MBA interview Experience

 MBA Interview Experience, [07-03-2022 16:20]

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P1: 

Not in my resume

Fav subjects

2nd law of thermodynamics

Adiabatic methods

Isothermal methods

Wich is better incase of both?

Prime factors of 90

Divisors of 90

Why not 1

Graph of mod x

Is (0,0) continous?

P2:

If CM calls you and asks 3 majorproblems in Tamilnadu , what would you mention?

Asked to say in priority.

Populism pro/cons

How to reduce debt of state(mentioned as a problem)

Extempore: populism is the brain of democracy.

It was a good interview overall.

No TMSAY, why mba, CA, HR questions.

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MBA Interview Experience, [07-03-2022 16:20]

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IIM-CAP PI Experience

Date: 07.03.2022

Profile: General, Non-Engineer (Lawyer), Male.

CAT: 98.95 percentile

Previous Academics: 95 (10th), 95.6 (12th), First Class (UG)

Panel Composition: 1M (30s), 1F (40s)

Panel Number: 4

P1 (F):

1) Tell us about yourself. (Told I teach German also)

2) Oh okay then introduce yourself in German.

3) Why MBA?

4) What are your hobbies?

5) Difference between Pleader, Advocate, Attorney etc.

6) Difference between single bench and multiple judge benches - why, when etc.

P2 (M):

1) Do you read the news?

2) Which companies are failing right now?

3) Name a time when a company caused mass endangerment to the people (talked about the Bhopal Gas Tragedy)

4) Any questions for us?

Overall impression: Neither was the sequence number given, nor was any roll call taken. Even the photo ID was not verified. I was directly let into the interview panel without notice. A shambolic administrative job. But the interview was mostly chill.

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MBA Interview Experience, [07-03-2022 21:01]

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CAP Interview

Tell me about yourself

Tell me about TCS 

What are your interests

You will manage in personal level or include others funds also 

What's the difference between trading and investing

How you trade ?

Is there any name for all the things you've mentioned

Why all these makes sense (Technical Analysis)

How's your portfolio performance so far

What's the recent happenings in India fortnight

(Said How crude oil prices are going to impact economy)

Any thing happening in India particularly, Not affect of international (said Elections )

Who are the CMs of the states you've mentioned

Aware of Bharata Ratna ?

Name three people who received Bharata Ratna

Tell me about your Job

You did Mechanical engineering, then TCS, now MBA. Seems no relation at all ?

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MBA Interview Experience, [07-03-2022 21:01]

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IIM Indore

07-03-22

PI experience: 

M1: Tell me about yourself. 

M1: so why MBA after mechanical and why not continue with your company?

M1: why resigned 

M1: what if you get rejected by all colleges?

M1: so, you have interest in the stock market?

M1: What's a hedge fund?

(M2 in-between: mutual fund sahi h?)

M1: Extempore-is 5 trillion economy is a dream only? (stopped me after 1 minute and said enough 😐)

M2: You're from mechanical, let's have fun.

M2: What's four-stroke engine?

M2: What's Carnot cycle (in between ohh "thermodynamic", let's come to that later)

M2: What's the otto cycle?

M2: What's the diesel cycle?

M2: power stroke per revolution in 2 stroke and 4 stroke engine

M2: then why named as a 2 & 4?

M2: ab aate h thermodynamics p

M2: how many laws are there?

M2: why zeroth law is named as a zeroth law? Why not simply 1,2,3,4?

M2: tell me zeroth law.

M2: tell me first law

M2: tell me second law

M2: tell me third law

(Some cross-questioning on all laws)

M2: What's enthalpy?

M2: What's entropy?

M2: so, you like puzzles.

(Asked something, it was more like bayes theorem application than a puzzle, couldn't understand)

M2 was laughing when I was answering to M1(and him too); I don't know why.

Lasted for around 20 mins.

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MBA Interview Experience, [08-03-2022 14:57]

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XIMB interview for BM

08-03-2022

92/92/8.17, 27 months work experience

2 males, 1 female sitting very far from camera

1. You are from shibpur, why MBA? 

2. you are such a good engineer, you will waste 2 years of your life in MBA. Then you will have to sell colgate😂

3. Tell what is kirchoffs law

4. See, you are so good in electrical, pls don't do a MBA

5. what is your job profile

6. What is your hobby

7.what do your parents do

8. Promise us you will give GATE😂

9.what other calls you have

10. You are a jolly and good personality, I hope you get somewhere. 

Best of luck

Kept on grilling and pulling my leg😂

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MBA Interview Experience, [08-03-2022 14:59]

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CAP interview 2022

Date: 08.03.2022

Panel- 1M,1F

Both of them seemed to be Asst. Profs

Male Panelist-

1. Hello Shashank, how are you? (Fine..blah blah)

2. How fine are you? Can you quantify it? (No, emotions can't be quantified)

3. Tell me about yourself which is not in your CV. (Asked me to speak for 90 seconds, I could speak for 70 seconds only. I missed a few things which I could have added).

Advice: Prepare this answer well in advance.

4. You're in Oracle which is a dream company to many people. Why do you want to leave it and go for an MBA? (Provided a prepared answer)

5. Which products Oracle provides apart from the Database? (Answered)

6. Which company is the market leader in ERP space? (Answered)

7. Which other companies are active in ERP space? Don't you think Microsoft is a leader in ERP? (Answered)

8. Compare ERP software of Oracle & SAP. (Answered)

9. PeopleSoft is a Microsoft's product. How it is different than Oracle's ERP. (Corrected him that PeopleSoft has been acquired by Oracle now)

10. You talked about OCI, what is cloud computing? (Answered)

Female Panelist-

1. I see your DILR has taken a bit of a hit. Why is that? (Answered that how a calculation mistake led to around 85%ile in DILR)

2. Difference between inductive and deductive reasoning. (Couldn't answer, said that I am not aware of it)

3. Why Navjot Singh Siddhu received flak from citizens and Indian media, a couple of years back? (Answered)

4. Did you follow COP26? (Yes)

5. Which country made the headline in COP26? And what did they exactly do to bring attention? (Answered)

6. How aquatic life survive even when there is a layer of ice at the top of ocean?  (Answered)

No grilling, friendly panel. Waiting time: 2.5 hrs

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MBA Interview Experience, [09-03-2022 02:24]

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Two panelists, 

Both males

About my graduation degree (it is in chemical sciences)-there follow up questions on this

Asked math question one was on pnc (answered, was not able get final answer) 

Xy=c and -c graph  

State rivers their their origin and end 

Current news

Current new on economic

Why gold price increasing

Share price

Sensex

It was above average interview, I was not able to answer two questions one about pnc (final answer) and other one about current sensex

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MBA Interview Experience, [09-03-2022 02:24]

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IIM Indore:

Panel 7, March 8, 2022.

Metallurgical and Materials Engineering.

Work Ex - 4 months.

Panel: 1M, mid 30s.

M1

1. TMAYS

2. Why worked for Vedanta only for 4 months?

3. Tell us about internships and anything else that you are doing currently. 

4. Why did you intern with Healthcare industry? (Minor in Bio medical engineering)

M2

1. Tell us about your undergrad courses.

2. What is martensite and austenite?

3. Define malleability, ductility, hardness and toughness.

4. What is cold working and hot working?

M1 again:

5. What is Bio compatibility?

6. Is Diamond hard or tough? What about titanium?

7. Why is titanium a medical material? Titanium vs steel.

Extempore topic: Water Pollution

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MBA Interview Experience, [09-03-2022 02:24]

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IIM Indore 

8th March 2022

Reporting time : 4:45pm

Waiting 45 mins

BTech (Chemical Engineering-2021)

Work Ex = UnAcademy (Content Manager)

2 Penalist M1,M2 = (35 to 40 age)

M1: Tell me about yourself

M2: What's your role/Job profile in UnAcademy?

M1: Extempore = Future of Edtech sector (30 sec to think, 2 min to speak)

M2: Difference between Content and Content? (as they are heteronyms)

M1: What are carbohydrates?

M1: What are Amino Acids?

M1: What are Fatty Acids?

M1: What are Bio-Molecules?

M1: What is Detergent and its chemical composition?

M1: What are the soaps and chemical composition of soap and detergent?

M1: What's your favorite subject? (Said thermodynamics)

M1: Ok, I won't ask anything from it and gave a devil's smile 

M1: Difference between refinery and distillation?

M1: Is distillation used in the refinery?

M1: what is coal tar?

M1: What is Bio-Diesel?

M1: Constituent of Bio-Diesel?

M1: Current rate of Crude oil?

M1: what is OPEC?

M1: Full form of OPEC?

M1: Countries in OPEC?

M1: Is the US and Russia is a part of OPEC?

M2: Ok, you have done a course in Economics, so tell me, what is a cartel? (I said I don't know, they said it is elementary, you have done a course you should know this)

M2: what do you write, what kind of blogs do you like to write?

M2: What is the significance of Chernobyl right now?

M2: Does the Russian army invade Chernobyl?

M2: Is chernobyl is still working?

M2: Tell me what happened in 1986 in Chernobyl?

M2: Tell me the historical significance of Chernobyl and its link with the USSR?

Ok, you can log off now.

(overall, it was more on a roasting side, I didn't answer many questions, they asked are you sure after each question to create more pressure)

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MBA Interview Experience, [09-03-2022 02:25]

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IIM Calcutta Interview Experience

08/03 Afternoon P24

GEM Mechanical Engineer

95/95/77 CAT: 99.75

18 months work-ex in consulting

P1:

1. So you are a he/him? What is this? (had pronouns against my name in Zoom)

2. What are the other pronouns used? Why are these required?

3. Can someone be a she/they?

4. How can you say that gender is a spectrum?

5. Is this just a social construct? Tell us other examples of constructs.

6. What things define our social identity?

P2:

8. Why is there such a wide range in your undergrad scores?

9. I see you've participated in many things, why not any sports?

10. Why leave McKinsey for an MBA here? Why don't you go outside?

11. You've experience in debating - speak against India's decision to abstain from voting at UN against Russia.

12. Now speak in support of India's decision to abstain from voting against sanctions on Iran.

13. What steps should be taken to increase reading among students, and discourage video consumption?

14. You are quite articulate, tell me about your honest weaknesses - don't sugarcoat it with a positive spin.

P1:

15. Let's talk about stats - 4-5 rapid fire questions on distributions.

16. How will you plot or generate a normal distribution? (answered but didn't get what he was asking for)

17. Explain vlookup and hlookup.

18. What are the assumptions and limitations in Baye's theorem?

19. Tell me 3 news items that encapsulate the whole country's business ecosystem. (Told about NSE scam, Future/Amazon/Reliance tussle, Bharatpe situation - covers capital markets, corporates, startups)

20. Some cross questions on these.

~25 mins. P1 has a poker face most of the time.

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MBA Interview Experience, [09-03-2022 02:27]

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CAP

Afternoon Slot (1:30) started at 4:30,went till 5

1M1F

My background- Fresher,B.Com Hons,CA student

Did you know your name's so common?

Introduce yourself

Why Mba

Socialism

Alps

What are fold mountains

Rasputin

Water metro

Inter City rail on Indian funds

US independence day,when and it's history

Federalism

Imperialism in Media

Will you choose finance as your specialization?

Favourite ECA activity

Since you've seen noida develop, tell 1 good thing and 1 bad thing

Some more GK questions were there.

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MBA Interview Experience, [09-03-2022 18:47]

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IIM Indore (09/03/2022)

Panel 6 (2M)

CAT - 92.89

Acads - 9.8/94.1/69.3

Worked for 31months in IT (Product Support Role)

Interview time is at 10 AM but started by 9.45 (Reporting time) itself

M1 - 

1. Tell me about your Grad specialization

2. How comfortable are you with OS 

3. Okay, let's talk about Programming language

4. What are pointers

5. How can you define array

6. If i take array A[10], insert values into it and print, what is the output

7. What is operator overloading

8. What is method overloading

9. Difference between public and private keywords in Java

M2 - 

1. You are interested in Chess, what is the particular reason for having different terminology in chess - Rook, Knight, etc..

2. Why is Pragnananddha in news recently - talked about it for 2-3min

3. So, do you think it's better to have a consistent performance or giving Steller performance once in a while

4. Name any Indian business woman you know

5. Any other JNTUs (able to 2)

6. What are the rivers flowing in Telangana

7. What are the areas on the bank of Godavari

Extempore - My Organization, My Client, Me (Think for 20 sec and talk for 90s)

Duration - 15-17 min

Overall cool panel, listening patiently and did not grill much

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MBA Interview Experience, [09-03-2022 18:47]

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IIM INDORE (07/03/2022)

Panel  6  (  2 M)

Acads  95/80/81

Fresher  ECE 

1. Asked me about my college name and asked if it's government ?

2. What's your cgpa and conversion rate  & branch ? 

3. What is truth table of Nand gate 

4.  Applications of Nand gate 

5.. Make Exor gate using NAND gate

6..What were you doing after graduation? 

P2  

1.. Who is speaker of lok sabha

2.. Chief justice of india

3. Hobbies ? 

Extempore - Does technology make us dull ?

Duration 16 minutes

Overall chill panelist

All the best guys  👍👍

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MBA Interview Experience, [09-03-2022 18:47]

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IIM Indore Interview 09.03.2022

Final year , Mechanical engineer

Afternoon slot,entry time: 3:15 pm,no waiting time

1.topics in mechanical engineering

2. second law of thermodynamics

3. Exception to second law of thermo

4. abc analysis

5. Npv analysis

6. Mathematical related course

7. CM of TN

8. Is nepotism good in politics

Pretty chill interview..But lasted  only for  8-9 mins.

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MBA Interview Experience, [09-03-2022 18:47]

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IIM Indore - PGP 

9.4/89/8.68    96.7

B.tech biotech graduate

1 year workex in sales

2 year workex as an entrepreneur

P1 in 50's P2 in 40's

P1:

Are you currently working?

Shall I ask you questions related to biotech?

Difference between COVID vaccines.

Difference between plant cell and animal cell? 

How many ribosomes do they have?

Which one has more ribosomes

Process of neural transmission?

What is neurotransmitter?

What are your interests? (Told cooking)

Which nutrients are destroyed while cooking and how can we maintain nutrients?

P2:

Are you comfortable with mathematics?

What is rank of a matrix?

Why matrix is required?

What is normal distribution?

P1

Are you aware of current affairs?

What is chicken neck?

Why there is a standoff between India and china?

Extempore: War and peace

No HR questions, no question on work ex. No question related to my startup.

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MBA Interview Experience, [09-03-2022 18:47]

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IIM Indore Experience

1M,1F 

15-20 minutes

P1: Tell me something about yourself that is not mentioned in your resume.

P1: Which role are you currently working in? Explain in detail.

P1: How is it related to your undergraduation?

P1: What is SMTP? Explain in detail. Draw Architecture.

P1: What is FTP? Explain in detail.

P1: How google search engine works?

P1: How can you make a search engine yourself?(Told I'm not good at networking)

P1: What are your favourite subjects?(Mentioned DS and OOPS)

P1: Mention any 5 differences between OOPS and procedural programming?

P1: What are Access Modifiers?

