycle — confirm dates and eligibility in the official notification.