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IIM Indore interview
Female,ECE Engineer

- How to pronounce your name?
- Tmay
- What subject does your mom teach?
- More about work
- cross questioning on data
- How can data be used by a company?
- what is foreign key
- what exactly is your role?
- What is rectifier? (Answered partially)
- what is a transistor?
- Unit of magnetic field
- unit of capacitance
- unit of power
- So you're from Mumbai, how many islands?
- Name them
- do you follow news?
- Why Mukesh Ambani > Anil Ambani
- What are the kids of Mukesh Ambani handling
- Other than Jio which other game changer things Mukesh Ambani has done
- News about TCS yesterday
- Green H2 policy
- Are all your interviews done?
- How did they go?
- you may logg off thanks

IIM Shillong:
(11/04/2022)
2 Panelists (1M, 1F)
Profile: Bcom Fresher 2021 Graduate (DU)
(74, 90, 68)
Time: 11-12 minutes

EXTEMPORE: E-commerce VS Digital marketing
Cross questions on extempore by male panelist
Q. How can digital marketing help e-commerce?
Q. How are they different?
Q. Suppose i want to open an e-commerce business, how can digital marketing contribute in my success?

SIBM BANGALORE GEPI
GE- To be a good manager is technical skills necessary or management skills shoulds be enough?

2 male panelists in 40s probably
P1
-introduce yourself in 30 secs
-Why mba after Bio-Tech graduation
-Why marketing as specialization
-have you done some research about marketing
-How many employees does railways have
-Capital of Israel and Phillipines
-your stand on Russia Ukraine situation

P2
- What is Rna
-How good are you in current affairs then asked some questions
-you have also shown interest in agri business management, why?
-Agricultural minister?
-Who regulates our economy?
-gdp of India
-Gov of RBI
-Can rbi print unlimited amount of money and why it can or can't

Overall no grilling and 10-15 mins

IIM A AWT-PI
Panel 5 - 2 males (P1, P2)
28th February, Pune.
Profile - Bcom + CA, 1 year workex, 92/91/79
CAT - 99.7
Duration - 30-35 mins

AWT - Very abstract topic. When you lose trust in someone you lose the will to be a part of their life, sympathy and attachment goes down, you distance yourself from them. Contrarily, when there is trust, you take more efforts, dependency increases and you are dedicated more towards the person / group.

PI (first in the Panel)

P1 - Tell me something which is not in your form.
P1 - You live in xxx area, how many cricket balls do you think are there in all households in your area? Tell me the process of how you went about it.
P1 - How many people with the same name as yours in your city? Again the process.
P1 - Asked about what I do at work. (Found it to be unique for a CA)
P1 - Difference between PE VC and Hedgefund?
P1 - What concept did you find difficult in yoir Bcom/CA. Explain it to us.

Moved over to P2

P2 - Why MBA?
P2 - What learnings from your work?
P2 - Hobbies? Gave a list. Anything else?
P2 - Follow any current affairs?
P2 - Russia Ukraine? Your views? India’s stance?

Moved back to P1.

P1 - This is a rapid fire. Answer fast. CM of Chennai?
P1 - Charanjit Singh Channi is the CM of Haryana?
P1 - 5 cities in Gujrat? (Could give 4)
P1 - 5 Women leaders in the world. No CMs. PMs or President. (Again gave 4)
P1 - Who is Rakesh Jhunjhunwala? What does he do?

P1, P2 - Good. Thanks. Have a toffee.

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Done with IIM Rohtak interview
Lasted for 10-12mins

I was last second in my panel waited for almost 3hrs 30mins

As I logged in they asked me
What thought entered into your mind when we let you in ?
Then asked me to show degree certificate, caste category certificate and cat score card.

Then said are you ready for extempore ? I said i am reaudy.
So they gave me topic - patience is a virtue (and said as you waited so long we decided to give you this topic)

Done with extempore.
Then asked which was your favourite subject during graduation ?
Which was your favourite topic in HR ?
Is human resource planning and man power planning same or different and why ?
Then asked you worked in footwear shop as an assistant manager then what is gst on chappals ? (Answered 18% but not sure)
Why kolhapuri chappal is so famous ?
Does kolhapuri chappal comes under USP ? ( I was not knowing about USP so said I don't know about thies term)
Three famous industries in Maharashtra ?
Any 2 Bharat Ratna award winners from kolhapur ?
What is median and mode ?
What is standard deviation ?
And at last asked any extra curricular activities you did and asked to show certificates for it.

Then at last they said you waited so long but it was fruitful. Have a good day and best luck for future

IIM Rohtak
10 minutes
2 panellist 1m 1f

Academic background: BTech IT
Fresher

Extempore: Bullet train : pride or waste of money for India

Question:

Probability of picking 2 balls which are not red nor green from 8Red, 7Blue, 6Green balls

Probably of getting sum 8 while throwing 2 dice

What is the importance of travelling in personality development

Currency of Germany and UK
(As I’ve travelled there and mentioned that in the previous question)

Are you aware of Cultural values in India !? What are the different dance forms in India ?

