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IIM Kozhikode

Here is my GD PI experience of IIMK held on 5th Feb. at Bangalore. GD: GD was about news clipping about ‘ASSOCHAM proposing a consumer protectionagency to deal with unfair business practices like false advertisements’. It was about4-5 lines in length. And the group was 10 in strength. It was a pleasant GD withevery one getting to speak.

My ContributionI spoke about the need to define what fake/false adv mean since a fake ad for adetergent is not as dangerous as it is for a pharma/drug ad.

Need to ascertain the other industry representations like FICCI / CII on this topic.Taking back ads might mean loss of revenue so the ad industry’s view should be

taken care of. How willing is the government on this proposal. If at all such a bodycomes up we should look at seamlessly integrate it with existing consumer laws.

Points by others Having such a body with representatives from Govt, Ad industrypeople, consumers etc. Different criteria for diff sectors like detergents and drugs.

And some of my points were not picked up when I put them but later some one elsecame up with the same point like my point about other industry representatives likeFICCI/ CII.

PI: Q. Please tell us about yourself.My Answer: I told them I’m with CTS hyd. In Hyd I stay with my parents. Told themmy father is working with NMDC, mother home maker and sister doing her enggfrom hyd. I told them that all my education was from hyd right from schooling. WhileI was in school I was actively involved with AP theatre and was also a child delegateto the international film festival at Hyd. Now I spend my leisure reading news ingeneral and take particular interest in AP politics. I also like to post my views onsociopolitical issues through blogs.

Q. Do you think developed nations would impose green house gas emission as anentry barrier on developing nations instead of duties?










My Answer: As of now the effort to contain environmental damage is veryfragmented particularly with the US not participating. So I don’t think green housegas emission would be used as an entry barrier anytime soon.

Q. Are you aware of the latest developments on the patents issue in India ?My Answer: I said, I’m not fully aware of the whole developments but I have readabout GIs (geographical Indicators) helping SMEs who cannot file and fight patentsall over the world. I also told them that I read in today’s paper about the issue of Darjeeling Tea and how India won the case in the US . Also spoke about PochampallySarees- Only those which are produced in Pochampally can be called PochampallySarees and in that way help small enterprises who depend on those sarees for theirlivelihood. And GIs help SME fight MNCs who can spend large sums on patents.

Q. What is hashing?My Answer: Hashing is a technique used for easy storage and retrieval of data. Itsdone using key value pairs. And each value could lead to a bucket of values. So thenumber of read and write to the hard disk is reduced. Also explained him with asmall example.

Q. What is the least possible cost for searching a minimum number from a given setof numbers?My Answer: It is n*log (n) and can be achieved using selection sort.

Q. Can you explain how the answer to the previous question is n*log (n)?

MY Answer: Consider there are n elements and let them be equal to 2^m. Now inbinary search the maximum traversal would be the depth of the tree which is mhence it is log(n). And for all elements it is n*log(n). < At this point he disagreedand said it is not that way and then he said it was Ok and asked me to leave thequestion since I could not answer it.>

Q. Can you explain what NP hard and NP complete problems are?My Answer: I don’t remember that sir. Panelist asked-But you had it in yourcurriculum right? I said ‘yes sir we had, but I don’t remember now’.

Q. In how many ways can you arrange n indistinguishable balls into 2 slots?My Answer: It is (n-1)C1. That is n-1. He nodded and came out with another way of approach to the solution.

Q. What are the latest developments on the child labour front?My Answer: All children under 14 should have compulsory education. And I said I’mnot aware of further developments. < Later I remembered that I could have talkedabout even domestic help being made illegal, but that was after I finished the PI,Also I’m worried about this since I mentioned in the data form that I like to blogabout sociopolitical issues>

Q. Who is your favourite author?










My answer: I said I have started reading fiction only from 2004 onwards, at this heremarked- So you never read before 2004? I replied that I did not read much beforethat but that was the time I moved to Chennai and was staying with roommates whohad extensive reading habit. I mentioned that I’m currently reading ‘Interpreter of Maladies’ by Jhumpa Lahiri. And my favourite book is ‘Lajja’ by Taslima Nasreen. Ialso explained why it is so. I said I like the way a macro problem of communal riotswas dealt at a family level, there by sensitising her readers who might have left theissue of communal riots in Bangladesh as just any other news item < Again pleasenote that I did not answer the question though I talked about the topic>.

Q. Who is Orhan Pamuk?My Answer: He is Turkish author and is the winner of Noble 2006 Literature award.He is also known for his views on Armenian massacre of mid 1910s.

IIMK GDPI experience

GD {2-3 mts to think, 12-15 mts to discuss : A panel of 2 members} There were just 12 people in all at my scheduled time who were split into 2 groups of 6 peopleeach. The GD topic was a small paper cutting titled "Capitalism the only solution topoverty - Narayanamurthy". The group was very calm and everybody had ampletime to make his/her point. I made my first entry 3rd or 4th and made reentries 4-5times. We were concentrating on development of agriculture as it was the area whichemployed the largest section of the population. I made statements like "US farmersget around 80% subsidy for their total cost of production" {Later in the interview Ihad questions about the source of my information}. One guy started coming up withthe necessity of a good education policy and another taking it up. My point was thatwith increasing levels of education, we need to open up our economy so that peopleget more opportunities {I quoted the case of Kerala where increasing literacy rate isoffset by increasing unemployment}. We had people talking about the necessity of bringing in more technology into the farmland and better storage facilities. On guysaid that if the size of the farmland is large, then it is possible for farmers to dooperations like spraying pesticides easier { He quoted the case of America wherespraying of pesticides is carried out using helicopters}. One guy tried to put in thecase of Singur which was supported by another guy taking up the case of Nandigram. But the thing is that it ended with that, nobody taking it up further. Then

the discussion was about India's liberalization in 90's step towards capitalism or notand stuff like that. There was no summary. We stopped when we were asked to.