P1: Explain through code.

P1: What is a class? What is an object?

Over to P2(Female)

P2: Tell us something about Haryana? Anything famous or good about state.

P2: What is Haryana's rank in rice production?

P2: Do you know about NSE? Not scam but NSE.

P2: When was NSE founded? When was BSE founded?

Extempore: Women Diversity at Workplace

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MBA Interview Experience, [09-03-2022 18:47]

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CAP 2022 - 09/03/2022

Bcom(hons)- Final year

Afternoon slot - 1:30pm

Male and female panelist- both in 30s

Q.1- How are you?

Q.2- Are you a final year student? You have Exam paper or project in last year?

Q.3- Why mba and not mcom? Answered 

Q.4- So you know quite a bit about management, tell me the functions of management. Answered

Q.5- How would you describe controlling in an organization? Answered 

Q.6- Can controlling be done in some other way too? Tried to answer 🙂

Q.7- What is management by objectives? Answered 

Q.8- How is mbo different from normal standards? Said not aware of it

Q.9- Extra curricular- Dancing and painting 

Q.10- Different types of dance forms in India- Answered 

Q.11- Different types of motivation . Explain its use in an organization- Answered but didn't seem to get convinced as I fumbled a bit

Q.12- Fav subject- Marketing

Q.13- About positioning- Answered 

Q.14- Ways of positioning- Said don't know

Q.15- 5 Famous things about Varanasi- Well answered 

Q.16- Governor of Up- Answered 

Q.17- No. Of lok sabha seats in up- Answered 

Very chilled and short interview. Lasted for about 10 minutes. 

Female panelist was really sweet, she was smiling back the whole time when I was smiling.

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MBA Interview Experience, [09-03-2022 18:49]

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IIM CAP

9th Mar 2022

(Civil Engineer Male, 94%ile)

AN panel, 1.30 to 5,

Roll call at 1.30, told the order thankfully, and I could rectify my camera issue. Waited until 3.20

1M, 1F, (Both 30 to 35) and friendly

20 to 25 mins interview

Joined in, and both were on mute, then F started

Hi, show us your ID pls.. 😅

I wished Good afternoon and shown my ID..

Your name, meaning and please tell us about yourself dear.. 😅

I smiled and told the prepared answer...

Where are from again? Is it Chennai? I told no maam.. And told its Tiruppur, Tamil Nadu, nearby Coimbatore

Oh, Coimbatore, so Isha and that yoga centre is nearby your place?

I told yes, it is... And she asked how much distance and have u visited there? Told 100kms and visited twice.

Why MBA after engineering, you could have done Mtech and contributed to your field ryt? 

Told how MBA will open multiple doors for me and the potential for me in the field after the experience in core. Mentioned my father's business too. 

Ok, Tell about your family,(as I mentioned before) 

Told in detail

Are u working or resigned?

Told I resigned and she asked why,

I told I has decided to go for an MBA this year for sure and decided to take up all the exams. And that's why I left.

So, what are the projects u worked and your other responsibilities in work? 

Explained about L&T projects, Ambazari metro station design, that I had done, Patna Ring road projects and explained my role in detail) 

Ok,good. and she asked about what's special in Mahabalipuram,

I told about the shore temples and history of the place.. Couldn't remember the temple name.. She asked.. And told it is an UNESCO world heritage site..

Which one is the largest state in south India? (Told I'm not sure maam, but I think it is Karnataka)

Truth alone triumphs, which state motto statement. (it's Tamilnadu and it will be under the state logo)

Asked about the various parties in TN, and their names

Told well and good.

She smiled, told thank you and all the best, and I thanked her.

Over to you sir.. M came in with cracking snacks, and seemed very relaxed and bored and wanted to play with me,

Rapid fire started, even if I couldn't answer, or could answer.. He cut short or never mind and keep on asking questions... All while eating with noise... And I had to ask some questions twice to hear it... 

Ok, How many parties in your state and names again pls.. 

Told, 

State Tree(I don't know sir.. I'll look into it..) 

Secondary language other than Tamil, (Told English and Hindi, asked one, I told English) 

State bird( I'll look into it sir.) 

What are the software u used in work? Told Excel, AutoCAD, MIDAS, Stadd pro, etc 

Asked difference between AutoCAD and MIDAS, both are completely different, one is drafting and other is design and analysis. 

How do u draw plans in excel? (I smiled wide, thinking did he not listen me?) 

Then explained it is used for designing where we enter all data and commands and check whether the design is feasible or not. 

Ok, (seemed like he don't want me to answer, so switched back to his old list of state related questions) 

State Game... (Told Kabadi) 

Three monuments in state, other than Vellore golden temple, 

(Told Brahadeeswara temple, Madurai Meenakshi Amman Temple) 

Cut in between and said ok, tell me the state film industry name (I was like wtf, and smiled and told I don't know sir, I'll look into it) 

He wanted to win, so i let him....

Asked about my extra curricular, in college, told about my poetry works and published authorship, told oh it is published, ok. 

How much do u rate yourself in leadership?

Told 8.5 out of 10

Only 8.5? Told as I still have a lot to learn and I don't have a great experience, that's why..

So, how can u give 8.5 if u don't have experience as a leader. Are ur statements not contradictory? I accept 1st point, u have a lot to learn, ok.. 

Told no sir, I have given the rating based on the leadership experience I have... And smiled

Told ok, thank you, all the best, you can leave the meet.

Thanked him and left.

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MBA Interview Experience, [09-03-2022 18:49]

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Call: XIMB BM 9 March 2022

CAT: 98.13 (96/95/95)

Profile: 91.2/68/8.83 BE Mechanical

Workex: 9 months IT

2 male panelists (seemed to be in their 30s). 

M1- let's start with verification of your academic details. 

(Then M1 went on to verify year, percentage, school and college names and asked me to recite everything)

M1: So you passed out in 2020 but started working in 2021. Why?

M1: Why did you leave your job? 

M1: Your graduation and 10th is good but 12th is low? What went wrong?

M1: So which exams did you give now? How much did you score?

M1: Did you clear all sectional cutoffs in CAT as well?

M1: Then you must have calls from many IIMs. What all calls do you have?

M1: So where are you located currently? 

M1: So you were working from home? What was your job about? 

At this point M1 got up and left for a bit and M2 took over. 

M2: So what things did you miss from Mechanical engineering when you worked in the IT industry?

M2: What challenges did you face while working?

M2: Do you know anyone at XIMB? Did you interact with your mentor?What is the name of your mentor?

M2: Okay, what were the subjects you liked in Mechanical Engineering?

M2: So what are these IC engines?

M2: What is the difference between IC and EC engines?

M2: What are some EC engine examples? 

Now M1 came back to his seat. 

M2: Tell us about your hobbies. 

M1: What is this Doosra? How is it different from regular spin bowling?

M2: Is there a Teesra as well?What is it? 

M1: What are these mystery spinners? Name some mystery spinners.

M1: Is Kuldeep Yadav a mystery spinner as well?  What is so different about it? 

M1: What is this Chinaman? Why is it called Chinaman? Was there any need to bring China in this as well? (And then the panelists

 started laughing)

M1: Okay, fine. Are there any more Chinaman bowlers?

M1: Okay. All the best. 

Time: 20 minutes

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MBA Interview Experience, [09-03-2022 18:49]

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GIM Goa interview experience

78/93/70 bcom grad from Delhi University

Bhopal city 

GE- are online platforms making us lazy. 

2 sweet panelists 1m and 1f

P1- where have you logged in from 

Me- Bhopal 

P1- introduce your city 

P1- which river passes from Hoshangabad

Me- Narmada river

P2-- which way it flows

Me- starts from Amarkantak and ends in Arabian sea

P2 - why narmada is unique 

Me- told

P2- tell who are you and why mba

P1- hobbies

P2- favourite subject between accounts and finance

P1- shareholders worth

P2- role of RBI

P2- reverse repo rate

P2- define in one line banking system

P2- debt to equity ratio

P2- types of leverages 

P2- going concern concept

P2- matching concept 

Overall very chill interview, most friendly panel I have come across till now. Be well verse with your area and acdemics.

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MBA Interview Experience, [09-03-2022 18:56]

XLRI interview:

21-02-2022, BM profile

92/92/8.17, GEM, 27 months work exp, electrical engineer

3 panellists, all male

P1 , middle aged, hands on forehead all the time and eating something

1. tell me more about your work

2. tell me the problems/challenges blue collar workers face

3. you are working in TATA PROJECTS, why MBA

4. why supervisors are harsh to labourers 

5. what change you bought

P2, middle aged, smiling

1. why birds don't get electric shock while sitting on wire

2. when can it get shock

3. why we use step up and step down transformer

4. what is earthing

P3, very aged

1. tell me more about your college

2. tell me how status of institute of national importance changed your college

Thanks , you may log off

P1 was grilling a lot, P2 grilled a bit, P3 was chill

MBA Interview Experience, [09-03-2022 18:56]

XLRI BM interview (21st Feb)

Panel 1: 3 Panelists (all male)

Duration: 29 mins

GEM/99.28 (XAT)

95/97.2/87.5 (BTech in Mechanical)

Work-ex: 18 Months (Cloud Tech)

Interview started 10 mins early. It was completely based on profile, no questions from BTech other than the fav subject (Supply Chain Management) mentioned in the form.

P1: You've mentioned Supply chain management. (SCM) as your fav subject and have published a paper in this field. What motivated you and elaborate on the work.

A: Explained the research work and the motivation behind.

P1: What is Beer Game and reason for choosing it?

A. Gave a basic answer.

P1: If it is just for deterministic scenarios, what's the fun.

A. (Realised my mistake) Explained the stochastic scenarios.

P1: What are the challenges that a wholesaler will face?

A: Explained both upstream and downstream challenges.

P1: Explain bottleneck concept through this game.

A. Explained. 

P1 is done. There was some back and forth questioning throughout, but he seemed somewhat satisfied.

P2: Explain just in time concept.

A. Answered.

P2: Explain the challenges that show up in this scenario considering bullwhip effect (in layman's terms).

A. Answered.

P2: Gave a job schedulling problem and asked to tell the max output.

A. Answered on the basis of which machine will hit the bottleneck.

P2: Gave a standard deviation in processing time for one of the machines and then asked to predict the output.

A. I got confused, asked him to repeat the exact terms twice. I did some calculations but wasn't sure and told him so. He said, leave it.

P2: A domain other than Supply Chain in which you're interested. 

A. Cloud Tech (my current work ex)

P2: Explain the different service sectors involved.

A. Explained. Mentioned CaaS (Cache as a Service).

P2: Asked me to explain the significance of CaaS.

A. Explained.

P2: What is the business sense of having this service when we ready have IaaS(Infra)?

A. I gave a difference between the two.

P2: I am not asking you to diffferentiate, what is the business sense of it.

A. I tried to explain the benefits of it and why clients require it. He wasn't very satisfied.

P2 is done.

P3: So you've lived at 5 different states, which all are they and what are your experiences?

A. Answered.

P3: Desribe India to a foreigner.

A. Answered on the lines of social fabric and cultural diversity.

P3: Why should a business executive choose India.

A. Answered in terms of rich Human and natural resource, cheaper labour and large & diverse market. There was some back and forth questioning in this.

P3: Benefits of being a foodie in India.

A. Explained in terms of different cuisines which I have experienced.

P3 is done. They asked me to logoff.

#XLRI

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XLRI HR Interview 20th Feb'2022

Profile: 9,8,7 GNEM, 25 months workex, 99.59 %ile

3 Panelists - all male.

P1: So harsh why are you wearing a black tie?

P1: why are you wearing formals?

P1: Your take on lungi as formal?

P1: How will you convince foreign partner of lungi at workplace?

P1: Where all can lungi be worn in workplace?

P1: So you are from fashion domain, tell me something about the course.

P1: Why MBA?

(handover to P2)

P2: (Lots of cross questioning on why MBA answer)

P2: job scenarios for labours.

(handover to P3)

P3: Which course out of BM and HRM will be your choice?

P3: (talked about a quote on my wall) and linked it to HR and BM course.

time: 20 min, lots of cross questioning by P2 and P3.

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HR

2:50 pm slot (Started on time)

GEF 2.5 years work ex in data analytics

Duration: 19 mins Panel: H3

P1 female 50ish years, P2 male 65ish years, P3 male video off, Me - M

P1: Hi, how are you?

M: I had a great workout today morning, so I feel energized. How are you, ma’am?

P1: Nice, I’m good. Where are you joining us from?

P1: Tell us about yourself

P1: Interesting! What are the female specific policies in your firm?

M: Mentioned 1, talked about maternity paid leaves & mentioned since I’m not married / pregnant I’m not sure about the details

P1: Okay then tell us something else

M: Mentioned another policy that is in talks, soon to be executed

P1: What will you do as a part of HR for females? You can tell no, if you can’t come up with anything.

M: Talked about women being multitaskers, might need an outlet to discuss their concerns about mental health, need for mental wellness programs

P1: Interrupted saying that pandemic has taken a toll on mental health of men too

M:Yes, ma’am. I can’t come up with anything right now.

P1: Alright.

P1: Why MBA at this stage?

M: Answered

P1: Why HR specifically?

M: Mentioned a HR role I performed in my firm

P1: Looked convinced

P2: What is the difference between recruitment and selection?

M: Explained the terms

P2: So is it the same?

M: Explained with an example

P2: Okay.

P3: You mentioned that you’ve trekked, talk about that experience.

M: Answered

P3: You also read fiction novels. Do you read Paulo Coelho.

M: I’m afraid not, Sir. My favorite authors are X,Y,Z.

P3: Okay, since you trek I thought you read Paulo Coelho.

M: Smiled.

P3: Why XLRI?

M: Mentioned how the mission of XL helps students, course structure of XL HR and how it will help me.

P2: What is the full form of XLRI? Are you sure? Do you want to change your answer?

P2: Looks like you’ve gone through our website in detail. What courses do we offer?

M: Mentioned the programs offered.

P2: No, elaborate HR courses.

M: Mentioned name of modules in HR and 1 HR elective and how it was niche.

P1: To be fair most of the modules you said aren’t core HR.

M: Yes, ma’am. XLRI HR is holistic and prepares students in other aspects as well. Mentioned elective again. (I honestly didn’t expect them to ask HR modules so I didn’t go through it)

P1: You mentioned a few BM modules. Yes, we do offer it in HR. But did you apply for BM? Did you get a call?  Interview for BM got over? When is it? Let’s say you get both offers, what will you choose?

M: Smiling. Without any disrespect to the panel, I would choose BM.

P1: That’s alright, we respect our students’ decisions. Why should we choose you for HR?

M: Briefly reminded them of my HR experience. Mentioned why HR is important for a firm and my immediate next role at work, which I asked to get allocated to, is full on HR, since my current project is ending.

P1: Okay. Thank you for joining us.

M: Thank you for your time!

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XL HRM EXPERIENCE(25.2.2022)

Profile: economics fresher (92/92/8.9)

Time was 11.10(started around 10 minutes early)

3 panelists all male

Pleasantries exchanged

Started with my background as i had some paintings hung there..asked how my hobbies have shaped me,. Examples from my life where i had to take decisions or how have i changed as a person....the frst panelist was going compltly on behavioral things and was smiling thorough out.

