MBA PERSONAL INTERVIEWS

2023-03-09 07:34:59 Tapmi

GD TOPIC- India’s population is more of an opportunity than a curse.

PI
CORE
Q- tell us about your college life of past 2 years.
Q- what interests you more academics or extracurriculars and why
Q- if given a chance to do graduation again what changes would you make
Q- incident where you were successful in the past 2 years
Q- what are your weaknesses
Q- what sports you play
Q- how do you lead your sports teams
Q- who performed the worst in GD and why
Q- any opportunity you missed recently
Q- other calls
Q- tapmi preference

MARKETING
Q- why marketing
Q- how are you fit for marketing
Q- how important is marketing for a company
Q- gave a situation where a fashion company was having too much returns and exchange how to solve it
(Good 5 mins discussion on that)
Q- mba core or mba marketing
Q- why tapmi for mba marketing
Q- which company would you like to join

Extempore- today people celebrate festivals to be relevant on instagram

Spoke for 2 mins taking a balanced side
That yes i agree but it is not healthy etc.

Cross questions on that
(5-7 mins discussion)

Any questions for us
I asked don’t you peopke celebrate holi in tapmi
They laughed a lot and gave full explanation that yes we do we have a holi party from 7 pm
(5 mins discussion on this)

Total time take= 25 mins

Very chill and encouraging panel
(1M, 1F)

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2023-03-09 07:34:59 KJ Somaiya, 8th March
Profile - Engineer with 1 year work exp

Attendance marked on Zoom for candidates and then proceeded for CA and PI individually.

Case Analysis topic - Environment vs Development
Questions :

1. Can pace of development be compromised to keep environment in check?
2. Should government balance environmental needs or infrastructural needs?
3. Reasons for declining environmental health and what can citizens do to help

Spoke about these topics and a few questions by the panelists

PI was with 2 other professor panelists-
Profile based questions
Tech news
News related to countries

Overall a chill interview. The panelists encourage you to put your points across in an intellectual manner.

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2023-03-07 06:43:46 KJ somaiya transcript
Date: 6th march, 2023
CA:
2 panelists
A passage about deep reading: Reading habits change due to the digital world.
1. Changes regarding reading habits at present
2. Can reading on social media be called deep learning
3. What can education institutions do, inculcate deep reading habits.

Question from panelists (1 question each from panelist)
1. Thoughts in podcast
2. How can individual work for deep reading.

Total 10 mins (5 mins for reading, 5 for answering question)

PI(3 member panel, all female)
1F
1. Tell me something about yourself. Including why KJ somaiya
2. What are long term goals.
(Cross question to know details about same)
3. Which specialization

2F
1. What Profile are you looking for?
2. Dream company
3. It's competitors
(Cross questions to details)

3F
1. How do you keep yourself updated
2. Mention 2 business news other than Adani

Overall: conversational style, chill interview.

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2023-03-07 06:42:54 IIM Bangalore - 6 th March Hyderabad
GEM 9.7 / 96.3/ 8.32

3 Professors (All male) : P1 , P2 and P3

P1 : Where do u work and what do u work on?

P2 : How and why did u shift from electrical to tech?

P2 : Why do u want to create a chatbot?

P3 : What is the difference between NLP and Conversational UI?

P3 : Chatbots are very irritating, why are u even developing them?. They don’t even give a response properly.

P2 : You are taking jobs away from people hy creating these.. Why is a chatbot better than a human?..Give two advantages and disadvantages.

P1 : Why do u want to shift to management?

P2 : What is the difference between management and corporate management?

P3 : Do you read any news?..Tell me about the panel created by SC on election commissioner.

P2 : Do you think it was right decision taken by Supreme court by interfering as such?

P3 : If they are interfering like this, where does it even stop?

P2 : Do you what is happening in Israel right now?..So it supreme court is taking every decision in its hand, will the same happen in india?.

P2 : Summarize your opinion on this decision.