Interview

1.I was asked to name a few personalities with the same first name and surname.Then I was asked in which part of the world is the surname "Gomez" common.

2.Self introduction --- lasted around a minute. As I listed down my achievements like










winner of NTSE and Maths Olympiad, I was asked to go to the board and draw agraph with increasing slope at a decreasing rate and then continue it with a curvehaving increasing slope at an increasing rate{I was asked to label the y axis asvelocity and name the other axis}. Name the point where the rate of slope changesit's sign. How will you find out whether the sign change is from +ve to -ve or -ve to+ve ?

3.Questions on GD points Why did you describe farming as labour intensive? Whichall stages of crop cultivation can you mechanize ? What are the disadvantages of mechanizing Indian agriculture? From where did you get the information onsubsidies? Can you name an international organization whose talks failed due to thisissue? Where was the talk held? What were the reasons for it's failure?

4.Hobbies ? {Listening to music, stamp collection and coin collection ---- the secondmember in the panel was a philatelist !} Most prized stamp collection? Hardeststamp to acquire? Are you a numismatist? Total worth of your coin collection? Oldestcoin in your collection? I had some dialog with the members about the "Chakra"

5.Any questions?

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Contributor: Aditya

The GD had 10 people on a panel. The topic was related to agriculture reforms.It was a four / five sentence paragraph about how 70% of the population is occupiedin agri but the produce is decreasing, farmers are committing suicide in increasingnumbers. We were supposed to write our points on that paper itself (one on whichthe topic was printed) and had to leave it where we sat. The order in which we satwas assigned by them. It was a reasonably civilised GD and everyone spoke at leasttwice or thrice. To judge my performance, another person and I were the ones whospoke the most but there wasn't too much of a difference from the others. Thepreparation time given was around 5 mins and the GD went on for around 10-15mins.

The interview started for most of us with questions related to the GD-whether therewas anything more we wanted to say and so on. I was asked to give points that icouldn’t make during the GD. I mentioned a few and then they quizzed me more onthat. One point was that about the Grameen bank concept of Mohammed Yunus.They asked me what i knew about it and I was able to give a very basic conceptidea. When they asked me more about the type that has been implemented inBangladesh, I had to say that I didn't know the concept in that much detail. Theyseemed satisfied. Then they went onto my form and asked things from that. Firstthey asked why my marks are showing steady decline(from 87% in first year to 81










now). I explained that the marks as such don’t mean much. My relative standing inclass is around the same. In first year, I was 3rd or 4th in class and now I'm 7th.They still pointed out that that is a decline. I said that it is still a good position in aclass of 100. I also mentioned that when I had 87 in 1st yr, the univ topper had 93and when I have 81 now, the topper has 87. So, it’s just a question of it being moredifficult to score marks as the seems go on. They weren't impressed with the answer.They said that it shows that when everyone's marks go down, so do mine. I politelydisagreed and tried to establish that I'm a steady performer. I'm not sure whether itworked. This was the only difficult part of the interview. I was then asked to explaina couple of graphs (one was a rectangular hyperbole, the other a straight line withnegative slope). I was able to do that satisfactorily (explained the slope, stabilityetc). Then they asked me about another graph, what a point in it was called. I gavean explanation to it, but I didn't know the exact term. They didn't pursue the matterbut said that as an engineering student, I should've been able to answer it.

They also asked a few economic terms- price elasticity, law of demand, what areAdam Smith's books etc. While I didn’t know the first one, I answered the other two.I had also mentioned in my form that I'm interested in civil services. They quizzedme a while on that but I was able to give good answers for everything since myfather was an IAS officer. I could quote examples from his experiences. Towards theend, they asked me about my hobbies, which is my favorite etc. I said it was poetrywriting. They asked me about my latest one and I read them a few stanzas (I hadtaken a copy along). One of the panelists looked impressed while the others seemeddisinterested. I'm not sure what that means. But all together the feeling of the

interview was good. They seemed pleased with me overall and smiled occasionally.Whenever they liked my answers, they nodded in agreement and so on.


Contributor: Rakesh Prasannan

Interview

1. Why are you staying in Police Quarters? (Ans…My father is a Police officer-Vigilance dept)

2. What does Vigilance dept do?3. Tell about yourself.4. Tech basics mainly communication like FM, its advantages5. BBC radio's frequency band – explain such that a common man can

understand (FM, SW,..)6. Questions based on final year project. (Face recognition)7. How does a forensic surgeon detect a person's identity from the Skull of the

person?8. Questions based on what I said in the GD.(I said about literacy rate in India)










9. Is literacy important for a person's success?

Source: Received via e-mailAdditional info: The student is an IIT KGP graduate with 2 yrs work ex in a start up.

IIMK Article - incidentally it was a very small 6 liner. Almost reproducedbelow

A serious inspection of PSUs needs to be undertaken in India as many of them areturning out to be loss making units. PSUs in India need modern management

practices, risk-taking, innovation and technology to achieve global competence. Apolicy which evaluates the sick PSUs on certain fixed performance criteria also needsto be drafted. If it turns out that a PSU cannot be turned around it should bedivested.

