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IIM-C,
GEM, Mechanical
(7 months’ work ex, UPSC prep 3yrs)

WAT: Crimes against women are increasing. What stringent measures must be taken by
Police and Legal system to prevent such crimes.

2M, 1F
F: You have graduated from IIT-B and are working in Goa right now?
F: Okay you were preparing for Civil Service, how was your performance?
F: Oh, you cleared prelims every time but got stuck in Mains, What was your Optional?
F: Do you think it was because of that? I see Engineers taking up Anthropology - I think they
are gaming the system
F: Okay, since you are interested in foreign service, Read this title and tell who is it referring
to
(Gave some headlines regarding China from The Economist - I said no idea,
she said I can understand even though we don't have any idea - both names are Lee)
F: Let me ask about Xi, how has he been in China? Please tell me your opinion - no need to
do any analysis based on principles
F: He even got re-elected recently right? What does that portray for the future of China?
F: What about his COVID policies?
M1: Okay, you have taken Industrial Engineering Operations research courses? Do you
remember some topics?
M1: Oh, you worked in R&D? What were you working on?
M1: How do you measure variation?
M1: How do you calculate Std deviation? Say for 10 observations
M1: why 10-1 in denominator?
M1: Okay, if I say those observations are exhaustive then?
M2: What was the product? What was the customer’s requirement?
M2: Why you are interested in Foreign Service?
F: Apologies, I am taking a completely different track now, you studied in IIT-B, relating to
the recent case there, what do you think about the campus culture there? Again I am not
casting aspersions on you, I just wanted to know what you think about all this.
F: Any suggestions to improve this condition
(Told both short and long term and told we mustn't extend short term fixes to long term
because the situation will again perpetuate creating stereotypes)
F: Okay, there are so many creative ideas that IITs are generating, why do you think many of
them are not seeing light?
F: How did China deal with this back in the day, they too were in a similar situation to us.
M2: you are saying they didn't have enough entrepreneurs?
F: No, he's saying there was a favourable climate for investment
F: Okay, what is your plan B now? I assume you aren't too keen to pursue Civil service after
3 attempts. I understand that you have given your best both here and there, I just want to
know if you have a plan B
F: Okay, sounds good.

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(Asked if others had more questions - No)
F: Do you have any questions for us? No, okay, take a toffee.

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IIM Lucknow PGP PI Transcript
BSc in Computer Science
SAP Developer at Deloitte USI - 19 months work ex till Dec, 22.
WAT - Businesses should behave in a socially responsible manner.

I am walking steadily towards the panel….

P2) Walk quickly!
-Continued walking at my pace. Reached, smiled, and greeted good afternoon.
P2) Give your CAT scorecard.
-I opened my file and was about to take it out, he snatched my file and said sit down.
P1) Looking at my CAT scorecard, you have scored pretty high. How? Did you cheat?
A) I smiled and said, no sir.
P2) How do we know?
A) There were security cameras at the exam center.
P1) What is the probability of you cheating when there are security cameras?
A) Thought for a second and said I couldn't determine the exact probability but it will be
very low. Started explaining that there will be multiple variable
P2 interrupted
P2) What is probability?
A) Explained
P2) How do we calculate probability?
A) Answered.
P1) Have you heard about conditional probability? Explain?
A) Explained
P1) Do we have a formula for this?
A) Wasn't sure but said it is Bayes Theorem maybe.
P1) You should know this! You had these subjects in your undergrad.
A) Agreed that I had studied these topics and needed to brush up once.
P1) Draw the graph of log 1/x and 1/log x?
A) Did a blunder
P1) What should I ask you?
A) I said regarding work ex and current affairs.
P1) What is your role at Deloitte?
A) SAP ABAP developer.
P1) What is SAP and what do you do?
A) Explained
P1) Competitor of SAP?
P2) A Consulting firm was in the news for laying off employees, do you know which one?
A) Said I am not aware of any such news.
P2) Name some consulting firms you know of.
A) Answered
P2) What are you passionate about?
A) Mentioned cricket but he didn't ask anything further.
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P2) Who is the chairman of the Rajya Sabha?
A) Answered
P2) Who is the vice president of India?
A) Answered
P1) Tell me something about Adani? What is your take on him? There was some report on
him. Which company made the report? Where is that based out of? Do you agree with the
report? What is a shell company? Is it a good practice? Which other company was in the
news for using a shell company?
A)3-4 min cross-questioning on this.
P1) Is TATA an ethical company?
A) Mentioned I haven't heard of any negative news recently so I would assume they are
ethical.
P1) You said recently which means they were unethical before?
A) Explained that I didn't mean that.
P1) What is Hadoop?
A) Mentioned I have heard the name before but don't know what it is
P1) What is MongoDB?
A) Answered
P1) What is NoSQL?
A) Answered
P1) Any other NoSQL database?
A) Answered
P2) Which company do you want to work for after your MBA? Which domain after the
MBA?
What is your career goal? Where does an MBA fit in?
A) Standard answers cut short by P2
P2) Which business leader inspires you?
A) Mentioned there are few from whom I draw inspiration.
P2) Mention all of them.
A) Mentioned 3 CEOs.
P2) Do they have an MBA?
A) Yes
P2) All of them?
A) Yes
P2) Did any of them have an MBA from India?
A) Yes. Answered.
P2) The other two have been done from which college?
A) Answered
P2) Have you read about how their MBA helped them in their career?
A) Said no I haven't but an MBA would have helped them in their way to success.
P2) Do you think you will also become like them if you do an MBA?
A) Explained that it is not guaranteed but an MBA will give me the platform to grow my
career in this direction.
P2) What other calls do you have?
A) Told.

Best of luck. You can leave now.

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CAP
CAT:99.07
10th:10 CGPA
12th:89.4%
BTech: CSE (9.26 CGPA)
18th-month work ex

Panel 2: 2 members ( both male )

P1: Tell Me about yourself.

P1: tell me about your job role
P1: tell me one instance where you showed self-confidence in your job.
P1: tell me something about your extracurricular achievements
P1: tell me a few minerals which are found in Jharkhand
P1: 2 major events in news now
P1: what did you read in today's newspaper?
P1: asked me about the last test match ( India vs Australia)
P1: where was the last football world Cup held?

P2: Tell me what is stack?

P2: The difference between array and stack?
P2: CEO of Walmart
P2: chief minister of Jharkhand
P2: tell me more about the chief minister
P2: who is the commerce minister of India
P2: The difference between Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha

Wished me all the best and said to log out.

Time: 15-18 mins
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XLRI BM

Profile: B.Tech - CSE

Work Ex: 3.5yrs, Software Developer

P1: Your answers (referring to SOP) seem very professionally written. Did you outsource it to
someone else? Explain how you came up with your answers.
P1: No offense, but you have close to 4 years of experience., what do you have to offer in a
classroom environment and what will you learn from someone who just joined after his
Undergrad?
P1: You mentioned you were promoted recently, if comfortable, share your Salary breakup, if
not no prob, I'll move on.
P1: You already earn XXX in tech, why do you want to do an MBA? It's not like it'll be a Big
Jump for you.
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P1: You mentioned you thrive in a competitive env. In the book Homo Sapiens, it's mentioned
that Collaboration is what brought the Human Race to where it is now. Isn't competition
counterintuitive to that ideology?
P1: You have been using "folk" a lot in our discussion. Should such slang words be used in an
interview?

P2: How does your org make money after paying you this unreasonable amount?
P2: How are you different than any other person who is working in the same role?
P2: Justify your salary.
P2: You must have saved a lot. Where do you spend it?
P2: What do you do in your free time?
P2: Is E-sports a thing? Who are the shareholders?

P3: What's the difference b/w Http and Https?

P3: How does the internet work over WIFI?
P3: What's cloud computing? How is it different?
P3: What's a Cookie? Why do I have to accept in when I open a website?

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XLRI HRM
Marine Engineer

20 mins approx.

3M (M1, M2, M3)

Apparently, I could see only one face even when all three were speaking.

M1: How are you? Explain your job role.

M1: How is the role important to the business of the ship? (Cross questions on the same)
M2: Mention some labour laws. (Said can't remember but there had been new developments
in laws governing working hours and hiring and firing of individuals by the company)
M1: State some worse HR policies of your company (Said I haven't got to read the HR policy
but I came across an act and said about it and also mentioned the improvements needed)
M1: Tell me about some recent HR-related news. (Thought and said about Layoffs (Naah
something else ) couldn't remember so said sorry)
M2: What is the role of HR (Gave the basic definition)
M2: That's too generic, give me an elaborated view.
M2: What according to you HR does?
M2: You are earning a decent salary, why do you want to come here for the HR program, how
is it going to help you?
M2: Why not join IAS if you want to serve the society? (Said my interest aligns with
management and I don't want to go into bureaucracy as it has its own set of hurdles. I want to
serve society by utilizing my interest in management)
M2: What is your viewpoint on the privatization of Indian Railways? (Said that shouldn't be
privatized as a whole, rails can be taken as roads and just we private vehicles running on the
road, we can have more private trains but the basic infrastructure should lie with the
government)
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M2: What if an accident happens? Who will be liable? (Depends if it's the drivers mistake or
signalling and train management system's mistake)
M3: Have you heard of SCI? Recently there have been talks about its privatization. Why so?
(Explained how it is making losses and how rampant corruption is eating up the company
from the inside. Also mentioned the fact that wherever their ships go, they get blacklisted, so
they loose a competitive advantage wrt their private counterparts)
M3: But what is the root cause? (I said corruption)
M3: What HR policies can you bring to boost the efficiency of the workforce?
(Said performance-based appraisal but now I think I could have used a better term like
Performance Based Incentives.
Not keeping the employees in a zone where they start feeling that they have a secure job even
when they don't work (I was asked to change this point)
So said about delegating important roles so that they feel more responsible.
M3: We are done
M1: Your interview is over but I want to know what you kept saying as your filler word! (I
kept saying "means like" while speaking and had to explain that it's not intentional and that it
is just a filler)

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IM CAP interview
Trading work experience, mech engineer

Panellists: 2F (F1 early 30s, F2 late 20s)

F1 greeted
F1:
-What is the meaning of your name?
-Introduce yourself
-Quite an interesting profile. What did you trade?
-Are you still working? Why did you leave?
-You were in a good space, graduated from a great college, working at a good firm. Why
MBA?
(some cross questions and follow-up questions, no grilling, just conversation)
-I'm transferring to my co-panellist

F2:
-So you told me that you trade. Which derivative?
-Difference b/w forward and futures
-Which is more formalized?
-Are you an active or a passive investor?
-Do you trade in Indian markets?
-Do you trade futures too?

