SIBM-SCMHRD PI-WAT Experience,
SIBM PUNE Interview
WAT:
1. If u have an extra 1 hour
2. Lockdown discrupted Work life balance
GE:
Gave 4 photos and 4 texts
Pretty sorted
PI : 2 panellist, male Colonel (P1), Female 40+ (P2)
Extempore: A leading mobile phone company discontinued providing the fast charger in the box. As a growing start-up in the mobile phone industry, will you follow the same move to save on net cost? Justify your decision.
P1: Coordinates of Bermuda triangle?
Doono the exact, but told location
P1: What is Mein Kampf?
Donno (It is my struggle in German)
P1: Where do u work?
Told, some cross questions
P1: Given academic record, why dont go for CA?
Told well rehearsed answer
P1: Five rivers of punjab?
Told
P2: 3 qualities u should like to develop while MBA?
Told
P2: One quality why we shouldn't select you?
Told
P2: Goals?
Told, some cross questions about dream company
P1: Asked some things about NCC?
Donno, gave guessed answers
P1: Asked about Some Rishi/Guru since I do meditation?
Told i do unguided one, some cross questions
P1: Capital of australia?
Donno
P1: Capital of Canberra?
Told that it is not a country (Its actually capital of australia)
P1: Last ques, swore to me u will give right answer,
Who is the Speaker of lok sabha
Told
P1: What other calls you have?
Told
Didn't felt like an interview, the panelist and I were laughing half of the time. ( Colonel made a few lame jokes )
SIBM-SCMHRD PI-WAT Experience, [05-09-2021 22:36]
Sibm pune 7:30 am slot
Step 1: Attendance and registration.
They said in the instructions that you can share your screen for docs. But hard copies are a must.
Step 2 : WAT process.
After verification they sent a link for a wat portal.
Topic :
i) professional growth at the cost of personal passion
ii) making passion your purpose and work hard to make it your profession.
Step 3 : GE
Gave us 4 pics and 4 sentences. We had to chose any combination of these with a certain limit on each of them and build a story out of it individually. Then discussion with the group and coming up with a story together.
Step 4 : Doc verification.
All docs mentioned in the instructions were verified. A google link was sent to give feedback while sharing the screen.
Step 5 : PI
Situation based :
Imagine you are a ceo of landline company ,pioneer in the industry. But closedown this business and move into mobiles. Due to lot of competition your company goes into losses. What would you do.
Why MBA
Why not join a startup and gain skills
Why sibm pune
Asked about all my other percentiles and said sibm looks like a backup, justify.
Any dream company you want to join ?
Which domain in the industry?
Short term and long term goals.
How will mba help you reach your goals.
Situation where I exhibited leadership skills.
Done.
My process went from 7 15 am to 2 pm.
Very long wait between each step. Poor coordination between the ad com members and a lot of confusion.
Note : Please keep the emergency numbers that they display handy and copy the zoom link from your portal and keep aside in case you are thrown out of the meeting due to their confusion
SIBM-SCMHRD PI-WAT Experience, [05-09-2021 22:36]
SIBM Pune | SNAP 99.26 | 97/94/77 GEM |
1.5 years Work ex in Deloitte Consulting
WAT-12 minutes
You live in a world with only one colour
You dream to become a famous artist
GE-20 minutes
4 images – Tesla logo, a picture of oil draining from earth, budget 2021, doctors
4 texts – India spends less on health some 1.6 % of GDP, Number of beds is 0.55 for 1000 patients, EV industry can grow to 500 billion by 2025, Better late than never
PI-15 minutes
Extempore: What you’ll do if you’re part of a famous cosmetics company and due to pandemic and people wearing masks being prevalent, the sales of lipsticks got affected. Will you shift to a new product or continue with the same?
No introduction .
Where is H2O2 used? (As my UG stream was chemical)
Why such a drastic shift to consulting from Chemical Engineering?
What are your roles and responsibilities in Deloitte?
What are your thoughts on Insurance sector in India?(As I worked in Insurance domain)
What do you think is the best marketing strategy for an Insurance company in India to sell its products?
Since you’ve mentioned something about LIC IPO, a follow up question on this which I can’t recollect.
What position do you play in football and who do you think is the best in the world in that position right now?
Which team is called the Les Bleus?
Nickname of Italy NT?
If you were Ronald Koeman, what would you to develop Barcelona if/when Messi leaves to PSG/City?
SIBM-SCMHRD PI-WAT Experience, [05-09-2021 22:36]
The thirteenth stroke here doesn't refer to military time but to an old saying. References to a thirteenth stroke of the clock indicate that some event or discovery calls into question everything previously believed. Put another way, the thirteenth stroke of the clock calls into question not only the credibility of itself but of the previous twelve.
But notice in this opening line that it isn't just one clock malfunctioning, but the clocks. Presumably all of them. In this world, the clocks striking thirteen is not an aberration, but a normal way of life.
In this way, Orwell subtly alerts the reader that statements of truth in this fictional society should be called into question.
SIBM-SCMHRD PI-WAT Experience, [05-09-2021 22:36]
The significance of the "clocks striking thirteen" in the opening sentence of Nineteen Eighty-Four is, I think, bound up Orwell's view of England and Englishness, particularly when contrasted with the seemingly unstoppable rise of varying flavours of totalitarianism -Stalinism, Fascism, Nazism - at the time he wrote. He sees England as to some extent an exemplar of everything that totalitarianism wishes to crush.
A few years earlier, in 1941, Orwell had written an extended essay, The Lion And The Unicorn, in which he attempted to justify and reconcile his thorough-going and sincere ideas about Socialism with an equally sincere attachment to what he perceived as the essential goodness and comfort of life in England.
Orwell characterises England as "... solid breakfasts and gloomy Sundays, smoky towns and winding roads, green fields and red pillar-boxes ...". We are, he says, " ... a nation of flower-lovers, but also a nation of stamp-collectors, pigeon-fanciers, amateur carpenters, coupon-snippers, darts-players, crossword-puzzle fans." In discussion of the nature of liberty to be found in England, he notes that "It is the liberty to have a home of your own, to do what you like in your spare time, to choose your own amusements instead of having them chosen for you from above."
He readily concedes that England is riven with class division, inequality, hypocrisy, unfairness, exploitation; yet beneath those corrosive elements, he believed, there lies a fundamentally civilised outlook, common to those from all walks of life in England. It is worth quoting at length his views of the legal and electoral system: "In England such concepts as justice, liberty and objective truth are still believed in. They may be illusions, but they are very powerful illusions. The belief in them influences conduct, national life is different because of them. In proof of which, look about you. Where are the rubber truncheons, where is the castor oil? The sword is still in the scabbard, and while it stays there corruption cannot go beyond a certain point. The English electoral system, for instance, is an all but open fraud. In a dozen obvious ways it is gerrymandered in the interest of the moneyed class. But until some deep change has occurred in the public mind, it cannot become completely corrupt. You do not arrive at the polling booth to find men with revolvers telling you which way to vote, nor are the votes miscounted, nor is there any direct bribery. Even hypocrisy is a powerful safeguard. The hanging judge, that evil old man in scarlet robe and horse-hair wig, whom nothing short of dynamite will ever teach what century he is living in, but who will at any rate interpret the law according to the books and will in no circumstances take a money bribe, is one of the symbolic figures of England. He is a symbol of the strange mixture of reality and illusion, democracy and privilege, humbug and decency, the subtle network of compromises, by which the nation keeps itself in its familiar shape."
