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P1: Have you completed your graduation?
Me: No
P1: So what are you pursuing and from where?
Me: Answered
P1: Are you doing any projects in college?
Me: Shared my project details
P1: So you have studied Computer Networks?
Me: Yes Sir
P1 then went on to ask questions on networks for roughly 10 mins, asked about different layers, their role. Also went on to ask about Analog to Digital converter, in which layer it is, where is sequencing done, how will it hamper.
1. What are multicore processors? What is their architecture? RISC in computer architecture.
2. What is back piping in Linux?
3. When you open multiple tabs in windows, it hangs. Why do users have to close the tabs and OS doesn't handle the stuff itself?
4. What is array decay? How do windows handle array decay? What is memory leakage? What happens during memory leakage?
5. What are semaphores?
M2: Hi Sanjana
P- Good afternoon sir.
M2: Good afternoon! No, wait it's almost good evening.
P: (Almost taken aback) Umm. Yes sir, Good evening.
M2: Tell us something about yourself.
P: Told well-prepared answer. But for some reason, they did not ask anything so I blurted out a thank you.
M2: You finished the interview already ( Both laughing like crazy)
P: No sir, I just…….( Laughed with them a bit)
P1: So normally the reverse repo rate is kept at 3.75 percentage points. But suddenly the RBI went ahead and reduced it to 3.35 percentage points. Why do you think the RBI did this?
Me: Spoke about how it wanted to stimulate the economy by reducing the cost of investment to overcome the pandemic's impact. (He didn't look very convinced)
P1: Yes that's the general reason. What does the reverse repo mean?
Me: Answered that as it is the rate at which commercial banks park their excess deposits with the central bank.
1. Tell me something about your work ex
2. Do you like your current job? Why do you want to leave it?
3. So why do you want to do an MBA?
4. How do you think you will succeed in an MBA?
5. What was your rank in college?
6. You have mentioned C, C++ in your form (I hadn’t, idk why they said so), how good are you at those? (Told that I use C in my day-to-day work as that is the best for coding hardwares and a bit of python. Have exposure to C++ and Java from college days but have lost touch)
Me: Good Evening, Sir.
P3: Hi Akshika, seems like we kept you waiting for quite a long time, you look nervous. Have some water if you want.
Me: Smiled and said, “Thank you, Sir, I'm fine” (which I was not, totally!)
P1: Okay then let's start the interview. Akshika, you're doing Btech, right?
Me: Yes sir, I'm in my final year.
P1: So did you sit for your campus placements or yet to appear for those?
(I wanted to go like, LoL, we don't do that stuff at our college - Pantnagar people can understand)
Me: No sir, I didn't. Actually, we don't have a lot many(saying zilch would have been very depressing) companies coming to our campus. There were a few that traced us through online mediums but I didn't go for those.
M1- From where are you joining for this interview?
Me- Sir currently I am in my home town Alwar, Rajasthan.
M1- Tell me something about important or famous things from your city?
Me- Told, so while telling them I told them about the Bhangarh fort in Alwar and stated that it is the fourth most haunted place in the world and the most haunted place in Asia.
M1- How can you say it is the most haunted place in Asia, on what parameters these rankings were given?
Me- Sir I am not sure about the parameters, perhaps from real-life experiences or observations.
M1- You are an electrical engineer use that knowledge and tell me.
Me- Told them about the variations in the magnetic fields and how there are devices that are used to measure these variations like magnetometers and electromagnetic field detectors.
M1- Okay, so tell me what did you learn in Jaipur apart from engineering?
M1: How do you know who is buying your product?
A: Sir, there is a pixel attached to both our account and website, that pixel tracks all the data about the customers like how much time they are spending, which category of a page they are visiting and many more help us in understanding the buyer's journey and in future it helps us in retargeting. Also, by Facebook analytics, we get all the data about the customer’s age group, place, and type of device they used to buy.
M1: So you know data analytics?
A: No sir.
M1: Then how do you analyse the data?
A: There is a feature known as account overview in Facebook business manager, from there we can export data about the demographics of our customers.
M1: What is the unit of strength?
Q2. Why didn't you finish your Ph.D.?
A. Explained that my research work was not going so well in the last leg. Although I had finished two papers the second paper still needed more refinement and I had not started on the third paper. Additionally, my teaching experience gave me an insight that this was not something I enjoyed doing so much and would like to stop. All this motivated me not to further extend my contract beyond June 2019, and thus I came back home.
Q3. What were your research areas?
A. Microfinance and International Trade. Also explained the Randomized Control Trial I helped run on the field in Nairobi.
Q4. What did you do in Microfinance?
A. I worked on setting up lending contracts that are self-enforcing and don't require collateral, a feature prevalent in micro-finance. The Model assumes homogeneous agents where the group member chooses to work diligently and monitor his partner(costly peer monitoring) to ensure compliance. I extend the multi-agent principal-agent model with costly peer monitoring developed in Carli & Uras (2017) by relaxing the assumption of perfect monitoring. The core result of one of the agents receiving a higher expected return to compensate for higher volatility is preserved, albeit under more stringent conditions. Finally, I evaluate a threshold level of imperfect monitoring beyond which a sustainable joint-liability contract is no longer feasible.