All the best to everyone for their IIM Bangalore interviews and please do post in your experiences. Please post in the given format PROFILE: Acads X %,Board, year XII%, Board, year Undergrad Stream(BA, BE etc), Specialization(…
All the best to everyone for their IIM Bangalore interviews and please do post in your experiences.
Please post in the given format
PROFILE:
Acads
X %,Board, year
XII%, Board, year
Undergrad Stream(BA, BE etc), Specialization(CS, mech etc), Percentage, Year, Institute.
Work-Ex:
Sectors, Company - Number of months
CAT 2011:
Quant
Verbal
Aggregate
(category if applicable)
Extra curriculars :
Any other special thing abt u:
Interview & Essay
Venue:
Date :
Essay :
Topic:
Brief Snapshot of the attempt:
Time given :
Rate your preparation(0-5):
Rate your performance(0-5):
PI:
Panel Members Intro:
Questions:
Rate your preparation(0-5):
Rate your performance(0-5):
MISC.
Any other relevant detail.
VERDICT
PS. Come-on guys, start pouring in with your experience.
BEST OF LUCK TO ALL 
Please change the thread name to WAT/PI Experiences.
When are the interviews starting? Please start pouring in your experiences.. 
Why has no one posted his/her experience? Puys please post in your experiences..
robin12345 SaysWhy has no one posted his/her experience? Puys please post in your experiences..
someone plz post your experience here. we all are eagerly waiting for one.
subscribing
Me too....
I do not think that this thread will EVER BECOME ACTIVE....STRANGE....Mods can close it...
PROFILE:
Acads
X %,Board, year - 91.2 (C.B.S.E)-04
XII%, Board, year - 92.2 (C.B.S.E) -06
B.Tech Electronics and Communication (IIT), 86.9
Work-Ex:
iRunway (technology consulting to law firms in patent litigations) - 15 months (present)
Infosys - 4 months
CAT 2011:
Quant - 99.22
Verbal - 98.88
Aggregate - 99.71
(category if applicable) - Gen
Extra curriculars : Organising events (Technical events), Roller Skating(Hockey) at District Level, Captain of winning team (cricket tournament) at college, etc.
Curricular - Loads
Co-Curricular - Quite decent
Any other special thing abt u: was chosen to meet A.P.J.Abdul Kalam in 2003 (when he was the president)
Interview & Essay
Venue: Bangalore
Date : 25/2/2012
Essay - The young today, get so much too easily and in a short period of time and that is detrimental to their future.
Time for thinking - 10 mins,
Time for writing - 20 mins
Attempt : I negated the statement and told how it is not detrimental, on the lines of access to large pool of information from internet, use of algorithms in the project u do, learning curve exponential in this age group thus contributing max to innovations, gave an example of Bangalorean Youtube Guy! I should have put some cons too and balanced the whole article which I didn't do (many other guys did). So it was just a one-sided article from me. Let's see how they rate them. Don't expect much !
Preparation : 1
Performance : 2.5
Interview: 30 minutes, first one to be interviewed once again !
3 persons (1 Stress Interviewer Guy - SI (most probably an alumni), 1 old male professor M, 1 female professor - F)
M - Tell me about iRunway,
Me - told, explained in layman's terms too.
SI(very rude tone, that was prevalent throughout my interview so won't write it again..throughout means every single sentence he spoke in the interview, seemingly dissatisfied with everything I said 
) -
Why did you leave Infosys in just 4 months ?
Me - told , wasn't learning enough...(cut in between)
SI - How can you expect to learn so much in 4 months when people take 35 years and they are still learning ?
Me - Told specific examples how I wasn't learning there ,,,, then said 4 months is a long time sir.
SI - How is 4 months a long time, what proportion is it of 35 years ?
Me - *Fumbling*, "1/4*..(cut in between) - not even 2 seconds to calculate.
SI - 1/4 ... see he doesn't know mathematics.
Me - Sir 1/3*thirtyfi...(cut in between again).:banghead:
SI - what is this chicago 2011 written in ur SOP, *read out lines* ?