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-Why do you think there is very less common man penetration in trading and investing space
in India?
-What are SENSEX and NIFTY?
-What do you do in your free time?
-What dance styles did you learn?
-What is their origin?
-Who is your role model in dance?
-Thank you. I had a good time talking to you. You can log off now.

Very conversational interview

Both of them were smiling throughout

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IIM Kozhikode PGP PI Transcript
My Profile:
X/XII/UG - 93/93/7.5
BSc in Computer Science from St. Xavier's College, Kolkata.
CAT - 99.9
SAP Developer at Deloitte USI - 19 months’ work ex till Dec, 22.
WAT: Influencers are Entrepreneurs, and should be celebrated as such.
Interview Panel #2
P1-Male in 50s and P2-Female in early 30s
P2
Q) Who is your business role model? Don't say Ratan Tata.
A) I wasn't prepared for this question. Randomly mentioned Zerodha's founders.
Q) Why do you like Zerodha?
A) Tried to explain along the lines of "they don't run on investors' money and are profitable
while most other startups aren't". Was cut short.
Q) So you work at Deloitte? What is your role?
A) SAP developer.
Q) I don't know what SAP is, describe.
A) Described that it is an ERP software used to automate and streamline business processes.
Q) What is an input? How is it different from a resource? (I mentioned enterprise resource
planning software in my earlier answer)
A) Tried to differentiate between them but the interviewer insisted that they are the same. I
tried to hold my ground till the end. Gave different analogies. This discussion alone lasted 5-6
mins.
Q) What is business?
A) Answered and mentioned "profit" somewhere.
Q) What is profit? Should I continue a business that is not profitable? Asked about Tata
Motors not being profitable for a long time.
A) I tried to answer but failed, she cross-questioned a lot. I tried to explain that TATAs want
to be seen in almost every product around us which is why maybe they are carrying on with a
loss-making company.
Q) Pointing to the Bisleri bottle kept at the table, do you think Tata makes these?
A) Yes they do, however, it is not Bisleri but some other brand which I cannot recall at this
moment. (It is Himalayan)
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Q) What is Deloitte or how significant it is in its industry?
A) Answered that we are the biggest professional services company in the world.
Q) How do you arrive at that conclusion?
A) Mentioned in terms of revenue and no of employees.
Q) What is the revenue of Deloitte?
A) Answered. Also mentioned is growth compared to last year. The panel seemed satisfied.
Q) If Deloitte is so good then why do you want to leave and come for an MBA?
A) Combined two of my standard answers for "Why MBA?" and "Why MBA after IT?"
Over to you sir.
P1
Q) Looking at my UG mark sheet, have you studied Numerical Analysis and Discrete
Mathematics?
A) I said yes. (I did not perform well in these subjects)
Q) What did you learn in these subjects, mention any 2-3 topics.
A) I said Newton's interpolation formula and Newton Rapson's method.
Q) Explain any one of them.
A) Started explaining Newton's interpolation, but was cut short.
Q) Don't explain the concept, talk about applications.
A) Gave examples for Newton's interpolation formula with population data.
Q) What is the population of India?
A) Answered.
Q) What is India's rank in population, tried to confuse me by saying we didn't cross China.
A) I held my ground and said that we had crossed China.
Q) about population of the top 5 countries in decreasing order?
A) I didn't know after India and China…took a guess and said Brazil would be one.(Feeling
stupid that I could have easily mentioned Pakistan and Bangladesh but it didn't strike me
there)
Q) Which is the biggest country in terms of economy?
A) The US.
Q) Top 5 economics in order?
A) Answered
Q) On what basis do we order economies?
A) Said GDP.
Q) India's GDP?
A) Answered.
Q) Did you take coaching for CAT and interview?
A) Said yes.
Q) Which institute?
A) I said IMS and CL.
Q) form of IMS?
A) Didn't know. (They laughed and said how come you don't know )
Q) Why 2 institutes?
A) I explained and they were satisfied with the answer.
Thank you, you can leave.

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Overall, the panel was helpful. They had a conversational tone and were smiling at times. But
they cross-questioned a lot. They didn't accept most of the answers at face value and cross-
questioned with 4-5 follow ups.

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SIBM - Pune
Profile - Senior Systems Engineer at Infosys
Work ex: 24 months
Panel 1 (Male aged)
1. Tell me about yourself - spoke about myself
2. What is your goal? - answered
3. Asked me if I was not happy with my present company/work: I said I like my job
4. Asked me why I won't leave my job and do an MBA - I answered where my interest lies
and what I wanted to do in my life
5. Asked me about my experiences working with Infosys
6. Asked me if startups in hydroponics are doing well in India (because I mentioned it in my
interests previously)
7. Why are these companies still at a loss? What are your thoughts about it?
8. Coming from an engineering background how do u have in-depth knowledge on
hydroponics and agriculture?
9. Did u ever play the role of a leader? What were the challenges you faced?
Panel 2 (Female)
10. You mentioned something about health care what was it in the introduction, what was it?
(I mentioned it as the domain in which I work)
11. What is healthcare management?
12. Explain your role in your project
13. What is the difference between insurance companies in the USA and India?
14. What is Hyderabad famous for (I answered IT industry and biryani)
15. She answered what Hyderabad is famous for in the healthcare domain and explained
16. What are your hobbies
17. If given an admit will u choose SIBM - Pune over others?
Do you have any questions for us?
Overall, it was a very fun and chill interview. Throughout the process, they had a smile and
explained if I went wrong anywhere.

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IIM Bangalore
Marine engineer
48 months work experience

2M (P1, P2), 1F (P3)

P1: How are you? How many months you have been on the ship, how many ships did you do
as a fourth engineer, and what type of ships?
Me: Answered everything and told that overall sea experience is 28 months
P1: So, effectively your work experience is two years only, so what did you do in rest of the
time?
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Me: Explained about my job role and that it's how merchant Navy people work (they didn't
seem satisfied and kept making faces)
P2: So what, it's your job role and you were in charge, that doesn't mean that you were
working for 4 years. Tomorrow someone will come and say that I was working up to 1 A.M,
that can't be counted as extra days na!
P3: This tells that you are not good at multi-tasking, and you can't handle multiple works at
the same time. Isliye tumhe 9 months chahiye chill karne k liye
Me: Explained how I cleared COC Class 4 exams after my first contract and took care of my
family after my second contract as second wave had hit the country. And then after the third
contract prepared for CAT.
P3: But still you could have done that along with your job! Din mein kaam karo and raat
mein padho!
Me: Told them that we get very little time to sleep.
P1: UMS ship tha ya watchkeeping
Me: UMS but the area of operations kaaran hectic schedule rhta tha.
P1: Kya hectic schedule, subah 9 bje jaao shaam 5 bje aao.
Me: It's not like that sir (Literally having an existential crisis at this point of time)
(P2: Achha tell me about this conflict resolution that you mentioned in SOP.
Me: Told how there was a protest in college and cadets demanded leave, but I acted against
them and crushed the protest.
P2: Tum to bade Dharm Raj ban rhe! Kya jaroorat thi aisa karne ki, you should mind your
own business and let them have their way?
Me: Told them that it was unethical and based on false rumors this decision would have been
a disaster. Besides I made sure that all medical facilities were ready in the college if in case
any mishap happened
P3: Still I don't get your point. Why did you do that, gaaliyan padi hogi tumhe to
Me: Yes ma'am I did have a negative reputation after that incident among cadets
P1: So you are someone who is going to backstab your peers?
Me: No sir, I also acted on their behalf when the time demanded. Mine was a second batch in
college and I organized multiple events and fests and increased the corporate relation with the
campus. And I was also awarded by alumni association for this.
P1: But you said that you were 2nd batch, so how come there are alumni?
Me: Told them the history that before 1994 B.Tech used to be there and after 1994 PGDME
course was conducted so we had alumni
P2: Have you heard about the inland river project that PM Modi recently started? Tell me
about it.
Me:( I thought they asked me about inland water navigation, so started telling them about this
and then they interrupted that I am getting this wrong, I corrected myself and told them about
the river cruise service started at Varanasi and told that though Varanasi historical
significance, I don't feel that people will take such a long trip along river cruise and hence
this idea might not be viable.)
P1: Achha you talked about inland water navigation, batao uske baare mein?
Me: Told them about it, also about state regulations and how they hamper and also about the
lack of infrastructure
P2: What is dredging and can it be helpful
Me: Defined dredging and told that given the rivers carry a lot of sediments, it might not be
much use.
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P3: Have you heard about GST?
Me: Yes, told them the full form
P3: What products are kept out of its ambit?
Me: I couldn't recall, took some time to think and still couldn't recall, so said sorry
P3: Okay, alcohol is kept out of GST. So how do you think it's justified and what would
happen if it's kept under GST?
Me: States need some share of revenue, so they impose their tax as per their requirement
P3: Why have a separate tax structure state by state, why not unify it
Me: Took a few seconds and said that maybe because they want to earn revenue but also
disincentivize consumption of liquor. So based on the amount of consumption they vary in
taxes
P3: Arre if taxes are changed then the consumer behavior will change, but consumption will
still be there na! Aaj Alia scotch piti hai, kal daam badhega to Tharra piyegi
Me: I stood on my point that it was to control consumption patterns and there are diverse
segments in society and some people will turn down on alcohol if prices are increased.
P3: Tum daaru pite ho?
Me: Ma'am no
P3: Phir nhi samjhoge.
P2: any questions for us
Me: Asked that I'm shifting from Marine to MBA what should I learn before joining college?
P2: Kuch nhi, 9 mahine chill kiye the, thoda aur karo, jo sikhna hota hai ham college mein
sikhate hain

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IIM-K
GEM, Mechanical
(7 months work experience, after that UPSC prep)
OA: 99.89

2M
1: Tell me about yourself
Me: ended with leaving the job
(didn't let me complete further)
1: So, you've been sitting quietly for 3 years?
Me: explained that I was preparing for UPSC cleared prelims all three times but couldn't get
through mains
1: Why do you want to pursue a career in Finance if you have an interest in UPSC?
Me: explained that my only interest was in IFS
1: So you came here because you couldn't get IFS? (more detailed grilling)
1: How would you explain to campus recruiters about this shift?
Me: explained the common thought process behind choosing why Finance and IFS and the
way of approach I like rather than the fields by themselves
(looked satisfied now, earlier kept mocking that you are just here because you couldn't get
your choice in UPSC)
1: Did you do something to demonstrate your interest in Finance?
Me: explained NISM-Research Analyst and preparing for CFA L1 in May
1: Who is our current VP?
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Me: Answered
1: What was he doing before?
Me: Answered
1: Who is our President
Me: Answered
1: What was she doing before?
Me: answered but was a little bit unsure
1: Prof 2, you can take over