Interview

1. Tell me abt yourself.2. What is search engine marketing?3. Why is your CGPA so low?4. Why did you join a startup after college?5. What can you do to a website to increase its ranking on Google?6. What are the advantages that startups enjoy over large companies?7. What can you add to a DC motor to be able to vary its speed?8. Can power lines be used as communication channels?9. What is power injection?10. Why has your salary remained constant from the last company to your

present one?


Contributor: Nivedan R

GD:Article 4-5 lines. Topic was dalit reservations vs religion based reservations.Evenafter 60 years of govt policies they are still discriminated against.There is need tofight this politically,socially,intellectually,culturally.

It was a relatively noisy GD.Four persons never stopped talking... since the topic wasreservations everyone had their point of view.. it lasted about 12 minutes.Panelmembers collected the sheets from us on which we wrote some points.

PI: 2 panel members










Collected certificates.

1. Asked me if I was in my final year of Engg.No already completed it in 2006

2. Didn't u join any company after that?3. why not?4. Percentile in CAT5. Why didn't u receive other calls?6. Breakup of percentiles in three sections of CAT7. Are u weak in DI?

8. Tell me abt urself 9. Is A.P a dry state (with regard to prohibition.... my father works in excisedept.)

10. Tell me ur hobbies (no questions on them)11. Tell me ur academic interests (told them novels.. mentioned Paulo coelho)12. What novels by Paulo Coelho? (The alchemist and The Zahir)13. Which did u like and why?14. Tell me abt the final year project (it was based on .NET)15. What is a web service and draw its architecture.(I told them the definition of

web service and to architecture-I don't know)16. Give the definition from a computer science point of view.(Not satisfied)17. What is WSDL, UDDI, SOAP? (answered only SOAP)18. U should have known all this.19. Don't u have Web Services in your course (No)20. Searched the certificates for that subject… found out we had Data mining and

data warehousing21. What is data warehouse?22. What is OLAP (online analytical processing)23. What are its tools? (slicing and dicing)24. What is slicing with an example (tried it couldn't answer)25. U should have known this it's only one year since u completed the course26. Panel member2 takes over27. What posts did manmohan singh hold before Finance minister in 1991?28. When did reforms start and why?29. Who were the ASEAN founder members?30. How can rural development happen?31. What is KPO?


Contributor: Rahul Brahma R

Total no. of candidates: 30










2 of them were absent.

They divided us into 3 panels. I was in the panel three. Division is based on the orderin which they read out your names after you report. ( First 10 panel 1, second 10panel 2 and last 10 in panel 3)

My profile:

Class 10: 89.83% (SSC, Hyderabad)Class 12: 92.1% (BIE, Hyderabad)B.E. : 77.24 (BE MEchanical, Chaitanya Bharathi Institue of Technology , OsmaniaUniversity, Hyderabad)CAT: 99.35%ileWork Ex: 15 months in IT companyFrom Dec 1 in my family Business.

Group Discussion:

They made us sit in the order in which we were called.

Total 10 people were there in the GD. The seating arrangement was U-shaped. Notable in front of us. I was sitting in the 10th position from right. 1 person was absentfrom our panel.

It was an article. The topic was on the social and economic situation of muslims.something on muslim minorities and how they dont participate in the development of the country. What can be done to improve it types.

Two panel members were there ... one who asks general Questions (G) and theother acads-centric guy(A).

We were given 2 mins to think and then 10 mins for the GD. After around 2 mins,they asked us to start. The overall the discussion was more like each of trying to putacross his or her point. No point was discussed at length. As a result after 7-8 minswe started repeating the earlier points. after 10 mins, we are asked to stop. Nosummary was asked.

We were told to submit the sheet containing the article and the application form.

The interview started in another 10 mins.

I was the last person to be interviewed. (9th because 1 guy person was absent)

G opened the door and asked me to come inside.

The moment I took my seat, G asked what my Family Business is?










me : Told about it. This lasted about 8 mins. Where we discussed about Socialresposnsibility and other things.

Afterwards G asked about college festivals etc.

Till now (A) talked only once that too to ask for my File.

A took over from G ( By then he has gone through my certificates )

A: When did you write NTSE?me : 10th

A: Do you have Statistics related subject?me : No

A : What about Operations research. ?me : yes sir

A: What is assignement problem?me: gave some vauge answer. Then he gave the definition.

After that he went to questions on Maths. Almost all the questions were onprobablilty, cat level questions. This is one area I never attempted even during Catso all the questions went for a toss. Some Six questions all no's.

My throat went dry after 15 mins, So I asked for water. They had a glass on theadjacent table, whcih I was asked to take.

Now the questions went to Number systesm.

A : Definition of eme : No

A : irrational numberme: gave the definiton.

A: is e irrationalme : yes

A: why?me: because non recurring digits etc...

A: is root 2 irrational?me: yes

A: why?










me: same answer as e.

A:who told you the numbers do not recur?me: We go with assumptions otherwise it we can't work type:

A; no there is a simple proof for that.me : oh.

A: You have 4 callsme: no sir 5

A; some question again on probability. ( n envelopes, n letters. which go to correctpacket , here I was asked about my calls. A said I have 4 calls, I corrected himsaying that I have 5 calls. One more question on probability which I did not answer)

End of maths.

and G took over...