Me - Sir, this is an initiative I took while working in Infosys, told them about it, and said how the current version of product is based on it !
SI - So what is this roller skating (hockey), what is hockey doing in it?
Me - Sir, roller skating is bifurcated into Speed Racing and Hockey and I played roller skating (hockey).
SI - How do you play, like ur on skates and u have a hockey in hand, seems similar to ice skating?
Me - Yes sir, it is similar but the surface on which it is played is different.
SI - do we play it in India ? I haven't heard this apart from ice skating
Me - Yes sir, it's played on national level, even international but ice skating is a huge game in comparison to it.
M - Did you play in IIT Kanpur (not my IIT)? Do they have a skating rink ? *the guy was gettin confused about the time when I played it*
Me - No sir I didn't play , there's no skating rink in my IIT and I am not sure if IIT Kanpur has it !
SI (pitches in) - He played it when he was in school not in college.
Me - what is the difference between roller skating hockey and simple hockey ?
SI - told how the hockey stick (told them using gestures that roller stick is this long and has this much amount of curve and the other simple hockey stick is this long and this curve.... looked like a fool :banghead:) is different but drag-flick approach is same. started to tell about skating rink *interrupted*
SI - So you have started your SOP by saying that you have met Abdul Kalam ?
Me - yes, Sir met him on *Date* when he was the president.
M - Can you tell me what 2020 means in this context ?
Me - Abdul Kalam stated that India will be a developed country by 2020,,gave some fundaes on GDP growth rate, etc. (interrupted).
M - Have you read his India 2020 book ?
Me - No sir,
SI - No point asking him about it since he hasn't read it.
SI - Do you follow Hockey (our national game) ?
Me - I do keep in touch with what is going around in that sport.
SI - Can you tell me any change of rules that have taken place in the last 10 years in this game ? :banghead:
Me - I really don't know about the change of rules, just that I keep in touch with the happenings in Indian hockey team.
SI - you wrote "satiated" word in your SOP. what do you mean by it. Do you use such words in ur daily communication ?
Me - It means satisfied and I do sometimes use this particular word alot.
SI - what is this ? "ideas stemming from real life incidents" ?
Me - told how during the speech of Manmohan Singh in our IIT, I got the idea of a speech highlight reader and I implemented that. I have always lived by applying what I learn.
SI - You have gone to Germany ? What did you do there ?
Me - Sir , it was a speech analysis system for cleft lip and palate students (*interrupted*).
SI - What you did during your internship , that was the same when u built a speech highlight reader and that you spoke of manmohan singh and all is just a figment of your imagination? :o
Me - No Sir, those are two different things. In one there is speech recognition and in the other it's speech detection.
F - What's the difference ?
Me - explained and convinced.
F - So How many team members have your worked with ?
Me - max 6, sometimes 4.
F - Have you interacted with your customers ?
Me - Yes , I led the project when I was in U.S, working with the lawyers in the law firm for 50 days while my team members were in India. Handled the infringement theories of 3 defendants while distributing sub-tasks to my team members in India. But if your talking about corporations who are involved in lawsuits, then No, haven't interacted with them (they are not our customers).
F - Ok. again, how many team members have you worked with ?
Me - It actually varies, the max is around 6 . The job we have is pretty dynamic, we get pulled out of projects at times if our requirement is somewhere else where I will be more efficient. Get to work in a lot of teams due to it. So , worked with 2 members and max 6.
M - So what is your goal ? why do you want to do after MBA ?
Me - Sir I want to go into strategy consulting having set my base in the consulting field in iRunway.
M - Do you know any strategy consultants who helped Indian companies ?
Me - Sir, C.K.Prahlad. He was the consultant to various companies such as Taj hotels, HUL,etc.
SI - But he has passed away, some 3-4 years back.
Me - Sir, two years back, April 2010.
SI - So, you played cricket, oh you captained a team in this cricket tournament ?
Me - told about that tournament.
SI - Tell me, If a ball has bounced outside offstump but gets to hit the wicket, will it be an LBW (Something like that)? 