Asked only a few acad related questions and how they relate to HR, A littlr cross questioning there

P2: continued with the behavorial things and past incidents

P3: the genral question like why hr and why xlri

Took about 20 mins...

Overall it was like a casual convo without much cross questioning, the only cross things asked were to test how clear ur abt ur decisions.

MBA Interview Experience, [09-03-2022 18:56]

XLRI HRM 

Profile: 95/96/8.5

BMS (Finance)

18 months workex

1. Tell me something that is not there on your application

2. How did you resolve conflict in your organisation

3. Any HR experience in your organisation 

4. How is minds are like parachute applicable in your life ( I mentioned it in previously)

5. Tell us a poem about empathy (mentioned it previously)

Some follow up questions in between. Overall panel was pretty chill. Interview started 40 mins before the scheduled time.

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HRM interview 

28/2/22

Panel H3

4 profs 3 male one had cam turned off 

11:37 am - 12:05 pm

P1(50s) P2(40s) P3(30s) likely and alum was sitting with shirt buttons open 😂

Pleasantries exchanged

Where i am joining from 

P1. 

1.Hi devarshi so tell me something about yourself which is not there in the forms

Told about my weight loss journey 

Smiled and said that's commendable

2. Learnings you got in your weight losss

Told about determination and grit and all

3. 2 activities in weight loss

Told excersise and diet in a planned way and how it helped

4. So why HR

Told about talent acquisition and all and how it intrigues me

5. Asked if i did talent acquisition

Said for my team yeah I did 

And have eg and what it is and all 

Smiled said okay great handed over to P2

P2

1.Good morning . So you wrote about paternity leave 

So what is meesho

Told about meesho what it is

2.Said so you said 8 weeks paternity leave are there any conditions

Said not like any haven't decided 

3. Gave me a scenario if uts applicable to director 

Said that yeah but may need to come back if situation arises

4. So you will ask him to come back in between

Said like not to officr but join from home 

5. Gave another scenario like if I join one month back and went through 3 weeks training and just applied for 30 week paternity leave  what will I do 

Said won't give need to join after initial 4 weeks

6. Asked what terms you think you can keep

Told cannot exchange with other leaves cannot take post 3 children and 2 more  one two cross question on that 

I told not yet decided and thought fully but these I am thinking

Said sure sure it's okay 

P3 grilled 😟

1. So devarshi interesting conversation till now 

So tell me 3 reasons  why should we take you 

Told I went through the course and all .. Did talent acquisition in college and company

Grilled that do you consider comitte as job did you get paid did the people you took were paid 

... Said no said then tell me other reasons 

Told I studied little about OB already

Asked what I studied 

Told about What OB is and what are the approaches of OB

Asked you read a book about OB

Said no just read in online 

Said ok tell me who wrote book on classical approach of OB

Was unable to say 

Told okay sure and gave a case question that labours in Kolkata are uprising and hitting managers and all and union strikes why 

Said that maybe due to not getting respect and all working extra 8-8

asked who told 8-8 where you read

Told online social media 

Said you know it's illegal 

I said yeah 

Said then you know there is overtime for that

Said yeah don't know that much 

Said okay 

Said we are done

Any questions 

Smiled and said no thank you so much 

Then said okay leave the meeting 

Nothing from P4

P1 P2 smiled though out. Even I smiled throughout

MBA Interview Experience, [09-03-2022 18:56]

XLRI BM interview: 27/02/2022 9:55 AM.

Profile: XAT 99.7

10/88.6/6.96 (10/12/Graduation)

Work experience: 2 years in IP Consultancy

.

Three interviewers (2 Male 1 Female)

M1: Tell me something about yourself that’s not on your resume or SOP.

Me: Talked about knowledge and trying to correlate knowledge and skill set.

M1: is knowledge enough?

Me: Took an analogy equating knowledge with potential energy and applying it with skills as kinetic energy

M1: I believe the stock market is a scam and doesn’t add to the country’s economy. What do you have to say to that.

Me: Messed this a little answering it two different ways and he interrupted saying he meant something else.

Finally mentioning that Stock markets are an indicator of the country’s economy. Have an example of Stock market tanking after pandemic struck, then it rose again with the economy reopening.

Then

M2: How will you prepare a business plan for XYZ lassi shop (very famous shop in my hometown)

Me: (Stunned for a minute didn’t expect it.)

Decided on a business plan including digital marketing and improving consumer base before expanding

M2: You said you’ve been investing in stock market. What are your thoughts about paytm IPO. Did you invest? Who incurred losses and who got gains from its movement after IPO?

Me: answered about 70% satisfactorily

M2: Udaan scheme? Why has Darbhanga airport (part of udaan scheme) been so successful? Reasons?

Then

F1: tell me something about your city. Pretend I am a tourist.

Me: told about the forts, erstwhile Darbhanga Raja and history. How it has been considered as gateway to Anga region historically etc.

F1: What are the things exported out from Darbhanga

Me: didn’t know exactly so I mentioned about things exported from north Bihar region ( Mithila painting and Muzaffarpur’s litchis)

M2 jumped in (He is from this town as well): How do you not know these three things from Darbhanga?!

I said I was not very fond of those articles of food.

M2: But that doesn’t mean you will not have any knowledge about the same.

I said yes, but I do not know much about these in details.

F1: Thank you. Any questions for us?

I said yes: what do you look for in an interviewee (in one word) they were silent for a moment.

M1: the capacity to learn from each conversation or discussion.

They smiled and said I can log off.

All in all, it went on for about 35 minutes. The interviewers were chill and probing, but did not grill me very much.

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XLRI BM Interview Experience

GEM 9.4/94/7.94 XAT 98.67

3 Panelists

P1: You are from Vadodara, then Telangana. What did you do after that?

P1: Why are you confident you will get a college, and why not MSU(university in my city)

P1: Explain the Gujarat model without politics

P1: Farmer income is not taxed, is it fair?

P1: Explain why farm bills were revoked?

P1: What is the projected GDP and actual GDP. What is the reason for the difference?

Now P2

P2: More questions on GDP?

P2: Hobbies? 

P2: Please comment: Is it okay to work for NGO, just for the selfish reason to add in the resume?

P2: What are your reasons?

Some more back and forth on NGO

Now P3

P3:  Please comment: "Gold glitters, Equity Jitters"

Please log off 

Good experience, chilled interviewers

MBA Interview Experience, [09-03-2022 18:56]

BM Interview

3 Panelist All Male

Time 20min

P1: Tell me about yourself

P1: why mba

P1: why not get a job from mech

P1: Use of geography in management

P1: how is weather related information given to farmers

Answered these questions well, no issues

P2: why switch from upsc to management

P2: do you think upsc is tougher than mba

P2: Or Is it that the upsc examination is tougher

P2: what is purpose of examination

(A lot of cross questioning here)

P2: how can you use statistics to decide who is a better person for upsc

(Couldn't answer it)

P2: how is your maths?

P2: Basics rules of probability

(stumbled here, he tried to give some hints)

P2: what is a zero probability event

(cross questioning but answered it)

P3: what is the probability of having a sunny day or having an ice-cream?

Very tricky, lots of cross questioning and i did stumbled few times

P3: Name some geography philosophers?

P3: when was plate tectonics theory proposed

(Answered it)

These the ones I could remember

Interview was really tough, lot of grilling

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XLRI BM 2nd March 2022

GEM 95/92/81 MME 2019, VNIT Nagpur

XAT 93.06

Interview started 10 min late then the scheduled time

Three panelists(P1,P2,P3), all late middle age

P1:

1. Tell me the meaning of your name

2. Is wealth important in one's life

3. Can we measure someone's wealth by looking at him?

4. How much wealth I have both in my bank account?

5. Asked about financial security.

6. Asked me to calculate how much one should be earning and saving in his/her 35 years of career so as to be financially secure after retirement.

7. Asked me about the definition of doubling rate.

8. Suppose your favourite God comes in front of you and gives you an option to choose between unlimited knowledge or money, which one would you choose and why?

P2:

1. Asked about my roles and duties in the business I am running.

2. Asked about the revenue model, process flow chart etc.

3. Some more counter questions on the same

4. Asked if I had to start three business in metallurgy, what would those be?

5. One thing I learned in Hindalco about leadership.

P3:

1. Why metal prices have increased in last 10-12 months?

2. Why crude oil prices have increased in the backdrop of UK-Russia war?

Overall P1 was nice and smiling the whole time, P2 and P3 were a bit rude.

MBA Interview Experience, [09-03-2022 18:56]

XLRI BM

2yr+ workex

IT engineer

P1

How are you ? Where are you loggin in from?

Job role?is it hectic ?...cross questioning on it and about IBM(as I'm working there)

What do you do in your free time ?

Do you read? Which books? Who is favorite detective? Aren't all her books the same?

Questions on Agatha Christie and Hercule Poirot ( I mentioned her and him as a fictional character)

Asked if I rem mathematics and stats from engineering and what was taught

P2

(Had mentioned RDBMS as my favourite subject in grad in the form)

What is rdbms & how is it different from DBMS

What is normalisation ? Example and forms of it

Gave me a table to normalise

Asked about multi valued attributes

How I'll choose a software from a list of 10 for my company and measure it's efficiency(took a hypothetical use case)

Made make a relation n how I'll measure these things with different units for choosing the software (time and cost)

P3

Business news you read(mentioned about a tech in field of radiology and a big gap btwn skilled radiologist n no. Of people in India it caters to)

What is series A funding? Is it the first stage?

How is AI solving problems? 

Coz of data machines can never be wrong?

Who is the beneficiary here ? Hospitals with tech or radiologist?

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XLRI HRM interview

04-03-2022, Panel H1, started 10 min before time

92/92/8.17, 27 months work exp, XAT - 97.79

P1,P2,P3

P1

1. Tell us more about yourself

2. Where do you work, what are your responsibilities

3. Greatest achievement you are proud of

4. One situation where you did not have enough info, still had to take decision

P2

1. How do you do work, by vendors or yourself

2. Advantage of employing vendors

3. Revenue of TATA Projects Limited

4. What latest movie did you watch

5. Lessons from that movie

P3

1. What college nickname did you have

2. Are you very jovial

3. what are your hobbies

4. My son keeps arguing that 6/10, 60/100 are different. How to convince him

Any questions for us

Very chilled, all of them were smiling, wished best of luck, no grilling

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Xlri BM

Mar 4th 2022

Gem 16months worked in IT

Xat 95.3

3M panel

M1....

Q1: question from sop, you read books which type?

Q2:How do you invest in cryptos considering the instability?

Q3:What other investment options do you use?

Q4: what is your investment portfolio distribution?

Q5:Name some stocks in your portfolio

Q6:How do you evaluate a stock how did you consider to buy nykaa stock?

Q7:Why did you considered going into IT after Btech in mech

M1 was chill and was smooth.

M2: give me 5 parameters if you have to rank states in terms of living index.

M3: don't you think law and order should also be considered?

M2: how do you define gender ratio?

M2: name 2 states with highest sex ratio and 2 with lowest?

M2:any northeast state?

M2:what is your job role?

M2:In what other sectors does your company provide solutions?

M2 was chill and gave an acceptance gesture

M3:So in the previous question did you consider law and order and how important is it according to you?

M3:What are your hobbies?

M3:which autobiography do you admire the most?

M3:why Phil knight?

M3: which famous Indian personality living or dead you admire?(answered Ratan Tata)

M3:why?

M3:and why not Netaji? Give me 2 points.

Got confused here looked like M3 admired him the most and somewhat grilled me, like if I gave an aswer to why ratan tata he said so according to you Netaji didn't contribute. (Wasn't satisfied i thought with the last answer)

Asked me to log off. Roughly 25 mins interview.

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Xat 99.5

Xlri hrm

Gem

8 month Infosys ex

Everything based on SOP

3M, one out of them was father ( other 2 were calling him father)

M1: hi, how are you and what were you doing?

Told that watching ind sri test

- ohh what's the score who is batting?

Why cricket is called a team game because everyone watches individual performance?

Friendly grilling on that for 5 mins

-Any incident which changed u completely in life?

-How sensitive you are?

-How hardworker you are?

-Bm or hrm?

-Why applied for hrm?

-One thing you like / dislike about hr domain?

M2. Mention one hr policy which u don't like about ur company

-2 SOP questions on the learnings from the setback in life

-Are you a reader

- any book which you would recommend?

One learning from that book?

Father. 

Mentioned one learning from my setback and told me to explain it.

- do you think you should rephrase it ( seemed satisfied with my ans)

-what interests you ?

Told my hobbies but he told no, what do u like to create?

-any questions for us

All 3 smiled at my question and told me just to enjoy the mba.

Time 20-22 mins

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XLRI HRM Interview

05-03-2022, Panel H1, Started on time. Duration: 24 mins.

Three panelists (P1,P2,P3), all late middle age males.

Candidate (C)

Profile: 92.17% (Class 10); 95.8% (Class 12); CGPA 9.39 (Undergraduate)

XAT: 99.2832 %ile

Work Ex: 2.5 years in TCS Research and Development Labs as a Machine Learning Researcher.

Pleasantries exchanged.

P1: What is it that you do at TCS Research?

C: Explained

P1: Explain the nature of research you do.

C: Explained that my role is primarily concerned with automating certain processes in the Software Development Life Cycle using AI.

P1: Is it true that employees are pushed into R&D?

C: Countered this saying that it's an on-campus placement and a niche technical role.

P1: How can AI be used in HR?

C: Talked about the domain of HR Analytics and certain companies like HUL using AI in their Recruitment and Screening process.

P3: Do you think these systems are self-sufficient?

C: Said that the insights provided by the system can be used together with human expertise.

P2 (suddenly pitched in): Have you heard of instances that these recruitment AIs have a bias towards the white people.

C (I did watch a documentary on this. Google up "Timnit Gebru"): Said that these systems aren't perfect and that they're still a work in progress. These systems give best results when working in tandem with human experts.

P1 (referring to one of my SOP answers): Good to see that you've mentioned about Performance Appraisal and SPEED platform (TCSers can relate).

(In my SOP, I did mention about reviewers being overburdened with reviews which results in not having a quality review for the employee-appraisal process).

P1: Do you think companies intentionally give a lot of reviews to a reviewer? What would you have done if you were in his/her shoes?

C: I said, I'd try to do each review sincerely.

P1: Come on. Be realistic. No one's that great. 

C: (Fumbled a bit here.)

P1: Most of the ratings are average. Right?

C (Immediately realizing what he meant.): Yes, I agree. It's mostly a bell curve with average ratings being maximum. Extremely high and low ratings are rare.

P1: So, what would you do?

C: I'd mainly focus on these extreme reviews because subjective bias are more likely to be found here. (Favoritism or Personal grudge).

P1: Yes, performance ratings have often being subjected to emotional bias in the past.

P2: We also do research like you at XLRI. So, there are conference tiers, right? What if some researcher goes on publishing in Tier C conferences to maximize paper count. How would you as an HR deal with that?

