I applied online. The process took 1 day. I interviewed at National Institute of Technology (Calicut, Kerala) in Dec 2008
Interview
The interview board consisted of around 10 members including professors from IIT , Head of Department and Director NIT. The one hour of interview was completely on technical questions based on the area of interest I had suggested.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
which instruction in the hardware executes when a semaphore is invoked.