IIM Shillong interview experience
Venue: Monarch Luxur Hotel, 67, Infantry Road, Tasker Town, Shivaji Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560001
Date and Time : 08 Mar 2019, 08:45 AM
CAT18 Score : 99.88
Class 10 = 91.xx
Class 12 = 86.xx
Engineering : 82.xx
Work Experience : 30 completed months as Software Engineer
Just attendance, No Document Verification, direct Case discussion.
Case : Middle class family needs to buy car and there are 3 options.
Discussion was for 10 minutes
Case Dis. timings : 2:10 : 2:30 pm.
Case Dis. prep : 0/5
Case Dis. performance : 1.5/5
One person made complete raita of the situation, rest folks were fine. Truly horrible discussion with no final solution.
I was the fourth to be interviewed in the panel. Total 9 candidates were to be interviewed by my panel.
All people before me had very chilled 20 mins interviews. After every interview they waited for 2-3 mins to assess and then call the next guy.
There were 2 panelists, one male professor who was about 35 years old and another male professor of about 45 years of age.
I was immediately asked for the documents which I was carrying.
Q1: What do you know about South China Sea? Which countries have interest in it? Why it is so important for China? India has something to do with it?
Ans : Spoke very little , they were not pleased.
Q2: List all the stakeholders in Ayodhya matter?
Ans: Named 2. They asked only 2? I said IDK.
Q3: You know something about tension in middle east??
Ans: Spoke 1-liner, he was disgusted and rolled his eyes.
Q4. I'm sure you don't have any idea about 'some_place_I_dont_know'?
And : Nope. Never heard.
Q5: Any idea about history of your company??
Ans : Spoke at great length. They had lost interest by this point of time.
Q6: Have you met the founder/CEO of your company? When was the last time he was in India? ?
Ans : Told.
Q7. What impresses you about your CEO?
Ans : Told along with reasons. (spoke something like cryptocurrency somewhere in between)
Q8: Any idea about bitcoins and how their technology is useful?
Ans: Yes, with some random gyan. They started rolling their eyes again.
Q9 : Tell me the steps to trade/buy cryptocurrency.
Ans : Told them about Unicoin exchange and how they can register, buy and sell. There is some commission involved. They were listening with great attention. They asked if I ever traded? I said no. They asked for stocks? I replied in negative. They asked me about any other investments? I told them a few, which were very safe and very little. They told, you are an old school guy, I replied my money is 'very hard earned'. They laughed. I smiled.
Q10. Explain binary tree.
Ans : Told. Example of why it is more efficient in searching. Gave example of my company directory. They were disinterested.
Q11 : Explain circular link list with example.?
Ans : Defined with poor example.
Q12 : Why MBA??
Ans : Was telling this in great lengths when they saw my score card in the extra documents which I was carrying in a big envelope. They told me to get up, not letting me finish the sentence, and leave.
Panelists : Leave now. Take a toffee. I asked if I can take 2? They agreed, I picked 2 and left.
Duration : 10 minutes maybe?
Worst part : They did not even take 5 seconds to assess me and called the next candidate within 10 secs of me leaving the room.
Bridges burnt.
Interview Prep : 4/5
Interview performance : 1/5
Update :
Verdict : Straight convert, won't be joining.
Venue: Monarch Luxur Hotel, 67, Infantry Road, Tasker Town, Shivaji Nagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560001
Date and Time : 08 Mar 2019, 08:45 AM
CAT18 Score : 99.88
Class 10 = 91.xx
Class 12 = 86.xx
Engineering : 82.xx
Work Experience : 30 completed months as Software Engineer
Just attendance, No Document Verification, direct Case discussion.
Case : Middle class family needs to buy car and there are 3 options.
Discussion was for 10 minutes
Case Dis. timings : 2:10 : 2:30 pm.
Case Dis. prep : 0/5
Case Dis. performance : 1.5/5
One person made complete raita of the situation, rest folks were fine. Truly horrible discussion with no final solution.
I was the fourth to be interviewed in the panel. Total 9 candidates were to be interviewed by my panel.
All people before me had very chilled 20 mins interviews. After every interview they waited for 2-3 mins to assess and then call the next guy.
There were 2 panelists, one male professor who was about 35 years old and another male professor of about 45 years of age.
I was immediately asked for the documents which I was carrying.
Q1: What do you know about South China Sea? Which countries have interest in it? Why it is so important for China? India has something to do with it?
Ans : Spoke very little , they were not pleased.
Q2: List all the stakeholders in Ayodhya matter?
Ans: Named 2. They asked only 2? I said IDK.
Q3: You know something about tension in middle east??
Ans: Spoke 1-liner, he was disgusted and rolled his eyes.
Q4. I'm sure you don't have any idea about 'some_place_I_dont_know'?
And : Nope. Never heard.
Q5: Any idea about history of your company??
Ans : Spoke at great length. They had lost interest by this point of time.
Q6: Have you met the founder/CEO of your company? When was the last time he was in India? ?
Ans : Told.
Q7. What impresses you about your CEO?
Ans : Told along with reasons. (spoke something like cryptocurrency somewhere in between)
Q8: Any idea about bitcoins and how their technology is useful?
Ans: Yes, with some random gyan. They started rolling their eyes again.
Q9 : Tell me the steps to trade/buy cryptocurrency.
Ans : Told them about Unicoin exchange and how they can register, buy and sell. There is some commission involved. They were listening with great attention. They asked if I ever traded? I said no. They asked for stocks? I replied in negative. They asked me about any other investments? I told them a few, which were very safe and very little. They told, you are an old school guy, I replied my money is 'very hard earned'. They laughed. I smiled.
Q10. Explain binary tree.
Ans : Told. Example of why it is more efficient in searching. Gave example of my company directory. They were disinterested.
Q11 : Explain circular link list with example.?
Ans : Defined with poor example.
Q12 : Why MBA??
Ans : Was telling this in great lengths when they saw my score card in the extra documents which I was carrying in a big envelope. They told me to get up, not letting me finish the sentence, and leave.
Panelists : Leave now. Take a toffee. I asked if I can take 2? They agreed, I picked 2 and left.
Duration : 10 minutes maybe?
Worst part : They did not even take 5 seconds to assess me and called the next candidate within 10 secs of me leaving the room.
Bridges burnt.
Interview Prep : 4/5
Interview performance : 1/5
Update :
Verdict : Straight convert, won't be joining.
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