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In this new series, we will bring to you 20 interview experiences every day that you must read. These will give you a much-needed idea of the kind of questions that are been asked across B-Schools in India, and you can prepare accordingly. Irrespective of whether you have received a call from the particular B-School in the list or not, do read the experiences. Hope the interview experiences help you! Read on! " There were two panels. I was the first candidate in the second panel. Around 20 minutes after submitting the AWT I was called in. My legs were shaking in anticipation. There were 2 panelists (P1 and P2) at the video conference. Both were male, probably in their 40s.

P1 - Hello Sejal.
Me - Good afternoon Sir! Should I take off my mask?
P1 - Yes that would make you more comfortable
Me - Sure

(I tried to take off the mask, but it got stuck in the clip at the back of my head…oops! I struggled with it for over a minute while they just stared at me…embarrassment reached the roof)" Read on!

IIM Ahmedabad Interview Experience - 2021, Bhavani Susmitha

" I reached around 7:30 am. IIM Ahmedabad was the only IIM to conduct in-center interviews this year. We were supposed to go to the center, give our AWT and then attend our interview via video conference. Post my Aadhaar verification, I was asked to sit in a room with 10 odd other aspirants. The AWT was supposed to begin at 8:00 am. Other students from my panel were yet to come. Meanwhile, I had memorized some names of the students in my panel from the Aadhaar verification process. So I spent the next 20 minutes analyzing their profiles on Linkedin. I realized I was the only fresher there and got extremely intimidated." Read on!
IIM Bangalore Interview Experience - 2021, Bharghvi Prajapati

" P1: Hi Bharghvi, Good Afternoon
Me: Hi. Good Afternoon. Sir
P1: So, what should we call you? Bharghvi or Prajapati?
Me: It's Bharghvi, Sir
P2: So, Bharghvi you have 2 years of work experience at JPMC, right?
Me: Yes Sir.
P2: In your SOP, I read that you have worked on Blockchain. Have you implemented it within your team?
Me: (delighted by this question) No Sir, not yet. I have pitched the idea of using blockchain in supply chain financing so that the settlement of cross-border payments can be expedited. It is still in the approval process post which we will be able to implement it.

Read on!

IIM Bangalore Interview Experience - 2021, Shivansh Mishra

IIMB Panel 3
25/03/21
3 panelists, M in 50s, F1 in 50s and F2 in 30s(alumnus)
Had a wifi issue initially but they were co-operative about it. Exchanged plesantries
F1: So, Shivansh you are in your final year?
P: Yes, ma'am, I am currently in the 8th semester
F1: So tell me whether you sat for placements?
P: Yeah, I sat for a couple of companies but I could not clear all the rounds.
F1: Okay, so how were online placements different than offline ones.
P: Talked about training programs for online interviews, extra materials and mock interviews.
F1: Your favourite subject is ML? Read on!
IIM Calcutta Interview Experience - 2021, Mihir Dharap

Interview duration: 28 mins
M1: (Wished them a good morning and a Happy Maha Shivratri)
1. Are you following any updates or something today? (Told that I am celebrating the festival personally but know about my culture and also have a holiday in my office today)
2. Where are you currently working?
3. What challenges did you face in your job and how did you tackle them?
4. Why do you want to do an MBA?
5. Why do you want to work on product management?
6. Which part of it?


IIM Calcutta Interview Experience - 2021, Anushka Saha

Started with them verifying my ID proof.
PI & P2: Good morning!
P1: So you're pursuing your undergrad in commerce?
Me: Yes ma'am.
P1: So what subjects do you have this semester?
Me: told, also mentioned that classes for this semester just began 2 days back
P1: And what about last semester?
Me: told
P1: So we can ask you about these subjects since you've just studied them recently?


IIM Indore Interview Experience - 2021, Shambhavi Mukund Joshi

Panel - 2 male professors and 1 alum
25 - 30 min interview
1) P1: Tell us why MBA and how did your interest develop? (Told)
2) P1: Give an example where a bio innovation did not reach the market? (Said I know 2 but would give you the Indian example - Florida Tilton's biofilm inhibitor and how it gestated for about 5 years before her company got a grant to productize the innovation.
3) P1: So you are saying that these ideas gestate for some years but eventually make it to the market right? (Said that it is not true with all novel innovations and gave example of what R.T.Krishnan, IIM B director had said in 2004 conference and also how IIM B had helped such bio innovations to scale up their businesses in 2020).


IIM Indore Interview Experience - 2021, Avneesh Kumar 

M1: So Avneesh, you work with Praxis? When did you graduate? When joined company?
Me: Graduated from DTU in 2019, Mechanical engineering. Joined Praxis Global Alliance in 2019, right out of college, as a Business Analyst.
M1: So, it’s a management consulting firm. What work did you do there – responsibilities, achievements?
Me: As a business analyst, worked across a plethora of projects – Commercial due diligence for a PE firm investing in the premium beer company, an international market expansion for leading auto classifieds player entering the Philippines, Survey projects for Singapore-based VC firm, Strategy piece for a leading food-tech company, etc. Responsibilities – Ownership of the entire workstream, I was working on – could be Market Attractiveness, Customer value proposition, etc. Answering client questions given in the scope…..