C: Talked about our organization policy where in there is a catalogue of conferences to pitch in and one should always start from Tier A and go for lower tiers only upon rejection. Also, talked about Microsoft Research's mandatory at least one Tier A paper in a year policy.

P1: There shouldn't be an appraisal process in R&D. Only self appraisal is sufficient. What do you think?

C: Talked about certain technical metrics like citations, h-index, i10 index. However, working in corporate entails several other soft-skills as well. Most importantly, teamwork. So, in my opinion Appraisal is important.

P1: Who should appraise?

C: Ideally colleagues and Manager. In TCS, it's only Manager.

P1,P2, P3: Thank you for your time. Good Luck.

Interviewers seemed satisfied with my answers and kept on smiling.

Overall, a pretty friendly and engaging conversation type interview experience. No grilling as such but in depth analysis of SOP answers.

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XLRI BM interview:

BTech Mechanical Engineer. 5 years gap due to UPSC preparation.

B3 panel 25 mins and 3 panelists

P1: 

1) It's only 11:58 am and you said "Good afternoon". Don't you have time sense ?

2) What made you think that it was afternoon ? 

3) So if you are a pilot and the aircraft is supposed to go at 12, you'll just take off whenever you feel it's afternoon ?

P2: (couldn't hear him at all. Sitting far away from computer and not using mic. Had to make him repeat questions often)

1) When can you see shadow ?

2) So anytime other that 12 pm you can see shadow ? What about 10 pm ? Be specific in answers

P1:

1) (Opened sensex number in some random website) Look at the number and tell me what is happening to BSE ? 

2) Why it's reducing ? What does it signify ?

3) You said inflation... Why people won't invest during inflation ?

4) Oil and gas industry is in inflation, but see ONGC number. It's rising. Why ?

5) compare number of Tata motors and Maruti Suzuki. Why Maruti Suzuki is dropping more ?

6) Why share price of Maruti is more than Tata ? 

P2: 

1) What are your interests ? (Told 2. Didn't seem interested. Forced me to say something else)

2) Ok Current affairs. Tell me 3 things that is happening related to India.

3) was Indian economy ok before the Ukrainian crisis ?

4) if you were PM tell me 3 things you would do. 

5) how will you build consensus in farm laws. (Here he deliberately didn't accept any suggestions. Claimed that state consensus is not the problem and NITI aayog is pointless) 🤷‍♂

P1: 

1) you are talking too much about agriculture. Tell me how to grow onions ? 

2) so you don't have practical knowledge.

P3: (he came in after a long time.)

Gave me a case study about me being an investor in mining and how I'll deal with protesting tribals. 

Other 2 panelists kept saying whatever i suggested won't work. Or just laughed 😂

So basically 0% of the interview was from SoP. Didn't bother about work experience or any of my interests.

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XLRI BM interview

Background - CA + B.Com with 3 years of articleship from PwC as a Statutory Auditor

3 panellists (P1, P2, P3)

P1: why does a CA need to do an MBA? (prepared answer on Why MBA?

P1: So, what have you been doing after clearing exams in Jul-21 (said that I sat for campus placement with ICAI, got offers but did not take them up as I was very clear about wanting to do an MBA; have been doing value-add courses. Right now, I am doing a course on Fraud Examination and Forensic Audit)

P1: why don't you just work? Your parents must be waiting |for you to earn. (This question was intended to offend me. I laughed it off and said that had the panellist said the same thing to my parents, they would be the first ones to gloat that I started working at 18.)

The panellists laughed at this remark too. 

P1 joked that he hopes my wife or child in the future doesn't say the same thing to me. Again intended to offend me, but I laughed it off. 

P1: what is forensic accounting? (Answered)

P1: what red flags in the Financial Statements may indicate fraud (talked about aggressive accounting policies, unreasonable fluctuations of amounts between reporting periods. Also talked about sales cut-off, operating expenses and payroll, giving instances of irregularities I had detected during my articleship)

P1: you are a freshly qualified and a young CA in terms of age. What I have noticed is that lot of CAs are so rigid. They only focus on accounting in everything. What do you think? Are you like that?

Said that I always aimed to go beyond the syllabus when I would study. The tutors I chose would always try to go beyond the book. Even during my articleship, I focussed on understanding the entity more than the accounting aspects. Also, have relocated multiple times as a child, so I am adaptable in general. 

P1: You CAs are always lecturing. I know of cases where 5-6 CAs would be teaching accounting to one engineering girl. Why should we take such people to a B-School?

I said that since we have a strong understanding of finance, we will be better positioned to learn and do well in finance-oriented curriculums and jobs. Also, there are a lot of subjects in MBA which are not addressed in CA. So, we will show initiative to learn. I acknowledged that CAs have an ego or entitlement problem, but said I don't think I am in that basket. 

P2: asked me a question based on a quote in my SOP. Few cross-questions asked me to relate it to my life.

P2: asked me why financial ratios are used? (Said comparability in terms of different companies and in terms of different time periods. Also, to establish relationships between items of the financial statements)

P3: you mentioned new subjects in mba when compared to CA? Which ones? (stats and maths for business)

P3: how do you know it is taught in B-schools? (Went through curriculum)

P3: when you looked at the curriculum, what did you pay attention to? (I said new subjects because we have touched upon a lot of aspects of accounting, laws and taxation in CA.)

P3: that is all? (I said I also paid attention to subjects that had a management orientation)

P3: which other calls? (Was honest and did not try to hide anything)

P3: gave me a maths problem and asked me to solve graphically (I said I don't know)

Interview Done. 

PS: P1 was trying to sarcastically question my choices. However, he was smiling and laughing whenever I would make a jovial remark. It wasn't a stress interview as such. Occasionally, he was chewing peanuts and sitting in a very informal position. Aimed at putting me off perhaps.

MBA Interview Experience, [09-03-2022 18:56]

XLRI HRM interview:07 March 2022

Panel H2

P1: Hi where are you joining from

Me: Answered

P1: Have you travelled outside India

Me: No

P1: What about in India? Which is your favourite place

Me: Jharkhand since my maternal family. Childhood time and Deoghar.

P1: You explained emotions. I am asking about place

Me: Told various sights in MP. Tiger reserves etc

P1: I see you have worked in 3 companies. Where did you like HR policies most and why

Me: Answered

P1: What do you recommend hybrid, wfh or office

Me: Answered

P1: You think productivity has increased

Me: Answered

P1: Do you read?  Can you suggest a book

Me: Told outliers. Some examples and how society should provide equal opportunity to everyone.

P2: I saw that you didn't qualify for XAT 21. What your learnings? You qualified this year. Learning?

Me:(Sop question tha) Answered the

 same as sop.

P2: Asked about my stones surgery and health right now(Mentioned in SOP).

Me: Answered

P2: what topic do you want to talk about

Me: Russia -Ukraine

A lot of back forth on this. History, oil, west propaganda. I tried to draw analogies. In the end west ki burai 😂

End

MBA Interview Experience, [09-03-2022 18:56]

XLRI HRM

P1(40s) , P2(50s) , P3(50s) all male

Profile:

Btech, ECE

10/83/8.5

Work ex- 2.5yrs in IT

Pleasantries exchaged

P1

Where are you joining from?

And your office is in?

Are you on wfh or on leave?

So you wrote about appreciation policy in your SOP can you think of how it could be bad

( I thought about it, but could not think of anything, said in my tenure I did not feel it brought something counterproductive)

Okay so why do you think they restricted it to the team level and did not implement it like you suggested?

So this was pre covid also or started post covid?

What did your org do to help you in covid times?

How have you helped someone in your org?

I'll make a statement comment on it: I think giving you the responsibility of mentoring is wasting company time and you should be only involved in your core job.

Okay i am done.

P2

So why are you interested in HRM?

Then why is your first preference to BM?

Okay have you gone through HRM programs on our website?

(Mentioned 6-7 core+electives) smiled and seemed satisfied

How do you see yourself in the future not short term?

Talk about a contemporary topic and your opinion on it.

( Talked about recent report on how YouTube creator community added 6800 cr to the economy and created work akin to 6.7L full time jobs. My opinion that we should support and promote it more)

So how will you solve the problem?

Healthy back and forth discussion on this for 5 mins.

He was smiling and countering my points. Did not feel like grilling.

P3

Do you read anything?

Talked about interest in non-fiction and mentioned books

This feels like pre-interview reading, how will you convince me otherwise? (He was smiling and said in a casual sense)

( Said I started reading when i was 14 and I have read most of chetan bhagat if that counts)

[All of them started laughing]

What type of authors you like?

(I mentioned more of what kind of writing i like than authors)

Okay anything else you want to tell which eas not discussed?

(Talked about my activities in sports and NGO)

So this NGO work is with samsung?

( Told yes they also have CSR programs but I did it in college)

So why did you stop getting involved in this after college?

(Said I was occupied with work and studies but I donate in whatever capacity I can which I feel is a better way for me to support currently when I can't physically volunteer)

Okay.. just before leaving he said so why did you smile talkin' about chetan bhagat don't you think he is a good writer? ( He was smiling while asking this)

(Told it's something everyone  relates to that's why but no, I'mactually thankful to him, it was the reason why I started reading. And have read all his books except maybe the last two)

Why did you not read the last two?

( Said I grew and my interests changed that's why)

Thankyou. All the best. You can log off

MBA Interview Experience, [09-03-2022 18:56]

XLRI - BM 

10th/12th/BTech/XAT

89.54/75.69/92.3/99.74 

7th March 2022. Morning Slot. 3 panelists (M1,M2,M3)

After exchanging pleasantries. 

M1: From where are you connecting? 

H: Mumbai

M1: Okay, select one number from 2,4,6 and tell me the reason for selection

H: 2 because it’s the only even prime number. 

M1: What if I told you it was 2 crore rupees, 4 crore rupees and 6 crore rupees. 

H: I smiled and said it would be stupid for not selecting 6 crore rupees

M1: Why did you change your selection?

H: Additional information changed the situation. 

M1: Okay, suppose you have to select one of us for Deloitte, who would you choose?

H: Mentioned would select the one who fits the role and aligns with deloitte’s values perfectly. 

M1: Tell me 3 values of Hardik and 3 Values of XLRI

H: Told

M1: Don’t you think you and XLRI are going on completely different parts?

H: Tried to link Empathy (one value I mentioned for myself) to Social cause. 

M1: What social activity have you done? 

H: Told

M2: Don’t you think that this is selfish as this is only helping people around you and not everywhere ?

H: I tried saying that I am doing my best. 

M1: Give me a monetary number for the extent of your contribution.

H: Told 

M1: How much do you earn?

H: Told

M1: That's barely 5%. What do you do with the rest of the 95%?

H: Told. 

M2: I want to know your monthly expenses. Can you list them out?

<I was about to start when M2 stepped in and started pointing out things in the frame that I didn’t need like my Blazer and tie, and said I could have avoided spending that money and donated that to someone. M2 even pointed out that I am connecting from Mumbai, so AC would be on. I said no sir there is no AC in our house. Here even M1 was saying to M2, let him speak.  Then they guessed the brand of my Blazer was Raymond  and I mentioned it’s not Raymond and I bought it when I started my engineering xD. I don’t even remember all the things they pointed out. After one point I just let them finish and said with smile that I will look into my expenses and ensure I cut out some unnecessary things>

M2: What would be the criteria for evaluating an empathetic person?

H: Told

M1: Suppose you have to evaluate the President of Russia on the basis of his empathy. What will you do?

H: Told

M1: Who is the person in front of him?

H: I first confirmed if he was asking about the President of Ukraine and gave the name. 

M1: How would Putin practice empathy if he wants to?

H: Told.

M3 takes over. 

M3: Suppose, the Russia-Ukraine conflict continues for more than 2 months, what do you think will be its effect on the Indian economy? 

H: Told

M3: What about the International relationships ?

H: Told

M3: But India is part of Quad, don’t you think India should support the west ?

H: Told. Mentioned Quad is not a military alliance. 

M3: Why was Quad formed by the way?

H: Told. Mentioned it was formed to form a united stand against China whose influence was increasing in the Indo Pacific region. 

M3: So Quad can take a united stand against China but they can’t stand up against Russia ?

H: Told. Talked about the friendly relation that India share with Russia and that is absent in the case of China

M2: Do you remember any instance when the Soviet Union used its Veto power in favor of India?

H: Mentioned, I don’t know sir. I was referring to friendly relations based on their support during the 1971 war.

M2: Russia vetoed multiple resolutions of the UNSC from 1957 in favor of India. 

H: I will definitely read about it sir. (The answer is 6 times between 1957-1971)

M3: Thanks for your time! 

Logged off!

MBA Interview Experience, [09-03-2022 18:56]

#XLRI #HRM

Profile: 96/89/9.5

XAT : 98.9

5/3/22, 3 male panelists 

Duration : 15-17 mins

Exchanged pleasantries 

P1: So I noticed your education is in software and you're already working with JPMC in a similar role, what were the major issues your team is trying to solve, and, personally, what obstacles have you encountered in this journey?

R: told

P1: okay can you tell me a specific incident where you faced an issues rather than general issues you mentioned

P1: so how do you think this can be solved

P2: so you've written this one line in your SoP that I found really beautiful (the gist of it was how am HR education of sorts would've really helped me do my previous internship role better)

R:told

P2: Okay makes sense, but elaborate on how an HR specifically would've done something differently on this case

R: talked about skillset aligning etc

P2:ok that's good, let's move on to P3

P3:  explain to me, you're doing well in your role, it makes sense based on your undergrad, why the sudden urge to move to another domain

R:told

P3: But hr is also a niche sector, how do you think it can help

P3: tell me some policy from work you like/see scope of improvement in

P3: okay but will there be  a situation where jpmc would reject your suggestion?

P3: okay fair enough, but give me a situation where they would definitely not consider the suggested change

R: told

P3 : okay but that seems open to interpretation, give me one more specific reason 

R: told

P3: OK makes sense. why is it so relevant according to you

P3: what's a personal lesson you learnt from this (since my previous answer was based on professional learning )

(P3 and I went a little back and forth on this discussion for a few more mins) 

Overall nice experience, very engaging. although involved lot of cross questioning

MBA Interview Experience, [09-03-2022 18:56]

#XLRI #HRM

Male (Non Eng)

9/10/7 - 99.93%ile

P1 (M, 50s), P2 (M, 50s), P3 (F, 50s)

P1 - You look very handsome. Are you going to shoot a movie or what? ( Told him I just wanted to dress up well for the interview with a sheepish smile. He laughed out loud 😂😅)

P1 - So where are you joining us from?

P1 - Why did you mention paternity leave as a policy to fix?

P1 - How is your organization doing now?

P1 - What challenges you are facing?

P1 - What are some of the good policies of your organization?

P1 - What policies would you introduce along with the one you have already mentioned in your form?

P1 - How would you design a HR program for educational institutions?

P1 - What do you think of this 5+3+3+4 system in new NEP?

P1 - Has any state applied it?

P1 - Do you think it would be successful?

P2 - What is your role as a Program Manager?

P2 - Why MBA given you have four years of work experience? Why not Executive MBA?

P2 - What was your major in college?

P2 - So you are not using any of the knowledge you learnt in college?