In Nineteen Eighty-Four recall that England is now Airstrip One, a mere adjunct to the totalitarian Oceanian empire, subject to the iron doctrine of Ingsoc, which is Newspeak for "English Socialism". Orwell was a socialist, but he strove to be a socialist with honesty and tolerance. Throughout the 1930s and 40s, he had become horrified at the steady corruption of the Left by totalitarianism, at the fact that his fellow socialists were now beginning to adopt the expedients of Soviet-style Marxist relativism: anything that the Soviet Union or its agents did was ipso facto good; any criticism of the Soviet Union was therefore reactionary propaganda. Objective truth was thrown out in favour of a slavish devotion to the Party Line. To his disgust, many seemingly sensible leftists in Britain and elsewhere began to do nothing but parrot the current line from Moscow: in 1938, Nazism was evil; in 1939, Stalin entered into a pact with Hitler to divide up Poland, so the Nazis were the trusted allies of the USSR, and all criticism of them should cease; in 1941 Nazi G
SIBM-SCMHRD PI-WAT Experience, [05-09-2021 22:36]
ermany invaded the USSR, so once again Nazism was evil. In Nineteen Eighty-Four, Oceania is at war with Eurasia (another totalitarian empire) and in alliance with Eastasia (yet another). Suddenly, overnight, the alliances switch: Oceania is at war with Eastasia and allied with Eurasia. It has always been at war with Eastasia. Any attempt to point out that, yesterday, Oceania was at war with Eurasia is a wicked lie. Winston Smith's job is to falsify documentation to make it appear that the current Party line has always been true.
In Nineteen Eighty-Four we see the corruption of socialism taken to its ultimate extreme. "Good" is what the Party says is good. "Enemies" are the Party's enemies. Judges are no longer bound by time-honoured legal precedent - there is no law, only power. Your leisure activities are dictated to you by the Party. And throughout all of this, Winston Smith, despite being ostensibly a trusted member of the Party, cannot rid himself of the sense that something is deeply wrong, that we were not meant to live like this. Winston Smith is harking back to the lost world of Orwell's England. In this context we can see that "England" is not so much the true England of Orwell's day as a pervading metaphor for an idea of comfort, fairness, civilisation, rules, decency.
In that dimly-remembered past, church bells in every village would strike the hour - a necessity for a largely rural society where few possessed watches. One strike for one o'clock, two strikes for two o'clock, and so on through to twelve strikes for noon; and then on the next hour one strike, for one o'clock again. But under Ingsoc, a new, brutally rationalist timetable has been imposed: the clock strikes thirteen because it is the thirteenth hour of the day. Thirteen o'clock is the auditory analogue of the boot stamping on a human face, forever.
SIBM-SCMHRD PI-WAT Experience, [05-09-2021 22:36]
13th stroke somewhat means that something wrong has happen during the strokes before that. And then, the photo was about achievements.
So I wrote on the lines that people do anything and everything possible to achieve what they want and how that is wrong. Related a bit with football, how only scoring a goal matters; with cricket, how only achieving the target matters. The means don't matter, the ends do.
Focussed on Lord Krishna's advice to Arjuna: "Karma karo, phal ki chinta mat karo." Something like that and how it has become the opposite today.
SIBM-SCMHRD PI-WAT Experience, [05-09-2021 22:36]
I had some idea of how the thirteenth stroke relates to calling in to question the other 12.
Hence i started about how the beliefs of people keep changing every era. Then went on to illustrate about how womens right to vote was frowned about but the clocks struck thriteen as women demanded for not on their right to vote but also to work and this led to society being better in many ways. From there on i delved into how reforms brought about in many case have turned fruitful hence we should focus on the underlying economic problems of poverty and also the environmental problem of global warming that has been increasing even after the clocks concerning this have finally struck thirteen for many years.
SIBM-SCMHRD PI-WAT Experience, [05-09-2021 22:36]
I wrote about the pandemic and then how Isaac Newton discovered gravity and invented calculus while in quarantine and Shakespeare allegedly wrote King Lear in lock down. I related this to the pressure all of us felt to be productive every day of the lockdown and how some of us even vowed to code a new website or start our new side businessbusiness, in addition to doing our actual jobs. Then I talked about the hustle culture we are forced to be a part of. Then I mentioned the constant barrage of confusing and overwhelming bad news can make us sick and exhaustsd, exacerbating underlying mental health conditions for those who have them blah blah blah . I was reminded that in addition to a productive employee, I am also someone who loves to cook and who has a passion for music. I remembered that I am more than the economic value I generate.... And then I related that sentence by saying... On a cold day.... hour.. Some of us were learning something new or were having a nice lunch with the fam and some were even just waking upm
SIBM-SCMHRD PI-WAT Experience, [05-09-2021 22:36]
SCMHRD Experience:
GE topic:
Online e com platforms are giving lot of discounts. How are they affecting brick and mortar stores? Should there be a policy for keeping a check on discounts?
PI:
Was grilled on my forms.
- you have done python certification...how will they help in mba
- tell biggest failure
- how did you overcome
- you said...you have been pampered child...and faced difficulties being a girl..explain how both are possible
- research paper discussion
- from where you are
- you participated in activities in college...do you do that still? How?
- how do you manage time between work and preparation?
- how would you manage fast paced life of mba and post that
SIBM-SCMHRD PI-WAT Experience, [05-09-2021 22:36]
12 Feb - SCMHRD GE-PI experience
First there's a PPT presentation.. then GE then PI
Profile - G/NE/F with 1 year 9 months experience.
GE - Do you think social media influences purchasing behaviour of rural consumers?
30 mins discussion - Very interactive
PI
1. Why is stress management one of your weaknesses? Any situation as example
2. What is your current role as HR?
3. How did your organisation deal with pandemic?
4. Why HR? Any particular company in mind?
5. Any situation where your seniors did not agree with your idea. What did you do?
6. You have stated that planning is important. Do you think everything can be planned? What happens if you face uncertainties?
7. Any awards at national level? International level?
8. You did BCOM and now want to pursue a career in HRM.. how does that work together?
9. Why MBA when you can invest in stocks and make money?
10. Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
Any questions? Asked about their experience conducting interviews virtually vs f2f.
SIBM-SCMHRD PI-WAT Experience, [05-09-2021 22:36]
12 Feb - SCMHRD GE-PI experience
First there's a PPT presentation.. then GE then PI
22 months experience.
GE - what's your opinion on the steps taken by the government for tackling covid?(kind of, not exactly these words)-30 mins
PI
P1
1. How has your day been? Do you want to ask us anything before we begin?
2. So, tell me about your work at Mu Sigma
3. Why did you quit?
4. Tell me an incident when u did not take a criticism positively.
5. What did u mean when u said u are responsible for consumption? How to u use statistics to drive consumption?
6. What is Regression?
(Some more questions were there that I don't remember)
P1 : I'm done you can take over
P2
7. Why did u take Electronics and communication in BTech?
8. Why MBA?
9. Which stream will u choose for MBA?
10. Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
11. What do u think u will take with you when u are done with MBA from SCMHRD?
12. Can you share the writing (poem) that is closest to your heart?
13. Any awards on National/International level?
14. Any questions for us?
P2 : It was a great conversation, thank you.
Both : All the best
SIBM-SCMHRD PI-WAT Experience, [05-09-2021 22:36]
You can refer to this one posted by Alankrit yesterday
12 Feb - SCMHRD GE-PI experience
First there's a PPT presentation.. then GE then PI
22 months experience.