IIM Lucknow Interview Experience - 2021, Mridul Gupta

Date & Time: 3:27 PM,6th March
Checked my Aadhar Card

Interviewer: Tell me about yourself Me: I am Mridul; I come from Jaipur, Rajasthan. I did my schooling in the same city. After school, I went to Guwahati, Assam, to pursue my bachelor's in Mechanical Engineering at IIT Guwahati. Apart from academics, I was also a part of several extra-curricular activities when I was there. Some of them were being part of the basketball club and UG Senator. A UG senator is one of the seven representatives of the UG student body. While in college, I had an opportunity to work with ITC Limited as an intern. While on the internship, I worked to reduce quality defects in one of their products. I significantly reduced the defect occurrence, and based on my performance; I was offered an opportunity to work full-time with the company. One year later, I joined the company as Assistant Manager-Operations. I started to work for the Notebooks category, which works on a third-Party convertor manufacturing model. Initially, I looked after institutional operations, later I moved to GT operations, and I currently work in the same role. Interviewer: Tell me about your family. Me: My family lives in Rajasthan. My Father has a business, my mother is a housewife, and my brother is a CA. Interviewer: What were your activities outside the campus. Me: In my first year, as a part of our technical festival Techniche, we used to go to the village next to our college and teach government school students on Sundays.

IIM Lucknow Interview Experience - 2021, Rohit Tevnan

4. So you work on ETL tools? Yes sir

5. What are the other ETL tools? I named 3 of them.

6. Which of these is based on the Gartner Magic Quadrant? I said no idea, not heard of this term before.

7. What is transformation when I said you say ETL? I just gave an example of converting the data as per client requirement wherein say, for example, you have PIN Code, 400000, I can transform the data to add space in between. 400 000.

8. He then asked if the PIN Code was just a number? I said Yes

9. He asked where I stayed and its PIN Code. I told

10. He told me his PIN Code and asked me to subtract. I asked him to repeat his PIN Code. Quickly subtracted it and gave an answer.


IIM Kozhikode Interview Experience - 2021, Anshu Choudhary

P1: So Anshu you are in the process A: Yes, Sir finally! Good Morning. P1: Give a brief introduction about yourself. A: My name is Anshu Kumar Choudhary. I was born in a small village called Karhagola Road in the Katihar district of Bihar and brought up in Odisha. I did my schooling from Odisha as well and currently, I am pursuing Bcom(H) from PGDAV, DU though I had science in my intermediate. I have always been an active child since my school days like I won a few sports competitions at the school level and even in college I am an active member of various clubs and societies like NSS, Enactus. I am also the Vice-President of the Career Counseling Club of my college. In the past I have incorporated activities with the intention of contributing back to society like while staying at my village, I have been teaching in a school and some underprivileged children and am trying to figure out the problems the kids are facing and how I can contribute after doing MBA and that's my main long term purpose to do MBA now.

IIM Kozhikode Interview Experience - 2021, Jotpreet Singh

My interview time was 4.30 pm. I was in shorts and a T-shirt at 3.40 pm when my phone rang. A female voice ensued. “This is Jotpreet?” I replied “yes”. She continued “I’m calling from the IIM Kozhikode admissions team. You have an interview scheduled. Can you appear for it at 3.50 pm?” (Are you out of your mind. Here I am in shorts and making tea and you’re asking me if you could prepone the interview). “That would be a bit difficult ma’am.” She said “Try to come by 4. We will arrange the interview between 4 and 4.30 pm”

FMS Interview experience - 2021, Karthik Raghuram

Overall experience: This was an online interview. Although it was scheduled between 9 to 11, my turn came at 11 30. It was a rather short interview. The panel was very hurried and looked to finish the interviews quickly. As I was already experienced in giving interviews, I was calm and confident.

Panel: Male prof (M), Female prof (F).
M: Good morning Karthik.
Me: Good morning sir.
M: Start with where you did your graduation? Where are you working? Why MBA and why at FMS?
Me: All in a go sir?
M: Yes, don't you know we have marks for your SOP?
Me: Yes sir, I will start.
*Gave a brief answer touching all the questions*.
F: Okay Karthik, let's move on to the extempore. Your topic is “Build to Last”.
Me: *starting to write something on paper".
F: You are not allowed to write anything down. Look at the camera, think for the 20sec, and speak for a minute.


FMS Interview Experience - 2021, Arkadip Das

P1: What are your thoughts on turbulence in life, business, nation?
Me: The stock market rise and fall is a good example of turbulence in business. In fact, researchers are attempting to model it using turbulence models used in fluid mechanics with some modifications. The highs and lows which we all face during our life journey can be referred to as turbulence. Covid 19 is the obvious example of turbulence in the nation which has disrupted our life in every possible way.