P2 - Have you come up with any innovative way of teaching? (Mentioned the unique pedagogy which I use)

P2 - Did you go through the curriculum of HRM MBA? (Yes)

P2 - What all courses are there? (Mentioned few)

P2 - What do you think about Organizational Behaviour courses? (Mentioned would help in establishing a good culture if I ever end up with a start-up)

P2 - How would your startup differ from current startups in educational sector? (Gave a brief idea)

P2 - Is your BM interview done?

P2 - How was it? (Mentioned except for one or two spots, it was pretty good)

P2 - Why do you think I asked you how was your BM interview?

P2 - But I have no way of cross checking if what you are saying about BM is true or not. So why would I ask you? (Mentioned you could have access to the feedback from the panel and you want to see if my analysis of the interview is the same as theirs)

P2 - So since you analyse your mistakes, are you a pessimistic person? (Mentioned figuring out your mistakes is the first step in making yourself better, hence it's not pessimistic view)

P2 - How many companies are part of Sensex (Answered)

P2 - How are these companies decided? (Told him not sure but maybe Market Cap)

P2 - What is Market Cap? (Told him not sure)

P2 - When does debt become a bad thing for the company? (Took a guess)

P3 - So you basically work at a coaching centre. Are coaching centres rotting the education system in India? 

P3 - Your idea for startup, don't you think it would price out a lot of lower and lower middle class students? How would you fix it? 

P2 - It was a pleasure talking to you. Best of luck. Thank you

Overall a very good interview. Panel was chill. Never grilled over anything. Very conversational

MBA Interview Experience, [10-03-2022 18:47]

IIT Roorkee DOMS 10/03/22

Amardyuti Basu CAT 97.68

Acads 89,84,08.88

Workex 4 monhs

3 panelists (male,male,male) 

Profile- Electrical Engineer

P1:-

-What's the meaning of your name ??

- Why MBA instead not MS/MTech.??

P2:-

- Introduce Yourself

- Tell us something about BMW and it's history??

P3:-

- How often do you follow the blogs you have mentioned ??

- Do you have any questions for us ??

Overall it was a mechanised interview only 12 minuites panelists know who will be asking which question.Good experience it was all questions answered as they were well prepared.

MBA Interview Experience, [10-03-2022 18:47]

IIM Amritsar

P1

Tell me about yourself

You did Mechanical engineering, then TCS, now MBA?

Why MBA

Tell me about your final year project

What kind of loads the crankshaft will be subjected to? (Final year project)

You use logistic regression also as part of the project?

P2

You said Technological developments have inspired you to do an MBA, I'm not so clear about it. 

What you are saying is their sales went wrong, you should be learning the sales not an MBA

Do you follow the news regularly(said not that much, but yeah)

Then how you knew about Technological developments( Used to follow heavily those during BTech, now following different one's)

Then What kind of news you are following lately 

Tell me about this, when the whole economy was doing bad, markets have risen up significantly post COVID crash, why so? (Markets are always ahead of the economy)

Is that only reason ?

No, fed has pumped the money into system with Job stimulus. And when retail investors are watching returns they started to invest. 

Why would a person who lost their job just now will invest?

Very few people knew it's risky thing, most of the retailers aren't aware of the situation. 

So you are saying it's just herd mentality?

No. Especially when it comes to India govt announced Atmanirbhar Bharat scheme to give incentives to the sectors. And China plus one strategy. 

What is the PLI Scheme ?

For which sectors PLI has given so far?

Give me a rough number of total sectors

MBA Interview Experience, [10-03-2022 18:48]

Interview Experience:-  

College / Call: IIM Indore, 8 March 

Background: 93.82/86.38/7.7  

B.Tech. Instrumentation and Control  

Work-ex 30 months in core process automation  

  

P1 P2 both Male, aged around 40-45. (were eating something throughout the interview.) 

Went for around 10-12 minutes, waited 40 minutes 

 

 

P1 - (greets) Good afternoon, how are you and where are you logging in from? 

P1 - So you're an Instrumentation and Control engineer. What all subjects do you have in your control system curriculum? Do you know about control optimization? (Said did not have any such subject.) 

P1 - Were you promoted to your current designation? 

P1 - What was your favorite topic in engineering mathematics? (answered linear algebra and matrices). Okay so then tell me what is a rank of a matrix. (blabbered something, told the right way to calculate. Few cross-questions on the same.) 

P1 - Okay I want you to solve this puzzle. (3 containers 8L, 5L and 3L, 8L filled to the brim, other 2 are empty. The objective was to divide it into equal 4L parts using the vessels. Could not solve within 1.5 minutes.) 

P1 - Okay I'm done, P2 will take over. 

P2 - Extempore. The topic was Media houses are breaking limits for breaking news. Given 30 sec, spoke for about a minute as instructed. He seemed convinced. 

P2 - Tell me the names of all IIM's in the southern part of India and their states. (Told all of them with correct states, I messed up when I said there's no IIM in the state of Maharashtra). Now list all IIM's in the northern part of India ( Assumed he's asking all IIM's north to the state of Maharashtra, so included Indore, A'bad as well. He laughs and says it doesn't work that way, the zones are divided as North, West, East, South, and central. I then correctly mention all northern IIM's and their home states.) 

P2 - What is today's Sensex value and is it going up or down (Said 56k, it was around 54k that day, correctly specify Nifty) 

P2 - Whose statue is going to be erected at India Gate? (answered ) 

P1 - Pune was in the news couple of days back. Can you tell why? (Said PM visited to inaugurate Pune metro and Electric Buses.) 

P1 - Which line did he inaugurate and the distance of that (answered) 

 

 

 

 

Overall a chill interview. It seems the rank of the matrix question was asked to all that day. They had a poker face throughout the interview. No acads, no why MBA, no TMSAYS

MBA Interview Experience, [10-03-2022 18:48]

Indore experience 

Panel 5

Background: Civil Engg

P1:

About subjects I like ( foundation , fluid mechanics)

Foundation ( cast in -situ and driven piles load impact )

Foundation of Taj mahal ( I live in Agra that's why )

Bernoulli's principle 

reconnaissance survey 

Datum of India

( politely refused to a few of Questions , he was smiling and trying to trick me as well but I guess was a nice person just trying to give me a hard time)

P2:

Explain  how would you get area of circle from its radius using integration.

Extempore : On politicization of  religious leader ( gave 30 secs)

(P2 was straight forward and was satisfied with my answers , just gave 30 secs  for extempore not more not less )

P1:

Asked about the calls I have 

(PS He already knew about the calls I had 😂)

MBA Interview Experience, [10-03-2022 18:48]

IIM Indore 

Panel 7 

95 -10th

87 -12th 

Female

Textile processing Technology 

Diff between fibre , fabric and yarn 

Machine used in industrial revolution

Famous textiles in Maharashtra

Famous Textiles of Aurangabad ( I am not from Aurangabad)

Proof of area of circle

Proof of circumference of circle

Proof of first n natural numbers 

Proof of sum of angles of triangle

Types of dyes

Cotton processing end to end 

Difference between NGOs and Non profit organisation

And several other branch related questions

No HR questions

Lasted for about 15-18 mins

MBA Interview Experience, [10-03-2022 18:48]

IIM Indore 

P1 -

1. Tell me in which subject you have done your UG ? In which year? ( Mechanical Engineering, 2018)

2. Do you know one-one , many one function? Please draw them on copy.

3. What are the conditions in which function is valid ? ( I said one-one and onto ) 

4. Modulus function is not one one , then how is it valid? (Couldn't answer)

5. Ok leave it, whats equation of line ? (Y=mx+c) What is c ? 

6. Whats equation of Circle? 

P2-

1. You mentioned tenacity and endurance. Whats the difference between two? 

2. Why do you think you have these qualities? 

3. Whats BRICS and Quad ? Whats their geopolitical implications? 

4. In one, we are sitting with China and in other we are trying to contain China? 

 

Extempore - Naxal policy in India ( I worked there ) 

Very short interview. Hardly lasted 10 minutes.

MBA Interview Experience, [10-03-2022 18:55]

1)Tell me about yourself

2)What was your job role?

3)Are you a Commerce graduate (even though I had told in my intro that I'm an engg)...what is the relation of your work and grad

4)Discussion on one particular project from workex

5)What was your jee mains rank 🙄

6)What other calls you have

MBA Interview Experience, [11-03-2022 16:32]

IIT Roorkee 

B.Com(hons) fresher, Female

94.24%ile

DATE : 11 March. Slot- 09:00 am 

3 Panelists

P1 : Introduce yourself.

You completed graduation in 2020 , what you did for two years .

P2 :Why are your 12grades so low .

How can you say you're hardworking ( grilled on this , like maybe all the students in your college maybe weren't good . How can being top scorer matters there ) 

Fav subject in graduation 

What is marketing management .

What's it done for (i said goods and services ) 

If you don't have goods and services marketing can't be done ? Can you do marketing for " Go vegan" .

Yes marketing can be done for programs and initiatives .

He said now you remember the 10 aspects - product service idea person etc . Ghanti baji ab ?

P1 then laughed . I said yes sir :D . 

They said okay ..you can log out 

P2 seemed strict , P1 was friendly. 

5-6 min

MBA Interview Experience, [11-03-2022 16:36]

IIT roorkee.

11-3-2022

Forenoon session

Panel - 3

10- 12 min.

2 panelists ( both male )

P1- tell me about yourself?

P1- what is the procedure to take admission in your UG college?

P1- your 12th percentage?

P1- your graduation percentage?

P1 - what all subjects you'd studied in bba?

P1- fav subjct?

P1- anything unique that you can tell me about yourself?

I told them about that i have a yt channel and telegram channel where i share technical analysis and fundamental analysis.

P2- Any 3 - 4 recent ipo?

P2- why paytm ipo fell?

P2- who decides the price of an ipo after listing?

P2- how many stocks are in nifty and sensex?

P2- companies in sensex and nifty are fixed or it changes?

P2- why new companies enter in the index??

P1- what is free float shares?

P2- Thats all from our side.

You can logg off.

(Overall chill interview)

MBA Interview Experience, [11-03-2022 20:35]

IIM Indore 

10th- 95

12th- 89.8 

Mechanical engineering

2.5 yrs work ex

P1 

Academic background 

1 achivement during working in tata motors 

Tell me about my job role

One more specific question on that 

What is surface tempering 

Types of iron 

Example of knuckle joint 

Explain how does steering system works 

P2

What is AM,GM,HM

Relation between these 3 

When is AM=GM=HM 

What is AP,GP 

Draw a graph of x^2+x 

Is badminton a olympics game 

Who won medal in olympics for India and in which year 

Rivers of Punjab 

Parent river 

Origin of Indus river and where it ends 

Various stock indices of countries 

Extempore- 

How does merging of banks effect stock indices 

Asked not comfortable with the topic then changed the topic to

Electric cars in India is it good or bad ??

MBA Interview Experience, [12-03-2022 13:51]

#KJ Interview Experience

Profile: BBA IB fresher & a content writer

2 panelists 1M 1F 

1F:

-Tell us something about yourself.

- What was the role in your internships & were they paid and certified?

- Which publications you published your books with? 

- Are you getting paid the royalty for the books? 

- One challenge you faced. 

1M:

- He said "Sounds interesting. I won't ask you why MBA or why not MBA. Just tell me how content writing can help & teach you in Entrepreneurship?"

- Why don't you become a content writer instead of doing an MBA? 

- Which specialisation? In that specialisation which domain? 

(I sd Marketing & brand building)

- Is brand building the most important thing for a business to be successful? 

- Tell me Dabbawalas marketing strategy because they don't have one. So why are they successful? 

( I told they've started from very minimalistic level and I couldn't think of anything else at this point so to create humour I sd people might like the food) 

- Which phone do you use? (I sd Vivo) 

- Do you know Manu Jain? 

- What was your experience of using an MI phone? 

(He told me that he had one MI phone but his experience was pretty good so it depends on customer to customer)

- Any new brand that has came up in recent times? 

( I couldn't think of anything so I told some things about Zomato)

- Any person you can think of who is running a business exceptionally? 

( I told I am jumping on the bandwagon saying can I choose one from Shark tank? He laughed & sd Of course go ahead. ) 

In the end, they wished me luck. 

That's all. Overall a friendly panel. Had fun. Even though they were not getting the answers they want, they weren't grilling.

MBA Interview Experience, [12-03-2022 13:51]

PI experience

(Chill Panel)

1. What was your CA topic

A. Digital Detox

2. Is it possible?

A. Yes, for a short time

3. How?

A. Blah blah blah

4. You've done BA(h) right?

A. Yes, eco

5. Few questions on academics (elasticity, money supply, why is GDP used and not GNP for National Income)

6. You graduated in 2021, what did you do except preparing for CAT

A. Law (immediately regretted it😂)

7. Why law?

A. No age limit for MBA, blah blah, MBA was always the plan blah blah

8.Are you preparing for NEET too?

A. 😂No, ma'am. I chose law because...

9. What do you think is a leader?

A. Someone who leads😭 (blanked out)

10. Is manager always a leader?

A. All managers are leaders, but not all leaders are managers

11. What is management?

A. Is the art of getting things done by people

12. That's an archaic definition

A. Blame NCERT (said indirectly)

13. Do you think you'll be a great manager?

A. Yes, I believe I can be a great manager

14. What about your Fear of Failure? How will you become a manger with that?

A. I plan to work on in it, in Bschool

MBA Interview Experience, [12-03-2022 13:51]

PI - Extremely friendly panelists

P1 

- Introduction 

- How you got good grades in academics

- Hobbies 

- Warren Buffet, his company, his investment advices, 

- Recent IPOs, LIC, factors affecting IPO

P2

- Problem with tech IPOs

- Corporate experience and learnings

- Specialisation and why

- Impact of war on  Indian markets

MBA Interview Experience, [12-03-2022 13:51]

Ca - slum regularisation or slum relocation 

Pi was quite interesting 

- Questions regarding NGO stated in my introduction 

- GDP,  diminishing marginal utility ( panelist starting making fun and tell that i can watch one movie of my favourite actress again and again still my ulitilty (interest) doesn’t decrease😂😂) 

- Which specialisation

- Why dont you want to go for work-ex then do mba

MBA Interview Experience, [15-03-2022 17:41]

IIM Indore Experience

NC OBC Female

94.2/96.2/76

CAT - 91.34

2 Middle aged Male Panellists

-Tell us about yourself 

-Are you interested in HR because we are really considering you for it (I had rejected the option to be considered for HR in my form. I refused in the interview also)

- Okay, so we are really tired from the interviews since morning, so tell us something interesting from your life or someone else's life that you can share. Keep it short

- Passed on to the other person

- Asked me questions related to my work experience

- Read what I had written about my work ex in my form and questioned me some more on it

- so you are a B.com grad, you must have studied economics (I said yes)

- Have you heard about auction (yes)

-Have you heard about English and Dutch auction (didn't know)

- Asked me another question about a concept I had never heard of (was kinda suprised because I am pretty good in economics)

- Gave me a mathematical question on Probability. He was very like solve it in 15 seconds and hurrying me up  (I answered it and I was sure about my answer)

- Extempore topic : US should be a socialist state

- Gave me 30 seconds to think and interrupted me within 30 seconds and told me they were done, I can log off

MBA Interview Experience, [15-03-2022 17:42]

Panel 30 experience

He started with introduction and asked if I had placement offer.