Who do you think is a good leader in Business field ?

Owner of MakeMyTrip

….you may leave the meeting…


No HR questions, no intro or why mba, no IT questions

IIM ROHTAK
2 Panalists, 1M; 1F
Both were aged somewhere around 35

Academic Background : BA. Photography
Workex : Freelance Photographer

Extempore on "Navigating Through Change or Transition"

Ques:
1. You're from a very creative field, you have graduated In Photography, so what makes you go for MBA?
2. Golden Ratio In Photography
3. What Is Mean, Mode, Median?
4. What is your Favorite topic from Maths?
5. Application Of Geometry In Businesses. (As I answered Geometry To the previous question)
6. Initial Name Of Gautam Buddha
7. Branches Of Buddhism
(Asked 6 & 7 as I belong to SC)
8. Business Hubs In Maharashtra
(As I'm From Maharashtra)
9. Asked me to show the Certificates of Extra curricular Activities.

That was it & then
Asked me to leave.

IIM rohtak experience

Background - B.com + CA

Two panelists, P1 & P2

First step was document verification

Extempore : are women better managers that men?

P1: why MBA? Why can't you just start your own accounting firm? (Gave my prepared answer)

P1: what is central limit theorem (did not know)

P1: explain kurtosis and skewness in a normal distribution (Explained about normal distribution, skewness and kurtosis. I was not very satisfied with my explanation)

P1. Draw a skewed distribution and indicate mean, median, mode (Drew and presented, took a little time and I am not sure about whether I was right)

P2: largest state in India (by area MP (actually Rajasthan, by population UP)

P2. Smallest (Goa)

P2. Capital of Goa (Panaji)

P2. Capital of Andhra Pradesh (Amaravati)

P2. CM of Andhra Pradesh (Jagan Mohan Reddy - YSR congress)

P2. Which States does western ghats go through? (Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu and maybe Andhra Pradesh, but not sure)

P2. Not goa? (No)

P2. Not Gujarat (No.)

Done. Interview lasted for about 12-15 minutes.

IIM Amritsar Interview Experience
28/02/2022
Reporting Time: 1.25 PM
Admitted at 1.45 PM

B.Com. Hons.
95/83/89.46
91.79%ile

10 minutes
2 Panelists (1M, 1F)

F: Greetings
1. What are your calls? (misheard as thoughts) - However answered both
2. Introduce yourself, and tell us something not in your form - I asked if I shall do both - said okay
But then said that you ve already mentioned all of this in your form, you have lost the opportunity to sell yourself in first 3 minutes but then moved on (I should have told my strengths😬)

3. What you do apart from academics? (mentioned IPL)
4. What are your career plans?

M:
5. What subjects you liked in undergrad? (Mentioned mgmt accounting)
6. Key difference between financial & mgmt acc?
7. What is activity based costing? - further discussions on that
8. When do we use Pivot table? (Had mentioned excel in 2.)
9. What is a slicer in power bi? (Had mentioned it in 2.)
10. Why was Suresh Raina unsold in the recent auction?
11. What is SEO? (Had mentioned it before)
12. Do you think entrepreneurship in India is developed? Give key factors explaining Yes/No ( Had said that I am the head of E-cell at my college) - Answered and included things from the budget as well

Overall: They asked things from my form and what I answered, no maths qs (I had expected one), no current affairs explicitly
Mam seemed to have wanted better answers (may be just trying to make me nervous), Sir seemed satisfied

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IIM Rohtak
Forenoon
Electronics and Electrical engineering
36 months exp
12-15 mins

Extempore: Future of Metaverse

Doc verification

P1
Question related to work ex

What are semiconductors

P2
What is RSA

Symmetric and assymetric process in cyber security

More work related questions

GK

Districts in state (Odisha)

What election is going on in odisha and which party is leading and the leader?

How many seats are there in panchayat elections?

P1
Who was the first first vice president of india

Not much grilling...I can't remember one or two questions..related to cyber security

IIM ROHTAK
28 Feb, Morning slot.
BE Mech, 14 month ex

P1 - smiling young gentleman
P2 - serious older Professor

Document Verifications done.

P2 - Extempore - Crypto Currencies future in India (30 sec prep time)

Spoke on 5 different aspects. Went well.

P2 - What is metaverse
Said

P2 - what are the functionalities of metaverse
Said

P2 - Which is more real, zoom meetings or metaverse meetings?
Me - Compared their strengths and weaknesses

P1 - 4 stroke vs 2 stroke
Said

P1 - what will happen if I put petrol in diesel engine and vice versa
Me -Tried to reason from basics with spark plug and compression ratios but fumbled.