G: What sports do u like?me: Football and swimming

G: Fav. footballersme: Christiano Ronaldo, Kaka and Crespo. and gave the reason as to why.

G: Incident of Christiano Ronaldome: world cup with wayne rooney.

Now G looks at A and they both said thank you.

End of the interview.

Overall Academics went for a toss. rest all was good. loads of new friends. We all hada nice time.

Source: Received via e-mailContributor: M. Prahalad

Qualification: B.E. (ECE)CAT 2006: Overall:99.68 (QA-98.83; DI-99.28; VA-96.55)

Work Ex-5 months in Systech Solutions, Chennai










Total of 3 panels with 10 people in each group.

GD TOPIC:Was an article based GD with the topic related to PSUs and ways of improvingthem.And the article concluded with a possible solution of divesting them.Was a really good discussion with everyone getting a chance to speak.Not at allchaotic and everyone seemed to have a feel good factor about it in the end.I made some 4-5 entries in the GD and was reasonably satisfied with my effort.

PI:Was the first in my group to have the interview.2 panelists P1 and P2Me (M)Entered and wished both of themP1:so u r from Chennai isit?P1:u work for systech solutions ?what do u do there?P1:What is business intelligence?What is data warehousing?(job related)P2:okay u have mentioned that u want to pursue a career as a sports journalist?haveu written any articles so far?(I had written this as an alternate career option)P1:okay tell me what u learnt in Total Quality Management?Name a few qualitygurus.P1:u have heard of Deming?P1:where do you see yourself 10 years from now?P2:Prahalad,ur marks suggest to me that u have been a bright student…then y didn’t

u get into IIT?did u write the JEE?P2:in IIMK v have started a social programme to make an upliftment of the society.If u were in the team what wud u do?P1:u have mentioned your weakness as”impatience to meet deadlines”?what have udone to improve in this area?P1:some more questions on my work ex and whom I report toP1:so u had any trouble reaching the hotel because of the turbulence outside?P1 and P2:okay that’s it,all the best.

Name of student : _Arun Padmanabhan

GD:

GD Topic: Disinvestment in Public Sector Article lines

Duration: 10 min.

No.of participants scheduled for GD: 10

Actual Attendance: 10










INTERVIEW: (Duration: 15 min. No. of members on panel: 2 )

1. Tell me about yourself 2. What did u do in NSO? Why did u choose that?3. Why did u learn Japanese?4. Why do you want to do an MBA?5. What is the no of ways in which you can arrange n letter in n envelopes such

that at least 2 letters are placed in the wrong envelopes?6. What do you mean by probability?7. Give the axiomatic definition of probability?

8. What is a pdf?9. Draw the PDF of Gaussian curve and write its eqn?10. What is the eqn of Z transform?11. What is its application?12. Who is your favorite author?

Source: Posted on T4E

Contributor: AMRAPALI TALUKDER

Interview Date: 07-02-2007

Interview Centre: MONARCH HOTEL, BANGALORE

No. of participants scheduled to attend GD: 10

Actual Attendance : 9

GD Topic: Dalits

Article GD: The panel handed out half a sheet of paper on which 4 lines about dalitswere mentioned. It talked about how dalits have long been suppressed economically,politically and socially. It ended: thus, efforts should be made to allow dalits tomerge into mainstream Population.

Article GD Duration: 15 min

Interview

Duration: 20 min

No.of panel members: 2










1. What is Moruchaya?(a cultural association at college)2. What was your role in it?3. Tell me about your work.4. Do you work in a team?5. Describe your collaboration with your team members.6. Why do you say that being brutally frank is a weakness?7. Give me an example of a situation.8. Assess your team leader's abilities.9. Do you think his approach is a good one?10. What is the time complexity of an algorithm.11. What are the parameters on which complexity is assessed?12. Write me a block of code to arrive at the transpose of a matrix.13. What is a prime number?14. So how would you arrive at the conclusion of whether a number is prime or

not.15. Do you know about partial derivatives?16. What is the necessary and sufficient condition that a multi-variable function

has a maxima or minima?17. So are you talking about global or local maxima or minima?18. What is corporate social governance?19. Have you taken part in any social activites?


Contributor: Anshu


Interview Centre: Bangalore



Article GD: A small passage saying that the cause of confusion in today's world is

lack of spirtual knowlegde.


Interview

Duration: 15 min











1. About my college's location and specializations offered there.2. They asked to decide on an efficient system which could convert grades to

percentages. Tried few things but they didnt look to be convinced.3. They stressed a lot on statisctics and probability. I knew only where those

things are used. But could not write the formulae.4. There were some questions on my weaknesses and hobbies.


Contributor: Vivek K

Educational Background: B.Tech in Instrumentation

Work Experience: 17 months

Company: TCS

Group Discussion:

No. of Participants: 10; Members in the Panel: 4

GD Topic: Agriculture is the mainstay of the Indian economy and more attentionneeds to be drawn towards it.70% of the rural population depend on agriculture fortheir livelihood (And a few more lines. Essentially trying to say improve agriculture)

Personal Interview:

1. The person who was interviewed before you said that he always has a smilingface. Are you also like that?

2. Tell us about yourself.3. You are from Hyderabad. Why did you choose this as your center?4. So did you like the place? What have you seen here?5. You have come so far for this interview. What does it show about the kind of

person you are?6. What is Kozhikode famous for?