2: I want to question, no, comment on your profile if I may: You are more inclined toward
Public service but because you are trying to move into private service have you reached out
to related profiles such as Public policy etc
Me: Explained that because of my interest in Finance and Economics, I applied for RBI too
because I wanted to contribute more in regulation.
2: OK, because you said you are prepared or you are preparing for finance, are you taking
any courses?
Me: yes, Prof Aswath Damodaran's course on Valuation
2: Explain one complicated topic from what Prof was teaching and show it in the real world
Me: Explained how we should capitalize R&D rather than by default assume it as Op Ex.
Linked the same in my company when our department was not given sufficient funds because
R&D was treated as Op Ex which would reduce profitability, but if treated as Cap Ex would
count as reinvestment
2: Explain why it was treated as Op Ex in the first place. What about employee salaries in the
R&D department? Should we always Capitalise on these?
Me: Explained
2: You have learned some Math? Draw a figure of log x
(clarified whether base 10 or e - said 10)
Me: Drew
2: What are the areas where slopes are positive, negative and zero
Me: Told
2: Is this convex or concave?
Me: told
2: What is the derivative of log x
Me: Told, (1/x)(1/ln 10)
(asked why 1/ln 10, told we can write log x as ln x/ln 10)

1: So, log x is only for positive values?

Me: Told
2: How is an MLC elected?
Me: fumbled a little
2: Are all MLCs elected?
Me: Told some are nominated
2: Ok, that's it from my side
1: What other calls do you have?
Me: Lucknow is over, Kozhikode today, and Bangalore and Calcutta remaining
1: How was your L interview?
Me: Told, it went well
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1: You were able to answer all questions.
Me: Told, yes mostly all except one
1: How do you think you did here?
Me: Told could have communicated better about my choice of career
(nodded yes)
1: OK, you can leave
2: I wish you all the very best in your future career

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XLRI BM PI
Profile: 10/9/9 GEM ECE
3 Panellists, M1 (50+), M2 (40+), M3(40+)

Time: 29 minutes

M1:
1. Please introduce yourself.
2. You are in your final year; have you been placed?
3. Why don't you want to join AmEx then?
4. You are from Kurukshetra, is Mahabharata still relevant today?
5. Business is all about profits, so why we should ignore results (asked because I answered
focus on fruits verse in my last question)?
6. Why do you want to join TAS?
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 7. Why only apply to BM?

M2:
1. First you did B.Tech, then you got placement from AmEx, and now you want to do an
MBA. Is there any connection between these?
2. Practical or theoretical knowledge? (First said my answer is diplomatic, and then I
explained with examples)
3. How MBA will give me practical aspects? (spoke about football in ans, and it started
revolving around that)
4. If a person is an amateur in football, will he know the direction to hit left or right
(reason)?
5. Will you join any conglomerate that will value such morals?
6. Are humans rational?

M3:
1. Explain Game Theory when a striker is standing in front of the goalkeeper (long
discussion on it).
2. Will the probability change if he kicks straight?
3. Will you do an unethical thing that is very small in intent, but will benefit the company?

Exchanged wishes

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XLRI HRM
9/8/8 GEM CSE
22 months workex IT

M1 :
1) Is XLRI your dream college? If yes then why and how?
2) State any 3 values of XLRI
3) Example of ethics followed from your experiences (vision in the previous question had
mention of ethics )
4) What different should ABC organization have done to stop you from resigning?
5) Why ABC organization does what it does? ( in response to the issue I mentioned in the
previous question )

M2 :
6) Conflict question explanation and some cross questions on that
7) State another intra-personal conflict. (Refinement on my answer via discussion)
8) ABC organization revenue? (gave a close figure, not exact)
9) ABC organization total headcount? (did not know )
10) When was it started?

M3 :

11) Have you ever read the Quarterly report that these institutions generate? Answered NO
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12) Who are the stakeholders in a listed company?
13) CSR wing of the big companies. What's the name of that wing in your company and how
is funding done?
14) Why is CSR necessary as it earns goodwill but not any value for investors as such?

No TMAY. No Why HRM or the BM over HRM thing. Completely went organization-
oriented oriented so kind of got stumped!

Overall a good discussion though. Got into a tangle as I said "one of the reasons" for Q5. and
then they asked what are the other reasons since you said "one of the" and I couldn't come up
with a satisfactory answer here. So, choose the filler words wisely!

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IIM Visakhapatnam
Fresher
Mechanical engineer

2 panellist 1 male 1 female

Female panellist
1 How are you
2 Do u read newspapers
3 What is happening in Taiwan and China and how will it impact us
4 Sea near Taiwan
5 What is liquor scam happening in the news
6 What is a dispute between the central government and Delhi government
7 You have no work ex will you be able to cope up
8 Where are you joining from
9 How many interviews till now

Male panellist
1 Where in Visakhapatnam
2 What state is Visakhapatnam in
3 What is the capital of Andhra Pradesh
4 If u travel from your home to Visakhapatnam how many states will you visit
5 Why MBA with no work ex
6 Difference between the petrol and diesel engine
7 What are your preferred IIM’s
8 What is a baby IIM
9 Define management
10 Why didn't u sit for placements
11 What were the tips you get from your brother(he is also an MBA graduate from IIM)
where is he working? Was he an engineer too
12 COVID cases are rising tell me the name of the health minister

Was able to answer most of the questions from my education background but not from GK
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IIM V interview experience

GEF, chemical engineering, 2 years of work experience in the manufacturing sector
2 panelists, 1M and 1F

Panellist 1 (M):
1) TMAY
2) Elaborate on work experience
3) If you are working in the core, why do you want to pursue MBA
4) How does your plant shutdown affect final product delivery
5) Since you are a chemical engineer you must be knowing about material science. Explain
what is malleability and ductility

Panellist 2 (F):
She was a little stress-inducing. More of a rapid-fire format
1) What are the three steps to negotiation (I had mentioned negotiations as part of my job
role)
2) difference between manager and leader (here she kept countering and interjecting to create
confusion)
3) how many states would you have to cross to reach Vizag from Gujarat
4) capital of AP
5) what other calls do you have
6) how many IIMs are there in India, what difference between old new, and baby (didn’t
know the number )
7) what is green hydrogen
8) What is inflation and deflation, does inflation affect the GDP, what is GDP
9) Recent IMF news (didn’t know)
8) what will you bring to IIMV

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MDI Gurgaon

1-Feb-2023.
Profile – Engineer – Male – 28 Months Experience

2 Panellists – P1(F) , P2(M)

P1 –
1. From where have you joined?
2. Tell me about yourself.
3. How will a CS background help you in your career after an MBA
4. what is chatGPT?
5. Do you think it will replace researchers
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6. Who is Elon Musk
7. His two good and bad qualities
8. Which specialization you are looking for

P2 –
1. What was your graduation specialization
2. Describe your work role
3. What is Microsoft Azure
4. What are the services it provides
5. Do you think the cloud reduces cost in the long run?
6. One threat in the cloud
7. Examples of clouds we use daily
8. Your CAT percentile
9. What are your 3 expectations from today’s budget?

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SCMHRD Experience
Fresher (started working in Jan)/ B.Tech- Mechanical
GE : A picture of water pollution with 4 tools to solve it. Had to select 2 and arrive at a
common conclusion.

Interview.
2 panellists 1M 1F
Tell me about yourself and how was your engineering time?
Favourite subject?
Is it related to job? If yes how?
Situations where you over analysed yourself and outcome?
Challenges that you took up and outcome?
Tell us what NCC has taught you?
Examples of those qualities?
Leadership skills you displayed? Challenges? How did you overcome?
What will you change in NCC if given a chance?
What do you know about Symbiosis?
How many cities did you live in?
How comfortable are you with people of other states?

Asked everything based on info filled in form i.e SOP

Extempore: I'll give you 2 words think for 30 sec and speak for 1 min,
Education and Business
Interrupted me and said " I'll replace Education with Value, you must continue from the same
line
Thank You

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NMIMS experience
Mechanical Engineer

Argument to be critically analysed and response to given in 200-300 words.

Topic: situational paragraph on a company trying to improve their marketing strategy by

collaborating with other corporations and using new data-driven technologies like AI-ML

WATSON GLASER TEST

Time: 30 Minutes
Number of Questions: 40 (Divided in 5 sections)

Interview Exp:
Panel: M1 (30) M2 (50)
M1: What is the meaning of your name?
Answered
M1: Introduce yourself
Answered
M2: what is entropy? Explain with Example
Answered
M2: Difference between centripetal and centrifugal force explain with an example
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Answered but unsure
M2: what do you do in your free time? Who won the last F1 grand prix
Answered
M1: What is the reason for doing an MBA? Is it the only option you have?
(This could be a Trap question)
Managed to Answer
All the best. You can sign off.

Overall Nice experience

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SCMHRD
BTECH- ECE.

P1:
1. Tell me something that is not mentioned in your snap form.
A. Talked about the SPIRITUAL JOURNEY OF MINE.
2. Why not go for a job as you are a fresher?
A. Told
3. How would an MBA help you?
A. Told (infused marketing in my answer)
4. Have you read any book on marketing?
A. Philip Kotler
5. Are sales and marketing the same?
A. Told

P2.
1. Dev tell us how spirituality has changed you.
A told (decision also as one of the points)
2. Tell me an instance where your decision was backed by ethics of spirituality.
A. Told (also mentioned an instance from Bhagwat Geeta)
3. From where did you develop an interest in marketing.
A. Told about my fitness venture.
4. Why didn't you switch directly to an MBA and waste 4 years in B.Tech.
A. Told my learnings from B.Tech, my final year project, and how I utilized this time to
prospect whether is marketing the right choice or not.

EXTEMPORE:
SPACE AND IMAGINATION
CHANGED TO SPACE AND ARCHITECTURE.

Chill and a relaxing interview. No grilling. It was more like a conversation and not an
interview

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IMT interview experience
B. Tech CSE fresher
CAT- 98.75
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P1- 40s (male) P2- 40s (female)
Both were smiling and looked friendly
P1:
What's your branch
Who's the father of modern computer
What languages you learnt
Difference between C/C++
Any 5 software companies of India (grilled a bit here) / P2 interfered with a question
how many cities of Rajasthan share a border with pak?
How many districts does Thar desert cover?