Mostly interview was on my work, why mba  and supreme court panel

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2023-03-07 06:42:43 IIM-K
BBALLB
10-12 mins
06/03/23

2 panelists
1M 1F

F: 3 places where you’d take us in Delhi
Had a little discussion
M: why Mba
F: something unique about manga
F: what do you like about it
F: name 3 indian super heroes
-couldn’t answer
F: asked about vikram vetal
F: who sat on pinochios shoulder to give him advice

M: what did you learn in law which would help you in mba
M: are lawyers fair

F: Ajmal kasab’s lawyer
-didn’t know

No questions about grad and current affairs.

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2023-03-07 06:42:33 Gim afternoon slot (6 march )
Panel -09
2 m
GNEM fresher cfa level 1 cleared
Cat -87
Core , Bda , bifs

M1 (40-50)
Q1) from where you are joining ?
Told delhi
Q2) who is education minister of Delhi
Q3) is he still education minister ?
Q4) some case is going on against him  told
whole incident
Q5) Delhi share border  with which states
Q) what subject you studied in your graduation
Q-6) name any famous economist of India and tell why he was famous ?
Q7) explain whole lpg 1991 ?
Q8) how did it benefit us ?
Q9) do you  think  globalisation is killing our local vendors ?
Q10) what is valued added tax ?
Q11) which one is good valued added tax and gst ? And why ?
Q12) what step you will take to reduce corruption ?
Q13) how you will make current system transparent ?
Q14) which tax regime is good old vs new ? Why ?

M 2 (30-40)
Q1) what are your hobbies and extra curricular activities ?
Q2) how ngo will help society ?
Q3) is it only responsibility for ngo to work for society
Q4)  if you do mba then who you will do your task ?
Q5) why should we select you as you don’t have any work ex ? Answered me till I m statisfied with your answer .
Q) 6 then discussion on my father business for 3-4 mins . ( also he asked me to do marketing for father business )
Q)7 what is the leadership ?
Q)8 give 3 qualities of a good leader
Q)9 give 1 bad qualities of a leader
Q10) what other calls you have ?
Q11) why gim over other this calls ?
Q)12 do you have any ques for us ?
Logged off

There were 2-4 more questions I can’t remember them

M1 was friendly m2 was not friendly at all he grilled me on my answer and lots of cross questioning in between

I m from finance background no single ques asked related to that
Total duration  18- 20min

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2023-03-07 06:42:14 GIM Interview (6th March Morning slot) Panel - 9
Started at 9:30 (I was able to just hear the panel, not able to see me and panel)

- Going through your application you had done bsc in agriculture, very good, you had done from this university, nice.

-so tell me how would you as a agri graduate will contribute after MBA

- What is the biggest problem farmers facing(Told about supply chain and technological advancement not reaching to farmers

- how will you solve supply chain problems.

- what is photosynthesis

(screen freezed at 9:35, logged out and waited for 15 min, again panel let me in, apologized, and again started at 9:50)

- have you read today's  newspaper?

- which is the major news in there?

- name 7 sisters
- distance between gujarat to meghalay and J&K to kanyakumari  (I guessed)

- Tell me about your extra curriculars(told about volleyball and NCC)

- what is the measurement of volleyball ground and hight of the net)

- what other calls you have
- why you will choose gim over others

- thank you, you can log off.

very chill panel, I answered wrong about the distances and fumbled in first half of the interview bcz of connectivity issue.
Overall no grilling

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2023-03-07 06:41:59 SPJIMR, round 2, Delhi campus, 6th March (10:15 slot)

WAT topic: give arguments for or against the fact that morality is linked to religion.

PI panelists - Ms Rupa and Mr Varun Nagaraj

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?

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 q for each of us on that)

-that’s it-

The interview was a wonderful experience, probably the only one which tries to get to know the candidates as human beings first.

