IIM Kozhikode Interview

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Date: 17th Feb - Time: 9:00 am

Venue: Monarch Hotel (Panel 3)

GD Article

About Govt should not involve in the business rather facilitate it ...PSU disinvestment....etc etc

Peaceful GD...Came in around 6-7 times arnd 3 times new points and rest adding up stuff. Every one chipped in ... Overall - More than satisfied

PI (Around 15 mins)

I was the fifth one to be interviewed.There were 2 profs P1 and P2. and ME (M)

P1 escorts me in...

P2 is already looking at my form.

P1 - Can I have your certificates

Me - Gives them .

P2- Please tell us something about yourselves?

Me - Told him for one min.

P1-You work at XXX and your designation is Sr Member Tech ? Is it a management position?
Me - Told him it is equivalent to Sr Software engg. and told him some things about my work and company.

P2-Asks me some more details abt my company

Me-Told him

P1-(Browsing through my marks card) .... So you had a subject called ..

Me - (Which one is he going to pick now !!!!!)

P1 - Industrial management in your engg course. What did you study in it?

Me - (Did I have it??? Collecting thoughts) - Told him we read about Sales , Break even point (lucky me) , some principles of balance sheet, management principles MBO and MBE(Was just Hoping that he does not get deeper into MBO and MBE)

P1 - What is break even point?

Me -- (Great sigh of relief) ... Told him... happily

P1 - Whats the formula or how is it calculated?

Me - Explained him and wrote a equation

P1 - I have 3 projects on hand. How will you choose which one do you want go ahead with
Me - Listed what all factors I would be considering ... etc

P1 looks at P2 - P1 continues to have a look at my certificates

P2 - So Naveen you have written func specs , involved in development, testing etc etc....All the phases?

Me - Yes sir ... explained him that we are a small team and hence have the opportunity to get involved at all phases

P2 - What happens during a project from start to end?

Me - Explained from Business proposal ... to Business requirements .... Tech specing... Development ... P2 interrupts me and

P2 - What is a business rule and business requirement doc?

Me - Business rule is something that has to done in the market where as business requirement document is that we offer to clients

P2 - What is the difference between two

Me - Explained him in detail

P2 - How is business requirement translated to a tech module

Me - explained him

P2 - Can you explain with example

Me - Took an example of how I go about supporting a new IPO
(A good discussion on this one many qs and ans)

P2 - You are into development ? What do you do there?

Me - Explained him told him that we write some SPs and C files

P2 - What all factors do you take care of while writing SPs

Me - Told him performance ... LOC etc etc

P2 - What is Physical data and logical data

Me- Told him that physical or static data is the supplied data and logical data is calculated or dependant on the physical data .... Some discussion on this one

P2 - What is difference between physical and logical model?

Me - Telling some thing .. was really not sure ... (Suddenly heard a sound .....)

P2 - Thank you. Please call the next candidate

P1 hands over the file

Me - Thank you sir

Came Out hoping I have similar outing on one of those three days (A/B/C)

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IIM Lucknow Interview

First IIM interview of my life


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Date: 16th Feb - Time: 10:00 am

Venue: Monarch Hotel (Panel 1)


GD

Topic - A Room without books is like a body without soul.

Essay Write up -10 min and then the GD started.


From the word GO I started attempting to get on with the GD, in few min I realized that its becoming more and more difficult with every one speaking simultaneously. I was found talking with 4 others at some points and finally I came in with a couple of points (Around 3-4 times) . A couple of new points . My presence was mostly felt in the latter part of the discussion.

Overall - Satisfactory


PI (Around 10 mins)

I was the second one to be interviewed.

There were 2 profs P1 and P2. and ME (M)


P2 - Can I have look at your certificates.

Me - Sure sir... Handed over the certificates

P2 - So Naveen you are working at XXXXX ? Where is it?

Me - It is at Hyderabad sir and I told them some thing about the company.

P2 - How come u r in software company after doing a course in Mechanical Engineering

Me - Some gyaan

P2 - Hmmm.. What do you do in your free time

Me - Told about my extra curriculars - and hobbies


Then on we spoke a lot abt it (for abt 3-4 minutes) and it went on well Suddenly P2 came across a certificate from MICO (Had done my final year project there)


P2 - What did you do at MICO

Me - Explained that we have worked on a SIX SIGMA project at MICO as part of our final year engineering

P2 - SIX Sigma ... Do you remember anything about it?

Me - Told him what Six Sigma is and gave a brief presentation of my project in a couple of mins

P2 - Can you draw a normal curve and explain six sigma

Me - Explained.

P2 - What all do you know about the curve ?

Me - Told him I can tell him abt mean , Cp, Cpk , or equation of the curve(generic one)

P2 - I am not interested in them do you know anything else?

Me - (Thinking...)

P2 - Have u heard of 12 sigma or 10 sigma?

Me - Initially, Told him I fairly remember reading about 7 sigma. But later took back my words saying that I am not sure of it.Couple of more qs followed on the curve (Nothing great)


P1 comes into picture now ---

P1 - What do you want to do in your life.

Me - Some gyaan....

P1 - If you want to be there how will managemnt education help you

Me - Some more gyaan..... Told him what all I can learn and how it is useful(On the hindsight May be could have handled it even better)

P1 - We don't teach anything of that sort at L

Me- ghuma firaake wohi baath bolaa ...

P1 - Are you pursing management out of interest or compulsion

Me - Told good reasons and justified why it is not a compulsion (May be could have done better here also)

P2 and P1 -- Look at each other .... OK , Thank you and do you want to tell any thing about us or ask anything ?

Me- Some small talk and Thanked them....


So feel good factor..... but it is the same for everyone(most of us)

I think they are looking at something beyond what we are looking at !!

Overall , I feel that call from Lucknow will mostly depend on my "LUCK" NOW.


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Blues, Butterflies and finally so simple

Feb15th,2007-

Time - 2PM : Done with my tasks for the day... Knew that it would be hard to concentrate as the day progresses

Time - 5PM : Time to start on a journey... Locked the system ... Collected a printout which had the details of political trivia ....One of my colleague helped me ease out ..... Started off to catch the Bangalore Express

Time - 7PM : Train started .... and few minutes later .... opened the CAT2006 Brochure and went through the Institute pages ... then went through the pre-prepared notes on various topics.... then there were few rehearsals on the regular stuff ... Intro, Why MBA , etc ... Started to feel good and slipped into the much wanted sound sleep

Next day morning - My friend came to Bangalore East to help me out with the proceedings in the city ... He dint utter a word as it all showed on my face ....

Reached Hotel Monarch at 8:30 AM .... walked into waiting hall and with in an hour I realised that the faces in the room are all familiar ... It was like waiting for GD at TIME Ameerpet branch ... Needless to say that I was pretty relaxed and then on the things started looking simple