MBA PERSONAL INTERVIEWS

2023-02-27 06:49:15 IMI Delhi
Profile: NEM 8.8/79.6/75.87
BBA Fresher
Cat percentile: 97.29
2 panelist - 1 male professor and 1 female professor

1. Tell us something about yourself.
2. Your personality and profile looks similar to an army officer, then why MBA?
(Mentioned about being a NDA aspirant and medical out)
3. What is your father’s business?
4. What’s revenue?
5. Form where you import your raw material?
And further more about business.
6. What market you’ll target for expansion and why?
7. India is 5th or 4th largest economy?
8. Indian inward economy - extempore topic.
It went pretty well and both panellist kept saying very good at every point I said about economy.

Do you have any questions for us?

General greetings and logged off.

Overall Panelist we’re chill and friendly but female panellist kept asking whether India is 5th or 4th largest and advised to check my facts again but whole time I was right with the fact that India is 5th largest economy.

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2023-02-27 06:49:15 TAPMI interview script
9/9/6 Electrical Engineer with work ex in digital marketing and social media
NMAT 240

GD - IIMs- The Govt. should open 10 more
2 mins prep, 15 mins discussion, nobody concluded the GD so one has to keep track of time and conclude, quality could have been better

PI
1 M (in mid 30s) and 1 F (in late 30s-40s) Both professors

Core: Female starts (Seemed very friendly and smiled throughout)
1. Have you come to South India before, ever moved out of Mumbai
2. Tell me something interesting that is not in your form (stated hobbies spoke on dancing followed by questions)
3. Situation when you went against your team and were successful
4. Situation when you were awkward or uncomfortable
5. How did you overcome that
6. Biggest achievement
7. What led to that achievement, explain it
8. Significant contribution at workplace

Marketing- Male starts (seemed more serious and did put a little pressure and tried to grill but kept my cool)

1. Since you’re working in social media, explain your role
2. If I was a fashion brand I want to source influencers how will I do that (deviated a bit from the answer and further questions, tried again but not satisfied)
3. Have you heard about bots, in a post how will I differentiate between bots and genuine engagements
4. How do I measure success of a social media campaign (explained and further questions on it)
5. Grilled a bit on engagements- likes, comments, shares which is greater and why, didn’t seem satisfied)
6. Difference between reach and impressions
7. Why TAPMI Marketing
8. MBA Core or MBA Marketing and why

Extempore - Superstitions in India (Should have spoken more , finished it 10-15 secs before time)

Overall great experience. Female panelist was very warm and friendly, Male seemed a little serious and grilled me at certain places, but went well

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2023-02-26 07:46:18 IRMA (Rural management)

UG: B Sc. (Hons.) Agriculture.
Interview date: 25 Feb 2023 (afternoon slot & Online)
Interview duration: 20 mins (approx.)

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 RAWE, ELP, Industrial training in cotton industry)

Cotton industry ? Ginning or spinning?

What is ginning?

In which form processed cotton is sold to consumers?

What is weight of 1 cotton bale?

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.)

Major problems faced by cotton industry?

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've mentioned about watching movies as your hobby. What genre do you watch? What language?

Why Telugu films are getting applause. Bollywood not getting recognition at the same level.

Do you watch webseries?
(Looked like he watches webseries a lot)

Started telling some webseries names. Have you watched them?

Told a webseries name related to fake currency. (Farzi). He Explained the webseries 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 & webseries)

(P2 looked like a movie-person. He got a smile on his face when he started asking about movies)

Your CAP interview completed? When's your MANAGE interview? It's offline na?

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'll 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. They're just trying to know more about us.

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2023-02-26 07:46:17 XLRI BM interview
Non engineer fresher
Panel seemed uniterested. Interview started abruptly before the scheduled time.

P1
1. Tell me something other then education.
2. Fathers business? Siblings?
3. Inventory management
4. Inventory turnover ratio?
5. Should be high or low?
6. Between fruits and detergents which inventory turnover ratio would be better?
7. Know about supply chain?

