Through the first time I got their email, I was surprised. One of the largest institutes in the country was taking their interviews through an online video-game-like role playing server? It tickled me even more because the entire process up till this date had been so smooth and seamless that this seemed even more foreign to me. However, I could not hope for a better way because it was handled beautifully.
My interview was held online. It was a very short interview lasting only 5 minutes. Panellists (P1, P2, P3) where P1 was an economics teacher, P2 was a professor in finance and P3 was IITB alumni.
Any aspirant who has gone through the online Personal Interview rounds of a B-school admission process understands how painful the waiting screen is. You sit there emotionless yet anxious, trying to gather your thoughts for the one last time and then thrice more. Seconds feel like minutes and minutes, hours making you consider every worst possible outcome.
I never believed in practice daily, but only that worked for me. I read articles, newspaper and books daily. I make sure I read at least 30 to 50 pages. This is how I cleared all my interview.
It was the 16th of February when I received a mail from SJMSOM – IIT Bombay which included elating news of me getting shortlisted for the Personal Interview Round. After getting rejected from the Top 6 IIMs, this came to me like a ray of hope to study in one of India’s top B-schools. Eventually, I gave my interview which went pretty decent and was offered admission. I am an Electronics Engineer and I joined SJMSOM as a fresher. I scored 99.41 percentile in CAT 2021 and I have a moderate profile with 95-91- 85 in academics. I was excited as well as stressed as I had a lot to learn. One thing that helped me as a fresher was that, I was in touch with my engineering concepts, so I was well prepared to answer them.
Prof 1: Tell me something about yourself- told my prepared answer
As I joined my interview slot on the gather platform, I was amazed to see the interface and creativity that adcom had put into making the online interview process as realistic as possible. We were asked to first sit at the respective tables and provided with the list of interview schedules and document verification schedules. The adcom member one by one led us to the respective interview or document verification rooms and the process was very smooth and everything went as planned. All the adcom members were very helpful in resolving any queries. When I was in the interview room, I was first informed about the panel by an adcom member and was given interview feedback from the person who went in just before me, which was very helpful for me. When I entered the panel room I was welcomed with warm greetings by the professor. then I was asked to give a brief introduction about myself after which the questions were asked on that. The one thing I would like to mention is that various topics like ones from my ug, general awareness and some of my interest subjects, were touched and that too at a great depth. Some of those topics were the ones I included in my introduction but not asked about in my other interviews and when I was asked about them in my interview I was amazed. In the end, I felt very good cause most of my preparation was utilized in that interview. It was one of the most unique experiences that I had and I believe that's also what defines SJMSOM, its uniqueness.
Through the first time I got their email, I was surprised. One of the largest institutes in the country was taking their interviews through an online video-game-like role playing server? It tickled me even more because the entire process up till this date had been so smooth and seamless that this seemed even more foreign to me. However, I could not hope for a better way because it was handled beautifully.
My interview was held online. It was a very short interview lasting only 5 minutes. Panellists (P1, P2, P3) where P1 was an economics teacher, P2 was a professor in finance and P3 was IITB alumni.
Any aspirant who has gone through the online Personal Interview rounds of a B-school admission process understands how painful the waiting screen is. You sit there emotionless yet anxious, trying to gather your thoughts for the one last time and then thrice more. Seconds feel like minutes and minutes, hours making you consider every worst possible outcome.
I never believed in practice daily, but only that worked for me. I read articles, newspaper and books daily. I make sure I read at least 30 to 50 pages. This is how I cleared all my interview.
It was the 16th of February when I received a mail from SJMSOM – IIT Bombay which included elating news of me getting shortlisted for the Personal Interview Round. After getting rejected from the Top 6 IIMs, this came to me like a ray of hope to study in one of India’s top B-schools. Eventually, I gave my interview which went pretty decent and was offered admission. I am an Electronics Engineer and I joined SJMSOM as a fresher. I scored 99.41 percentile in CAT 2021 and I have a moderate profile with 95-91- 85 in academics. I was excited as well as stressed as I had a lot to learn. One thing that helped me as a fresher was that, I was in touch with my engineering concepts, so I was well prepared to answer them.
Prof 1: Tell me something about yourself- told my prepared answer
As I joined my interview slot on the gather platform, I was amazed to see the interface and creativity that adcom had put into making the online interview process as realistic as possible. We were asked to first sit at the respective tables and provided with the list of interview schedules and document verification schedules. The adcom member one by one led us to the respective interview or document verification rooms and the process was very smooth and everything went as planned. All the adcom members were very helpful in resolving any queries. When I was in the interview room, I was first informed about the panel by an adcom member and was given interview feedback from the person who went in just before me, which was very helpful for me. When I entered the panel room I was welcomed with warm greetings by the professor. then I was asked to give a brief introduction about myself after which the questions were asked on that. The one thing I would like to mention is that various topics like ones from my ug, general awareness and some of my interest subjects, were touched and that too at a great depth. Some of those topics were the ones I included in my introduction but not asked about in my other interviews and when I was asked about them in my interview I was amazed. In the end, I felt very good cause most of my preparation was utilized in that interview. It was one of the most unique experiences that I had and I believe that's also what defines SJMSOM, its uniqueness.
