SPJIMR Group Interview Experience 2022
WAT (Slot 2) : How is empathy applicable in our day-to-day lives? Give examples
GI 1
Specialization - Finance
Panelists - Prof. Lijo John and Prof. Sushmita Srivastava
Other Students - 1 IM and 1 Marketing.
Profile - X - 95, XII - 95.4, Grad 94.2 (B. Tech Production Engineering at NIT Trichy)
Work Experience - Business Analyst at Citicorp since July 2021 (4 months)
Prof. Lijo:
1) Why production to finance?
2) What have you learned in your 4 months at Citi?
3) What is wealth management?
4) What roles do you wish to pursue post MBA?
5) What are the major asset classes?
6) How would you decide what investment is best for an investor?
7) A HNI with a 10 Lac investment wishes to make an investment. What asset class would you suggest?
8) Following up to Qn 7, what would you suggest if he's willing to take higher risks.
9) What are the various asset classes in both debt and equity? 10) Which equity asset class is high risk and which one is low risk?
11) Do you involve yourself in financial conversations in your house? What significant contribution have you added to your family's way of investing?
12) Since you're from a production background, What is Lean?
13) What is Waste?
14) What are the types of waste? (Following up, do you know what is TIM WOOD)
Prof. Sushmita:
1) Why did you not pursue a career in Operations, Lean, or Supply Chain?
2) What is the Agile Manifesto?
3) How is Agile incorporated in the finance sector? (Answered in relation to Citi)
4) Over the last week, the Indian stock market has been crashing. Any reason why, according to you?
GI 2
Panelists - Prof. Jyothi Jagasia and Prof. Renuka Kamath
Other students - 3 IM and 1 Fin (Me)
1) Introductions
2) A colleague of yours reported an expense for something he didn't spend for and the company's HR has approached you for your opinion on him. Your company has a zero-tolerance policy and it is proven that he made that error. What's your stance?
3) In many Indian households, women are serving as housewives either voluntarily or are being forced to. But again, corporate jobs take up a lot of time, and women often also complain that they aren't able to spend more time with their children. What is your take on this?
4) Looking at your form B, I see that you wish for the time machine to never be invented. Why is that so?
5) You're the boss of a company and an employee of yours arrives late almost every single day. He complains that the traffic in the city is delaying him. How would you resolve this issue? (They suggested options ranging from firing him to letting go of this issue and expected a viewpoint of ours).
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