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2023-03-06 07:14:34 IIM C interview experience

Abhishek Kumar ( 95,95,88.6,99.12%ile)
3yr+ workex in Coal India Limited (operations)
Btech in Electrical Engineering

Venue :- IHC, New Delhi, 8:00am

WAT :- Is it justified that young people leave their home for better opportunities. How it is affecting family life. Give your views. (25 mins, 300 word limit)

M1

1. Tell me about coal india. (Answered)
2. What is the price of coal in market?? (Answered )
3. On which parameters, price of coal depends?? (Answered)
4. Who are the major customers of the coal india?? ( Answered)
5. What are the other methods through which coal india can sell coal?
( I said export, they do we export? I said yes first...... then they said that coal is undersupplied or oversupplied....I said undersupplied but we can sell in future....then they said tell me about present scenario...then I said no )
6. If i am here to buy coal from coal india....what are the criterion we will agree on?? ( Answered)
7. What is the share price of coal india?? ( Answered)
8. Is it undervalued or overvalued ??( I said fairly valued)
9. Why it is fairly valued?? ( Explained about market sentiments and some financial terms)
10. How will you decide the share price value of coal india ?? ( Explained but they are not convinced)
11. In which parameters valuation of the company depends?? ( told)
12. Is cash flow of Rs 100 is good or bad?? ( I said good and i said positive cash flow is good but they kept asking why...not Answered)

F1

13. Patna's rank in cleanest city?? ( I said it is last)
13. Who is responsible for this situation?? (Answered)
14. What are the steps government taking?? (Answered)
15. Why MBA?? ( Answered)
16. In which sector ?? ( I said energy sector)
17. You are already working in a good energy sector company...why you want to go in energy sector after MBA also?? ( Answered)
18. Name 3 companies you want to go in energy sector after MBA?? ( Told)
19. Tell me something about Renew power?? ( told)

M2

20. He asked about my current salary and how much i am going to pay in college and then how much salary i am expecting from energy sector companies ?? ( told)

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2023-03-06 07:14:34 IIM-B, Hyderabad, Morning, Panel-1
10/12/Grad: 10/97.9/78.7
GEM, Mechanical, IIT-B
(7 months, UPSC prep)
OA: 99.89

2M, 1F
M1: You seem to be having fun with the discussion outside. What were you discussing about?

M1: Tell me what question from us would stress you

M1: Don't worry about workex, we know how people will be in 7 months,

M1: Okay we won't ask about these

F1: You are working...no..you resigned in 2020, what were you doing since then?

M1:  (laughing) Civil service is the standard now... Why civil service? It is a northern trait no?
(Told I have a northern name )

M1: You think to work in core, we need to pursue Masters?

M1: Okay, continue

F1: So, MBA is your plan B
(I told that it was actually plan A, as I took CAT while working itself)

M1: Explain why

F1: Do you want some water?

F1: Okay, how have you fared so far in your UPSC attempts?

F1: You must be reading about Foreign news right? Tell me pros and cons of why we took neutral stand in Russia-Ukraine war

M1: Directly tell the points, no need to explain the decision, Jaisankar has been doing that daily (laughing)

M1: Why not directly tell arms and ammunition?
(Told more strategic was UNSC reform, also told our own situation in Ladakh would be diluted as a con of our stand)

M1: If we say that India has no principles but is an opportunist...would you agree?

M1: Russia violated territorial sovereignty? So India has no principles
(Told that territorial sovereignty etc would flow from mutual respect for treaties, etc. NATO has been militarizing the border violating Minsk agreements)

M1: So, you mean we can invade Nepal, if they get cozy with China
(Told we need to exhaust all non violent and diplomatic efforts first)

M1: (pressed that invasion of Nepal can be justified)
(Told that current situation is culmination of Russia's constant expression of its worries on its border and that it has been expressing and working towards a mutual understanding since 2014)

M1: (nodded) Good.

M2: What excites you about foreign service? You said you want to work in Finance?

F1: He wants to do Finance in Foreign service
M1: (jokingly) that would be hawala

M2: Explain it in better terms. You are passionate about Foreign service.

M1: (intejecting) From his expression, it is clear enough! If we give him a nuclear arsenal he will bring all ASEAN under our control

(Told that we are aiming towards that using our soft power and that would be one of the greatest benefits if it comes to frution)

M2: What are its goals?

M2: Okay, I'm done

F1: What do you prepare for in your free time?
(Told while preparing for Upsc, it was full time, now I have done NISM-Research Analyst and also preparing for CFA level-1 May)

All three: Okay we're done

Overall, a very chill discussion which I very much enjoyed

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