P1: Okay. Excellent. I was wondering if they teach you to build a plane in your course?
Me: Yes sir. In fact, I have designed a full-scale model of a 6 seater propeller-driven aircraft.

P1: Can you brief me about how the materials used to manufacture the plane evolved over time?
Me: Talked about the early 1930s, the structure, some historical crashes. The wooden structure, then the steel, then Al alloys, and in future composites. Talked about the advantages and disadvantages of composites.


XLRI Interview experience - 2021, Shazia Rahman

P1 - What did you do during graduation other than studying?
Me - Mentioned my passion for sports. How there are annual inter-faculty sports championships held every year and I was the winner of the badminton championship all 4 years of my graduation. Also, mentioned that during my school days I was a State level Volleyball and Badminton player
P1 - And now you're working at ZS Associates? Was it a campus placement? Are you still working there?
Me - Yes, it was a campus placement. I'm still working at ZS and I have mostly been doing Market Research projects.
P2 - You must have given an interview for ZS? What did you like about it? What have you prepared for today based on learnings from that interview?
Me - Told him that I was able to secure 3 campus placements but made the conscious choice of joining ZS since working there required a good mix of both qualitative and quantitative skills (and not just technical skills), the type of work involves management and client interaction even at entry-level positions, which gives people good exposure and networking opportunities. Told him that in terms of preparations for today - I have reflected back upon my past experiences - what went well, what could have been better, what learnings I can use if something similar happens in the future. Also, one of the learnings from my ZS interview is that we should try to be well informed about the company/college/position we're applying for.

XLRI Interview Experience - 2021, Supratik Sinha

PI & P2- There were 2 panelists. Both Male.

P1:
1. So, Jadavpur University. Mention your WBJEE rank. What other calls?
Me: I replied with my academic profile in undergrad and entrance exams. And told him about other calls that I had.
2. Mention your preference.
Me: Mentioned XLRI BM, IIM L, and XLRI HR
3. What are your hobbies?
Me: Told about writing poetry and recited some.
4. You write or do you read as well? Which language?
Me: Mentioned English, and had a discussion about renaissance poetry.
5. Byron Shelley Wordsworth Keats. Categorize their works in terms of melancholy and monotony
Me: Couldn't give a convincing answer on monotony. Mentioned that it wouldn't stand in the way of your selection, just asking from personal interest.


IIM Shillong Interview experience - 2021, Rahul

For IIM Shillong interview happened online on Zoom due to Covid. There were 2 Professors, 1 Male, and 1 Female. First Male Professor asked questions and after that Female professor asked questions.

Questions asked by Male Professor:
1. Tell me something special about your college.
2. What exactly is your job profile and scope of work?
3. How the product your company makes is different from its competitors?
4. Question on Space X Robotics development ( I clearly said I am not aware of the development then he said OK and moved to the next question)


IIM Shillong Interview experience - 2021,Pavan Satpute

2 Panelists: 1M,1F
M: So pavan you have done BTech? working at Atlas Copco?
Me: Yes to all.
M: You had maths in engineering?
Me: Yes differential calculus, used in vibration analysis.
M: So tell me about electric technology in vehicles?
Me: Told about how electric vehicles come somewhat late in India as compared to the USA etc (because of Tesla). But it's gaining trend in India too. Also told how it's affecting the ICE market too. Hybrid cars are used, energy is recovered from devices like MGUH, MGUK, etc.


IIFT GD-PI-WAT Interview Experience | Ft. Shaurya Prasad IIFT D'22 "I told them how running various social projects in college gave me a mini experience of how an organisation functions and that I would like to delve deeper and learn more about the same. Having participated in various undergraduate finance case competitions, I told them about my interest in the domain and how MBA would help me expand my horizon and build a career in that field."

IIFT GD-PI-WAT Interview Experience | Ft. Nishant Thakur IIFT K'22

Q1. Tell me about yourself.
A1. I gave the prepared answer, focussing on my job experience, and mentioning my hobbies and interests.
Q2. Why IIFT?
A2. I gave the prepared answer, relating it to my interests in trade and international business. I have a work ex in sales profile working for a trading firm, and hence, mentioned that I would like to build on these experiences in a structured way through IIFT. I also mentioned a few subjects that were part of the curriculum, as well as the port visits that IIFT provides to all students, and my interest in the same.
Q3. What do you search for in a customer?
A3. Asked mainly because of my sales role in the job. Gave my answer giving examples from my past experience, ie, how I searched for customers in one of the green territories assigned to me. Since the whole searching process was a vital part of my job profile, I was quite prepared and confident. I also tried to blend in my strengths in my answer, showing how I managed to deal with different types of customers of different scales, each requiring a different approach.