CAP interview experience
Venue: Monarch Luxur Hotel, 67, Infantry Road, Tasker Town, Shivaji Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560001
Date and Time : 13 Feb 2019, 12:45 PM
CAT18 Score : 99.88
Class 10 = 91.xx
Class 12 = 86.xx
Engineering : 82.xx
Work Experience : 30 completed months as Software Engineer
No Document Verification, direct WAT
WAT Topic : Too much scrutiny by activists and constant media glare has been the concern for courts and judiciary. Comment. (Not verbatim, but this is the gist. It was a small paragraph rather than a phrase)
WAT was for 20 minutes with 300 words as the limit. A big A4 sized sheet was provided and we could write on both sides.
WAT timings : 2:10 : 2:30 pm.
WAT prep : 3/5
WAT performance : 1.5/5 (Had no points to write but managed somehow.)
NO GD.
I was the first to be interviewed in the panel. Total 16 candidates were to be interviewed by my panel.
I was waiting for the interview to start from 2:30 till 3:15 pm. I was really impatient since other panels had interviewed 1-2 candidates each by the time I was called.
There were 3 panelists, one male professor who was about 60 years old, another male professor of about 40 years of age and one alumni who was about 30 years old (and he never spoke).
I was not asked for the documents which I was carrying and kept those on a table nearby. They only asked for my degree and engineering marksheets.
Q1: At Dell, what do you do?
And : My team works on a product which collects health information of device and predict failures, saving critical data for organizations and individuals due to system and software crashes.
Q2: Can I register for the product? How? Costs involved?
Ans: Told the exact functioning and told them the cost depends on so many factors, can't tell you the exact pricing.
Q3: Your gross salary is xxxxx per month. Which corresponds to Y LPA. Your total cost of mba would be 15L(fee) + 2*Y, which I think is not very good decision considering the placements. What do you have to say?
Ans: Sir, I think it is an investment and not an expenditure. A career of 30 years is based on this, hence willing to make sacrifice. They counterquestoned if I am really planning to work for 30 years and not retire soon? I said, why not work till you can? They laughed hard.
Q4. What will you learn here?
And : Subjects taught, will help become product manager.
Q5: Explain data privacy and data snooping?
Ans : Privacy told. Snooping? I had no idea, told them I don't know.
Q6: Okay guess what is snooping?
Ans : Looking at things which you are not supposed to? He said, I was almost correct and decided to move on.
Q7. How long have you been in Bangalore?
Ans : Told along with where I did my grad and my schooling and hometown.
Q8: Explain what product managers do? And other industries where they are needed?
Ans: Yes, with some random gyan.
Q9. Rate Modi tenure out of 10.
Ans : I started with budget, they stopped me and said base your answer on 4 years. 7/10.
Q10 : Why 7?
Ans : Told 7 good points, 2 negative. They asked for 1 more negative, I blabbered something which made no sense.
Q11 : You said GST as a badly executed plan. Care to explain?
Ans : How business folks had to maintain 2 books rather than 1 since it was launched on 1 Jul and not 1 Apr.
Q12 : What would have been a better date?
Ans : 1 Apr?
Q13 : You mean 9 months later?
Ans : 3 months early was possible too, right?
Q14 : There were operational challenges, 1 Jul was the best they could have started. What do you think was the best possible date?
Ans : Not sure sir.
Q15 : Do all organizations in India start their FY on 1 Apr?
Ans : I think so. (They started laughing. I said, I am not sure.) Told them that Dell as a company starts in Feb in US. They told me that I am wrong. I told them substantial proof that they indeed start in feb. They said 'It's impossible' or something like that and were displeased.
Q16 : Your hobbies?
Ans : Trek, Cooking and cricket.
Q17 : What do you cook?
Ans : Same pulao story with friends on sunday. They laughed very very hard. I joined them in. The alumni said, 'typical bachelors'. They said I am a forced cook and asked me how I developed this hobby. Told them with some witty comments.
Panelists : We are done. Do you have any questions for us?
Mayur : Nope, thanks.
Panelists : Thanks Mayur. That's it.
Duration : 15-18 minutes.
Interview Prep : 4/5
Interview performance : 4/5, Financial illiteracy was very much visible, the rest of the interview was totally peaceful.