P2 was very random for me, tried to put me under stress and cut me off at times laughing hastily,had my college in Goa so I was asked random geographical and historical questions about why IIT doesnt have a permanent campus, history of Goa, it was liberated later so about Portuguese and French colonies.

Then started asking me about renaming cities and my opinion about it, reasons and all that

Asked about football clubs in Goa.

P1 asked a few questions about Digital design, messed up a little but managed to draw a circuit of what he wanted. 

No maths, No HR, no current affairs, it was very random and looked like P2 was trying to take a stress interview

MBA Interview Experience, [15-03-2022 17:42]

IIM C 14-03-2022

Panel 30

95/85/74

Cat 99.84

Work ex - 14 months Infosys (Aerospace domain)

Two panelists Both male,

Interview 15 mins around

P1:

1. Where are you joining from? 

Me: Haldia

2 : Are you bengali?

Me: Told I had A interview on the next day that's in Kolkata, so I came back to my UG college to get the degree

3: So, you have A call also, and B didn't call?

Me: I had an interview with B on 7th already

4: What did they ask?

Me: Workex, hobbies and Haldia

5. So, tell your hobbies

Me: Told about fantasy fiction and named some books and authors

6. So you have just one year of experience, don't you think you need more before going for mba?

Me: Told the prepared answer

7: I won't ask about hooghly because Bangalore asked already, what is your hometown

Me: Sasaram, Bihar

8: What is famous in Sasaram?

Me: Most famous place is Shershah's tomb

9: And another tomb?

Me: Hassan Shah's

10: And another?

Me: Shershah's son but I haven't visited it

11: Why are you angry with his son (laughs), tell me about the duration in which Shershah reigned?

Me : Told

12. Who was the mughal emperor and at what was his chronological order in the mughal period?

Me: Told

13. You were a good student till 10th, what happened after that. Why didn't you join good coaching for jee?

Me: Yes sir, in hindsight I feel I could have prepared better, but I got a lot of experience from the time and I worked upon my mistakes 

Now, P2:

Did small talk and then asked from maths

1. What will the integration of x³cosx in the period from -3π/2 to 3π/2

Me: Told I'll go by parts, later recollected the definite integration formulas

2. If a couple have two child, and one of them is boy what is the probability that the other is a girl?

Me: Solved

3. In a circle with dimension of radius as 1, what is the probability of drawing a chord with length greater than √3

Me: Solved, but not sure it is correct. Told them my thinking

4. Difference between 2-stroke and 4-stroke engine

P1 comes back

1. I know your answer for this, but what will you chose between A, B and C

Me: Told my 3 years of taking cat has taught me to take things step by step. I need more research about where I fit very well if I get the call, however I had a personal bias for C as my role model from my college is studying there.

P1 laughs and says, good diplomatic way to postpone the answer

Wished me luck

Was smooth and chill. No grilling

MBA Interview Experience, [15-03-2022 17:42]

XIMB, Bhubaneswar MBA HRM  15/03/22

Amardyuti Basu NMAT 238

Acads 89,84,08.88

Workex 4 monhs

3 panelists (male,female,female) 

Profile- Electrical Engineer

Female 1:-

-What is cogging ?

-Will a capacitor solve Cogging problem ??

Male:-

- Do you know Rabindra Sangeet ??

- Sing two lines for us??

- What other calls do you have ??

- Which one you will.be joining ??

Female 2:-

- Why HRM ??

Overall it was a short barely 7 min PI.It was a good PI all answers were known and we'll prepared.

MBA Interview Experience, [16-03-2022 11:03]

KJ SOMAIYA CAPI 

13TH MAR 2022

CA-Disaster Management

There were 2 panelist M1 and F1

F1 - Introduce Yourself

M1 - Tell us about this E-commerce site you built

M1 - Which programming language do you code in?

M1 - What are main challenges in improving performance of a website

M1 - Difference between responsive and adaptive design of a website

M1 - Latest trend in web development world

M1 - Why not do a MCA or M.Tech

Gave a prepared answer, and I think I convinced him

M1 - Why not workex before MBA

Gave a prepared answer, didn't look convinced

F1 - Any three current news

Didn't counter question

F1 - What are your hobbies

F1 - Which TV-Series do you watch?

F1 - Which one is your favourite?

F1 - Tell me something about it.

F1 - Counter questioned about above answer

F1 - I think you are jumping the gun by not taking workex. What's you take on that

I had 2 reasons for this, gave them both to M1 and got nervous when this question was asked again. I think I made a blunder here

M1 - Do you have any questions for us?

M1 and F1 - Thank you, you can leave..

MBA Interview Experience, [16-03-2022 11:03]

CA-PI experience

CA- NETFLIX'S QUEEN'S GAMBIT: 

why there are no any women world champion in chess?

why women are less in chess and other sports?

what all can be done to promote?

is gender the only reason for this?

PI-

1. Tell us about yourself

2. why switch from huge IT company to MBA

3. Work related questions followed by many multiple questions on the work ex

4. engineering related technical questions

5. how can you explain your weakness as mentioned

6. situation based qn in workplace like any task that has been taken from you and given to other person, how would you react and what would you do?

7. question on my hobbies. 

Panelist were friendly and didn't grill. 

Good experience overall.

MBA Interview Experience, [16-03-2022 11:30]

IIM-C interview transcript

Acads: 10/93.4/76 (BE Electronics and Instrumentation + MSc Economics from BITS Goa)

Workex: 18 months in finance (MSCI Index Research)

CAT: 99.93 %ile

2 Panelists, 1 Middle aged (P1) and 1 young (P2)

P1 started with the questions

1. A few basic questions about my degree and how it works

2. So you're from Goa, what is it famous for?

3. You said Goa is a sleepy town, then how are people partying late into the night? (I said nightclubs are open, but other businesses close early)

4. What are the industries in Goa? ( I said mining (he countered saying it is banned, and I said he is right), tourism)

5. What about pharma? I heard it is big in Goa? ( I said no idea about Pharma, but there are Chemical plants here)

6. What else did you do in Goa? (I misunderstood the question and he clarified that he wanted to know what my hobbies were. I said Table Tennis, Quizzing and Piano)

7. Since you claim to be a quizzer, let me ask you a couple of questions:

(a) Name a country in Latin America where they speak a language other than Spanish? I said they speak Portuguese in Brazil. He then said name another. I said no clue.

(b) Name country in Africa that is a part of the Organization de la Francophonie? I said Cameroon and he said ok and didn't ask me for another, thankfully.

8. Which school did you go to? What do you think of the Dravidian parties' performance in terms of economic and social indicators? Which party do you think is better?

9. Do you consider yourself an engineer or an economist? Asking so that my other panelist can decide where to ask you questions from.

He then handed it over to P2

1. What is adjusted present value? ( No idea)

2. How do you calculate the present value of an organization's tax shield? (or something along these lines, said I had no idea and hadn't studied this)

3. What is put call parity? What is the formula? (Answered)

4. Can you graphically prove it? (Solved it with the help of some hints from his side, but not sure he was fully convinced)

5. What is short squeeze? (Was going in to detail and he cut me off. Mentioned Gamestop and he asked me if I knew any Indian example of a short squeeze. I said I had no idea and he asked me what about Yes Bank. I said I didn't know that was what happened but it makes sense).

P1 jumps back in:

What other calls do you have? I said everything except Bangalore. He asked me why? I said tough to say because Bangalore's shortlisting formula is a little complicated, but I might have gotten it with another year of work experience. He countered saying that he knew multiple freshers who had calls and that workex isn't as important as you think and that these rumours take a life of their own. I clarified saying that I meant in my case, considering my average acads, another year of workex might have helped me in getting a call.

Finally asked me to show my ID and told me to leave.

MBA Interview Experience, [19-03-2022 01:31]

IIM C Interview - 16/3 - 10.30 slot - Panel 30

Prof: NC OBC - B.E Mechanical Fresher - 98.57%ile, Acad:9/9/7.8

2 male panelists

M1: TMAY

M1: How I support people with mental health isses? (Mentioned in intro)

M1: Asked about statistics and probability

M1: PDF & CDF

M1: Lhospital rule and another calculas definintion

M1: Basic probability sum (solved it)

M1: What I did in 2 years gap? Why not employment?

M1: Last attempt vs this attempt percentile

M1: My domain of interest in MBA

M1: What business i want to do? (Based on my long term goal)

M2: Tell about your hobbies

M2: which newspaper i read

M2: If I heard of frontline magazine

M2: Which part of India I'm from? My town?

M2: Market Tamilnadu to me

M2: If I heard of chidambaram temple

M2: My visits outside Tamilnadu

M2: Who planned the Chandigarh city?

M2: Any other planned cities which are capitals?

M2: If I have read any tamil literature

M2: What other calls I have

M2: Which I would join if I convert all of them?

Wished me luck and I left the meeting. Very friendly panel.

MBA Interview Experience, [20-03-2022 01:46]

IIMK PGP 18/03/2022

Reporting time: 11:20, doc verification : 11:30

PI started exactly at 11:50

BMS Fresher

2 panelists

P1: Vidushi Pandey (Information Systems)

P2 : Priya Narayanan (Marketing)

P1: Good morning Aman, how are you?

Me: Good morning mam, i am good, how are you?

P1: I am also good Aman, so I can see you have a strong theatre background, you are so much interested in this it seems, why don't you pursue a career in it then?

Me: told

P1: Have you watched any popular play, which we know of?

Me: told, also answered few follow up ques.

P1: Okay Aman, any latest business news you read recently.

Me: told about the Zomato blinkit news.

P1: tried to confuse me if it's a merger or an acquisition.

Me: got confused a little but stood confident.

P1: do you know the names of blinkit's founders

Me: couldn't recall the name but told that it's a gurugram based startup

P1: blinkit was previously known as?

Me: grofers

P1 : anything else, something like Paytm shares news.

Me: told

P1: okay, over to you mam(P2)

P2: okay Aman, so coming from a theatre background, why do you want to do MBA,

Me: related my past experiences, my undergrad course (BMS) and my interests and goals, and answered how an MBA will help me achieving those goals.

P2: tell us an instance where you handled people.

Me: told about how I coordinated my college's fest.

P2 : do you think people like to be managed?

Me: said, that it's not about liking but a manager is there to coordinate them so that they don't create a mess while working together.

P2: okay, so what do you think about the people in a park, like older ones laughing, younger ones playing etc, do they have a manager? No na, then how are they not creating a mess even without a manager?

Me: thought for 2 sec, and said they don't have a common goal, that's why they don't create a mess.

P2: but Aman, as far as i know, people with different mindsets have conflict, how come you are answering opposite to this.

Me: was stuck for 5 sec, but made something up, P2 seemed half convinced.

Follow up questions about it for 2 mins

P2: okay, now coming back to your Zomato blinkit thing, why is Zomato doing that

Me: told

P2: but Zomato is already good, it has its capacity, it can deliver goods by its own, why are they acquiring blinkit.

Me: told, P2 didn't seemed convinced

She kept asking me what's in there for Zomato, why are they doing that.

It was like, they were putting me under pressure.

P2: okay Aman, tell me your favourite subjects.

Me: I have finance as specialisation, but I like marketing too. I like Marketing, financial markets and management accounting 

P2: Okay so tell me what is double entry in accounting.

Me: told

P2: okay, what are the principles of marketing

Me: couldn't hear properly, mam can you repeat?

P2: tell me anything you read in that subject.

Me: started talking about STP analysis with an example of Volkswagen.

P2: (interrupts) okay seems like you know it, as least the STP thing. Here a question for you, how does the IIMs segment the candidates?

Me: They segment the candidates based on their gender, category, fresher or workex etc.

Asked some confusing counter questions about it

P2: Okay Aman we are done, thank you, you can log out.

Me: Thankyou mam, Happy Holi.

P2: Happy Holi

End

Duration : 20-25 mins

Personal views: they were continuously trying to put me under pressure and also taunted a little.

To my every answer they didn't seem convinced.

It was a stress interview

MBA Interview Experience, [22-03-2022 00:53]

GIM Goa  PGDM PGDM (B&FS)  20/03/22

Amardyuti Basu CAT 97.68%le

Acads 89,84,08.88

Workex 4 monhs

2 panelists (male,male) 

Profile- Electrical Engineer

Panel 1:-

-What business your company do?

-What was your role during job ??

- Any significant skills you have gained during working ??

I am done over to you Prof.

Panel 2:-

- What's the meaning of your name??

- Why WB is lagging in terms of industry??

- If you are fin min of WB what will you do to lure industries ??

- Which specialization you want to opt for ??

- What is balance sheet??

- Why countries devalue their currency ??

- What will you bring after joining this programme with you ??

 I am also done do you have any questions for us ??

Thanks best of luck you can log off now

Overall it was a good 15 min PI.It was a good PI, was a good warm-up before NITIE PI 27th

MBA Interview Experience, [24-03-2022 12:37]

Panel 4

22/03/2022

1M, 1F

(There was some network issue so had to understand their questions by guessing)

No current affairs, light acads.

M : A quick observation that you didn’t join 5 minutes early. Tell me why is it important to do so?

M : moving on to acads, fav subjects?

M : does Samsung still use its own OS?

M : explain what you do at work

M : difference between os for laptops and phones 

M : extempore : user privacy is important in techno age

(Starts smiling non stop from here)

M : name some scheduling algos, light cross questioning 

M : what all sorting algorithms can you tell?

F : what all places will you take me to visit if I come to your city

F : there is an information overload in today’s world, give a solution to the problem I’ll face to visit different places (bit of discussion)

Over. Had a good discussion and asked to leave.

MBA Interview Experience, [24-03-2022 12:37]

Panel 5

20-25 mins

M1- Introduce yourself briefly

M1- Said that I've done BBA so MBA must be the only option

I said MBA was always the goal, talked about my integrated program and answered a few questions about that

M1- What subjects

i mentioned financial management and capital budgeting

M1- Write down formula for NPV

M1- What are free cash flows and write down its formula

M1- Forumla for IRR

M1- what is payback period

M1- asked about other things studied in the course

i said capital financing

Asked about Beta

If a co has beta of 1.3, what does that mean

M1- Asked to note down the equation and draw a graph - y=x²

and then asked to integrate the function

M2 was going through my form in the meantime and took over

M2- You like classic literature, how do we definite what is classic

M2- What about contemporary classics

M2- Have you read any translated works

(got confused about whether the work of George Orwell is translated or not)

M2- Where is Murakami from, what is magical realism

started to explain but asked about another classic author from russia

-knew he was referring to Franz Kafka, but wasn't sure if he was russian so didn't say :')

Extempore- Dance trends on social media have become needlessly popular and diverted people from true forms of art, your opinion?

(This was bc I mentioned dance in my form)

MBA Interview Experience, [24-03-2022 12:37]

IIM Indore interview experience (22/03 5:00 PM slot)

Panel 8 (two male panelists P1 and P2)

P1- Why MBA? And two math questions.