P2
1. Outsourcing is common. Which aspect of your business would you outsource?
2. What is b2b b2c c2b c2c business? And examples

P3
1. What are studying?
2. Fav subject? (Financial management)
3. How will you tell a company is doing well?
4. What are the financial ratios?
5. What auditors do?
6. Types of auditors?
7. Function other then checking entries? Grilling and cross questioning on this
8. Sattyam scam?

No gk

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2023-02-26 07:46:17 IMI-D PI, 25th Feb.
Fresher, graduated in 2021.

3 panelists, 1F 2M.

Panellist 1

Q. Tmay
Q. Why mba after architecture?
Q. How do you define management?
Q. Why did you apply for hr? (I applied for both pgdm and pgdm hr)
Q. What specialisation in pgdm are you interested in and why ?
Q. Do you play sports?
Q. Do you follow any economics or business news?
Q. Any news from today?
I told them a couple of them, last one was adani hindenburg. She asked me, do you know about it in detail? I said I've read about it, she said okay. Any recent news about tatas? 
Q. Do you think the pandemic has had any effect on the architecture industry? (I said yes definitely) so they gave me this as my extempore topic.

Panellist 2

Q. Can you explain the construction process of a building. (I think he expected a civil engineer's response rather than an architect's response )
Q. How to make a building earthquake resistant?

Panellist 3

Q. What's your biggest leadership success
Q. What are your hobbies? (Even though I mentioned in tmay)
Q. Where did you travel last? (Since I mentioned travelling)
Q. Where are you from?
Q. Which city did you graduate from?

That was the end. All in all, it was alright. They were calm and chill. But I felt as if they were busy preparing questions instead of listening to answers. Which is why they repeated a couple of questions.

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2023-02-26 07:46:17 GREATLAKES INTERVIEW
PGDM-25/02/23

BBA Airline and Airport Management
CAT score: 87.71%tile
Category: NC-OBC (F)
fresher
No workex

I was the first one to attend the interview.
Read everything in a cheerful tone as it was the best interview experience I've ever had in my life.
Document verification was after the interview.
I entered the alloted panel.
P1: M 60
P2: M 70

They were talking about something else when I entered the room and didn't notice me.
I greeted them.

P1: Hello, good morning, vanakam, namaskaram.
Me: I said namaskaram sir and smiled
P1: You can understand Tamil as well as Malayalam as you are from Kerala right?
Me: Yes sir.
P1: asked me how I was in Tamil.
Me: answered.
P1: Are you nervous?
Me: a little bit sir.
P1: Don't be nervous ma, it's just an interview and you tell the things you know and we're good to go.
(This reassurance made me loosen up a bit)
Me: I smiled
P1: introduced himself and P2
P1: Just like every interview you can tell anything about you and take your time with it.
Me: gave prepared answer.
P1: So looking at your profile you did a specialization on airline and airport management. So tell me what you know about the privileges a customer will get in an airport if they are in some sort of scheme.
Me: started by explaining about FFP but was interrupted
P1: No ma, I asked about airport not airline. Are you aware of it? If not it's fine.
Me: No sir, I'm sorry I'm not aware of it.
P1: Okay so have you heard about the news about Guruvayoor today?
Me: No sir I haven't sorry sir.
P1: it's totally fine. What was your favourite subject during your ug?
Me: Answered it was Aircraft maintenance and how it was different from other subs and what it was about.
P1: CM of Kerala
Me: answered
P1: Name two cabinet ministers of Modi government and their ministry.
Me: Answered (Nirmala Sitaraman - Finance, S. Jaishankar- External Affairs)
P1: Very good ma, now I'm going to handover it to P2 and greeted me.
Me: Greeted back