GE - what's your opinion on the steps taken by the government for tackling covid?(kind of, not exactly these words)-30 mins
PI
P1
1. How has your day been? Do you want to ask us anything before we begin?
2. So, tell me about your work at Mu Sigma
3. Why did you quit?
4. Tell me an incident when u did not take a criticism positively.
5. What did u mean when u said u are responsible for consumption? How to u use statistics to drive consumption?
6. What is Regression?
(Some more questions were there that I don't remember)
P1 : I'm done you can take over
P2
7. Why did u take Electronics and communication in BTech?
8. Why MBA?
9. Which stream will u choose for MBA?
10. Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
11. What do u think u will take with you when u are done with MBA from SCMHRD?
12. Can you share the writing (poem) that is closest to your heart?
13. Any awards on National/International level?
14. Any questions for us?
P2 : It was a great conversation, thank you.
Both : All the best
SIBM-SCMHRD PI-WAT Experience, [05-09-2021 22:36]
The GE PI process was quite smooth.
GE: Will a gig based economy replace the current stable economy (I'm paraphrasing a bit)
PI: 2 interviewers. Quite chill people.
1. How was your day? (I spoke about the match. and then we discussed cricket for a few minutes.)
2. Achievements at Jobs.
3. How will MBA BA help you?
4. Give a use case of Business Analytics helping in e-Procurement. (I worked in e-Procurement)
5. Why 12th marks are so low. :(
6. Which countries have you travelled to, and what have your learnt.
7. Any questions for us.
That's it.
SIBM-SCMHRD PI-WAT Experience, [05-09-2021 22:36]
IIM ROHTAK PI
Extempore - is Indian media biased?
What is you background?
What is Travelling Salesman problem?
Truth table of XOR gate?
What is NLP?
What is the use of SEO?
Any extra curricular achievements?
What is MSP?
Any famous paintings you know?
Tell us something abt the New farmers bill?
What is blockchain?
Recent news in cryptocurrency industry?
Cons of cyrptocurrency?
How many bitcoins can be mined?
Your opinion abt bitcoin?
Fin.
SIBM-SCMHRD PI-WAT Experience, [05-09-2021 22:36]
GD topic: Advent of Jio has made life though for other players. What do you think is the future for telecom industry as a whole?
A decent GD. We were given 1 min each to put our views and then it was an open house for like 10 min. While there is no fish market, don't have a laid back attitude as well. Keep making entries as and when you get opportunities.
PI panel was very kind and cracked jokes as well which made me feel very comfortable. A few questions that I remember :
Q. One incident where you did not take criticism positively?
Follow up Q. What changes this incident brought in you?
Q. Your weakness? Highlight this with a couple of examples?
Follow up Q: Are you doing something about it?
Follow up Q: If you don't feel comfortable with negotiations, how do you handle it?
Q. You scored 89% in graduation. How difficult was it? What was the score of person below you?
My suggestion: Be honest and back your case with examples. Tell them details you have command on as your PI will be built on it. Stay confident and clam as the PI panel for most of us were gentle.
P.S: Have typed it very quickly. Ignore grammatical/spelling mistakes.
SIBM-SCMHRD PI-WAT Experience, [05-09-2021 22:36]
*Group Exercise* :
"To the world you may be just a teacher, but to your students you are the hero", in the context of online education do we need to teach student etiquettes of learning online.
*Interview* :
Q. Tell us about your yourself.
Q. Please explan your role in current org.
Q. I see a primary roll as requirment gathering, has there ever been case when the requirment shared was different that how you processed?
Q. How did you manager react to this?
Q. How is logistics different from what is was 2 years ago.
Q. TCI - How many vehicles self owned and how many outsourced?
Q. How has digitisation helped logistics.
Q. You seem in a very good role and both your manager and you seem happy. Why MBA?
Q. Have you done any certification courses? Why not? You had alot of time.
Q. Have you read any management books? Why not? Not even 7 habits of highly effective person?
Q. Do you plan on doing PMP?
Q. Describe the structure of PMP and prerequirements.
Q. Any National / International achievements.
Okay Great interacting with you. Thank You.
SIBM-SCMHRD PI-WAT Experience, [05-09-2021 22:36]
SCMHRD PI
Q. Tell us about yourself?
Q. Tell us about your startup?
Q. How did you market your product?
Q. What challenges did you face during the startup?
Q. Any personal challenges you faced in life?
Q. Why have you scored less in 12th compared to 10th ?
Q. Why mba?
Q. Who are the top 3 teams in English premier League
Q. Do you feel Manchester United will win the league this year ?
Q. Any national level certificate? ( I mentioned my final year project paper presentation)
Q. Tell us more about your final year project?
Q. How would you rate yourself in coding?
Q. Difference between C# and Java
SIBM-SCMHRD PI-WAT Experience, [05-09-2021 22:36]
Scmhrd interview-
Q: Being a person from the shop floor, was there any gender based issues?
Q: How were the facilities for women in the shop floor?
Q: A challenging situation where you faced a union issue and how did you solve it?
Q: One question about my strength.
Q: How does my day look like at work? And how does my department work.
Q: Another stats based question on my work.
The entire interview revolved around my work only. And it was quite chilled..
SIBM-SCMHRD PI-WAT Experience, [05-09-2021 22:36]
Scmhrd interview
Panel : H
Engineer
3 years work ex
37 mins
P1: Female
1) tell me about ur work ex in 5 sentences
2) stream for engineering and why did u chose that?
3) abstract of your engineering project?
4) which stream u ll chose in mba and why?
5) have u gone through the syllabus of course, which subject of marketing did u like and why?
6) why do u want to do mba in Marketing?
7) Responsibilities of account manager?
8) what skills are needed to become account manager and what efforts have u taken to learn them on ur own?
P2: male (more of technical)
What all things u know about scmhrd? Have you gone through web site? Do u know any faculties? How much experience do I have in teaching?
1) asked about my six Sigma course in detailed, like formulas and all. It was easy.
2) application of six Sigma in marketing
3) why scmhrd?
4) why marketing- he asked again
5) incident when customer didn't agree with you and difficult situation in work. Counter questions (3-4)
6) why did u join ....... company after engineering? What was the criteria to chose?
7) what if u get selected in 2 companies having same stats in all aspects which one will u choose? ( Tried to speak about reviews, work culture, discuss with faculties, senior, ) he then told u don't hve any of these options. - I fumbled (may be should have talked about growth)
8) how would you calculate growth of particular organization?
9) would prefer startup or well established company? Why?
10) what all countries you visited? Challenges faced while working there?
10) last drawn salary along with travel allowance? What if you don't get that much after mba?
Overall good, except the one que of choosing a company
Tips: think before you say, understand question, frame ur answer and then speak
SIBM-SCMHRD PI-WAT Experience, [05-09-2021 22:36]
SCMHRD PI
Q. Tell us about yourself?
Q. Tell us about your startup?
Q. How did you market your product?
Q. What challenges did you face during the startup?
Q. Any personal challenges you faced in life?
Q. Why have you scored less in 12th compared to 10th ?
Q. Why didn't you sit for campus placements?
Q. Why mba?
Q. Who are the top 3 teams in English premier League
Q. Do you feel Manchester United will win the league this year ?
Q. Any national level certificate? ( I mentioned my final year project paper presentation)
Q. Tell us more about your final year project?
Q. How would you rate yourself in coding?
Q. Difference between C# and Java
SIBM-SCMHRD PI-WAT Experience, [05-09-2021 22:36]
• How have events of the past year influenced the impact you would like to make in your community, career, or both?
• Explain a difficulty or conflict you experienced as part of a team.”
• Describe a time when you had to overcome a failure
• Describe yourself in three words?
• Mention any one life experience that you wish to change.
• What are your negative qualities which you are working on?
• Do you think being ethical is considered important in today’s environment? What’s your take on that?
• Do you think there is any specific type of people with whom you can not work in future?