7. Then they gave something written on a sheet of paper and I was asked tointerpret it. They asked me if I had learnt Statistical and regression methodsin my B.Tech. I said no. They left it at that.

8. You have written in your application that you had developed a one of a kindtransducer in your B.Tech. What is it all about?

9. Did you try using it in the industry?10. Some questions about Instrumentation and its significance11. What happens when the rupee depreciates?12. Are there any advantages too?










13. How does it affect the world market?

Contributor: Adarsh S

Educational Background: B.Tech (ECE)Interview Date: 05-03-2007Interview Centre: Bangalore

GD:

GD Topic: Fake and misleading advertisementsDuration: 10 min.No. of Participants scheduled to attend the GD: 10Actual Attendance: 9

Interview:

Duration: 12 min.No. of panel members: 2

1. College - General Stuff - Who’s head of the department, etc2. About relationships and commitment3. Why ECE and not Comp Sc4. Why not continue in ECE5. Management Electives6. Demand Curve and Equilibrium Price from Managerial Economics7. Probability of getting into one of the iims using appropriate assumptions

Contributor: Archana Balaraman





Article GD: Muslim minorities in India (5-6 line article)


Interview










Duration: 15 min


1. Tell me something about your family and educational background.2. What is the size of the company you work for?3. Why did you shift from such a big company like Infosys to a start up?4. For a service oriented country like India, don't you think there is not much

opportunity to grow in a product setup? (my company is product based)5. What does your company do and what is your role?

6. There is a popular belief that the education system is deteriorating inTamilnadu due to the number of engineering colleges. Do you agree?7. Would you include your college among the top 5 in your city? Is it a deemed

university?8. You used to be in the retail domain in Infosys. What is the cap on retail FDI in

India?9. Is FDI better than FII? If so, why?10. Is it possible for a retail chain like JCPenney to enter India and set shop here?11. Is Walmart coming to India directly or through a local player?12. If you were the regulating authority, would you allow FDI to triple within a

day?/ Why not?13. Do you think it is enough if we have an overall cap on FDI or should it be

sector to sector?14. How/when did you come to Bangalore from Chennai?15. How many calls do you have? When are your other interviews?16. What did you think about your GD performance?17. If I were to give you 2 mins now, would you want to add anything to the GD?


Contributor: Dinesh Kumar.P


Interview Centre: Monarch Hotel, Brigade Rd, Blore.



Article GD: Empowering Panchayat Raj











Interview

Duration: 15 min


1. Prototype Question(Tell me about youself)2. What is SAP?? (My workEx is in SAP)3. What is ERP and from where ERP has been evolved??4. Advantages of ERP and Difference between ERP and data warehouse???

5. What is MDM(Master Data Management)??6. Questions about GD??7. Questions like how do you rateself in GD and who impressed you in the GD....


Contributor: Abhinav


Interview Centre: Hotel Monarch , Bangalore



Article GD: The article was indirectly stating the findings of the Sachar Committeereport on the status of Muslim minority in India without actually stating the name of the committee . Moreover the article was only 5 sentences long ( a sweet surprise )


Interview

Duration: 15 min


1. Have you forgotten to write down your last name ?2. Why dont you have a last name ? Your father doesnt want fame or what ?3. What are the subject that you are presently studying ?4. Tell me more about Decision Support Systems ?5. How are they different from OLTP ?










6. Why do you think Data warehouse is needed by DSS ?7. Do DSS require only historical data ?8. You want to say that DSS use historical data and OLTP use present data ?9. Tell me more about your accomplishment ?10. What role did you play in the accomplishment ?


Contributor: Vinod P


Interview Centre: Bangalore - The Monarch Hotel



Article GD: It was an excerpt from Narayan Murthy's speech on some occasion. Itwas about the Givt must focus on socio-politico aspects in a country while theeconomy will be taken care of by private companies and entrepreneurs. Thenavratnas must also be privatised a

Interview

Duration: 30 min


1. Are you hungry? (I answered "No, Im too excited'). Why does excitementreduce hunger? How are they related?

2. Where are you from? What does your father, mother do?3. What does your company do?4. Why was AT&T forced to split to smaller comapnies in the US (This was asked

coz my company is in the US telecom market)

5. What was the latest legal battle involving microsoft. Which was the othercompany battling microsoft? Did such a smilar case occur in India recently?

6. Describe random numbers. Why are random numbers genreated inprogramming languauges called pseudo random?

7. Describe an algorithm to genrate numbers8. What is probability. What is the probability that when you are married, your

first child will be a boy? What is the probabilty that the first 3 children youhave will be boys?










9. What is the common chinese salt used in cooking and whts its chemicalname? (I had given cooking as a hobby).

10. Tell me something about you present work?11. If you get admissions from all IIM's, where will you choose to go.12. Your engineering college is not famous at all. Why did you choose that one?13. Is the faculty in your engineering college up to the mark?14. Tell me about the principal of your college and how he was instrumental in

improving the reputation of your college.15. Why do you give a lot of importance to reputation and credibility?16. Did you attend any coaching classes for GD/PI's? Were they helpful?