P2:
Why MBA after B.Tech
What specialization will you choose and why
Do you know about current business news (discussion on Adani and Pak economy)
What is ADB, and where is the headquarters
What are your hobbies?
What recent book
Asked about a character in the book
Remarks: you've got a great graduation score. It was very nice talking to you but just some
advice whatever you study try to study that in detail
Overall went from average to good.

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IIM Shillong

Profile - Mechanical Engineer; 4 years work experience in IT

GD Topic - Case study related to the pricing strategy of a new brand
2 panelists, Male 30-40 years

Interview:
M1-
What is your role at the job?
What work do you actually do technically
Who are your clients
How is mechanical engineering related to your work?
Which graduation subject should I ask questions on
Explain 1 thermodynamic law and its applications
How can we harness the energy of a nuclear Blast?
How is commercial AC different from Individual AC
How can a commercial Unit be made more efficient?
M2-
How is the hierarchy in your team
How do you handle conflicts in your team?
What is Silk Road
What is BRI
What is India doing to counter BRI?
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You play football why you don't have the certificate
Why is Adani Enterprises in news
How can a common man verify that the Hindenburg report is true or not

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Interview Transcript-
MDI-Gurgaon
B.Tech CSE Fresher-
2 professors 1F, 1M

Professor F (very sweet and made the environment comfortable)

Q1) Please introduce yourself.
Ans- Told
Q2) Why didn’t you sit for placements and come for an MBA?
Ans- Told how I was clear with my vision of doing an MBA and how I didn’t want to have
any break to
Stop my studies. Emphasized on the consistency of studying without breaking the flow.
(She seemed neutral about it)
Q3) Tell me what is the ranking of your university.
Ans- Didn’t know.
Q4) Who ranks universities?
Ans- I said NIRF
Q5) So do you think Metaverse is hype?
Ans- Told how It isn’t hype but a trend and explained it’s working, talked about its evolution.
(Ma’am seemed convinced)
Q6) What are its applications in the education sector?
Ans- Gave example of “Second Life” and how involves educational teaching in the meta
world.
(She was happy with my answer)
Q7) Applications in the retail market? Also, explain difference between AR and VR
Ans- Explained how vendors can meet as avatars in the metaverse. Explained it's working.
Gave examples of AR and VR and how they are different.
Q8) Something relating to cyber (can’t recall) and I couldn’t answer.
She said done from my side, moved to P2 (M)
P2 was a bit strict and tried to grill.
Q9) So you are from Delhi, tell me if it is a state or a UT
Ans- Told it is a UT
Q10) Tell me its full name-
Couldn’t recall NCT.
Q11) What is NCR?
Ans- Told and named cities part of it. Didn’t name all.
Q12) Who is Delhi’s governor?
Ans- Told
Q13) Is he governor or Lt. Governor
Ans- Lt. Governor
Q14) Why is he called Lt. Governor and not a governor?
Ans- Talked about the 69th Constitutional Amendment Act of 1991 and special powers given
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to Delhi. Explained its working and mechanism.
(P2 was convinced)
Q15) Asked is the planning commission exists right now?
Ans- I said no, it is NITI Ayog now.
Q16) Asked me about its chairman and full form
Ans- Could not recall both, I thought he asked the CEO and got confused :(
Q17) Tell me why Pakistan is in the news right now.
Ans- Told about its financial crisis and the military situation created by Tehrike Taliban.
Q18) Are you sure it is financial?
Ans- I said I am pretty much sure sir.
Q19) Is it economic? Financial? Or Debt?
Ans- I said I’m sorry sir I am not completely sure, but I said I think it is financial and is
happening due to multiple reasons.
Q20) What are the reasons?
Ans) Talked about its trade deficit.
*He interrupted *
Q21) India also has a trade deficit why is it not under this crisis then?
Ans- Talked about Pakistani floods which caused losses of $30B also talked about its bad
governance and debt traps.
Explained about its military regime.
Q22) Was the military granted powers in the Pakistani constitution? Or was it something
else?
Ans- Explained how it wasn’t a part of the constitution initially, but a special act came up that
gave special powers to a military general who could even replace the PM of the country
(P2 was convinced)
Q23) Why is your CAT percentile low? Which section did you screw?
Ans- Told how I panicked in VARC
Q24) He said no problem, can I ask you a maths question, are you good or bad at it?
Ans- I said I am good.
He smiled. Said do not give diplomatic answers (all smiling)
I said good then.
I was asked to choose between calculus and probability,
I said calculus. He said let's ask probability (all smiling again)
A very difficult question asked, I don’t recall and I obviously couldn’t answer it. P2 said how
it is similar to a coin toss.
I explained it is very different as in coin toss there is a fixed sample space.

Q25) If I end this call right now? What will you tell your family and friends? How did your
interview go?
Ans- Said it was good, but not very great. I could answer most questions but got stuck with
the maths part.
He said yes, you got stuck with maths
(All smiling)

He asked me to log off.

All in all a fun experience, a lot of grilling. Enjoyed it

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NMIMS interview experience
NMAT- 244(79/86/79)
GEM

Q: Did you participate in the international conference of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

tell me about it(it was written on my sop)
Answered
Q: What is your take on solar and green energy is the government of India doing anything
regarding it?
Answered well
Q: What are your learnings from the internship?
answered
Q: You have done research in your project so don't you want to pursue PhD?
Answered
Q: What are green bonds?
Answered
Q: What is the current FD interest rate?
Couldn't answer
Q: In your internship, you explained ROI to customers so don't you want to pursue an MBA
in finance?
Answered
Q: Current inflation rate
Q: Explain what you did after 2021 (I graduated in 2021)
Answered
You may leave now

Verdict: The interview panel was very friendly and was constantly smiling

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IIM B interview
Mech engineer, 3 + work ex in consult
3 Male panellists. One 50+(P1) other 2 30+(P2, P3)

P1: Are you from Kerala? I am from Kerala too. Tell some taglines associated with the state
Me: Told about God's own country, the tourism industry.
P1: Which state do you prefer TN or Kerala (I have lived in both places)
P1: Explain your work ex. Some detailed questioning based on scenarios
P1: Can't I replace you with an Excel sheet or an AI robot? Why should I hire you for the
work you do
P2: Oh are you a mechanical engineer?
Me: Currently a consultant

P1 P2 P3 joke about my disinterest in undergrad. They serve tea and biscuits.

P2: have you heard of the auto scrap policy? Who does it impact and how
P1: guesstimates on car sales, yearly scraps, impacted industries
P1: ignore everything give me a simple algorithm to calculate auto scrap impact, don't need
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P2: how many spark plugs in a diesel engine
P1: what books do you read? Quizzes on some make jokes about how everyone just reads the
intro and claims to act as if they read them.
P3: Budget guestimates and asks my opinion on different sectors.
Plenty of very Casual questions in between to judge if you have written the truth in the sop
but nothing major
P3: Why an MBA? Why can't you continue your job? Academically rigorous, will you be
able to handle it

Overall a chill interview but subject to constant sarcasm from P1 which I did enjoy though

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SIBM-P (7th Feb, 2023)
GEM FRESHER

WAT- Describe a Monday Morning when you received a job letter. Do not use the word
'excitement'.
GE - Promoting make in India.
Hats given: Political, Eco, Technology
(The group was good, we discussed one by one. Minor quarrels. Concluded with 45-
50seconds in hand)
PI - 2 M Panellists (40+ each) one was very chill and interactive other was chill and not so
interested from the start.

P1
1. TMAY (Impressed straight away)
2. Picked on an award I mentioned. (Healthy discussion)
3. Why Mba +Specialization
4. Cross questions (little fumble but satisfied)

P2-
5. Questions on my TMAY where I mention the different positions of responsibilities I held.
6. Detailed discussion on a particular position. (Good discussion here)
7. Why SIBM-P
8. Cross question. (Smooth just a little fumble in the end. Interchanged the name of the
director and founder of Symbiosis)

P1
9. Guesstimate question- How many ice cream eaters have been there in Dehradun over a
year? (Impressed with the thinking and we laughed at the end with one point)
10. Any questions for us. (I asked one)

Thank you. Best of luck. You may log out.

Overall, 15 minutes of interview. Very calm and composed interview with its fun elements.
No academics (I was happy with this)

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IIM Bangalore - Interview Transcript

B. Tech ECE
17 months of work ex in Software
Panel: 2F 1M
Duration: 25-30 mins

P1:

What does your company do specifically?

What is your role, how does your product contribute to the company?
What does your workday consist of

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Why MBA
What is Agile
Why do you use agile, what's so special about it
How has it helped your team?
specifically,
(Some other questions about work ex)

P2:

Similar to crop burning in Delhi some things are happening in Singapore and Indonesia as
well, can you tell me what it is? (I had mentioned I grew up there)
How will your cross-cultural experience help you specifically?
Do you think these experiences will help you sitting in a business meeting
(more pressing about this)

P3:

What excites you about product management

How do you think you can bridge the gap between what the developer wants and what
leadership wants
How do you think data can help you as a PM?
Do you have to implement everything a customer says
What are some ways to collect data when there are no direct indicators?
Does your company work on any AI products?
What is the future of AI in your opinion and how do you think it can help your company

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IIM Shillong - Interview Transcript
B. Tech Automobile

41 months of work ex in a Fabrication Company

Duration: 15 mins
What is the 1st Angle Projection and 3rd Angle Projection?
What is GATE in workshop practices?
What is CV in Engineering?
Why can't we use water in the Internal Combustion Engine?
If I replace the AC in this room with a refrigerator will this room get cold?
The 2nd law of thermodynamics states that the entropy of a system always increases and
another law states that particle always gives out energy to stay in lower state do these laws
contradict each other?
Define Quality.
What are the 7 types of Quality?
What is the quality of conformance?

Operations:
Which Automobile company did an M&A recently?
What is FADA?
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What was the Farm Bill and give me your opinion on why the farmers why protesting?
Who is the largest semiconductor-producing country?
Which company is in Taiwan?
Which company is setting up a semiconductor plant in India?
Why were US companies not able to sell automobiles at full capacity?
What was the reason for the semiconductor shortage?
Tell me something about the Sri Lankan political crisis.
What were the reasons for the economic crisis?
China left the ports it was operating in Sri Lanka as soon as the political crisis broke out.
Give me your suggestions on how India could help Sri Lanka more?
What do you do in your leisure time?
Which computer game have you played the most?
Show me the certificates for extracurricular activities.