P2 - currency of china?
Forgot on the spot

P2 - currency of pakistan?
Donno

P2 - India's currency?
Lol. Said.

P2 - okay, so why is there a difference in the value of different currencies? Do you know?
Said no, I don't know the exact mechanism.

P1 + p2 - okay, we are done, you may leave.

The environment was chill. No grilling. Were actually interested in making conversation.

Overall okay. Shouldn't have fumbled with petrol and diesel swapping.
I think I'm fine with not knowing the currency value difference thing.

IIM Rohtak interview panel-2, afternoon slot 27 fab
Profile: SC MALE Petroleum engineer
30 months work ex oil & gas refinery ops.
P1 ( M), P2 (F)

P1: extempore topic : Can luck define sucsses
M : spoke for 2 mins

P1: You are from peteoleum engineerig, tell me why we extract both petrol & diesel seperstly from earth

M: core of my branch so answered nicely
P2: You mentioned reading fiction non fiction , tell me about it
M: Told about my last read book it was about tata group , so next question was from there

P2: as tata group acquired air india , now they have 3 airlines , isnt this waste of resources

M : explained them about JV nature of vistara and air asia and their different areas of operations and increased cuatomer choice

P2: As you are from gujarat, tell gujarats role in nations economy

M: explained , mentioned greenfield refinary, so next questiob was from there

P1: second PM of india
M: fumbeled and told indira gandhi😅

P1: cherapunji is in which state

panel was good , it was more of converstaion than grilling , nothing asked from work expereicne

BTech CSE
1F (30 ish) + 1M (50+)
Extempore: Data Theft and Privacy Concerns in this Digital World
Cert verification
Diff bw Router and Hub Switch
Opinion about AI in non AI affected industries
Opinion about short term and long term effects of Russia and Ukraine crisis on India
Standard Error (Statistics)
2nd cleanest city of India
Types of testing in SDLC

Bcom profile
Both male 1 in early 30s and 2nd in mid 30s
Extempore topic : are women make better managers than men
Asked 5 startup by women in india
Name of their ceo
5 tech companies
Question about gst
Difference between allowance and reimbursement
Fang company I gues
How Facebook earns money
Asked me to draw graph of demand supply and consumer surplus
Talked about my extracurricular activities

IIM rohtak 23/02/2022 forenoon slot
Non-engineer(architect)
Two males
Certificates check
P1- what is the meaning of ur name? Ans.
So u r from Maharashtra.. how many districts r there in Maharashtra? (Guessed right, told them nt sure)
Extempore - Sustainable consumption
(Talked about sustainability in architecture, fumbled a lot)
P1- u mentioned smart cities, which smart cities did u hear about recently?
Told 3
P1 - Why are these cities called smart?
P1- are smart cities sustainable?
P2- so u hv b tech in architecture? U r an engineer?
Clarified that m an architect nt an engineer
P2- what's the difference between an architect and an engineer?
P2- what is cube test? What is shear force? What is bending movement? What is cantilever bridge?
Can cement be ever replaced ?
P1- why they say glass bridges can't be built in India?
P2- do u know about 7 sisters? (Said yes) Name them..(forget 1 or 2)
P1 - Andhra Pradesh
(Told them no it's not a part of 7 sisters)
P2- are you sure? It is also in north eastern region na...( this r u sure was repeated 2 3 times more. I said yes m sure. )
P1- capital of one of the 7sisters ( dont remember which one he asked, said idk)
P2- state with smallest population in India ( answered Sikkim, again asked me are u sure, I said no🤦‍♀, both laughed) Thankyou...

CAP Afternoon Slot
B.com(Hons) Fresher
2 panelist 1 Male 1 Female
I wished good morning at 4pm😔
M- Kya tumhe tofaan se dar lagta h?
Said that I haven't faced much, lives in Delhi
F - There can be emotional stroms
Mentioned that I do Yoga and Meditation
- What kind of Yoga ( They got very Excited)
- Bhujangasna? Tadasna? Difference between them?
- You studied online in Grad?
- Fav subject? ( Told Marketing and Financial Reporting)
- What is Branding?
- Branding vs Positioning
- Role of employees in Positioning
- Different types of Accounts
- What is Balance Sheet?
- Hobbies?

Amazing Panel, Male didn't asked anything. Both panels were laughing. They used Hindi in between.

Extempore: Delhi school

P1:
Convert 225 to hexa.
( mis heard converted to binary then i told him the further approach)
Type 2 errors.
Didn't ans
Regression and correlation

P2
Capital of Gujarat
Capital of assam
Cm of andra Pradesh
Current RBI Governor
Former CM of Delhi
Former Presidents(3 President)
Current Health minister
(Seems to be impressed with the GK
Said good)