Contributor: Uttara Chattopadhyay





Article GD: Article based gd on PSU


Interview

Duration: 25 min


1. How was Vellore2. Tell me about Bengalis3. How relevant is fountain head I today’s world4. Where did howard roark used to go in fountain head

5. Why do you like bertie6. Wwhy laplace transform used7. Tell the formula for laplace transform8. Wat is the pdf of a normal function, how to find max and min of a function,

wat are rational numbers9. Tell me about your work10. Wh which books of p.g. wodehouse did you read?11. Tell tell me some of the chcharacters in p.g. wodehouse










GD:

It was a small four lined snippet regarding coruption. Its gist is as below:

President APJ Abdul Kalam is against corruption. He came out with a three pronged strategy to fight and prevent corruption. The 3 prongs being (a) Implementation of stringent laws (b) prevention of corruption (c) Educating people.

Group size: 10 (1 didn't turn up so effectively 9)

GD nature: It was a fishmarket. though the decibel levels are not so high as the onesin the fishmarket GDs in our classrooms, the behaviour i.e. cross talk, lack of structure, haste to put across points, the haste to start off the GD were very wellevident.

My Points:

1. Corruption: not being responsible and not imparting duty righteously because of some vested interests.

2. Lack of proper survellience is one reason why the corruption is thriving.

3. Someone said that low remuneration is one of the reasons for corruption and toaddress this the compensation has to

be raised. Addressing this point I said, "Though it is true to some extent, practically we have a cap above which we cannot increase.Keeping this in view I think weshould try to imbibe the sense of responsibility and morality among people."

4. The groupd started discussing about education and the discussion centered onschools and primary education. Idefined Education and gave a broader perspective. I said, "Education is not just academics. Telling alayman or an illiterate about a process or way in which he can report corruption, inthis situation, would beeducation." I could drive home the point that the word education bears the meaning"awareness" in thiscontext and it is not confined to schooling or acads

GD, though scheduled (or may be just announced) to last for 15 min, it endedaround 10 min.

Interview

Panel size: 2 (P1 and P2)I: Good Afternoon Sir










P1: (Saw my application) What is this? How could you do M.Sc. and B.Esimultaneously? Which one did you do first?I: Sir I did my MSc first and then my BE.

P1: How many years did u take to do each one?I: Sir, the core courses I had them for one year. 3rd year, MSc Maths and 4th yearBE CS

P1: You did dual degree? How long is ur programme?I: 5 years sir

P2: Which university did u graduate form?I: BITS, Pilani sir, Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani

P2: ohohooo. (to P1) Sir these people have dual degree integrated programme

P1: You work in OracleI: yes sir

P2: Ok introduce yourself I: (I was in soup. They know my name, edu & work place. What else should I tell? Icouldn't make something new onthe fly. I thought instead of fiddling with my intro, I would stick to the traditional

style.)Sir, I'm Prashant. I did my masters and bachelors at BITS, Pilani. I am presentlyworking with Oracle India pvt ltd, Hydand I hail from Hyderabad. My strengths are hardworking nature and honesty.Hobbies are listening to music,teaching and interest in philosophy. Advaita philosophy.

P2: you teach?I: Yes sir. Out of interest I teach.

P2: where?I: I taught CS core courses to juniors at BITS.

P2: Philosophy? hmmm interestingI: (smile)

P2: So Prashant, tell me why Oracle is encouraging use of LinuxI: Sir Linux is a stable OS and it's not so prone to virus attacks as windows.

P2: That's ok but why should it champion it? Do you know it is?I: Yes sir I know it is.










P2: Which environment do you work on?I: Linux sir

P2: Which linux?I: Redhat sir.

P2: Redhat right. so you can very well use it, but why should you champion it?I: I don't have much idea as to why we do it sir.

P2: ok. WhereWhat's your work in OracleI: I work in the development of ebusiness suite of Oracle

P2: ebusiness suite? (eyebrows raised as if with appreciation and to show that it'ssome hitech stuff). Tell me themodules in ebusiness suiteI: Sir some main modules are Procurement, inventory, financials like general ledgeretc, payables and shipment

P2: This is ERPI: Yes sir, it's ERP

P2: ok. Prashant you said you are interested in philosophy. what pilosophy?I: Advaita sir.

P2: What does that mean?I: It means monism sir

P2: Yes. what does that meanI: There's only one aspect that's pervading everywhere

P2: Who started it?I: It was not started by someone sir. It was there from time immemorial. Recentlyit's propounded by Sri AdiShankaracharya.

P2: Recently??? Do you know when he was there?I: yes sir, 12 centuries back

P2: So you call it recent?I: Sir keeping in view the eternal time from when the Vedas were there, 12 centuriesis recent

P2: ok (smile)I: (smile)

P2: I know vedas means only those mantras and prayers to please gods. There's










nothing like this as far as I know. Canyou quote me a reference from the vedas that says the Advaita was there since along time?I: (looked down for a while as if thinking) Sir I will quote a verse from theChandogya Upanishad that estabilishes this

P2: Wait!! You are quoting the Unanishads, they are not the part of the veda.I: Sir the Upanishads are a part of the veda. They come at the end of the vedas andhence called vedanta.