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IIM Bangalore - Interview Transcript (9th Feb 023 afternoon)
B. Tech EEE
28 months of total work ex in Capital Markets and Fintech
Panel:3 M
Duration:40 mins

P1:
How’s the feeling outside? Are the questions leaked?
(told it is a relaxed environment and said there were no definite question patterns)
P1: That’s not good, you have to face the brunt of it, now? (joked about now there will be no
Adani questions)
(smiled a bit harder)
P1: Reason for leaving the previous company(industry was in capital markets)
(gave my reason)
P1: so you are moving away from investment markets
(clarified why that particular role in investment markets is not for me)
Further cross questions on my first company work and how I linked it with my career goal
which went about 15 mins
P2: So why did you join the first company then?
(explained my college interests and how I decided there to see if I am a fit)
P2:leading indicator
(told)
P2: Limitations of it
(told)
Some more questions on Nifty what are my suggestions on where to invest and what was the
biggest profit I made personally
I replied option trading
P1: Satta yaani aur kharab hn yeh toh
(explained that organised traders and how I track what metrics I look)
P2: So what’s the entire basket of the budget
(I could not recall at that instant and said I am unable to recall it)
P2: Try karo estimate
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P2: yeh toh 2 saal pehley tha.
(Smiled)
P3: hobbies and what you do
(told my volunteering and we discussed a bit on that)

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NMIMS
B.Tech chemical engineer

P1/P2
Why you took a break
Answered
Why MBA after chem engineering
From where you prepared
Do you know data mining?
Have you read about the budget?
4 key highlights about the budget
Then I mentioned a point of nursing college as it wasn't much available before covid and we
realized it is important
What 2 steps you would have taken to reduce that impact?
If we implement a policy like China then what would have been the situation here?
The most difficult task you have done on your job?
Which dream company?
Told them, McKinsey,
Why McKinsey?
Thank You

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IIMCAP
B.E. CSE (2022 passout)

Panellists will be P1 & P2 (both male in their 50s), and I’m A.

<Greetings exchanged>
P1: Please show your ID proof.
A: Showed my Aadhar Card.
(I had blurred my background, so this was also blurred. Quickly turned it off.)

P1: Okay. You may blur your background, although it’s a nice wallpaper.
A: I’ll leave it unblurred, sir. There isn’t a lot of difference either way. (both smiled)
P1: Okay A, tell us about yourself.
A: Told. I ended it with “By the time I retire, I want people to be inspired by me. That’s the
ultimate goal.” (both smiled)
P1: You graduated in 2022. What have you been doing since then?
A: Told I was freelancing and involved in volunteer activities.
P1: Why didn’t you choose employment?
A: Told
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P1: Why CSE to Content Writing?
A: Told
P1: You’re not interested in CSE?
A: Said I find it fascinating, just not very into core concepts.
P1: What is blockchain?
A: Said it was related to cybersecurity, but couldn’t provide a structured answer.
P1: What is crypto?
A: Cryptography or cryptocurrency, sir?
P1: Cryptocurrency.
A: Said it was a digital medium of transaction, confessed I wasn’t very academically
proficient and hence couldn’t give more elaborate answers.
P1: That’s fine. (hands over to P2)
P2: So A, you said you weren’t academically proficient but you managed to get a decent
score. How?
A: Said that I wanted to get a first class with a distinction and hence studied well before
exams. (both laughed)
P2: So it wasn’t out of love for the curriculum?
A: Said it was fairly fascinating, especially in the last few semesters… (P1 interjects)
P1: What subjects would they be?
A: Said Data Analytics and Business Intelligence Applications.
P1: What's different between them?
A: Told.
P1: So there’s not a lot of difference?
A: There are some subtle differences, sir.
P2: What do you enjoy doing?
A: Said creative writing and watching movies/series/anime.
P2: What is your style of writing?
A: Told.
P2: You write in English?
A: Yes, only English sir.
P2: How does your work help with creative writing?
A: Told.
P2: Since you write, do you also read?
A: Said I used to be an avid reader but lost touch and read only 1 book recently.
P2: And what book was it?
A: It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover.
P2: Name an Indian author whose work you found simple to read.
A: Said Chetan Bhagat.
P2: Name a few more Indian authors who write in English.
A: Said, Arundhati Roy, and Ruskin Bond.
P2: Arundhati Roy’s most famous work?
A: Said she won the Booker Prize for The God of Small Things.
P1: What is the connection between CSE, Content Writing, and MBA?
A: Told.
P2: Do you want people to be inspired by your writing?
A: Told
P1: Who are you inspired by?
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P1: Have you read the newspaper today?
A: Said I read news online.
P1: Do you follow business news?
A: Now and then, sir.
P1: Tell us something you've read.
A: Talked about the Adani-Hindenburg case.
P1: Have you read the report?
A: It was extremely long, so I’m taking my sweet time, sir. (both smiled)
P2: What other areas have you excelled in except Sudoku?
A: Told about my history in UCMAS.
P1 & P2: Okay A, that’s it from our end.
A: Apologized for not giving more structured answers (probably shouldn’t have, but I felt
guilty lol).
P1: Not a problem at all.
A: Requested their names.
P1: Said they're not allowed to disclose that.
A: Said okay and asked if I could log off.
They said yes, and I thanked them for their time and left.

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SIBM Bangalore
14th Feb slot: 1:25 P.M
IT B. Tech, Fresher
WAT: How is peer pressure affecting you? Does it make you depressed or influence in a
positive way

GE: They showed a Hollywood movie clip that had a reference that in quiz shows, organizers
give away answers to contestants and let them win.
Then we were asked questions about how we can stop cheating in college or classrooms
during exams
PI- 1M,1F
M:
1)tell me about yourself
2)your graduation in?
3)Why leave IT as it is a lucrative field and enter into an MBA?
(I mentioned why the MBA and said that the MBA is also lucrative)
They smiled over this
4)Which projects were you involved in?
5)you said a management internship. What was that?
6)How does Google search work?
7)How can I make the web page more visible?
8)What is proxy?
9)What is https?
10)know anything about cyber security?
(I said I have a better understanding of cloud computing)
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11)What is phishing?
12)What are the techniques of cyber security?
F takes over:
1)What are FAANG companies?
2)You sure?
3)What is fiscal deficit?
4)What is monetary policy?
5)Which US company helped Ukraine troops in the ongoing war but the US administration
themselves couldn't?
6)President of Ukraine?
7) Can you spell it?
and smiles
8)What is your take on cities getting new names? How much is it good or important?
9)What is Operation Dost?

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MDI Interview
08/02/23
Panellist- 1M/1F
BBA(Finance)

F: What is your graduation stream?

Me: BBA with a specialization in Finance
F: What is breakeven output?
What is ROE, ROA?
Are both related to each other?
Is lower breakeven output better or higher? Why?
Governor of Odisha? Finance Minister of Odisha?
Where is your college located?
What are your extracurricular activities?
M: What is the going concern concept?
What is IRR?
What is the issue of Adani right now?
What ratio is alarming in its case? (Answered Current Ratio)
Why?
What is NFT?
Data is the new oil. Explain.
Why oil why not milk?

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NMIMS interview experience
Non-Eng male
Fresher

Greetings exchanged
2 panellist male (P1 - around 40, P2 - around 35)
They appreciated my WAT
P1. So, tell me more about yourself
P1. Asked me why you assisted your father in his business
P1. How many employees are in his business
P2. Explain your father’s business
P1. What would you suggest to your father in his business
P2. Why you left cricket (I used to play cricket till 2016)
P2. Your Academic score was not very up to the mark. Why?
P2. Then, why you did do economics after the science stream, and didn’t go for any course
related to the science stream
P2. I think you are wasting your time again by doing an MBA because you are not sure what
you want to do in life (I was stunned because he asked this so arrogantly)
P1. Key highlights of the budget
P2. Functions of RBI
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P1. Governor of RBI
P2. Vice president of US
P1. President of US
P2. President of UK

They were questioning my every answer

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MDI Gurgaon
Profile- Non-Engineer (BBA), Male, Fresher

2 Panellists- 1 Male and 1 Female

Initial Greetings
P1- Where are you logging in from?
P1- What is happening in New Delhi right now? (Union Budget)
P1- Tell us about yourself then we will come to the budget part
P1- So, right now you're in BBA Final Year and what's your CAT percentile?
P1- And What other calls do you have?
P1- What is your disability and other questions regarding it
P1- What subjects have you studied in BBA? (Told, and also mentioned Financial Accounting
as Favourite)

P2-Name some of the financial ratios and tell us how they help in increasing the
organizational profitability.
P2- If a company takes a loan, where should it come under the balance sheet?
P2- What about in the case of a Bank?
P2- Current CRR
P2- What is the Repo Rate?
P2- Difference between Bank rate and Repo Rate.
P2- What is it that you learned in your internship?

P1- If I have to review the company's overall health, which statement should I look into and
why?
P1-If I believe that cash is king, So by looking at the cash flow statement, will it not tell me
the company's overall health?
P1- Assets are those entities that perform, so what are these Non-performing assets?
Why is it called an asset if it is non-performing and not be termed as a liability?
P1- How many Presidents of India have been in office so far? Name a few.
P1- First Finance Minister of India
P1- First Home Minister of India
P1- Current Finance Minister
P1- Before becoming a politician what was she?
P1- Vice President of India
P1- President of India
P1- Defence Minister of India
P1- Railway Minister of India
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IMT interview experience
BCom. Fresher

Started with a briefing about the college and stuff.

Then Critical thinking test (essay writing). Topic: something related to funding problems with
startups. (ChatGPT Zindabad)
Interview: 2 Panellists, both male.

P1
What is the meaning of your name?
- answered (with explanation)
Tell me any topic from your graduation.
- answered (with example)
Did you complete your graduation in 2022? What did you do in your drop year?
-answered (not a very good answer though)
So you're from Patna? Tell me about some famous places in Patna.
-answered
Tell me something about the budget, apart from tax schemes for individuals.
- Stated schemes and figures, killed this answer (killed in a good way)
Are you looking at your screen and answering? (Cause started too many facts)

Passed to P2
Your subjects in graduation?
-answered
Some questions related to credit financing; I don't remember properly.
(I didn't know the answer)
Tell me about the politics of your state
-Idk much about politics, but did really well I guess
Why should we admit you?
-Stated co-curricular, extracurricular, and academic achievements. Saying I'd be taking part in
all events and stuff apart from academics.