• What according to you is that one managerial quality which all managers must have?
• Elaborate on your accomplishments. Any situation where you stood out and took the responsibility as a manager?
• What does your parents do ? questions related to that•
• About yourself
• Three major Strengths with examples from professional/ college life
• Two weaknesses with examples from professional/ college life. How it hampered your working
• Achievements in academic and sports
• Extra Curricular activities
• Two new skills that you learnt in last year
• Why you wish to pursue the education in management and what is your career plan(s)?
• Short and Long term goals
• Why not do a job and then go for MBA
• Why should you be selected in our management program?
• Give one instance where you showed leadership qualities and what did you learn from it.
• What would you do if not selected in this management program?
• What has been your most challenging or rewarding academic experience so far?
• What would you do if a team member wasn’t pulling his own weight?
• If you are admitted to our program, what do you think your biggest challenge will be?
• What would be your contribution to our B-school?
• Who is your role model? What qualities of your role model inspire you the most?
SIBM-SCMHRD PI-WAT Experience, [05-09-2021 22:36]
Panelist 1M 1F
F : so we have a popular youtuber here
Me : No mam!
M : Sumit, tell me something about yourself
Me : told
M : sumit what you like the most
Indian or Western and why?
& Tell me any individual incident that happened while running your ngo
Me : told
F : Tell me one time when you shown your skill in music that will help you further
Me : told
Creative & Team work skills
M : Sumit, you are interested in diverse things, how will it help you in MBA
Me : told, one should be diverse in his thinking.
M : I am done
F : Tell me any instance you helped a child & he got inspired and was a life changing moment for you
Me : Told I saved a life of a girl once
F : What are your negatives
Me : Told, I overthink too much & get anxious a lot
F : What are you doing to improve
Me : told, I mingle with people etc
F : You are such a kind person, what will you do if someone will exploit you?
Me : told
F : Even now if they're not listening, since you are kind person
Me : I will inculcate strict laws
F : Where's the kindness
Me : I would not let my personal skill interfere with professional work, etc
F : Last Question, What do you read while preparing for CAT
Me : I use to read some articles from blogspot of future mba & hr
F : can you name few
Me : Trying to remember, but I am not getting any...sorry
F : It's okay
Me : Thanks ma'am
F : So sumit, would you please drop your name in chat so we can enjoy your music too
M : Sumit, it was a good session, all the best for your future
Me : Thanks, it was a dream interview experience
Whole process gd pi
Took just 90 minutes
Kudos to SCMHRD team
SIBM-SCMHRD PI-WAT Experience, [05-09-2021 22:36]
8 tiles were given
4 had texts (100 each tile)
4 had images. (200 each tile)
You can use a budget of 600 points.
2 mins to think and make a story
45 seconds to say individually
7 mins for open floor discussion
It's kind of hard to explain exactly
SIBM-SCMHRD PI-WAT Experience, [05-09-2021 22:36]
8 tiles were:
Texts:
1. 34.5% population live in urban
2. A dime a dozen
3. India has the cheapest data
4. 9 medals in Olympics
Images:
1. OTT
2. IKIGAI
3. BALANCE MACHINE WITH ACADEMICS AND SPORT (ACADEMICS GIVEN HIGHER WEIGHTAGE)
4. 202ONE (OLYMPICS)
SIBM-SCMHRD PI-WAT Experience, [05-09-2021 22:36]
SIBM Pune :
Wat
Very easy
120-150 words passage, based on 2 sentences :
1. You have a time machine
2. You have 50 L to spend
Interview
Very relaxed
2 panelists
Started with extempore
Asked about startup and maths (both mentioned on form)
Asked about family background, follow up on that
Asked about budget
Lasted about 10 minutes
Ge
8 students
2 panelists
4 images (200 points), 4 texts (100 points)
Budget -600 points
Make a story out of these
2 mins to think
Speak for 45s
Then general discussion for 7 mins
Time limits are strictly enforced
SIBM-SCMHRD PI-WAT Experience, [05-09-2021 22:36]
SCMHRD(90/83/73)
2 male panelists
Q: You said you learned about the techno-functional skills of the banking sector. Tell me how do banks earn money?
Q: Tell me about your work ex at Oracle in the last 19 months
Q: You wrote about the challenge that you faced at oracle. Tell me something about that
Q: You have a great job. Are they sponsoring for your MBA?(nope, laughed). Then why do you want to do MBA and why scmhrd?
Q: You have worked for national and international clients. What difference did you find while working for both of them?
Q: What do you regret about the most in your life ?
Q: What are your hobbies?
Q: How does a grand piano work?
Q: Can you solve a rubik's cube right now?
Q: except for playing musical instruments, what else is your stressbuster?
Q: If you had an option to rewind 3 years of your life, what would you do?
Q: If for one day, you have everything, how would you spend that day?(will you also go to oracle?..laughed while asking that)
Q: Won't you do anything for your family?
Q: How do you decide which stock to select?
Both the panelists were very chilled. no grilling. no gk. Mostly hr questions
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SCMHRD
GE: Is investment by ISRO for human space mission justified.
Interview: two panelist (M,F)
Introduce yourself.
The reasons for your increasing grades.
What is one thing you don’t like about health industry(because I mentioned my interest )
What is one instance where your ideas clashed with team members
What are the 3 things you learned from your work experience.
What if you don’t get selected this time in any MBA college.
The whole process was very smooth and on time.
They did not asked a lot of questions, not sure how it went.
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2 male panelists
Mellow tone
P1: How are you?
Me: I'm good sir. Thank You
P1 : Where are you from
Me : Ahmedabad
P1 : 3 reasons for me to visit
Me : Told
P1: So tell me karan why do people write that they've already overcome their weakness on their forms (pointed out to even my weakness) and sometimes even mention their strength as their weakness?
Me : Thought for few second and answered.
P1: Asked how my weakness and how it affected my work.
Me: told
P2 : So karan you left your job. Why and did you jave any misunderstanding with your parents after that( Weird question and a bit daunting as nothing like this was mentioned in my form)
Me: Answered
P2 : Any misunderstandings now?
Me : Smilingly said no.
P2 : 2 learnings from your job.
Me.: answered
P1 : So karan tell me what should the statute of Unity have been made in any other state and was it a wise decision?
Me : Answered
P1 : What would be your dream job?
Me : Answered
Alright you nice talking to you karan. Please leave the room.
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SIBM Pune
19th Feb, 12.30 Slot
Ended at 3.30 but had to wait till 5.00 for all group members interview to get over.
WAT-12 mins
Combine the 2 sentences and make a story
1. You can bring back one person from the dead?
2. The world is facing a crisis.
GE- 20 mins
4 images, 4 sentences
Images- Lockdown, Jio+FB, Laptop as books, Internet
Sentences- Ganga Rejuvenation, Whatsapp has 28.1 crore users, Mental Health, Social Media
PI- 12 mins
Extempore- Your company's new beverage sales are falling, as a sales head what should I do to improve the sales.
Tell me about yourself?
What about your work ex?
Situation- For procurement, what would you prefer
1. Supplier with a high price, located near you
2. Supplier with low price, located far away from you
Why don't you continue working?
Why MBA?
Explain one of your weaknesses?
You have mentioned extracurriculars. Which sports do you play?
Any questions?