P2: said hello and greeted me.
Me: did the same.
P2: So your BBA specialization is interesting, don't you want to do the same specialization in MBA too?
Me: Answered
P2: So tell me one strength and one weakness.
Me: answered the strength in detail and asked some time to think about weakness.
P2: You need time for that huh? And laughed. Take 10 sec.
Me: Laughed and answered after thinking.
P2: Suppose you get to meet the CM of your state and you are asked give a suggestion in two words to improve the whole tourism industry of the state, what will your suggestion be?
Me: Sir can I think about it?
P2: Time is the only thing that we don't have ma and laughed. But I'll give you 10 seconds.
Me: Ok sir. And I couldn't think about a better answer at that time but I said better infrastructure development.
P2: So tell me who named Kerala as "God's own country"?
Me: It was a tag name given by an officer who was a part of tourism department can't recall his name.
P2: Okay so tell me the three processes you have to undergo when you are going to an airport for catch a flight?
Me: Sorry Sir, I can't recall at this moment. (Brain fog)
P2: Did you really do a degree in this because you seem like you didn't and laughed
Me: Absolutely dead but kept smiling.
P2: So said you like singing which language songs do you sing usually? Malayalam?
Me: No sir mostly English.
P2: Tell me about your favourite song
Me: Said it was Between the bars by Elliot Smit.
P2: Okay now that I have checked your CAT score, are you satisfied with it? And why your QA Section?
Me: Gave prepared answer
P2: Okay I'm done with asking questions. It was a pleasure meeting you.
Suddenly P1 interrupted him.
P1: I want to ask more questions to you.
Me: Yes sir?
P1: You graduated in 2021 what did you do after that?
Me: Gave prepared answer.
P1: Now I'm also finished you can finally go now and laughed.
Everyone laughed and greeted eachother.

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2023-02-26 07:46:17 GREATLAKES INTERVIEW
PGDM-25/02/23

BBA Airline and Airport Management
CAT score: 87.71%tile
Category: NC-OBC (F)
fresher
No workex

I was the first one to attend the interview.
Read everything in a cheerful tone as it was the best interview experience I've ever had in my life.
Document verification was after the interview.
I entered the alloted panel.
P1: M 60
P2: M 70

They were talking about something else when I entered the room and didn't notice me.
I greeted them.

P1: Hello, good morning, vanakam, namaskaram.
Me: I said namaskaram sir and smiled
P1: You can understand Tamil as well as Malayalam as you are from Kerala right?
Me: Yes sir.
P1: asked me how I was in Tamil.
Me: answered.
P1: Are you nervous?
Me: a little bit sir.
P1: Don't be nervous ma, it's just an interview and you tell the things you know and we're good to go.
(This reassurance made me loosen up a bit)
Me: I smiled
P1: introduced himself and P2
P1: Just like every interview you can tell anything about you and take your time with it.
Me: gave prepared answer.
P1: So looking at your profile you did a specialization on airline and airport management. So tell me what you know about the privileges a customer will get in an airport if they are in some sort of scheme.
Me: started by explaining about FFP but was interrupted
P1: No ma, I asked about airport not airline. Are you aware of it? If not it's fine.
Me: No sir, I'm sorry I'm not aware of it.
P1: Okay so have you heard about the news about Guruvayoor today?
Me: No sir I haven't sorry sir.
P1: it's totally fine. What was your favourite subject during your ug?
Me: Answered it was Aircraft maintenance and how it was different from other subs and what it was about.
P1: CM of Kerala
Me: answered
P1: Name two cabinet ministers of Modi government and their ministry.
Me: Answered (Nirmala Sitaraman - Finance, S. Jaishankar- External Affairs)
P1: Very good ma, now I'm going to handover it to P2 and greeted me.
Me: Greeted back

P2: said hello and greeted me.
Me: did the same.
P2: So your BBA specialization is interesting, don't you want to do the same specialization in MBA too?
Me: Answered
P2: So tell me one strength and one weakness.
Me: answered the strength in detail and asked some time to think about weakness.
P2: You need time for that huh? And laughed. Take 10 sec.
Me: Laughed and answered after thinking.
P2: Suppose you get to meet the CM of your state and you are asked give a suggestion in two words to improve the whole tourism industry of the state, what will your suggestion be?
Me: Sir can I think about it?
P2: Time is the only thing that we don't have ma and laughed. But I'll give you 10 seconds.
Me: Ok sir. And I couldn't think about a better answer at that time but I said better infrastructure development.
P2: I asked about suggestion not advice. If you say that to him, he'll definitely ban you from ever seeing him. and both laughed
Me: laughed but was dying inside.
P2: So tell me who named Kerala as "God's own country"?
Me: It was a tag name given by an officer who was a part of tourism department can't recall his name.
P2: Okay so tell me the three processes you have to undergo when you are going to an airport for catch a flight?
Me: Sorry Sir, I can't recall at this moment. (Brain fog)
P2: Did you really do a degree in this because you seem like you didn't and laughed
Me: Absolutely dead but kept smiling.
P2: So said you like singing which language songs do you sing usually? Malayalam?
Me: No sir mostly English.
P2: Tell me about your favourite song
Me: Said it was Between the bars by Elliot Smit.
P2: Okay now that I have checked your CAT score, are you satisfied with it? And why your QA Section?
Me: Gave prepared answer
P2: Okay I'm done with asking questions. It was a pleasure meeting you.
Suddenly P1 interrupted him.
P1: I want to ask more questions to you.
Me: Yes sir?
P1: You graduated in 2021 what did you do after that?
Me: Gave prepared answer.
P1: Now I'm also finished you can finally go now and laughed.
Everyone laughed and greeted eachother. Open / Comment