No grilling, the panel was very chill.

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IIM Shillong
Economics
PI : Why MBA after economics
Why do you like micro, not macro?
Questions on undergraduate subjects - particularly from the first semester
Name three economists who have won Nobel prize
For what have they won?
Explain their theory and conclusion.
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What changes will you bring to a company if you are the CEO?
Hobby-related questions - World champion, why these hobbies, playing styles, etc.
Where do you see yourself in the next 10 years (not MBA specific only)

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IIM Rohtak
BBA GRADUATE 2022 Fresher
2 panellists (BOTH MALE)
Document verification
Asked about extracurricular activities which I did
P1. Introduce yourself in 30 sec.
P1: Then with the extempore of banking frauds in India.
Me: Thought for a minute and talked for about 2 min.
P2: your subjects in Graduation
Me: told
P2: which is your favourite one?
Me: Told Marketing Management.
P1: Is Surrogate Marketing ethical or unethical?
Me: explained well.
P1: 7P of Marketing
Me: answered
P1: Are u comfortable with maths
Me: I just murmured yes
P1: What's the null hypothesis
Me: not able to recall
P1: why co-relation lies between -1 to 1
Me: answered partially
P1: Difference between GDP vs GNP
Me: talked about GDP but fumbled while explaining GNP
P1: what is the indifference Curve?
P1: Name 5 FMCG brands of Indian Origin
Me: answered 3, (was nervous as it was going that well )

Now GK
Name the Economic advisor of India
Name the 2nd president of India.
Thank you, you can log off
The panellists were very friendly

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IIM ROHTAK INTERVIEW EXPERIENCE
Profile: BBA
2 years of work experience in an IT firm

Panel - M, F (both late 40s)

Document verification
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Asked about extracurricular activities.
Intro yourself in your 30-second
Give a short introduction in Manipuri Language (since I mentioned that I know 5 languages
in my intro)

EXTEMPORE - Ramakrishna Paramhansa ( as my college name is Ramakrishna College)

Started with the academic questions.
What is the Law of Diminishing marginal utility? Give 2 product examples where it is not
valid.
Difference between public & private Ltd company.
What is an IPO?
Ask asked more 1-2 related to the graph which I don't remember.
Tell me 3 Indian companies and their CEO.

GK
Who is the economic advisor?
Who is the CEO of NITI Ayog?
Who was the wife of Laxman in Ramayan?
The interview lasted around 12-15 minutes. No Grilling

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BITSOM Interview,
Eco Grad
2 years of Consulting Work experience
Describe what your day at work is like.
What made you choose Economics after PCM in 12th?
Why MBA now?
Major challenges faced in the workplace?
Is saying No good or bad?
What does travel mean to you? (mentioned hobby as traveling)
Tell your top 2 visits to date and why.
How can you add value to BITSOM Cohort?
How can BITSOM help you?
Why BITSOM, considering it as a relatively new B-School?
A lot of questions about work ex, typically trying to understand moral and ethical POV in
many cases.
Zero academics and pretty few current affairs.
Lastly, what other calls do you have?

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IIM ROHTAK
BBA FRESHER
Panel 1M, 1F
Doc Verification (Aadhar, caste, extracurricular, scorecard)

Female
1. Extempore - Impact of immigration on the country
2. What is culture?
3. What is organizational culture?
4. Functions of business
5. Motive of business (I said survival and profit)
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6. What is CSR?
Follow up: So CSR is an oxymoron to the motive of business
7. Input in business?
8. Output in business?
9. Most important input according to you? Why?

Male:
10. How many districts in Bihar?
11. Sorrow of Bihar and why?
12 Sectors in business (primary secondary tertiary)
13. Their contribution to GDP and percentage population involved?
14. What is Vande Bharat? (train)
15. What is its speed?

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IIM Rohtak INTERVIEW
B COM
2 PANELISTS 1M 1F

Document verification
EXTEMPORE -Life without internet
Then started questioning undergraduate subject
M1- what are the accounting ratio
Tell the formulas
Then F1 started
She started shooting questions from economics
GDP
GNP
Inflation
Depression
Demand
Supply
2-3 more not able to recall
She then asked about the new education policy.

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MDI GURGAON INTERVIEW TRANSCRIPT

Female Non-Engineer

P1: Where are you logging in from?

I said Delhi
P1: So how is Delhi today?
Told that the weather has started to warm up here and is a lot more bearable than last month.
P1: So what is happening in Delhi today?
Was clueless. Said I can't recall anything specific to today.
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P1: Okay. So, what is management?
Told that Management is the act of controlling and coordinating different resources to achieve
a pre-defined goal or objective.
P1: Alright. Have you heard about administration?
Told that administration refers to overseeing the day-to-day activities of a business
P1: What comes to your mind when I say the word Women Empowerment?
Said Women Empowerment is about giving women equal rights as men.
P1: (interrupted) You said equal rights. Do you know about the constitution of India?
Said yes sir, I have a fair idea.
P1: Do you know about Fundamental Rights?
I said yes sir
P1: Is there a right dealing with equality?
I said yes Sir.
P1: Then why are you saying that Women's Empowerment is about giving equal rights and
equality?
Said it is about giving equal rights and opportunities
P1: (Interrupted again) So you're changing the narrative now. First, you mentioned it was
about rights now it is also about opportunities.
Answered that it is about both. When it comes to rights, many women are not able to exercise
the rights that are given to them by the Constitution. Moreover, Women Empowerment is not
a term restricted to India and it is a term used globally. There are many countries in the world
currently that do not give women equal rights as men such as the right to vote or to
participate politically etc.
P1: Alright. What do you mean by Sustainability?
This means achieving economic prosperity without compromising the needs of future
generations and protecting the environment.
P1: So, what does a sustainable business mean?
Answered that it is a business that conducts its operations and earns profits but also does not
cause any detrimental effect on the environment.
P1: There is another term called ESG recently in the news. What is it?
I have heard about the term but I'm not very sure what it means.
P1: No issues. I appreciate it. We don't expect you to know everything. We're just here to
have a conversation.

P2: Are you working somewhere currently?

Yes ma'am (told the name of the company)
P2: What does your company do?
Told
P2: What are your job responsibilities?
Told.
P2: How big is your office?
Told.
P2: Have you ever heard about Michael Porter?
Yes Ma'am. He devised Porter's Five Forces model.
P2: What is that?

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Said I'm not able to recall the details but it is used to study the industry environment to help
us understand how to frame a strategy for an organisation. We understand the buying power
of consumers, what competitors are doing etc
P2: Okay. So, you might have heard that in this year's budget, cigarettes are being taxed at
16%.
Yes Ma'am
P2: Then why is ITC's stock price doing well?
Answered that there are 2 reasons for the same. First, ITC is not just restricted to the tobacco
and cigarette segment, it has a diversified business in various segments such as FMCG.
Secondly, tobacco and cigarettes are addictive products and are habitual for the people
consuming them. The people who are already hooked onto them will not give it up, even
when the prices are raised.
P2: Alright, what is your CAT Percentile? what other calls do you have?
Told.
P2: Thank you, you may log off.

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IIM CAP
BA(H) Economics, DU
2 years work ex
2 Male Panellists
Please introduce yourself.
1. What is money multiplier?
Fumbled a bit. Couldn't recollect properly.
2. Okay, what is the price elasticity of demand? Can it be positive? When?
3. How is the supply curve sloped? Can it be negative? When?
4. So you are from Delhi. Tell me, who is the LG of Delhi?
5. Never mind, how many states and UTs?
6. How is the president elected?
7. Did you study maths and statistics?
8. If you throw a pair of dice, what is the probability of getting an odd sum?
9. Name 5 medieval monuments in Delhi.
10. Who was the first president of India?
11. How does the state government pass a law?
12. What are 7 sisters?
13. Any state-level extracurriculars?
All the best!
Overall, fun experience. Academically oriented. But they moved on when I felt stuck

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CAP
B.Com
Panel - 1 male 1 female
(but only the male asked questions)
Greetings exchanged.
How are you?
(said I am good, and asked him the same question, he smiled and said he is also good)
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Favourite subject in graduation?
(told economics)
Difference between monopoly and monopolistic competition?
Is India in trade deficit or surplus?
How can a country reduce trade deficit?
Asked about reason for my back in grad.
Next, they came to hobbies. Told a few, out of which they picked up cake baking.
Difference between cake icing and cake fondant.
What is fondant made up of?
Percentage of cocoa in dark compound?
Again came to my KT in grad.
So you told me XYZ reason for back.
(but actually, I had given some another reason)
Me: no sir, I told ABC reason
Him: oh sorry, I forgot
(maybe he thought I am giving a false reason, so asked me same question again after some
time)
Last question: do you have any other calls.

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IIM CAP INTERVIEW EXPERIENCE
FEMALE, B.COM
2 Panellists- 1 Male (50s) and another Female (30s)
No Document Verification was done!
M- Where are you giving the interview from? (Answered)
Are you giving it from your home? (Answered)
F- Tell me something about yourself which is not there in the form? (Told)
So, what are Mangas? (Mentioned about it so she asked me, told her about it)
What is Digital Planning? (Mentioned, told, a bit of cross questioning on this one)
Why did your marks decline drastically in 12th and Graduation? (Answered)
M- What was your favourite subject in Graduation? (Answered Business Management)
So, what is Business Management? (Answered)
Have you heard of Fayol? Who is he? (Told, mentioned some of his principles)
What is Espirit De Corps? (Answered)
How do you keep the employees motivated? (Answered)
Extrinsic and Intrinsic Motivation? (Fumbled a bit here but tried my best to explain)
F- Any instances where you have led a team and how did you motivate them? (Told)
Any current news? (Told some)
It's okay, you may log off now.
Apologized for my unstable network connection. They said it's okay

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IIM Indore HR- Transcript
GNEF - BA Eco
P1
1. Tell Me about yourself.
2. Asked about my previous job
Spoke about my articles for Marwari audience-oriented magazine
3. Biggest achievement in my article
Asked about the phrase about Marwaris that, if a snake is coming from one side and
Marwari, run from Marwari, what do you think about this.
4. Things we can learn from Marwari businesses.
5. My current job and any project I want to emphasis.
P2
1. Economics knowledge which applies to my work.
Spoke about DMU, IC curve, Nash equilibrium
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4. Economics in macro implications
Spoke repo rate etc
5. How is inflation managed.
6. 5 women chief ministers of India
Fumbled, but they helped and were nice
7. 5 political women leaders
8. My business role model
9. Why HR since marketing background, go for normal PGP.
He was not convinced I guess, and kept smiling
Overall: Very nice profs, not grilling experience, we all were smiling throughout and they
helped me along