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SIBM P experience
Date - 19th Feb 2021
Wat - Was given two statements and was asked to relate the two Statements and form a story
1. You have power to bring back any one dead person
2. We should work together to make the world a better place to live
GE - Was the common 4 pictures and 4 texts thing
100 points for texts and 200 for pictures
Had to decide on a combination of pictures and texts worth 600 points
2 minutes to think
45 secs each to present individual story
7 mins for open discussion
2 minutes to conclude
Overall GE went well. People were trying to prove their story is better than others' but eventually we did reach a consensus
PI -
Chill panel
1 M and 1 F
Started with an extempore
Topic - A large number of people interested towards fitness are starting to use flavoured yoghurts ... As a representative of a FMCG company how will you attract more customers?
30 seconds to think
1 min to speak
PI Questions -
Why should we chose you over someone with work ex?
Why switch from UPSC to MBA? (I had UPSC prep experience)
Do you agree with the saying that Money is the prime factor for work?
What's your goal in life?
Any question for us?
The panel was very kind and allowed me time to think as well
There wasn't any kind of grilling involved
I'll suggest you to just be confident and have a smile on your face
All the best
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WAT was to connect two sentences and make a story.
What will you change in ur past if you can go back in time.
A selfless deed for a greater good is greater than a thousand selfish needs fulfilled.
(Not the exact same sentences but they meant the same)
GE had 4 statements and 4 pictures, we had to select any two statements and two pictures, think for 2 mins and talk about it for 45 seconds each.
Post that we had 7 mins for open discussion followed by a conclusion by one person.
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PI was strange...
Extempore on brand image - an insect is found in one of the beverages that your brand manufacturers and it is going viral. This is impacting the brand image negatively, what will you do to fix this?
PI:
What is overfitting and underfitting
Favorite ML algorithm
What all techs have u worked on?
Why MBA after data science?
Why do u want to switch from ece to management?
How to resolve a conflict with another person?
How will u make ur team stand out in a world where everything is available at the click of a button?
I found the questions to be too generic(some similar to XAT DM) and nothing was from my SNAP form C except for the work bit
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Sibm-p
Snap 99.6
Gem mechanical engineer
Wat -
World with a single color.
Your dream of becoming a artist.
Join these sentences and create a story.
Ge-
4 picture 4 sentences
Went really well had great group, so no problem.
Pi-
Extempore- you have a deadline coming and 2 of your colleagues want 15 days leave.
Some questions about my social media page.
Why not create a social media company out of insta page?
Why mba?
Why marketing?
Are you risk taker? explain.
Are you persistent?
Why do you want to work for a start-up?
What is centripetal force?(i am mechanical engineer)
Very friendly panel, chill interview.
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SIBM Pune | SNAP 99.26 | GEM Fresher Biotech
WAT
You live in a world with only one colour
You want to become a famous artist
GE
4 images – Tesla logo, a picture of oil draining from earth, budget 2021, doctors
4 texts – India spends less on health, Number of beds is 0.55 for 1000 patients, EV industry can grow to 500 billion by 2025, Better late than never
PI
Extempore: You're the managing director of a beverages company and you notice that recently there were incidences of insects and lizards reported in cold drinks of your company due to which there has been a lot of agitation and reluctance built in the customers. How would you react to the situation and make sure that the customers are ensured about the quality of your beverages?
Going deeper into the problem, if there is a serious contamination of your largest facility then what you would do?
Now the issue comes to light and the govt can jail you, will you still take the same path as you mentioned?
Why MBA (Quite detailed)?
What was your worst subject in Undergraduate?
How will you use your tech knowledge after MBA?
What are the two things you would like to change in Mumbai?
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3 panelist
Extempore topic: You are CEO of bike rental company and want to expand business to car rental as well. What factors would you consider to do so?
3 panelist
P1: Tell me something about yourself?
P1: You talked about aumented reality. How is augmented reality used in todays in your work?
P2: Give example?
P2: What are your hobbies?
P1: How can you connect learnings of cricket in MBA?
P2: What are the ways in which you could expand you car rental business?
P1: Anything u would like to ask us?
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SIBM Pune | SNAP 99.26 | 97/94/77 GEM |
1.5 years Work ex in Deloitte Consulting
WAT-12 minutes
You live in a world with only one colour
You dream to become a famous artist
GE-20 minutes
4 images – Tesla logo, a picture of oil draining from earth, budget 2021, doctors
4 texts – India spends less on health some 1.6 % of GDP, Number of beds is 0.55 for 1000 patients, EV industry can grow to 500 billion by 2025, Better late than never
PI-15 minutes
Extempore: What you’ll do if you’re part of a famous cosmetics company and due to pandemic and people wearing masks being prevalent, the sales of lipsticks got affected. Will you shift to a new product or continue with the same?
No introduction .
Where is H2O2 used? (As my UG stream was chemical)
Why such a drastic shift to consulting from Chemical Engineering?
What are your roles and responsibilities in Deloitte?
What are your thoughts on Insurance sector in India?(As I worked in Insurance domain)
What do you think is the best marketing strategy for an Insurance company in India to sell its products?
Since you’ve mentioned something about LIC IPO, a follow up question on this which I can’t recollect.
What position do you play in football and who do you think is the best in the world in that position right now?
Which team is called the Les Bleus?
Nickname of Italy NT?
If you were Ronald Koeman, what would you to develop Barcelona if/when Messi leaves to PSG/City?
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SIBM Pune 21 Feb 7:30 AM
WAT: [120 to 150 words] [12 Min]
1. You are the richest person in the world.
2. You do not give away money for free.
GE ( Budget 600 pts. minimum [apparently we can go over the limit, I was not convinced])
4 Images (200 Point each)
1. CSR
2. Deadline
3. Person Walking on a Thin Rope
4. A box with things coming out (exploring new ideas imo)
4 Text Blocks (100 Point each)
1. Objective of companies: Profit Maximization or Corporate Governance
2. 88% of millennials prefer to work in companies with strong CSR values.
3. Something related to nurturing talents
4.
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PI Experience
P1 Female P2 Male
B.Com (H) Fresher Snap: 98.7
Both probably in their early 40s or last 30s
Extempore: You are the COO of a food delivery app which ventured into grocery deliveries during the lockdown. Now with restaurants open, continuing both the services will add to your costs. Explain whether you would retain the grocery delivery option, or discontinue the same.
P1: How you read the recent budget?
P1: What was done for gig workers?
P1: Facebook-Australia Case?
P1: Which specialisation?
P1: Tell me about a product you would want to market differently in India.
P2: What makes you want to pursue an MBA?
P2: Why not pursue Chess as a career?
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SIBM-Pune PI Experience
Background 9/9/8, workex 18 months
snap-99.52 %le
2 Prof, 1 gentleman in late 50s, 1 lady in late 30s
Extempore- You're a ceo of mobile mfg company which is in a price sensitive market. You are being informed about saturation in market, will you continue in same market or move to high end segment?
Me- I'll find out the reason for saturation, if its due to technology, more can't be done bcoz technological advancements drive mobile market. I have to move to higher segments eventually,as people won't prefer low pricing brand in high pricing segment directly. Otherwise I'll stay in market as being a brand in low end segment it is where I have emerged as a brand.
P1- say more competitors come in your market
what will you do?
Me- Main kpi I believe is value for money/price, I'll provide models which are better in overall value of performance, camera.. in low cost by optimising production cost.
P2- Tell us something about yourself. You've such a good profile why do you want to do post graduation.
Me - told std ans
P1- Okay how many people you manage in your job in a shift?
me -7-8
P1- Tell when you face a crisis in job
(in my mind I be like when cat prep and job had to be managed😂)
Me- told the emergency scenarios in our plant I faced and managerial learnings out of that.
P2- Okay Rashesh, tell us about your hobbies
Me- told ( No cross questions, was shocked 🙈)
P2- Tell us something about your photography as skills and how did you got the award?
Me - Told about the photo which got me the award.