P2: (Nodding his head in affirmative) I don't think so----By this time i realised the quotation point is gone to the windI: Sir as you have said, the prayers which are called the Upasanas come in the first,then the mantras for performingsacrifices (though I didn't tell him the term, these are called brahmanas) and the endcome the Upanishads (thoughI didn't tell him the term, these are called aranyakas)

P2: Ok. Prashant you have done Master's already, then why do you want to put in 2more years for another Master'sI: (very convoluted way of asking why MBA eh????) Sir I did Master's inMathematics. The content covered in thisMaster's degree is far different from that that will be covered as a part of mymanagement programme. (Then I

explained why I want to do management, an answer that i pondered and framed wellbefore going to the interview)

P2: ok. Prashant you are a philosopher, then why do you want to get into all this?being generalised and .. You see it's amaterialistic pursuitI: (I had an answer for this. Without this I couldn't have afforded to say that I'minterested in philosophy) Sir...(before Icould complete, he jumped to the below question, good for me :) )

P2: Why don't you specialise in a field? (This was a question that the "Why MBA?"answer lead to. Though the answerwas there in the answer to the previous question, he still asked me. He was carefulenough not to mention MS orPhD)I: Sir, specialisation in an area is also an equally challenging area and I people do gofor it. But which path exactly tochoose is upto their preferences and interests. Some try to specialise while some tryto be generalise.

P2: So you want to be generalised (something he said I don't remember) (smile)I: Yes Sir(smile)










P2: Prashant you said the word time immemorial. Define the word immemorialI: Sir, immemorial means the time beyond when man could ever start recordningthings.

P2: No no define the word immemorial.I: (Smile -- whr's my oxford??) Sir, it's the time beyond what we can think of?

P2: No, say the humanity started, by the way do you know when it started?I: No sir, I exaclty don't remember the years

P2: Ok there was Harappan civilisation right, do you know when it existed by anychance ?I: No Sir I don't know the exact time scales.

P2: At least there is 0 AD rightI: yes sir, at least 2000 years we had

. P2: Right, can you guess how long before the humanity was?I: (hey why do u try to frame the same question in different words? I told you I don'tknow) Sir I guess, there will be atleast another 2000yrs before.--- BTW refered to wikipedia and saw that Harappan civilisation existed 3300BC to2000BC.

P2: right so define the term immemorialI: (smile, how do i veer him away from this stupid question?) Sir, the definition isanalogous to the definition of infinity inMathematics.

P2: (smile) ok okI: (smile)--Now P1 woke up from slumber

P1: You did Master's in Mathematics? Tell me some course that you didI: Sir, my course included pure mathematics. I did Algebra, Introduction to topology,intro to functional analysis, intro toreal analysis.

P1: What do you mean by topology?I: Sir it's the study of nearness of objects. The study of the organisation of objects.For example the mountains on theearths crust, we call that geographic topology. For example the table that we havehere, the papres are ther, thepaper weight is here, this organization on the table is also topology.










P2: So cartography comes under topologyI: mmm yes sir, i think it's a specific area in topology, as I have said before, themountains, the land structures etc.

P2: Ok

P1: Do you read papers?I: yes sir

P1: Which page do you focus more on?I: (wanted to play safe) Front page sir, the headlines

P1: What's the very recent hot topic that's on the papers?--The day before my interview, karnataka was on bandh. the cauvery issue. Theday's newspaper, half of it was filledwith bandh news. I didn't want to tell this, because it's a very controversial issue andI need to take the stance. If Itake TN's stance, that guy will be Karnataka obviously and vice versa. He'll try tocorner me for sureI: Sir the acquisitions that are happening. AV Birla acquiring Novelis, an americancompany, and Vodafone Hutch Essar

P1: What else is there?I: (heyy! Wont' you sleep till i say cauvery?) Sir the Tatas acquiring Corus. Though

it's a bit old. Last week it tookplace.

P1: ok. Novelis is American company?I: Yes Sir, North American

P1: After the interview is over, refer to the paper.I: Sure Sir. I shall do that-- For my ill fate, Novelis is a Canadian company. That day's paper said it's a NorthAmerican company.

P1: Do you know what inflation means?I: Yes sir. It's the rate of increase in prices of commodities in market

P1: Do you know deflation?I: Yes sir.

P1: Is inflation good or bad? Is negative inflation, that is deflation, good or bad?I: It's not that good sir.

P1: Why? Can you tell me how it affects the industries?I: Sir for industries, when there's a deflation, that is when prices fall, the companies










will not have a very high motivationto manufacture more goods. They will try to reduce the productivity and for this theymay layoff people. The rawmaterials that they consume to make the goods also decreases and so they won'tbuy the same quantity of rawmaterial they used to. Because of this the supplier of the raw materials will have aproblem and his sales go down.This way a chain is triggered off.

P1: Right. what in the case of inflation?I: Sir in the case of inflation, common man is the main entity that gets affected.

P1: No no why do you discuss about the common man, Discuss the industrial aspectI: Sir. There are 2 things, Inflation and Deflation. Each one has a consumer's aspectand industrial aspect associatedwith it.

P1: So discuss the industrial aspect for inflation. Do industries have profits if there'san inflation?I: They may have some profits sir. For example a commodity of Rs100 is made andmarked at 110. it's stored in theinventory and due to inflation, the price of it is 120 now. So there is an extra 10rupees (over 110) that is gained.

P1: Ok. Why can't the common people ask to increase their wages?I: Sir common people can ask to increase the wages, but the wages cannot bechanged at such a small time granularity.There's a lot of procedure involved in making the changes. (when will u leave me?)

P1: Ok. Did you read any management book?I: No sir

P1: Do you know any well known guy in manager?I: No Sir

P1: Ok (his mobile rang, I prayed!!)

P2: Prashant you have done your Master's in Mathematics. Can you tell me whatdistribution would you use to computethe probability of a person clearing CAT?I: Sir, each section is different in CAT . Keeping the current norms laid for CAT inmind, if there are n sections, thenp1,p2,p3,...pn will be the probabilities of clearing each section. In CAT06 we had 3sections, so the probabilitieswill be p1, p2 and p3. The total probability is p1p2p3.