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IIM-CAP
GNEF- BA Economics
1. Tell us something apart from your form
- Mentioned trekking and my work ex
2. What do you do as content writing
- mentioned copies as well as my current role as a lead
3. How economics helped me in current job
- added in some theories
4. What would I bring on the table with my acads and work ex
5. Current elections
6. Major event India is hosting
- G 20 how they couldn't come to consensus today
P2
1. What is consumer behaviour
- since I had mentioned, answered on basis of savings, investment and expenditure
2. Take a case study of your choice and answer their unit economics and strategies they used
to become business leaders.
- Had spoken about sugar cosmetics so added STP angle there and rough product unit
economics

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IIM Sirmaur interview experience: -
B. Com fresher
1M - late 30s
1F - late 20s
M:
Introduce yourself
How u play chess online or offline? (Because I mentioned chess as my hobby)
What is your favourite subject in graduation?
I said Commercial Communication
Then they told me to present yourself for 2 mins to select you.
This went up to 4-5 mins.
I am done, over to next panel
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F:
U mentioned chess as a hobby so tell me a situation you faced in a chess match and how you
overcame it.
What are skills needed to chess?
Why is Gandhinagar is capital of Gujarat, why not Ahmedabad ?
What are the places where freedom events happen in Ahmedabad?
Thank You

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MDI- G transcript
GNEF- BA Eco, 3 years work ex
P 1- Female 40+, Male - 35-40
P1-
1. Where are you joining from?
2. What are you doing there?
3. Explain some strategies you have used for your campaigns.
4. Which subject you graduated in?
5. Noble prize winner in eco from India and what he did. - answered
6. Any more? - didn't know
6. Last year who won and what they did? - answered
7. Last to last year who won? - didn't know
8. What did Savitri Bai Phule do?
9. What is your take on feminism and women empowerment? - cross questioning here.
P2-
1. Which subject are you comfortable in?
2. What is isoquant?
3. How is the graph?
4. What is Cobb Douglas prod function?
5. Apply it in service and manufacturing industry? - I was answering he cut me
6. What is use of stock market in India? - cross questioning
7. India GDP
8. How much is lakh crore- answered incorrectly.
Thank You

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IIFT
Non engineer male
Greetings.
Extempore: Correlation between morality and power.
(spoke for around 2.45 mins and stopped. No cross questioning)
2 Female Panellists, P1 and P2
P1- Please introduce yourself.
Me: Prepared answer
P1- Are you comfortable reading German now?
Me: Yes but the vocabulary is really huge. I'm comfortable with grammar but it's an ongoing
process to learn any language.
P1- Have you joined a professional institute to learn German?
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Me: I wanted to join one during college. But then, it was too expensive and thus settled on
Duolingo (she looked impressed)
P1- Okay, tell me about Hawkins-Simon condition?
Me: No idea.
P1- Okay, Kuhn tuckner conditions?
Me: Again no idea
P1- Input output conditions?
Me:(where are they coming from?!) Sorry ma'am, Not in my syllabus.
P1- (smiling) Why is Linear programming useful?
Me:(finally something to work with) explained well
P1- One more follow up. Told.
P1- How to maximize Profit for any firm? Mathematical way?
Me: After some back and forth, lands on Differentiate the function!! This is what she wanted
to listen.
P1- Why IIFT?
Me: A well prepared answer and she looked impressed because I had read well about the
institute (including the corporate events)
P1- What will you add to IIFT?
Me: Prepared answer.
P1- Alright I'm done. Over to P2.
P2: Everyone has same abilities, skills, motivations and so on, why should we select you?
Me: (Interesting) Just mentioned how my goals are my own and I'm committed to doing well
academically.
P2- That's it?!
Me: Yes ma'am.
P2- Okay! Major trading partners of India?
Me: US, China and UAE in decreasing order.
P2: India has Trade surplus with all?
Me: Nope. Surplus with US and UAE but a large deficit with China. (Looked impressed)
P2- Major imports from China?
Me: Answered
P2: How to reduce this dependency?
Me: Encourage foreign firms to establish industries in India and also encourage MSMEs here.
P2: Any scheme that comes to your mind regarding this?
Me: PLI.
P2: (impressed). Elaborate the scheme.
Me: Done.
P2: Major items exported by India
Me: Told.
P2: Are you aware about Smart Cities concept? And how many cities under it?
Me: Explained the concept but not sure about the cities under it. Mentioned Indore(correct
fortunately) and all big metros but P2 said, not all metros.
P2: Digital literacy means? And what percentage of Indian population is digitally literate?
Me: Explained digital literacy well but not even remotely aware about percentage part.
P2: Okay! Suppose you have to come to your hometown in UP from J&K. States you will
cross?
Me: Starting from J&K, Punjab, Haryana and then UP.
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P2: No Himachal?
Me: Knew this is coming! No ma'am, it's hilly and I would prefer Punjab since it's plain! Lol,
I don’t know if that makes sense.
P2: If you were the Finance Minister, one novel change to Indian financial space?
Me: Hmm, mentioned promoting digital literacy (taking cue from above) but she reminded
something that has not happened yet! Then took a moment and told about striving to work
towards regulation of cryptocurrencies since they already have a huge market and investors'
interest should be looked after.
P2: (looked satisfied). Okay, you can leave the meeting now. All the best.
Me: Thank you ma'am.

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IIM CAP
BA(H) Economics, DU
2 years work ex
2 Male Panellists
Please introduce yourself.
1. What is money multiplier?
Fumbled a bit. Couldn't recollect properly.
2. Okay, what is the price elasticity of demand? Can it be positive? When?
Answered.
3. How is the supply curve sloped? Can it be negative? When?
Answered but couldn't think of the exact instance.
4. So you are from Delhi. Tell me, who is the LG of Delhi?
Ohh, lieutenant governor. Umm...
5. Never mind, how many states and UTs?
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I said 28 states and 7 UTs, but there are 8.
6. How is the president elected?
I answered, but he kept on asking if I was sure.
7. Did you study maths and statistics?
I said yes. One of the panellists asked me basic questions on mutually exclusive events,
P(AUB), P(A interaction B). More questions on what continuity is? What are the conditions
for maxima, minima? How will you calculate them? Give the process.
Answered.
8. If you throw a pair of dice, what is the probability of getting an odd sum?
Answered 1/2. But he kept on asking why and how?
9. Name 5 medieval monuments in Delhi.
I answered 5, but he rejected 1 and said it's cheating. You can't include the rejected one.
10. Who was the first president of India?
Rajendra Prasad. They asked if I was sure. Made me doubt my answer. XD
11. How does the state government pass a law?
I said that I could guess. He said no, either you know or you don't.
12. What are 7 sisters?
Answered.
13. Any state level extracurriculars?
Mentioned.
All the best!

Overall, fun experience. Academically oriented. But they moved on when I felt stuck.

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IIM Ahmedabad
GNEF
BA & MA English

AWT- A passage with the idea that Gen Z is more confident about relationships and dating
and that they give importance to being themselves in such cases. The questions were - what
were the author's assumptions? What will you say to support the claim? What will you say to
oppose it?

M1 M2
Started with a little bit of chitchat, did you have lunch, when did you reach Ahmedabad,
where are you staying etc?

*Workex questions*
Tell us more about the company.
What is your role in the company?
What is the process you follow while preparing visuals?
What is a recent social media campaign you ran?
Where do you find new clients?

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How do you prepare a shortlist of them? Is there a criterion?

*Acads*
You did your MA in Literature at NIT Trichy. What is such a degree/department doing in an
engineering institute?
How were you enriched by/did you enrich the diverse student group on campus?
Did you do any co-projects with the other departments?
You had a course called Research Methodology, what did you study there?
What kind of methodologies have you studied?
Asking out of curiosity, what kind of methodologies are used in a subject like Literature?
What have you used for your research paper?
Questions followed on performance studies, which is what my paper is based on.
You talked about different perspectives. What if there's a problem that needs a proper,
objective solution?
What if biases come into play here in the name of subjectivity?
Because you mentioned postmodernism for subjectivity and objectivity, do you know about
ontology and epistemology?
(knew about ontology well)
How does ontology come into play in an objective world view? Elaborate with an example.
I'll say a sentence, please write it down. (this was to check the knowledge in English. The
sentence was 'I thank my parents, the Pope, and Vivekananda'. The objective was to check if
I'd add the Oxford comma, the one before 'and'. Without that the meaning of the sentence will
change. It seemed like a question they asked others as well cause M1 mentioned everyone got
this wrong)
*Basic math questions were asked, related to
time-speed-distance, geometry.
I got there on a flight so they asked the height at which the aircraft flew and how much that is
in km*

What excites you?

(Since I answered music), Name a few people you follow. Name 2 of their creations each.
A musician passed away recently, who was it?
Don't you listen to new English bands? (Since I mentioned The Beatles)
What is another thing that excites you?
Answered creative writing
Since you write poetry, who is your favourite poet?
You've lived a good part of your life in Kerala. Name a few Malayalam poets and their works.
Where is Ireland? To which side does it lie with respect to the UK?
What is the difference between Northern Ireland and The Republic of Ireland?

What are the constituents of the UK?