P2- We're done with the interview, do you want to ask something to us?
Me- No ma'am
It lasted around 8-10 minutes
panelists were very chill and was a smooth conversation.
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Done with PI
Extempore topic : you are manager of pharma company which manufactures immunity boosting drug, however it's unsuccessful in boosting immunity. How will you market the drug?
Panel 2 Males
P1:
FB -Aus government controversy
What is sensex today?
How RIL shares are performing? ( As I work there) some cross questions related to it
You have good job, then Why MBA?
cross questions related to it.
P2
If u r CM , How will you contain covid 19 spread in your state?
How did you land up in BARC? (As I did my summer internship there, )
3 good things about BARC
Where did Maharashtra govt failed in containing Covid 19 spread, however states like UP and Hariyana performed well?
I denied it. 😂
Done.
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SIBM PUNE
WAT:
1) Social media has great influence over you.
2) You rarely use social media.
GE: 600 points
Texts:
1)47% of the people reside in urban areas.
2) Change is a constant phenomenon
Image:
1) sapling.
2) chef standing on mobile screen.
3) noise pollution due to vehicles in urban areas
4) picture of online and offline store
PI
Extempore: Suppose you are a seller of a organic product. You are receiving great demand but there is shortage of stock. There is another credible supplier who is also supplying organic product. Would you stick with the existing supplier and wait or go for the other supplier to fulfill all the demand.
2) what made you chose Mba ( because i am pursuing my bachelor's in psychology)
Answered. ( Told about my startup store and how i was attracted towards digital marketing while promoting and marketing my store)
3) What challenges did you faced while marketing.
4) how psychology can be used in digital marketing
5) Importance of psychology in management
6) What perception did you formed about me and the other panelist( who didn't even spoke a single word) and what can you interpret from it.
I messed PI a lil bit. At starting they grilled me but at last they laughed and said no problem there is always room for improvement.
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SIBM Pune 22/02
GE-PI-WAT
First 1 hour goes in showing videos and attendance.
WAT
1. You're given 1 extra hour in a day i.e 25 hour day.
2. Work from home has led to disruption of work life balance.
Connect these two sentences and write.
GE
4 images 4 texts .. connect and form a logical statement. Reach a consensus at the end. Each image is 200 $ and each text is 100 $ . Your group must spend 600 $.
We chose 3 images but the whole process was very chaotic and people kept trying to speak in between... overlapping one another.
PI
Very friendly panel and general questions.
Extempore - On what kind of products will you offer a discount if you're the owner of a retail store? Rate of discount being 20%.
1. Where are you from?
2. What's your mother tongue.
3. Family background.
4. Why MBA? You're very young. Don't you think another 2 years of work ex will be better?
5. What specialization are you interested in?
6. You've good academic track record and play kho-kho as well. Any other extra curricular in arts field? Like singing, dancing.
7. Do you know about Maslow. What was the 5th need in his hierarchy.
8. McGregor? Theory X and Theory Y ( CAP interview helped me to brush up on this)
9. Hawthorne experiments.
10. What other calls do you've? (Told scmhrd first to avoid getting asked about IIM)
Then proceeds to ask.. no I meant IIMs.. I'm sure you wrote cat as well. ( Told cap and Shillong).
11. If both IIM and SIBM offer admission, which one will you choose?
12. Suppose we give you Admission, what will you offer to the both of us (panelists)
13. What skills do you think you'll learn in MBA?
That's it.
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SIBM B GEPI
22 Feb, Afternoon slot
GE:
There were too many people in the group, 13, to be precise.
We were shown four images one after the other. First showed the women who were the 2016 olympic medal winners from India, next a graph comparing India's medal tally of the last 4 Olympics comparing to China, US and Russia, next showed the Khelo India campaign poster and finally the question: why India can't produce champions except in cricket.
Everyone got 1 minute to speak, then open floor discussion, but for only 4 minutes. Again, due to so many people, not everyone got to speak.
PI:
I am currently in final year of BBA, no workex.
Two male panelists.
P1: Brief about yourself in 30 seconds.
Told.
P1: What was your research paper on?
Told. It was on SEO.
More questions on the research paper.
P1: Talk about a company whose marketing strategies interest you and why?
Told.
P1: Do you think PM's Mann ki Baat is a marketing strategy?
Told it is more of a PR strategy.
P2: Asked a quants question out of the blue. A pipes and cisterns question.
Told the method of solving, but made silly mistake in the answer. Wasn't expecting this kind of question, honestly.
P2: If I have a small budget, should I invest in marketing?
Told.
P2: Explain marketing and selling to me like I am a villager.
Told.
P2: What are the things you write about?
Asked as i mentioned that in my hobby. Told.
Done.
The panel was friendly, and they were more interested in conversing than in getting right or wrong answers. So it went well.
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SNAP - 97.9
GEM fresher 87/67/65
2 panelists both male in their early 40s
Extempore - You are a owner of hotels and resorts, how would you use your existing infrastructure for business gains in this pandemic?
Q1- Tell something about yourself that's not in your form?
Follow up Q1- you said you're a fan of the NBA so why not pursue a career in that field? Maybe as a sports writer?
Q2- Tell me about your final year project?
Follow up - What was your contribution?
Q3- If your project is sold as a product, how would you market it?
Q4- Extempore related, discussed my answer and they gave me suggestions.
This is it. Lasted 7-8 mins.
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SIBM-P transcript
Start time: 7:30 am End time: 11:40 am
WAT Topic: Combine the following two statements and write a coherent story/essay in 120-150 words (Duration 12 minutes) > Imagine if 1 USD = 1 INR > With great power comes great responsibility Started with how Spider-Man is the local neighbourhood hero which is what separates him from other heroes. From there, I wrote about how caring for the local neighbourhood is important and how globalisation gave us the opportunity to open our doors to foreign products and competition. But the government often protects the industry and with the depreciating rupee, it becomes extremely difficult for imported goods to compete. So, in order to maintain a healthy market, there should be a level playing field. The govt has that power and with great power comes great responsibility. GE Topic: 4 image tiles each having 200 points, 4 text tiles each having 100 points. With exactly 600 points, we had to create a story/narrative/essay 4 images: downward arrow showing fall (as they show in stock growth charts) and a car, a stick figure creating a blueprint and people giving them money, start ups different process, two people fighting for a piece pie 4 texts: A dime a dozen, India is a consumption driven economy and every product has a significant market potential, back to back changes in industry have impacted the consumer psyche, pandemic did not cause it but it just made it worse. I used the first three image tiles. Talked about falling gdp, and how the economy seems like a car crash survivor. Then talked about how ideas are money and how the government is coming up with different ideas to boost the economy, one of them being Make in India and the recent slashing of corporate tax rate to as low as 22% and in some cases 15%. Also encouragement towards privatisation, FDI etc.
PI Process:
Extempore: I’m a brand manager. A new face serum is being launched but the manufacturer has only supplied half the order. What should be done?
Talked about increasing consumer anticipation, gave example of the brand ‘Supreme’ which releases its merch in very low quantity which has created a ‘hype culture’. An alternative would be to ask the manufacturer to subcontract the PO and get the shipment in, but the downside is higher costs.
