the journey begins - volume 1
hmmm...so the journey begins for me...
IIMK interview
Date - 13/Feb/2007
Venue - Mumbai
Time 2 PM
panel 2
Cat percentile - 99.59
Xth - 80.2%(U.P. Board)
XIIth - 77%(U.P. Board)
B.Tech. - 76.4%
work ex - 30 months
GD topic was sometin on corruption on president's three pronged suggestion to curtail that...we were 9 persons there in the group...(1 was absent) 2 min to think then 12 minutes of GD. the group started well but in the middle lacked some direction...but then came back on track...somewhat in the middle a bit fishy but overall controlled...I came in 4 times out of which 3 were original points and one I extended on someone elses point....I made good points (one about removing middleman, use of technology for transparency, fundamental reasons behind human behavior to incentives and the reason behind corruption) I dont want to rate myself but I am satisfied to an extent
now come the fun part...I was last to be interviewed and I had to wait for almost 4 and a half hours and believe me the weight was tiring...not only did it unsettle me it also toook the charm out of my face
anyway there were these two profs....one southie and another bong guys, I identified him when he called my name....Omit
so I call them SP(southie prof) and BP(bong prof) and UT(yours truly)
I entered finally in the class room at 7 PM(it was lovely weather outside and I was playing baskey with the local guys out there...had nothing else to do...no one was tehre apart from me)
BP - hand me your certi files
UT - obliged
SP - ok amit tell me bout urself (clearly he was tired enough so wanted me to talk...)
UT - started with the most routine story...blah blah and what is this...all at a sudden SP decided that he has to smile at me....and here out of the blues he started smiliing at me...I obliged him again and smiled back at him
SP - so you first worked in a service based company now you working in product...what is the difference you felt
UT - glob (process different, schedulig, management functions)
SP - so what is the reason INdia is good in services not in products
UT - some more glob on R&D facilities amounts of risk involved
SP - what are the main risk factors in product based company
UT - told him bout risk issues, piracy threat, IPR issues
Note - all the while BP was looking into the file and whenever I tried looking at him he was shy and here now he also started smiling....I was wondering what;s wrong with me
SP - so what would u prefer service based or product
UT - glob (as a fresher, learning opportunities at Service based vs proprietry framework at product based, specialisation, functionaL expertise...blah blah)
SP passed the batton to BP...
BP - so ur major was IT...whats Information
UT - told with example of information content(a man biting a dog contains more info as it is rarer)
BP - have u studied stat
UT - 5 years back
BP - one sum on prob
UT - told him the funda and also that I might get wrong in the formulas and I did
BP - anyway....plot the graph of e^sinx
UT - plotted and explained the basic...though did one mistake somewhere and BP was not convinced..
BP - ok you have a series, 1,2....n n being an even integer....find alll the permutations of n/2th place being occupied by n/2th number..
UT - started with 2 numbers then gradually increased it and solved it to n-1! then proved there with mathematical induction too
BP - smiled
BP - ok write binary of 25
UT - eeee badshah...took 1 second
BP looked at SP SP at BP....wondered something and then
ok Amit thank you
I was like what....I waited for so much time and that;s it...anyway I got up...and suddenly the graph of e^sinx struck me and I asked them can I plot the graph again he was like ok
I did that...BP was convinced...asked them if I need to give the xerox of certis he said no
came back...checked it lasted 21 minutes...I don know what to make out of this interview...it was so late and everybody was so tired that I dont know what they judged about me...though I am satisfied with myself....I am happy that I dint goofed up...rest is in the hands of HE
IIMK interview
Date - 13/Feb/2007
Venue - Mumbai
Time 2 PM
panel 2
Cat percentile - 99.59
Xth - 80.2%(U.P. Board)
XIIth - 77%(U.P. Board)
B.Tech. - 76.4%
work ex - 30 months
GD topic was sometin on corruption on president's three pronged suggestion to curtail that...we were 9 persons there in the group...(1 was absent) 2 min to think then 12 minutes of GD. the group started well but in the middle lacked some direction...but then came back on track...somewhat in the middle a bit fishy but overall controlled...I came in 4 times out of which 3 were original points and one I extended on someone elses point....I made good points (one about removing middleman, use of technology for transparency, fundamental reasons behind human behavior to incentives and the reason behind corruption) I dont want to rate myself but I am satisfied to an extent
now come the fun part...I was last to be interviewed and I had to wait for almost 4 and a half hours and believe me the weight was tiring...not only did it unsettle me it also toook the charm out of my face
anyway there were these two profs....one southie and another bong guys, I identified him when he called my name....Omit
so I call them SP(southie prof) and BP(bong prof) and UT(yours truly)
I entered finally in the class room at 7 PM(it was lovely weather outside and I was playing baskey with the local guys out there...had nothing else to do...no one was tehre apart from me)
BP - hand me your certi files
UT - obliged
SP - ok amit tell me bout urself (clearly he was tired enough so wanted me to talk...)
UT - started with the most routine story...blah blah and what is this...all at a sudden SP decided that he has to smile at me....and here out of the blues he started smiliing at me...I obliged him again and smiled back at him
SP - so you first worked in a service based company now you working in product...what is the difference you felt
UT - glob (process different, schedulig, management functions)
SP - so what is the reason INdia is good in services not in products
UT - some more glob on R&D facilities amounts of risk involved
SP - what are the main risk factors in product based company
UT - told him bout risk issues, piracy threat, IPR issues
Note - all the while BP was looking into the file and whenever I tried looking at him he was shy and here now he also started smiling....I was wondering what;s wrong with me
SP - so what would u prefer service based or product
UT - glob (as a fresher, learning opportunities at Service based vs proprietry framework at product based, specialisation, functionaL expertise...blah blah)
SP passed the batton to BP...
BP - so ur major was IT...whats Information
UT - told with example of information content(a man biting a dog contains more info as it is rarer)
BP - have u studied stat
UT - 5 years back
BP - one sum on prob
UT - told him the funda and also that I might get wrong in the formulas and I did
BP - anyway....plot the graph of e^sinx
UT - plotted and explained the basic...though did one mistake somewhere and BP was not convinced..
BP - ok you have a series, 1,2....n n being an even integer....find alll the permutations of n/2th place being occupied by n/2th number..
UT - started with 2 numbers then gradually increased it and solved it to n-1! then proved there with mathematical induction too
BP - smiled
BP - ok write binary of 25
UT - eeee badshah...took 1 second
BP looked at SP SP at BP....wondered something and then
ok Amit thank you
I was like what....I waited for so much time and that;s it...anyway I got up...and suddenly the graph of e^sinx struck me and I asked them can I plot the graph again he was like ok
I did that...BP was convinced...asked them if I need to give the xerox of certis he said no
came back...checked it lasted 21 minutes...I don know what to make out of this interview...it was so late and everybody was so tired that I dont know what they judged about me...though I am satisfied with myself....I am happy that I dint goofed up...rest is in the hands of HE
posted by Amit Varshney @ 10:15 PM
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