What is Brexit?
Did the UK leave or Great Britain?
What is the Commonwealth?
Is India part of it?
What happened in 1950?
Do you have any questions for us?
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IIM Rohtak
Interview experience
B.A (political+ history)
Internship in the market research domain

Two panels, P1 is male, around 35

P2 is also male of 55 to 60

P2 is enjoying a sandwich and paying little attention

P1 is very generous and vibrant
After document verification,
P1 asked to tell us what is market research. (Told)
P1: Okay, so what are your roles and responsibilities in your previous organization (told)
P1: what is the reliability and validity of the questionnaire (told)
P1: okay tell me your favourite subject (told - history)
P1: what specific period in history (told - modern history)
P1: asked about period range in modern history (told)
P1: okay, what are the areas under Aurangzeb's rule? ( Told them don't know)
P1: what are naram and garam dal in Indian politics (told)
P2: what is lal Bal pal in Indian politics (told)
P1: okay now we will give you a topic and you have present your views on it
Topic - what do you think new technology advancements are good or bad for the future job
market
(Told them about the pros and cons of technology in jobs, talked how layoffs because of
technology and AI, then about chatgpt and other things)
P2: acha sidharth, ye batao ki if you are able to convert this interview, what value you can
add with your peers
(Told them, that i come from a different background, which helps me to understand social
context of business better, and talked about my previous internship, which was about
consumer behavior and how can someone from humanities has good aspects of understanding
the market and co-relate with it my area of interest for in MBA which is marketing
P1: any new news about global issues
Told about Pakistan rupee down by 9% and Ukraine unleashed missile on Kyriv and Ukraine
importing Western tanks
P1: nice talking to you, you can log off now

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IIMCAP
P1- Male P2- female
(BSC- maths)
1. Give the intro with academic, extracurricular, and awards you got.
2. What are the subjects in your grad?
3. In mathematics, which topic you like?
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5. Told when are unique solutions, infinite solutions, and no solution with physical
significance?
6. In physics what do you like?
Told- electronics and mechanics
7. Explain capacitor, inductor, transistor?
8. What is angular momentum?
9. What is the meaning of your name?
10. Are you familiar with current affairs, what have been reading in last week?
Told - Adani Hindenburg
BBC income tax raid
G20
11. What is g20?
Female P2
1. Told me something your Instagram page has that others don't.
2. How are you going to increase 800 to 1800 followers?
3. What are the other qualities you have that are going to help others on Instagram?
Answer- By talking to
4. How by talking to other people help them?

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IIM CAP interview experience:
(Graduation Stream: B. Pharm)
No work experiences
- Is there any government scheme which has your name in it
- Tell about that scheme
- How many IIMs are there
- Name the IIMs in the Northern part of India
- Neighbours of India
- Sri Lanka crisis
- IIM in Haryana and Punjab
- How many IIMs under CAP
- AFMC college in your city (I am from Pune) and what does it do
- What margins does the drug manufacturer have and what margins do they sell
- Your opinion on the increase in budget allocation towards the armed forces
- Why MBA
- History of the Indian Patent Act (Related to my graduation)
- Other than pharma what other aspects are there in the pharmaceutical industry
- What changes do you see in the pharmaceutical industry

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IIM Amritsar
2 Panellist both Male (P1-50’s, P2-40’s)
Arts Background
P1-Tell me about yourself in brief
Told
P1- Since you are from Political Science, what are your views on the UP govt and what is
different from the previous govt?
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Told that going in a good direction also mentioned the recent Investor Summit where 34 lakh
crores worth of MoUs were signed, improving laws. But They lack in giving employment
P1- How do you decide which kind of stock to order and particularly from which company (I
mentioned the family business of Pharmacy)
Ans- Create data based on the market demand and doctors' preferences of any company
P1- If you want to expand your family business of pharmacy then why not any specific
courses like B.pharma why waste 2 years on an MBA
Told- that I will be going for a pharma business after spending 5-6 years in corporate(told
Cipla as my dream company). Also told him that corporate and MBA knowledge will also
help me to expand my business
P1- Any 1 business news
Told about massive 100 bilion deal of Air India with Boeing and Airbus mentioned UK’s PM
and Biden had also telephonic conversation with our PM
P1- This is just a business deal. Then why there is the involvement of Modi and Sunak?
Told how this business deal will create employment in the manufacturing countries and this
will also be a political point for them.
P1- Are you good with stats
Noo
P1 said P2 to carry on
P2- You’ve mentioned the Stock market as interest? Can you tell why Adani Enterprises is
falling?
Told about the Adani-Hindenburg issue in detail
P2-Everyday there is some bad news in the market? What was special about Hindenburg was
that made a loss of $100 bn
Again, elaborated and told Hindenburg that its record also made the stock fall… (he wasn’t
convinced and kept on asking the same question)
P2- You have selected MBA-HR and MBA-BA as your 2nd and 3rd preference why?
Told that there was no other option to leave that space.
All the best for your future, you can now log off

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IIML interview
My panel was friendly and cooperative. They noticed I was nervous and told me to relax and
take time to answer.
Panel: 2M, 1 40+, 1 50+
It was academics heavy - BS-MS in Biological Sciences
1. Introduce yourself.
2. Place where white tigers are present in India
3. Why are white tigers white in colour?
4. Brainwaves generated by brain, Hypothalamus - adrenal - pituitary axis function and what
does it secrete?
5. Sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous system - keywords of parasympathetic nervous
system and what are its functions
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7. Gave me a probability problem related to blood groups to solve.
8. Asked about my MS thesis and research methodology.
9. COVID - do you think virus originated from China or bats to humans only?
10. Is virus living or non-living? Difference between viral genome and normal genome.
11. Why did they ask us to wash our hands with soap during COVID - the reasoning behind
it?

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IIMK interview
WAT: Success stories are far more pivotal than failure stories. (25 mins, no word limit)
Panellists: 1F (young, very grilling), 1M (asked the academics questions)
Panel was extremely grilling - I did my best to hold my stand and kept smiling
1. Why academics in beginning are low?
2. Grilled me on Bharatnatyam a bit (I had it listed as a hobby) - name classical dances in
India and states from which they originated
3. Gurukuls teaching Bharatnatyam
4. Why MBA - why HR, Functions of HR, why HR is a dying field (grilled me a lot here)
5. What signalling determined our evolution on finger length?
6. How does DNA double helix help in human development?
7. How does protein help in cell development?
8. Which Indian won Nobel Prize in Biology - I said not Bio, but 2 in Medicine.
9. Do I read newspapers, awareness with share market - None (roasted me there)
10. Education minister and Home Minister of WB - I answered both correctly still they said
to read newspaper and politics more.
11. Questions on my MS thesis works
12. If I did any internships
Then they asked me to leave.

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IRMA interview
UG: B Sc. (Hons.) Agriculture.
P1& P2 both are male. In their early 40's.
P1:
Started with my name. What should we call you? (I have a long name. That was the reason
for asking that question)
You are connecting from?
Is that your hometown?
Tell us some things not mentioned in your CV. (Told about my volunteer experience with a
NGO, & RAWE, ELP, Industrial training in cotton industry)
Cotton industry ? Ginning or spinning?
What is ginning?
In which form processed cotton is sold to consumers? (Bale)
What is weight of 1 cotton bale? (180 kg approx.)
Problem? What solution did you give? (In my intro, I've told that during my industrial
training, I've identified a problem in cotton ginning industry & gave a solution to that.)
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Why didn't you give solution to these major problems? You choose a easy one and gave a
solution?
Why didn't you take help from govt. To help the farmers, ginners to implement your
alternative solution. (He looked satisfied with my answer)
(intially, grilling kind of questions & later on he was okay)
When did you complete graduation.? (Answered july 2022)
From then you're preparing for CAT?
What other calls do you have? What's your percentile?
P2: started with a smile.
Asked about the names of educational institutions that I've studied. Who are those persons?
(Professor Jayashankar Telangana State Agricultural University & Sri Chaitanya junior
kalasala) he's satisfied with my answer.
TS & AP are known for their farming, right?
Difference between Organic & natural farming
Why farmers are not inclined towards Organic. What steps can be taken to do that.
What's your opinion on organic farming?
You have mentioned about watching movies as your hobby. What genre do you watch? What
language?
Why Tollywood films are getting applause. Bollywood not getting recognition at the same
level.
Do you watch web series?
(Looked like he watches web series a lot)
Started telling some web series names. Have you watched them?
He Told a web series name related to fake currency. (Farzi). He Explained the web series in
short.
What's your opinion on fake currency.? (He looked satisfied with my answer)
(P1 was smiling when I was telling my answers about movies & web series)
(P2 looked like a movie-person. He got a smile on his face when he started asking about
movies)
Your CAP interview completed?
P1: okay we're done. Do you have any questions for us?
Asked: Sir, in your teaching experience to management students, you might've seen students
lacking some skills or not up to the mark in some areas. If you can tell me those, I will try to
improve in those areas before joining IRMA.
Got a answer from P1.
Overall: chill type of panel. They had smile on their face. It was a formal discussion.
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SPJIMR, Round 2, Lawyer
WAT topic: give arguments for or against the fact that morality is linked to religion.
Four interviewees.
Questions:
What is it that sets you apart from all the other applicants?
To I3 - you seem to strongly believe as per your WAT that religion and morality are linked.
How can you justify this?
Does anyone disagree? (I spoke here)
To I1 and I4 - There are two strong arguments here for and against, how would you go about
proving what is correct as a researcher?
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To all except me (as I’m a lawyer) - what is the difference between law, morality and ethics?
(Long discussion on this)
To me - you have said in your form that you like Taylor Swift. What sets her apart from her
contemporaries?
To me - Have you heard of Olivia Rodrigo? How does she compare to Taylor?
(Other interviewees were asked about interests mentioned on their form)
Have you ever felt that life has treated you unfairly?
To me - how many friends do you think is the right amount for one to have?
To all - what is it that you bring to SPJIMR? (A follow up question for each of us on that)
Thank You

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IIM I PGP interview experience
Maths honours
8 months work ex as a data analyst
Duration: Around 20-25 minutes
P2. Tell me about yourself.
[Gave prepared answer]
P1. What is data science?
P2. Let me rephrase the question, why do we need data science since we already have
statistics and linear regression?
[Some discussion on this]
P1. What is the root of a quadratic equation? What does it signify?
P1. Draw the graph of sin x
P1. Why do we need logs?
[Explained by talking about how I used log for significance testing in my job]
P1. What are type 1 and type 2 errors wrt significance testing?
P2. What data science algorithms do you use in your job?
[Mentioned 2 algorithms]
P2. What is the underlying theory of these algorithms? Are they supervised or unsupervised?
For what do you use KNN?
[Some more discussion on this]
P2. Do you follow any news?
[Mentioned ChatGPT]
P2. Which rival has Google brought?
P2. What do you think about the view that ChatGPT will destroy Google?
P2. Elon Musk has been involved with various companies recently. Can you name some?
[Mentioned Twitter, Tesla, Space X, OpenAI (Musk was co-founder, later left)]
P2. There was specifically a fintech company, can you tell which?
[Couldn't recall]
P2. Do you follow global and Indian politics?
P1. UK Prime Minister before Rishi Sunak and after Boris Johnson
[Couldn't recall]
P1/P2. Which party does Rishi Sunak belong to?
P1/P2. Where in Delhi do you live?
P1/P2. Education minister of Delhi
P1/P2. Chairperson of Rajya Sabha
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P1/P2. Who is the president of India
Extempore: Should MBA education be provided to engineering graduates?
P2. Any questions for us?
[Thank You]
[Chill, conversational interview]

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