Tuesday 12 March 2019

MDI PGPM 2019 interview experience

MDI PGPM 2019 interview experience

Venue: Hotel Pai Viceroy, Jayanagar, 1504, 16th Cross, 9th Main Road, Jayanagar East, Jayanagar, Bengaluru, Karnataka
Date and Time : 12 Mar 2019, 1:00 PM

CAT18 Score : 99.88
Class 10 = 91.xx
Class 12 = 86.xx
Engineering : 82.xx
Work Experience : 29 completed months as Software Engineer in December

Document Verification started at 1 PM.

WAT Topic : Consolidation of banks is not good for financial inclusion.
WAT was for 15 minutes with no word limit. A big A4 sized sheet was provided and we could write on both sides. I did not know the meaning of the topic, and hence thought it is about NPAs. That would tell you where it went.

WAT timings :  1:52 PM to 2:07 PM.
WAT prep : 3/5
WAT performance : 0/5 (I did not know the meaning of the topic)

GD started at 2:07 PM. I started it,but there was no relevant point about it and everyone's interview was based on their inputs in GD..

GD timings :  2:07 PM to 2:22 PM.
GD prep : 2/5
GD performance : 2.5/5 (No points, good start)
I was the seventh to be interviewed in the panel. Total 10 candidates were to be interviewed by my panel.
All people before me had very chilled 8-10 mins interviews. After every interview they immediately were calling the next candidate.

There were 2 panelists, one male professor who was about 40 years old and another male professor of about 45 years of age.

Prof 2 started reading my name,designation, marks, salary etc from the form very loudly. This went on for 1 minute. He asked if all the details are correct. I nodded.

Q1: Tell me the supply chain revolution of Dell?
Ans : Spoke a few lines, they seemed slightly convinced.

Q2: What were you saying about mission and vission of Public Sector banks in India??
Ans: Spoke about upliftment and not just profits.

Q3: Do you think it was a good GD??
Ans: Lack of content, but good discussion about NPAs.

Q4. Is this your CTC or fixed or takehome salary? Do you know tax calculations?
And : Told.

Q5: Your score and calls?
Ans : Told.

Q6: Why did not Indore call you ?
Ans : I have filed an RTI.

Q7. Why did you file an RTI? Institutes don't like RTIs.
Ans : Told about this as a powerful tool to get info.

Q8 : Any of ABC calls?
Ans : All 3.

Panelists : OK BYE.  Send in the next guy and don't close the door.

Duration : 6-7 minutes maybe?

Interview Prep : 4/5
Interview performance : 1/5

Update :
Verdict  : Straight convert, won't be joining.

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