2023-02-26 07:46:16 HRM Interview Experience
GNEF, 8/9/7
Work experience of 9 months.

Panel- Two middle-aged men. One looked around 30ish

P1: Hi, so tell me what you have done so far academically?

Are you joining from Delhi rn?
(Explained graduated last year. Now I’m home in Kolkata.)

If I have to ask you to set up a business in Kolkata keeping the city in mind, what would you go for?

Don’t you think that idea of yours is opposite to what the city is known for?

Thank you. That was all from my side.

P2( mellow-person): So Pranjal, you being an English graduate, tell me what do you like in English?

Some writers you like?

You mentioned Franz Kafka, what does his work depict?
(Talked about Metamorphosis. 6-7 mins discussion around that. A little cross-questioning)

I would like a deeper analysis, anything in mind?
Told him

So did you prepare for your interviews?

What is the job of an HR?

What are the 4 feature of HRM sector?

Have you heard about any news related to the sector?
(Mentioned tech-layoffs, why it happened and also apple did a commendable job)

You mentioned Apple. What was the whole scenario? Explain that for me

Third person took over.

P3- Pranjal, I see you left your job after a few months. Why?

What did you do?

What was the expense of the coaching you took for your exams?

Okay, so your SOP is empty on my device. There must be a glitch.
Tell me what was the biggest setback you’ve faced so far?

I gave an explanatory answer. The other two looked convinced. P3 was sone with life and then they asked me to log off.

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2023-02-26 07:46:16 IIM Amritsar
Profile: NEM 8.8/79.6/75.87
BBA Fresher
Cat percentile: 97.29
2 panelist - 1 male alumni and 1 male professor

1. What is Blockchain?
(I’ve mentioned in resume with research subheading)
2. What is used for? It’s future?
3. You mentioned specialisation in finance. What topics you’ve studied?
4. What is the difference between NPV and IRR?
5. Can project have more than one IRR?
6. How it can have one IRR?
7. What if for 1st project NPV is better than IRR and for 2nd project IRR is better than NPV, then how you’ll decide which project is better?
8. What you’ve studied in Corporate Tax?
9. What is best way to manage tax? 
10. What other calls you have?

Professor was chill but alumni was totally focused on academics. No why mba, no TMSY, no current affairs.

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2023-02-26 07:46:16 Panel: 2 members (1 Male – in 50s, 1 Female – in 30s)
Interview Style: Chilled
Interview Length: 15 mins

Female Panelist

1)  Tell us about yourself quickly

2)  How did you develop a strong inclination towards business in childhood.

3)  Have you heard of “X”

4)  What is dividend payout ratio?

5)  What is dividend payout ratio’s ideal number?

6)  Icici bank had high npa 10 years ago, now it is doing good why is it so?

Male Panelist

7)  So you work in BNP Paribas. Where is it headquartered?

8)  What is its ranking?

9)  Do you know Mohammad Yunus?

10)  Do you know Abhijeet Banerjee?

11)  Extempore on financial inclusion – 2 mins to speak

12)  MSME Minister

13)  Any questions for us?

•  Thank you, you can drop off

Note: I have a banking work ex, so my PI mostly revolved around banking

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