P1- Okay done.

P2- Some psychology theories, tests, experiments. (As I'm psychology grad)

Done

No extempore, current affairs, gk, hobbies or intro.

The interview barely lasted 10 mins and the panelists seemed uninterested. 😓

MBA Interview Experience, [24-03-2022 12:37]

M1

1. What do you do? 

2. What are the different equipments you work on? 

3. How many states do you cross when you come from CG to Maha 

4. What are neighbouring states of CG? 

5. Which state was Jharkhand separated from? 

6. Which year was is separated on?

7. Who is the CM of CG? 

8. How many Legislative seats are there in CG? 

9. When a party is declared winner in an election? 

10. What will you do if you don't get your dream college? 

M2

1. What subjects did you read in 11th? 

2. What's your favourite subject? 

3. Where did electricity start from? 

4. Who invented telephone? 

5. What is a telegraph? 

6. What's the distance between your city and nearest city in Odisha? 

7. Which famous dam is there in Odisha?

8. What did you do in your previous organisation? 

9. Why did you leave? 

Extempore - are Russian sanctions a good idea?

MBA Interview Experience, [24-03-2022 12:37]

Panelist 1

JP Morgan Chase & Co(my current company) : is it corporation or company, what is the difference between the two

If I visited Mumbai, what are 3 places I should visit

CST vs CSMT

Museum in Mumbai

BSE : no of companies listed there

What is a stock

Panelist 2

Software development life cycle

Is python a gen3 language or gen 4

Skew symmetric matrix - what is it, what is an identity matrix

What are the methods of Integration

What is big data ( related to work ex)

Extempore topic : Reservation of women in corporates (need to take a stand - for or against)

MBA Interview Experience, [24-03-2022 12:37]

IIM Indore, Statistics background, 12 months workex

1. Educational background

2. How to measure variation in a data set

3. Gave a situation that you have standard deviation of 5 for (i.) Difference in call time in a Call centre (ii.) Time between operations in a Hospital 

Which is better representation?

4. Coefficient of variation (then he explained the above situation)

5. When do Poisson distribution tends to normal distribution

6. Relationship between Poisson distribution and exponential distribution.

7. Negative exponential distribution

(He made fun of me in between "ki ye hain statistics ke expert LSR se", when I gave wrong answer to the situational question😐)

P2 : 

1. Extempore on "online education and it's effectiveness"

(I think they only gave me 45sec to speak i was only able to make 2 points)

2. Who signs currency notes?

3. Other than RBI who signs currency notes? 

(First panelist felt like a bully 😂

Second's voice was barely audible

Lasted around 10-12 min)

MBA Interview Experience, [24-03-2022 12:37]

IIM I 24-03-2022 

Panel 3 

95/85/74 

Cat 99.84 

Work ex - 14 months Infosys (Aerospace domain) 

Two panellists both male

Around 15 mins interview

P1

1. Tell me about yourself? - Told 

2. What is Cramer's rule? - Forgot

3. What is Eigen Value? - Forgot

4. Where have you read eigen value? - Told Linear algebra, matrices

5. Your work is in cfd, do you know differential partial equations? - Told

6. Inverse of a matrix? - Told

7. How do you find it? - Told a couple of methods

8. Rank of a matrix? - Told partially

9. Questions on Java, why is it popular - told about oops

10. Why is c++ less popular - told haven't done much programming

P2: 

Extempore - Digital Divide

1. IT minister - Told

2. Commerce minister - Told

3. What is Anurag Thakur doing nowadays - who knows🙄

4. Some ports in India - told

5. When will you start going to office 

6. This might be your 2nd attempt - told 3rd

7. So, didn't do well in those - told the story

Thank you and all the best

Totally forgot matrices, had revised earlier tho. Relevant questions, should have done better. No grilling.

MBA Interview Experience, [24-03-2022 12:38]

IIT Jodhpur SME MBA program 23/03/22

Amardyuti Basu CAT 97.68%le

Acads 89,84,08.88

Workex 4 monhs

2 panelists (male,male) 

Profile- Electrical Engineer

Panel 1:-

-What is your role in your company?

- Difference between Logistics and Supply Chain??

- Why do you want to join this program ??

- Which other IIT calls do you have ??

- What do you think how IIT Jodhpur is performing being a second gen IIT??

- What was your daily task in your job ??

- Is that software you have mentioned single user or multi user based ??

- Do you know the word 'Just In Time' ??

- What is the economic impact of  Russia Ukraine conflict in India ??

I am good Thank You over to you Prof.

Panel 2:-

- Tell us something about yourself ??

- So you are a Electrical Engineer suppose series connection provided there are two bulbs 100 & 40 watts which will be brighter??

- What are Demagnetization and Cross Magnetization formulas??

- Flemming has two hand rules which hand is for motor and which is for generator??

- Name one international Airport in WB??

- Name the flagship project of GoWB on Sundarbans??

- Which is nearest South East Asian Nation from WB via air ??

Fine  I am good Best of Luck You may log off now

Overall it was a moderate PI , couldn't answer two GK questions.It was a 20min long PI.

MBA Interview Experience, [24-03-2022 12:38]

IIM Sirmaur T&HM MBA program 24/03/22

Amardyuti Basu CAT 97.68%le

Acads 89,84,08.88

Workex 4 monhs

2 panelists (male,male) 

Profile- Electrical Engineer

Panel 1:-

- Tell us a brief introduction of yourself?

- Tell us a brief introduction of your family??

- Why are you interested in this program ??

- How many IIM calls do you have ??

- So you missed IIM Nagpur call handsomely,what do you think what's the reason ??

- How do you pronounce your name ??

- What's the difference between Bose & Basu ??

- Tell us something about Barrackpore ??

- Top 5 famous attractions of Barrackpore??

- What do you know about Subhashchandra Bose??

- Why Bose s are so famous in Bengal ??

- Name top 5 Bose s right now from different fields ??

I am done Thank You over to you Prof.

Panel 2:-

- So Amardyuti what's the difference between Tagore and Thakoor ??

- You have read 'Chokher Bali' please give us a summary of that ??

- Do you consider yourself a leader??

-  Why No ??if you are not a leader how you are going to be a good Manager ??

- Name the CEO of Twitter Yatra.com??

- Name the founder of MakeMyTrip ??

- CM of Uttrakhand??

- Is it possible for a person who lost an election to become CM ??

- If Yes how is it possible ??past example of that do you know any ??

Great Best of luck Amardyuti I am good You may log off now. Thank You.

Overall it was a smooth PI , couldn't answer two questions.15 minuites long PI.I felt they were not bothered about two GK questionsI missed 😅😅

MBA Interview Experience, [24-03-2022 12:47]

IIM Shillong PI Experience

Date: 23.03.2022

Profile: General, Non-Engineer (Lawyer), Male.

CAT: 98.95 percentile

Previous Academics: 95 (10th), 95.6 (12th), First Class (UG)

Panel Composition: 1M (40s), 1F (40s)

The panelists did not take turns in asking questions, rather they asked questions alternately.

Major Questions:

1) Extempore: "Politics is not for the conformist."

2) Questions about Company Law.

3) Comparison of Partnerships, Companies, Proprietorships etc.

4) Motor Vehicle Laws - what compliances do vehicles have to follow?

5) Enquired about Environment Law, MRTP Act, Arbitration, MSME laws, Consumer Law.

6) What is your role in the firm?

7) What are incomplete contracts?

8) Is India's diversity a boon or a bane?

9) What is your opinion of the Indian political environment vis-a-vis that in the USA?

10) Asked about my German and Piano qualifications.

Overall impression: a friendly but firm panel, had a good discussion.

MBA Interview Experience, [25-03-2022 02:46]

IIM Indore 

Panel 1

9/8/9, GEF CSE 

7-8 months workex @JPMorgan Chase 

ID proof checking 

P1 : TMAYS

P1 : So what work do you do at JPMC?

P1 : Arrays vs data frames

P1 : when do you use an array vs when do you use a data frame

P1 : different memories in a computer?

(talked a little about permanent memory and cache memory, not sure if he was looking for actual technical terms)

P1 : you mentioned research in blockchain, tell me what was it all about?

(4-5 min discussion on my project which was blockchain for food supply chain management)

P1: any other areas where blockchain can be used? Except cryptos (talked about intellectual property rights management and 1 more example) 

P1 : you're from vjti. What was its old full form? New full form? Why was it changed? 

P1 : latest technologies today?

P2 : so you mentioned almanack in a book in your form, what does it mean, what's almanac (without the k)

P2 : Mumbai is to India as ___ is to USA

(said New York since its financial capital, also mentioned California could he the second choice since technology hub)

P2 : 1 famous place in Mumbai and 1 in USA

P2 : both gateway of india and and statue of liberty have some connection to another country too, do you know that?

(didn't know what connection but i mentioned about little history of gateway of India, what it signifies)

P2 : have you heard of Chitra Ramkrishna?

(told full story of the scam and background)

P2 : so do you know who's the new ceo of NSE? (didn't know the name)

P2 : okay I'll give you an extempore topic

Extempore : is technology wrecking havoc in our lives

(talked for 90 ish seconds, both pros and cons)

Friendly panel, they listened keenly.

Duration : 18ish mins

MBA Interview Experience, [25-03-2022 02:46]

IIM-I 24/03/22

B. Tech ECE Fresher (95/95/81)

15 min i/w (started 3:50)

P1

Urself

Project (I told webDev) 

Http

Https

Cross question on above 

Website : desktop, mobile

Discrete time signal 

Fourier transform 

Fft

Probability(simple numerical) 

P2:

Extempore : No h/w in school

Paramilitary forces 

Politics (interested? - I told geopolitics) 

Japan (stance on War) 

Norway (comes in which grp of countries) 

Un HQ

Who HQ

Far east countries

MBA Interview Experience, [25-03-2022 17:27]

IIT Kharagpur KGP VGSoM

OEM 33months workex Glass Sales

Mechanical Engg

Two panel, 2M ( both looked young)

P1: 1. TMSAY not in your resume

2. So many hobbies and technical workex, why do you need management education now, how does it sync?

3. Have you heard about zerodurglass ?

4. How are you following current affairs?

5. Name some russian YT channels which were recently banned

6. Name three sanctions against Russia

4. What is IPO?

P2: 

1. Difference between glass and steel as a mechanical engineer

2. Do you find any difference between academia and industry? 

3. If there are significant gaps, then why MBA and why not stay in industry?

4. Lets revise some maths now. What is the sum of internal angles of a triangle.

5. Sum of external angles?

6. Explain how you took the angles. No, thats not the way, redo it.

7. Explain mean, median and variance.

8. Take 3 numbers, 1-2-3, with probability of 1/2, 1/4, 1/4 resp. What is the mean now?

Ok am done

P1. 

1. Ok I assume you handle balance sheets in your current profile?

2. Explain revenue, gross profit, net profit

3. Why have you not considered Corporate tax? (Clarified that I have)

4. What is the interest? Why it has to be calculated here?

5. Explain sales vs marketing

6. Is sales a subset of marketing or vice versa?

Ok we are done,any questions for us?

Lasted 20 minutes, polite panel,no interruptions. But they were trying to confuse the stance.

MBA Interview Experience, [26-03-2022 11:54]

IIT Dhanbad MBA & MBA BA program 25/03/22

Amardyuti Basu CAT 97.68%le

Acads 89,84,08.88

Workex 4 monhs

2 panelists (male,male) 

Profile- Electrical Engineer

Panel 1:-

-What is your role in your company??

- Why IIT not IIMs??

- Which other IIT calls do you have ??

- What was your daily task in your job ??

Panel 2 :-

- I am good Thank You

Overall barely 5 minuites PI decent practice for tomorrow

MBA Interview Experience, [27-03-2022 12:53]

NITIE Mumbai PGDSM  program 27/03/22

Amardyuti Basu CAT 97.68%le

Acads 89,84,08.88

Workex 4 monhs

2 panelists (male,male) 

Profile- Electrical Engineer

Panel 1:-

-Tell us something about yourself ??

-Which other calls do you have ??

-Why are you interested in this program ??

- What is net zero emission ??

Panel 2 :-

- How can we improve the environment of Calcutta ??

- Is NITIE PGDSM your best call ??

Overall barely 5-7 minuites PI only basic questions.

MBA Interview Experience, [29-03-2022 00:19]

IIM Kozhikode PI Experience

Date: 28.03.2022

Profile: General, Non-Engineer (Lawyer), Male.

CAT: 98.95 percentile

Previous Academics: 95 (10th), 95.6 (12th), First Class (UG)

Panel Number: 05

Panel Composition: 1M (50s), 1F (40s)

Major Questions:

1) Tell us something about yourself which is not on the application form.

2) What is your educational background?

3) Why MBA?

4) Tell us about your previous internships.

5) Hypothetical HR case with some legal issues to sort out.

6) Tell us 2 cases you worked on, in detail.

7) What are the traits of a good lawyer?

8) How are managers and lawyers similar?

9) How are they different?

10) State of consumer law in India.

11) A discussion on the order of the CCPA against Sensodyne.

12) A discussion on the dispute between Colgate and its parent company.

Overall impression: Pretty sure I've missed a few questions since the interview went on for almost 30 minutes. The panel was very chill and didn't ask their famous geography oriented questions.

MBA Interview Experience, [31-03-2022 00:01]

IIM B PGP/PGP-BA Experience (30/03/2022)

Panel: P1- M in 30s and P2- M in 40s

Me: Mechanical Engineer, Fresher

Preponed at 9 AM Sharp though started at 9:05

Greeted and shown Gov. Id card

P1: Where are you joining from? (Told)

P1: So you are fresher. (Told Yes and thought ab gaya mein)

P1: What is your final year project? (Answered about Evosys and fleet management project)

P1: Explain in detail. (Told in brief and further few cross-questions on it. Basically, he wanted me to describe whole system)

P1: Why MBA? (Prepared answer)

P1: Which subjects in management you like? Basically your domain preference?

P1: What is repo rate? How defaulter by bank affect RBI? Why there is NPA, Bad Banks?

(Lot of cross-questions and I answered but panelist was not looking satisfied)

P2: What is work study? (Mentioned earlier in subjects)

P2: What is difference between time study and motion-study? (Told but was not convinced)

P2: What is stagflation? (Again cross-questioning on it)

P2: What is Economics and Econometrics? Difference? (Seemed satisfied)

P2: Is inflation good? In what way? (Told yes and also talked about developing and developed countries)

Lot of grilling, cross-questioning, No Current Affairs, No TMAY, No GK, No question on BA course, No Mechanical(Acads) Questions, Around 20 minutes

MBA Interview Experience, [03-04-2022 00:07]

IIM Kozhikode interview experience

Number of Panelists: 2

Duration: 20-30 mins

The first interviewer was quite friendly asked most of the questions, the other one appeared quite disinterested. 

Questions: 

Asked me many things about my hometown, where it is, on which railway line the railway station is situated, which superfast trains have stoppage there, Why the people from your region are not commonly found in big institutions of our country, why do you think the quality of education in my district is poor.