P2: Is CAT a test of skill or xxxx (i don't rememebr what he said, but of suresomething absurd)I: Sir it's a almost a test of skill

P2: Almost???I: Yes sir, we cannot negate the remote chances of a person guessing an answer andgetting it right

P2: Right, so putting all this together what distribution will you use?I: Sir to find each of the pi's i'll use a distribution.

P2: Yes, what is it?I: Sir, I'll use Binomial distribution

P2: HA HA HA HAAAA (loud guffaw) Don't you use Poisson?I: Sir, i think binomial distribution will do the work

P2: Why?I: Sir, it's because the maximum number of questions is fixed and the person needsto answer minimum number of questions, say x. p will be the probability of getting a question right while q will bethe probability of getting it wrong.Then I can apply the formula nCx q^(n-x) p^x and ... and..... (I was worried aboutthe -ve marking part)....(I put

my hand on the pen in my pocket and was about to ask him if I can use pen andpaper.)

--They looked at eachother and tapped the bench.

P2: OK Prashant, that's it.I: Thank you sir (looking at P1). Thank you Sir (at P2)

P2: Bye Prashant, Cool!!

GD:

Topic: Labour unions and mgmts should work together for the company to performwell.Time to prepare : 4-5 minsTime to discuss : 10-12 minsNo of participants : 9

Interview 10-12 mins










what do you do in ur company ?about my projects ?have u heard of pseudo-random numbers ?how do u generate a random number ?who is ur favorite character in asterix ? why ?what's special about their village ?why do you think they havent gone beyond their village ?what do u say about the women and education in kerala ?about the women in the streets ?

Contributor : C.Sri Sai Lokesh

Educational Background : B.E (ECE)

Completed graduation in (year) : 2007

Interview Date : 07.02.2007

Interview Centre : Bangalore

GD Topic : A 4 lines article about “ Elected governments in INDIA should take stepsfor economic development of Muslims”

Duration:10 min.

NO. OF PARTICIPANTS IN GD Scheduled :10 Attended : 8INTERVIEW: (Duration : 10 min. No. of members on panel : 2)Did you face any trouble coming to Banglore (Cauvery tribunal issue)What is your view on Cauvery issue?What is Z transform ? Where is it used ?

What is the significance or speciality about Z transform ?In a 7 segment LED, using 5 segments how many different shapes can be formed ?How many different shapes are possible in 7 segment LED?If you head a company, what will you do ?What did u do in NSO? Why did u choose that?What are your strengths and weaknesses?How did you find about your weakness?What are the advantages of working as a group?What are the disadvantages?Which one do you prefer, working solo or working in a group?










Centre: Bangalore

GD: We were given a sheet with 4 lines on industrial infrastructure and that landacquisition was a road block for it.

No summary was asked.

Interview 1. Tell me about yourself.2. What did u do in your company in the last month?3. What is sorting?4. Tell me different types of sorting techniques.5. What is the best worst case complexity for any sorting technique and how udeduce it?6. What is number e and its formula? Is it rational or irrational?7. What are prime numbers? How do you check if a number is prime?8. Tell me the numbers and how u deduce it the numbers whose N/2 < sq root (N).9. What is fiscal deficit and revenue deficit10. What are the infrastructure development plans and how are funds created for it?

GD

Related to SEZ. Farmers are agitating and protesting against them. WHat is the realpurpose behind these sez's? It is against law to acquire land without properrehabilitation. (something on these lines)

Duration: 12-15mins (not much cross talk. everyone had decent chance to speak.Very often usage of please let me complete!!!!)

INTERVIEW

Duration of Interview: 20+mins.

Why do you have such a huge percentage drop from inter to Engineering 1st year?

What is perspective projection?

What is Isometric projection?

Draw isometric projection of a cube?

Tell us about your final year project?

You seem to have low marks in internal unlike others. Don't they give marks in your










college (read private college)

Tell us how to calculate profit in balance sheet. (Not there in my syllabus)

Do you know anything about OR. Tell what do you know in it?

WHat is tool signature?

WHat is the difference if any between drilling a wood piece and a metal piece?

WHat is the difference in the tool bits used in the above question?

What is flexible manufacturing system?

What is toyota manufacturing system?

What is the difference between petrol engine and diesel engine?

WHat are the cycles used for these engines?

Draw the PV diagram for these cycles.

Draw TS diagrams for these cycles.

WHat is a differential gear?

Draw the order of engine, differential gear, gear box.


Contributor: Alankar


Interview Centre: Delhi

No. of participants scheduled to attend GD: 10Actual Attendance : 10

GD Topic: social issues are hampering economic growth

GD Duration: 12 min

Interview












Contributor: M. Mohan Rao





GD Topic: Politicians not addressing the concerns of the citizens. Still there aredisparities, divide between rich and poor.....

GD Duration: 17 min

Interview

Duration: 20 min


1. What exactly is your work?2. Who is your client?3. How does the data transfers happen?4. Tell me about the management subjects which you had in your final

semesters?5. what is OBIP all about? (Organisational Behavior in Industrial Psychology)6. What all did u read in that subject?7. What is Marcelov's theory all about?8. what are hygiene factors?9. What is MIS all about?10. what did you read in MIS?11. what is Michael Perters five point theory?12. What is data, information, wisdom?13. what is Inflation? what is deflation?14. In how many years did you complete your engineering?

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