Venue: Monarch Luxur Hotel, 67, Infantry Road, Tasker Town, Shivaji Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560001
Date and Time : 13 Feb 2019, 12:45 PM
CAT18 Score : 99.88
Class 10 = 91.xx
Class 12 = 86.xx
Engineering : 82.xx
Work Experience : 30 completed months as Software Engineer
No Document Verification, direct WAT
WAT Topic : Too much scrutiny by activists and constant media glare has been the concern for courts and judiciary. Comment. (Not verbatim, but this is the gist. It was a small paragraph rather than a phrase)
WAT was for 20 minutes with 300 words as the limit. A big A4 sized sheet was provided and we could write on both sides.
WAT timings : 2:10 : 2:30 pm.
WAT prep : 3/5
WAT performance : 1.5/5 (Had no points to write but managed somehow.)
NO GD.
I was the first to be interviewed in the panel. Total 16 candidates were to be interviewed by my panel.
I was waiting for the interview to start from 2:30 till 3:15 pm. I was really impatient since other panels had interviewed 1-2 candidates each by the time I was called.
There were 3 panelists, one male professor who was about 60 years old, another male professor of about 40 years of age and one alumni who was about 30 years old (and he never spoke).
I was not asked for the documents which I was carrying and kept those on a table nearby. They only asked for my degree and engineering marksheets.
Q1: At Dell, what do you do?
And : My team works on a product which collects health information of device and predict failures, saving critical data for organizations and individuals due to system and software crashes.
Q2: Can I register for the product? How? Costs involved?
Ans: Told the exact functioning and told them the cost depends on so many factors, can't tell you the exact pricing.
Q3: Your gross salary is xxxxx per month. Which corresponds to Y LPA. Your total cost of mba would be 15L(fee) + 2*Y, which I think is not very good decision considering the placements. What do you have to say?
Ans: Sir, I think it is an investment and not an expenditure. A career of 30 years is based on this, hence willing to make sacrifice. They counterquestoned if I am really planning to work for 30 years and not retire soon? I said, why not work till you can? They laughed hard.
Q4. What will you learn here?
And : Subjects taught, will help become product manager.
Q5: Explain data privacy and data snooping?
Ans : Privacy told. Snooping? I had no idea, told them I don't know.
Q6: Okay guess what is snooping?
Ans : Looking at things which you are not supposed to? He said, I was almost correct and decided to move on.
Q7. How long have you been in Bangalore?
Ans : Told along with where I did my grad and my schooling and hometown.
Q8: Explain what product managers do? And other industries where they are needed?
Ans: Yes, with some random gyan.
Q9. Rate Modi tenure out of 10.
Ans : I started with budget, they stopped me and said base your answer on 4 years. 7/10.
Q10 : Why 7?
Ans : Told 7 good points, 2 negative. They asked for 1 more negative, I blabbered something which made no sense.
Q11 : You said GST as a badly executed plan. Care to explain?
Ans : How business folks had to maintain 2 books rather than 1 since it was launched on 1 Jul and not 1 Apr.
Q12 : What would have been a better date?
Ans : 1 Apr?
Q13 : You mean 9 months later?
Ans : 3 months early was possible too, right?
Q14 : There were operational challenges, 1 Jul was the best they could have started. What do you think was the best possible date?
Ans : Not sure sir.
Q15 : Do all organizations in India start their FY on 1 Apr?
Ans : I think so. (They started laughing. I said, I am not sure.) Told them that Dell as a company starts in Feb in US. They told me that I am wrong. I told them substantial proof that they indeed start in feb. They said 'It's impossible' or something like that and were displeased.
Q16 : Your hobbies?
Ans : Trek, Cooking and cricket.
Q17 : What do you cook?
Ans : Same pulao story with friends on sunday. They laughed very very hard. I joined them in. The alumni said, 'typical bachelors'. They said I am a forced cook and asked me how I developed this hobby. Told them with some witty comments.
Panelists : We are done. Do you have any questions for us?
Mayur : Nope, thanks.
Panelists : Thanks Mayur. That's it.
Duration : 15-18 minutes.
Interview Prep : 4/5
Interview performance : 4/5, Financial illiteracy was very much visible, the rest of the interview was totally peaceful.
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