P1: So you mentioned in your form that you determine the scale of operations. How do you do that? A: Actually I assisted the CFO in the same. What we used to do was invite quotations from the distributors regarding the demand, compare last year figures after adjusting it with the industry CAGR, and also take into consideration the seasonal cycle
P1: Tell me about your background P2: Who are the major competitors of your company in the eastern region? P2: How would you inflate your sales? A: Sir, firstly it’s unethical. Secondly it’s mostly done by issuing bogus invoices, or by creating fictitious debtors P2: Yes it’s unethical but how is it done? What’s the entry? A: Sir we can show Debtors Dr. to Sales in case of fictitious debtors P2: Yes but this would get caught A: We can also infuse black money by issuing bogus invoices for cash sales of small amounts and they would not get detected because of materiality norms followed by auditors. P2: That’s only half the answer I was looking for P1: What sort of poetry do you write? P1: Do you know what Haiku is? P1: Have you ever written a Haiku before? P1: What is the current rate of GDP? P1: What is the %age contribution of the manufacturing sector to the GDP? (did not know this exactly) P1: What can you tell us about the state of India’s forex reserves? (Did not know this) P1: What is the government doing to boost the manufacturing sector? (talked about different schemes that promote ease of doing business, lower corporate tax rates, faceless assessment of taxes, etc). P1: We get it that you know. It’s okay (laughs). Thank you (Interview ends)
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SIBM hyderabad
WAT topic: importance of traditional campuses in higher education.
SIBM-SCMHRD PI-WAT Experience, [05-09-2021 22:36]
SIBM P (25/2, 7.30AM)
WAT :
•I have a robot that can do all the work.
•I'm not very tech-savvy.
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SIBM-P transcript
Start time: 7:30 am
End time: 11:40 am
WAT Topic:
You have a robot and you are not tech savvy
GE Topic:
Revolved around smart city
PI Process:
Extempore: You are owner of a book store and see people interest declining and your sales dropping, what steps will u take to avoid that
Q. U mentioned about renting for a week , some people might misuse it any further changes too add to it
Q. You are a mechanical working in IT , why (discussion revolved around that )
Q. Specialization interested
Q. How has covid in this one year changed you
Q. How did your scores improve compared to last year in all exams , steps taken
Q. CAT score , any calls
Q. Mentioned cricket, let's say every batsmen is getting out on 1st ball at the end who all will remain not out
Q. What is pink ball why is it used etc
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25 Feb 2021
Morning slot
PI Experience:
First extempore.
1) How do you feel that you're a graduate from JMC, Delhi University?
2) Tell us something about your family?
3) Which sport do you play? ( because I'm a sportsperson, national gold medalist)
4) Do you know which sport does Bruce Lee play?
5) What do you expect from MBA from SIBM Pune?
That's it. Very chill interview.
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Done with sibm p morning
Here is the flow
Document verification snap admit card and snap call letter (hard copies)
Wat
Group exercise
Document verification
10th 12th grad snap admit card snap score card and call letter (merged soft copy of these)
Pi they give a case study and ask questions
A person was given a case as to how would u recover the sales of a book store struggling
Questions that are iterations of why mba
No gk as of yet (saying from 6 experiences in all)
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25 Feb, 7.30 AM
Profile : 10/95.2/9.3
25 months work ex in operations.
WAT :
•I have a robot to do all my work.
•I am not very tech-savy.
PI :
Extempore - You have a tyre manufacturing company, shut for 4 months due to pandemic. Now you open and have to run 24*7. How will you motivate your employees for timely delivery?
•Which specialisation and why?
•Why did you take a core job?
•How did you survive vedanta?
•One defining challenge that you overcame in your workspace?
•What other calls do you have?
•Tell us about yourself.
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SIBM
GEM
91.5/86.92/7.7
Final Year Comp Engg
GE: Same thing, use 600 points to select pictures and texts and make a story
2 mins to think 45 secs to each member first to justify their choice - story not needed at this point just say why you picked those texts/pics, then 7 min discussion and then 2 mins to present
8 people in the group
WAT: 1) You have a robot that can do everything for you
2) You're not a tech-savvy person
12 mins to write a story/essay using both the statements
PI :
A case was given first
You're a senior management consultant to a supermarket chain, you've to advice them to increase their sales during the pandemic (not the exact words )
45 secs to think 1 min to speak
Panel: 2 Males
Questions:
M1:
One of us is an industry expert and the other is a college professor, tell us who's who
(Guessed it right because one of them used Dr. with their name, that gave it away they said it could be a double bluff but I'd already said that's a possibility so I sticked with my answer and it turned out correct)
Calls?
First choice? Where is SIBM in the order?
M2:
You like reading, tell me some non-fiction books you like
You have a good academic record why not go into the industry, why MBA now?
How do you keep yourself updated, how do you enhance your skills?
M1:
Tell me something about Kiran Bedi (had mentioned politics earlier)
Which specialization?
A ques in connection to my answer to the very first question regarding supermarket sales
Any job offers you have?
RBI Governor
Monetary Policy vs Fiscal Policy
Bonus ques: Chief Economist of IMF?
Pleasantries exchanged, you can leave.
Chill interview, no ques on acads. Short, about 10 mins I guess.
Overall the process is very smooth, very well organized
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In my case they didn't ask very much
Just introduction
Why MBA
Why HR
GST slab rates
Challenging situation
That's it
The panelist were of marketing and finance so not much questions
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SNAP - 98.78
Work Experience - 7 months
Profile - GEM 90/83/74
Wat:
You can't live in a world where no one comes second.
People like to participate in a competition.
Join the sentences and make a story/essay
GE: 600 points
4 pictures (200 points) and 4 texts (100 points)
PI:
2 panelists. A gentleman in his early 60s and a lady in her late 30s.
Extempore - You are a founder of an IT company. WFH increase productivity and reduced operational cost. HR manager worried as trust issues and communication gap. What steps would you take in the given circumstances?
Approximately 1 min speaking time
Q1- Do you consider your engineering knowledge as wasted?
Answered
Follow up Q1- So you fix things. What are things that you fixed recently?
Answered
Follow up Q2: Ever fixed a broken heart or ever been heartbroken?
Answered
Follow up Q3: Recite the poem you wrote?
Did that.
Q2- Tell me about the changes you expect in your city in sometime?
Answered.
Q3 - What is your political view point? Whom do you support and why? (As I live in Kolkata)
Diplomatically Answered.
Q4- Any questions for us?
Asked.
Overall the process lasted for about 8-10 mins. Had a very interesting and somewhat personal conversation with the panelists.
SIBM-SCMHRD PI-WAT Experience, [05-09-2021 22:36]
SIBM - Pune
WAT
You are granted a wish to live underwater
You are hydrophobic (fear of water)
GE-
Images: Atmanirbhar bharat, EVs, The domino effect (kind off), breaking chain
Text: How dare you, penny wise pound foolish, COP21 - Paris agreement, India giving Made in India vaccines to other countries
PI:
Extempore- You are the chief marketing officer. How will you increase the customer Base for a medium range product that you wish to launch in the market (not the exact wordings)
P1- Based on my extempore a few questions.
P1- Which specialisation and few questions pertaining to it.
P1- Who is the home minister of india,
RBI governor, which foreign company invested in India recently?
P1- Your hobbies. Since I said trekking, had to talk about my recent trek and the inventory(ops specialisation) I need for trek.
P2- Again about my extempore.
P2- In what attempt did Shrikanta Das complete his CFA?
Thanks. Your PI is done.
SIBM-SCMHRD PI-WAT Experience, [05-09-2021 22:36]
Not mine
SIIB experience :
GE - Is digital India a success?
PI - ( 2 panelists 1 male 1 female)
Female panelist:
1.Tell me about yourself
2.Why mba
3. My role in the company
Male panelist:
1. What all products your company manufacture
2. Took one product and asked details about it
3. Price range for the product
4.Customers of the company
5. Took a customer and asked how are they using this product .
6. Why do you think there is hike in fuel prices
7.what is subsidy ( totally unrelated to previous question )
8.What are the sources of income for our country/ government
9.Your views on farm laws
10. What should be done to stop the protest
SIBM-SCMHRD PI-WAT Experience, [05-09-2021 22:36]
SIBM Pune 26th Feb 7:30 am slot WAT topic
- You travel back to the stone age
- Change must be accepted
Not the exact wordings but something like this only.
