Interview Experiences

My Interview Experience At SJMSOM, IIT Bombay, 2021 - Souvik Chakraborty

After appearing for several interviews this season, I can undoubtedly say that SJMSOM had the best online interview setup of all. The typical format of an online personal interview this season had us all waiting in front of the screen, aimlessly staring at the “Please wait, the panelists will let you in soon” message that appeared over the white background. SJMSOM did things differently, however. The admissions team made use of an application called 'Gather'. Think of it as a 2-dimensional waiting lobby with fun characters that could move around and travel from one room to the next. This change was a welcome one and added enormous flavour to the otherwise mundane process.

Souvik Chakraborty14 Jul 2021

Interview Experience At SJMSOM, IIT B - Utkarsh Singhania

My Interview experience at SJMSOM, IIT B 2021-2023

Utkarsh Singhania14 Jul 2021

Interview Experience With SJMSOM, IIT Bombay - Udit Gaur

I was a GEM mechanical engineering fresher with a CAT percentile of 99.38 (VARC 98.53, DILR 98.75 and QUANT 97.35). I received calls from NITIE, IIM Shillong, CAP calls and SJMSOM IIT Bombay. So practically SJMSOM was the best call that I had and I put my all into preparing for it. Among all these calls, SJMSOM interview experience was the most unique and closest to the original offline experience that people had before the pandemic. The admissions committee arranged the interviews on a platform called ‘gather’ which simulated an interview center online. All the participants were supposed to choose an avatar and that avatar marked our position in the virtual interview center. There were helpdesks, auditorium, lobby and everything that you can think of in an interview center simulated online. In the auditorium we were seated in groups of nearly 10 people along with a mentor. All the participants in that group interacted with each other and that really helped in reducing the anxiety and fear before the interview. After the document verification (which in itself was a short and smooth process) we were headed to the interview rooms. My chance came and I entered the meeting. It was a panel of 3- 2 professors and an alumnus. They had their videos off so I don’t really remember if that part was right or not. The questions started with my introduction. I was asked about my experiences in graduation and my final year project. Being a fresher, I was also asked about basic mechanical engineering questions like regarding thermodynamics and strength of materials followed by questions about hardness testing. The point that I think was the turning point of the interview was when the professor probed me with the physics of football. He asked me about the swing that is generated in the ball due to magnus effect and kept on grilling me on the same until I couldn’t answer. I thought that I had ruined my interview but eventually got admission in the institute.

Udit Gaur14 Jul 2021

SJMSOM Interview Experience - Ayan Jyoti Dutta

My Interview Experience at SJMSOM was one of the best, if not the best, interview experiences I have gone through during my entire B-school interview season. Despite the mode of the interview being online due to the ongoing pandemic situation throughout the country, SJMSOM was able to pull out the most interactive and efficient interview experience through a platform called “Gather”.

Ayan Jyoti Dutta14 Jul 2021

Interview Experience At SJMSOM

The SJMSOM interview process completely stood out from the remaining interviews that I had attended for admissions to different colleges. The admissions team made use of an online platform called Gather. Everyone had an avatar of their own choice on the platform allowing to walk around and talk to other people. The platform reminded me of the days I used to play Supermario.

Govind Chemmandoor14 Jul 2021

My Interview Experience At IIT Bombay SJMSOM

Before I share my experience regarding my interview at IIT Bombay SJMSOM, I would specifically mention that SJMSOM has the most seamless process before, during & after the interview. SJMSOM admission team instead of conducting interviews on zoom came up with an amazing gather platform which was really the out of box concept. The platform could bring us back to our childhood days when everyone would have played Mario video games. Everyone in the interview process ( aspirants & Adcom team) were having one Mario character & we need to navigate with the help of our keyboard control to go into the virtual auditorium, to attend document verification & to enter in to interview room. This experience was really special & unique.

Shantanu Kulkarni14 Jul 2021

SJMSOM's Interview Experience - Manan Dharsandia

SJMSOM’s interview was the last interview of my MBA ’21 admissions season. The entire interview process was online which was carried out on the ‘Gather’ platform (this platform gave one of the smoothest experiences to all the candidates as it provided features to interact with the other candidates as well as to the adcom members). After waiting for an hour I was sent into the interview room. There were 2 Alumni of the institute and 1 Faculty member in the interviewer’s panel.

Manan Dharsandia14 Jul 2021

A Fresher's Journey Into SJMSOM IIT Bombay - Ananda Roy Chowdhury

Being a fresher with no work ex, and also having a gap year post my BTech, I was told that my chances of getting an interview at IIT Bombay, was going to be impossible. I could have calculated the profile shortlisting scores and then have an expectation regarding my interview chances but I did not. I was relaxed and just hoped for the best. Maybe subconsciously I had believed that this shot was never going to matter.

Ananda Roy Chowdhury14 Jul 2021