How do you assess your performance in graduation? ( Explained)

Okay You said, you did not perform well during your degree due to medium change, How did you work upon it after graduation. ( Told I read books to improve my command over language)

 Who is your favorite author and what lesson did you learn from your favorite book from the same author. ( Answered)

Which book had the greatest impact on your life (Biography of Elon Musk)

Who is your favorite Indian entrepreneur (Jamshedji Tata)

What did you like about him(answered)

Three recent acquisitions by TATA ( panicked as I did not prepare about mergers and acquisitions thus said I can't recall any, even air India did not pop up in mind though I read about it in detail, they asked me to think a bit, could recall only jaguar, He told me that was in 2008)

Other than reading books, what are your hobbies? ( watching videos and reading articles about the latest developments in the smartphone world)

Which smartphone brand is your favorite? ( Samsung)

Why not Apple? ( explained how I feel too confined and I like more control on the device I use)

What is the country of origin of Samsung? (answered)

What is an Ecosystem? (answered)

Asked me a few more questions about my family and upbringing?

Do you have any questions for us (I asked an unusual question here, I told them I went through their website and read about “Incubation Centre of Excellence” which provides mentorship to SC/ST category students and has been a great success. I asked if this is so successful then even after more than 10 years since its launch why don't they mentor students from other marginalized sections or at least from PWD or EWS category as well. Then it was followed by a 5-6 mins long discussion in which both the panelists spoke for 3-4 mins and said the campus is inclusive and not immediately but probably in 5 to 10 years they will include other marginalized sections as well.

The first interviewer made the experience quite friendly and comfortable. Never interrupted even if I fumbled at a few places.

MBA Interview Experience, [03-04-2022 00:07]

IIM INDORE

Duration: 18 minutes

No of panelist: 3 (only two asked questions)

PI Questions:

There were no formalities, the interviewer did not even ask for ID card, directly jumped to asking questions. All academics questions were asked by only the first panelist

You have done your bachelors in Physics, what was your favorite subject?

 (Electricity and magnetism)

If You connect a light bulb at one end of 1000km long wire and switch to the other end, after how many seconds the bulb will light up?( It lights up instantaneously)

If we turn the switch on and an electron starts moving from the switch towards the bulb how much time it is going to take to reach the other end?( Speed of electron is 1 micron per second, explained further)

What is the frequency of AC in our country? ( I knew it is either fifty or sixty hertz, was not sure about either one, told explicitly that I don't know exact answer but it is either 50 or 60 hertz)

If there is a straight wire in which AC current is flowing. If there is a piece of wire lying near this wire what will be the effect of the current on this wire?( explained with induced emf)

If instead of wire we have a closed-loop then what will happen? ( explained)

What causes the earth to have a magnetic field? ( Told that there are two theories about it, I am not sure which one is correct, he asked me to go ahead, I answered, He told me I am wrong, mentioned the second theory, he said your answer is right explanation could have been better)

Did you observe that if there is current flowing in a wire, metal objects get attracted towards it. Can you explain? (Told I have not observed it and mentioned about eddie currents in the metals near the conductor)

After These questions, the other panelist gave me a topic for extempore

Topic: Budget 2022 for the Middle class

  There were no HR questions, This could be due to the fact that I wrote answers to the questions in the form in detail. They didn’t ask anything about it. Out of 18 minutes, they grilled me on academics for 13 minutes.

MBA Interview Experience, [05-04-2022 16:52]

IIM Indore Interview Experience 

Profile...9/9/6 Fresher...Aerospace engineer graduated in 2021

Panel 1 - Two Male Panelists

1)Explain the four forces that are involved in flight and the procedure to calculate them

2)How gravity affects flight

3)Application of Bernoulli's principle

4)How is aviation fuel diff from petrol and diesel

5)Chemical Composition of aviation fuel (Didn't answer)

6)How to control the flight path of the rocket

7)Asked about the budget

8)Reasons for the formation of NATO and countries that are part of 

9) Who is the IT minister

The interview lasted for 12 min and the panelists were quite friendly

MBA Interview Experience, [08-04-2022 00:36]

IIM indore interview 07.04.2022

What is corona effect what causes it 

What happens if we step up voltage why should we do it 

How to set up a distubution sub station 

What are the other losses in a transmission line 

Difference between electrical and electronics 

Formula to calculate R 

Law which gives relation between V and R 

They asked who is IT minister 

Governor of RBI 

What is fiscal deficit 

Highlights of Union Budget

CEO of HUL

CEO of Unilever 

What all India imports and exports 

National guidelines on safety 

Certifications on Safety 

Recent acquisitions or HUL

Did it acquire entire GSK or a part of it 

Components of Income tax

About cycling I had mentioned in application, how many kms which city

MBA Interview Experience, [08-04-2022 22:25]

IIM Rohtak

Approx 10 mins

Electrical engineering

Certificate verification

Extempore: Is management art or science

Would you like to mention any event organised or been a part of.

Coloumbs law

Faraday's law

Fleming's left hand rule

Difference between ac and dc

Difference between electrical and electronics

Hobbies I said gardening, so they ask me about vertical gardening initiative by gov which I didn't knew

2 business women apart from shark tank

Gujarat's capital

Ahemdabad know for?

#IIM Rohtak

MBA Interview Experience, [08-04-2022 22:25]

MBA-BM

3 panelists- 2M, 1F.

Q1. Introduce yourself.

Q2. What is powerlifting and what is your total.(I have competed in it and mentioned in my introduction).

Q3. Tell me about your coaching business.

Q4. Questions about my internship.

Q5. What is the difference between Npv and payback period. 

Q6. Difference between mean, median and mode. ( I was nervous so I mistook median for mode and vice versa 😛)

Q7. What did the budget say about crypto currency and is it now legal?

Q8. Give me one time where you were bad at academics and you managed to improve. ( I told them to see my undergrad marks where I have consistently improved each sem and went from 5. something in first sem and went to 8.  something in the last sem)

Then one of the male panelists said that I am a very interesting person and have very interesting qualities, but he was very concerned about my weakness in maths and stats.

Q9. How many districts are there in West Bengal. (I didn't remember)

Q10. Who is the Governer of West Bengal?

Q11. Do you know what is standard deviation and variation? ( I said I know what standard deviation is but I don't remember variance). 

Overall everyone was pretty nice, I was joking with the female panelist and she was also laughing. One of the male panelists was very nice to me, the other one realised my weakness in maths and was talking to me about that.

MBA Interview Experience, [08-04-2022 22:25]

#CAP

Profile: 10th - 95%, 12th - 88%, UG(BE hons. Civil engineering)- 79.9% 

Workex - 22 months

Panel - M1, F1

Questions 

M1

1. Tell me about yourself not in your profile

2. What is a projection line?

3. Different types of stress?

4. How concreting is done?

5. Youngs Modulus and it’s unit?

6. What is shear stress

7. Which is the second planned city of India?

F1

1. You mentioned you belong to Bihar, which is the largest district of Bihar?

2. What is sorrow of Bihar?

3. Who is the RBI governor?

4. What are your extra curricular activities and hobbies?

5. Which other calls do you have? Are you done with their interviews?

Lasted for around 12 mins.

Both were friendly but they did cut me a lot while answering and the questions were at some points not very clear as in what they wanted to ask exactly. Overall it went good.

MBA Interview Experience, [08-04-2022 22:25]

IIM SAP interview for Bodhgaya and Jammu(conducted by Bodhgaya)

92/92/8.17, 27 months work exp, GEM

M1, F1

M1

1. Tell me about your UG degree

2. Difference between electrical and electronics

3. Rectifier, semiconductor, transformer - which is electrical and which is electronics

4. Difference between AC and DC

5. What is amplitude and frequency of AC

6. what work do you do

7. How did you improve labourers productivity

8. 3 freedom fighters from West Bengal

F1

1. What is your hobby

2. Latest movie you watched

3. Management lessons from that movie

4. Where is largest mangrove forest

5. What is battle of Plassy

6. What did Raja Rammohan Roy do

7. how did you improve labourers productivity(it was repeated by F1)

8. what will you choose between empathy and ethics

Both smilng, slight grilling on empathy vs ethics, but went alright. Wished best of luck

#SAP                       @CATGDPI

MBA Interview Experience, [08-04-2022 22:25]

IIM SAP

Slot Date & time - 28/2, 11:25 AM

Profile: 10th - 95%, 12th - 87.4%, UG(BFTech)- 90.1%

Fresher : Bachelor’s in Fashion Technology

Panel - M, F

Approx. time – 10-12 minutes

Questions

M- Good morning Tarannum. How is your name pronounced?

F- What does your name mean?

M- Okay so why MBA from IIMs and not from NID? (Started answering how I want to expand my scope through and MBA and how it provides leadership, management and analytical skills, was cut in between)

M- But you can get these skills from NID also? NID can also help you cater to diverse industries. (Told that NID Masters requires B.Des while I am a B F Tech graduate)

F- So Tarannum, what all industries can you get into post MBA? How will your existing knowledge contribute in these industries?

F-Okay so what’s your role at Reliance Retail?

F- What are the outcomes of this project?

M-What are the different attributes you identified? (Was explaining but was cut in the middle) Explain specific to ethnicwear.

F-Any business news or current affairs you’re following?

F-What are the economic impacts of Russia-Ukraine globally

F-Any business news?

F-Tarannum do you know who is the Finance Minister of India?

F-Who is the speaker?

F-Who is the current RBI governor?

F-Who is the regulator of Fashion Technology in India?

M&F- Thank you that’s it from our side.

#SAP                       @CATGDPI

MBA Interview Experience, [08-04-2022 22:25]

IIM CAP ( 26 Feb Afternoon)

GEM Fresher Electronics and Instrumentation

CAT - 99.83

Number of panel members - 2

1 F(40s), 1M(40s) 

Interview experience 

Greetings exchanged:

F - Please introduce yourself

M- Asked me if I have placement as I was in final year

M - You still want to do an MBA? Or take placement

Mentioned about how I still want to do MBA, and my ultimate aim

M - Asked me to describe the consulting industry in brief ( told)

M - Asked about internship experience( in pharma company)

M - Asked about NGO experience (extracurricular)

F - Asked about Pharma industry in India and strengths

F - Asked about Aatmanirbhar Bharat and if any impact on Pharma industry 

F - You have mentioned about your NGO experience, asked a few government schemes related to social empowerment in general ( Could only recall MNREGA)

F - Asked about NIFTY and stocks( Politely told I don't have enough knowledge)

F - Asked about AIMS( I don't know why but was able to speak little bit)

F - I am done

M - Any hobbies ( no cross question)

M - okay we are done

A normal interview, lasted around 10 minutes. Felt like panelists were a bit tired of taking interviews, no excitement as such from the beginning. However I maintained a smiling face

MBA Interview Experience, [08-04-2022 22:25]

Extempore: Delhi school 

P1:

Convert 225 to hexa.

( mis heard converted to binary then i told him the further approach)

Type 2 errors.

Didn't ans

Regression and correlation

P2

Capital of Gujarat

Capital of assam

Cm of andra Pradesh

Current RBI Governor

Former CM of Delhi

Former Presidents(3 President)

Current Health minister

(Seems to be impressed with the GK

Said good)

MBA Interview Experience, [08-04-2022 22:25]

CAP Afternoon Slot

B.com(Hons) Fresher

2 panelist 1 Male 1 Female

I wished good morning at 4pm😔

M- Kya tumhe tofaan se dar lagta h?

Said that I haven't faced much, lives in Delhi

F - There can be emotional stroms

Mentioned that I do Yoga and Meditation

- What kind of Yoga ( They got very Excited)

- Bhujangasna? Tadasna? Difference between them?

- You studied online in Grad?

- Fav subject? ( Told Marketing and Financial Reporting)

- What is Branding?

- Branding vs Positioning

- Role of employees in Positioning

- Different types of Accounts

- What is Balance Sheet?

- Hobbies?

Amazing Panel, Male didn't asked anything. Both panels were laughing. They used Hindi in between.

MBA Interview Experience, [08-04-2022 22:25]

IIM rohtak 23/02/2022 forenoon slot

Non-engineer(architect) 

Two males

Certificates check

P1- what is the meaning of ur name? Ans.

So u r from Maharashtra.. how many districts r there in Maharashtra? (Guessed right, told them nt sure) 

Extempore - Sustainable consumption

(Talked about sustainability in architecture, fumbled a lot)

P1- u mentioned smart cities, which smart cities did u hear about recently? 

Told 3

P1 - Why are these cities called smart?

P1- are smart cities sustainable?

P2- so u hv b tech in architecture? U r an engineer? 

Clarified that m an architect nt an engineer

P2- what's the difference between an architect and an engineer?

P2- what is cube test? What is shear force? What is bending movement? What is cantilever bridge? 

Can cement be ever replaced ?

P1- why they say glass bridges can't be built in India?

P2- do u know about 7 sisters? (Said yes) Name them..(forget 1 or 2)

P1 - Andhra Pradesh 

(Told them no it's not a part of 7 sisters)

P2- are you sure? It is also in north eastern region na...( this r u sure was repeated 2 3 times more. I said yes m sure. )

P1- capital of one of the 7sisters ( dont remember which one he asked, said idk)

P2- state with smallest population in India ( answered Sikkim, again asked me are u sure, I said no🤦‍♀, both laughed) Thankyou...

MBA Interview Experience, [08-04-2022 22:25]

Bcom profile 

Both male 1 in early 30s and 2nd in mid 30s 

Extempore topic : are women make better managers than men

Asked 5 startup by women in india

Name of their ceo

5 tech companies 

Question about gst

Difference between allowance and reimbursement 

Fang company I gues

How Facebook earns money

Asked me to draw graph of demand supply and consumer surplus 

Talked about my extracurricular activities

MBA Interview Experience, [08-04-2022 22:25]

BTech CSE 

1F (30 ish) + 1M (50+)

Extempore: Data Theft and Privacy Concerns in this Digital World

Cert verification

Diff bw Router and Hub Switch

Opinion about AI in non AI affected industries

Opinion about short term and long term effects of Russia and Ukraine crisis on India

Standard Error (Statistics)

2nd cleanest city of India

Types of testing in SDLC

MBA Interview Experience, [08-04-2022 22:25]

IIM Rohtak interview  panel-2, afternoon slot  27 fab 

Profile: SC MALE Petroleum engineer 

30 months work ex oil & gas refinery ops.

P1 ( M), P2 (F)

P1: extempore topic : Can luck define sucsses

M : spoke for 2 mins 

P1: You are from peteoleum  engineerig, tell me why we extract both petrol & diesel seperstly from earth

M: core of my branch so answered nicely

P2: You mentioned reading fiction non fiction , tell me about it

M: Told about my last read book   it was about tata group , so next question was from there 

P2: as tata group acquired air india , now they have 3 airlines , isnt this waste of resources 

M : explained them about JV nature of vistara and air asia and their different areas of operations and increased cuatomer choice 

P2: As you are from gujarat, tell gujarats role in nations economy 

M: explained , mentioned greenfield refinary,  so next questiob was from there 

P1: second PM of india 

M: fumbeled and told indira gandhi😅

P1: cherapunji is in which state 

panel was good , it was more of converstaion than grilling , nothing asked from work expereicne