SIBM-SCMHRD PI-WAT Experience, [05-09-2021 22:36]
Sibm Pune 26/02 Morning slot GEPIWAT Experience..
PS: It was way smoother than NMIMS.
WAT:
1) You traveled back to Stone age.
2) You cannot grow, unless change is accepted.
GE: As usual 4 texts & 4 images. So the group was actually divided into 2 parts. But we combined both the parts, and made a better story.
Extempore: You are a team lead, but you are younger than your sub ordinates, and they are not listening to you. What will u do to make things work?
PI: 2 panelist, no grilling, friendly conversation
1) meaning of your name?
2) do you follow Narendra Modi?
3) He recently visited IIT KGP, what did he said there? (I already knew about it from past PI experience, so told everything, they seem satisfied)
4) How is India trying to reduce import dependence? What is government doing to utilize our capability? (Told about 2-3 Budget schemes, and how is country doing in FDI)
5) Work ex related 2-3 questions
6) When you go to your work, what motivates you to do the same work everyday? (Told about the challenges, & opportunities to improve things)
7) What was your personal contribution to the company? (Told about how covid affected financials of company, and what small initiatives I am taking to reduce Operational costs)
That was all.
SIBM-SCMHRD PI-WAT Experience, [05-09-2021 22:36]
SIBM Pune experience (SNAP - 99.983)
ECE GEM Fresher
26th February, 2021 7.30am-1pm
Sr. No. 1
WAT - You are taken back to stone age
Change is inevitable if u want to grow
2 male panelists
Hello
extempore - You are CEO of software company. your algorithm is stolen. will u file legal claim or take money and invest it in new business idea.
legal proceedings take lot of time, will u still choose that option?
3 learnings from working in E-cell
asked to give example for each learning
Communication skills
Networking skills
Out of box thinking
Hobbies
why we should take u immediately after engg
Which genre in books
Do u know Napoleon hill
zig zigglar ?
peter drucker?
which books u read
family background, hobbies
placements in clg
other calls
sibm vs nmims
what will u say at nmims
why sibm?
No grilling. Very friendly panel. No acads or GK based questions. Only profile based questions.
SIBM-SCMHRD PI-WAT Experience, [05-09-2021 22:36]
SIBM P, GEPIWAT Exp.
Date- 26/02/21. Time- 7:30 am slot.
SNAP- 99.91%ile. Acads- 10/80.2/74.3. B. Tech in Electrical Engg. Fresher.
WAT
WAT topic for today's morning slot was:-
1) You are sent back to stone age.
2) Change is inevitable,if u want to grow.
GE same 4 pics, 4 sentences 600 pts budget one. It went smooth as we didn’t cut anyone and came to a conclusion without much heated discussion.
PI-
There were 2 male panelists and one coordinator who when u enter the PI tells about it the extempore topic in zoom chat.
Extempore topic:- I am owner of a small restaurant. My head chef comes with two offers. One is we have 3-4 special dishes and appoint chefs who are master in them. Other one is we provide a generalized menu and then hire chefs accordingly. 45 sec to think, 1 min to present.
I chose the 2nd optn stating it will inc the customer base if we provide diff varieties which is being a small restaurant we should focus on building our customer base.
P1 asked all restaurants are providing meals like this then why would customer come to you? (Told will give discounts).
Asked what other thing u will do? (Told improving quality. And when people come seeing low prices and taste food then the mouth publicity will happen if I am providing quality food at less price.)
Asked if u decr price and inc quality very high won’t u be facing losses since it is a small restaurant?. (Told inc quality bt not the level of a 5-star bt a notch higher than the avg quality being provided in the competition). He said OK.
Then asked about my graduation when I completed it. (Told in 2020 only)
Asked what did u do further. (Told since my exam got over till oct so I prep for MBA only as management exams were lined up while giving some job interviews.)
Asked what happened then? Did u get any job? (Told gave of 2 companies, was not able to get in any of those). Asked reasons. Told.
Then P2 entered.
He also asked 2-3 qs based on my extempore ans.
Then he asked if I gave u 2 choices- 1) A job in high paying company but in an isolated area of Nagaland. 2) A moderate salary job but in your hometown. Which one would u select and why?
Told will go for 2nd option since I am living in my hometown I would be saving on rent and food expenditure so even in a moderate salary I would be able to save the similar amt had I been taking a high salary job in an isolated area. Along with that living in an area which I am comfortable in would help me inc my efficiency to do work.
He said ok that is nice. That’s all from our side. Thank you. Best of luck. U can now leave the meeting.
OA experience- The whole interview was based on the decision making skills I felt. They didn’t ask any technical qs or GK qs. Just how I make my decisions.
SIBM-SCMHRD PI-WAT Experience, [05-09-2021 22:36]
2 panelist 1M 1F
Extempore : Employees work at the time of appraisal and not else. Solve this problem
No followup question at all
M : So Mr Bhatia what does your father do and tell me about the rest of your family
Me : answered
M : Where are you from?
Me : answered
M: Currency of Japan, China, Srilanka, Bangladesh
Me : 2 answered 2 couldn't
M : What all other calls?
Me: answered
M : Why sibm then?
me : answered
M : Why do you want to leave your job since you were able to save it even in the phase of lockdown ( He was under the impression that i was still working)
Me : Clarified the misunderstanding and answered.
M : You've mentioned something about having manga as an hobby. What is manga
Me : answered
M: Whats is origami?
Me : answered
M : What is harakiri?
Me : Didn't knew. He gave me a hint that SUSHANT SINGH RAJPUT. It meant suicide. Both of us smiled as i answered it.
M : Ok now look straight at the camera and tell me the name of mangaka( Manga artists) that you mentioned in your profile.
Me : answered.
M: Over to you madam
F: Hello karan so you've worked for approximately 2 yrs. Tell me something about it.
Me : Answered
F : What do you fear the most?
Me : Told that going back to the introverted self that i was in my earlier years
M : Interrupted suddenly and asked do you have a girlfriend?
Me : I said no.
M : Why not?
Me : Smiled and gave the reason.
Ok karan we're done. nice talking to you.
SIBM-SCMHRD PI-WAT Experience, [05-09-2021 22:36]
SIBM P(90/83/73)
Extempore: You are a team leader and you have noticed that your team members start working hard only when the appraisal time is near, and once they are rewarded they show a laid-back and careless attitude. How would you ensure that they work diligently throughout the year?
Told them, but they were not convinced.
Panelist 1:
Q: What do you like about Oracle?
told
Q: Is there something you wish to change in Oracle?
told about youth culture not promoted
Q: Tell me the time when you faced this issue.
Told
Q: You follow the stock market daily or just sometimes (Yes). Why was there a market crash on Friday?
Told all the reasons
Q: You said you have read 'the intelligent investor'. Tell me one great quote in that book that you like the most.
told
panelist 2:
Q: You said you lack multitasking. Tell me when did you realize that in oracle and how are you working to improve on that?
told
Q: Are you a team leader, manager, or team player?
Started immediately...she stopped me and asked me to think.
Q: You love to play so many musical instruments. is there anyone in your family who is already in this industry (No). Then when did you realize that you have an interest in this?
told
Q: You like the stock market so which stream will you choose?
told finance
Chilled panelists. No grilling. No technical questions. No GK.
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