(WHY SUCH QUESTIONS)
Me - No sir, the balls need to be pitched in the line of stumps.
SI - So (some modification related to the same in the context of leg stumps) ?
Me - I think it would be the same but I am not sure. to be honest, I am not quite a big fan of cricket Sir. I love football though.
SI - What kind of Football ?
Me - English Socce (interrupted)
SI - No, No, What league england, spain ?
Me - Sir English Premier League and I am a fan of Chelsea.
SI - Tell me how many european championships have Chelsea won ? (*the guy had knowledge in football*)
Me - Never Sir.
SI - Okay, tell me a great management guy in football ?
Me - Sir, Jose Mourinho, he was won everything wherever he went.
SI - No, he just won two EPL titles with Chelsea and then nothing significant at real madrid ?
Me - (interrupting) Sir, he went to Inter, won Serie A and champions league as well and now Real Madrid is on the brink of capturing the La Liga after a long time.
SI - We all know how real madrid is gona lose at the end ?
Me - No Sir, I am sure they will win the title, no doubts about that (again interrupting me)
SI - Oh, Leave it I know they are not gona win...
M - So can you tell me top consulting firms ?
Me - AT Kearney, Mckinsey, Boston Consulting group... those are the ones I have heard of.
M - Okay, can you tell me a management consultancy in the field of sports ?
Me - hmmm, I am sorry sir . I don't have an idea! :banghead:
SI - Tell me one management consultant from India.
Me - was gona say C.K.prahlad (interrupted)
SI - he was is news for the last 6 months, we have heard so much abt him .
Me - I don't know Sir.:banghead:
M - Okay, we are done.
SI - would you like to ask some questions ?
Me - yes sir, how does the curriculum gets updated over here and how frequently is it updated ?
SI - gave some fundaes and everything.
Me - So, is there any role for students to play in it ?
SI- yea their feedback is taken into account .
Me - So aren't they involved in real-time faculty meetings. Actually, I was the batch representative and got the feedback from students and presented it before and I did sit in the real time meetings to update the curriculum. so wanted to know how's it done over here !
SI - yea, they are not involved in the meetings but we do try to take feedback from them.
Me- thank you Sir,
M - thanks,
F- Nice meeting you.
Me - Thanks
About to leave , stood up, about to walk out then I said this to SI
*smiling* Sir, Real Madrid will surely win La Liga and I am dead sure about it*. Thank you Sir. :)
and I walked out !
Positives - My projects, my work ex
Negatives - haha, a lot of things ! you can figure them out by urself
Preparation : 3.5
Performance : 2.5
Prediction : Reject
Verdict : Reject.
Ha ha Ha....
Fellow puys are sceptical of competetion benefiting from their experience...
Well.... those who will have thr interviews aftr 16 March, Can see my experience....
PROFILE:
Acads
X 90.13, Maharashtra board, 2004
XII90.33, Maharashtra board, 2006
Undergrad Stream Btech- ECE, 90.3, 2010, NIT Calicut
Work-Ex:
18 months,Control and Instrumentation engg, NTPC, a JV in Chennai
CAT 2011:
Quant 99.2
Verbal 98.14
Aggregate 99.61
General
Extra curriculars : NIL
Any other special thing abt u: Reading, Playing Keyboard
Interview & Essay
Venue: IIMB
Date : 25-12-2012
Essay :
Topic: "Too much too soon for a young person can be detrimental for his future."
Brief Snapshot of the attempt: Good, had different perspectives, elaborated all of them. Took a side.
Time given : 10 min (think), 20 min(write)
Rate your preparation(0-5): 3
Rate your performance(0-5): 4
PI:
Panel Members Intro: P1: Young Current Affairs guy(Stress guy, to put it bluntly), P2: old friendly work-ex guy, P3: middle-aged SOP guy.
Questions:
P2: So, you're from Power. I am not an engineer(where have I heard this before?(cue P1:IIMA interviewer). Put me on guard ). Tell me what you do for your company, and your role in the power sector as a whole
Me: Told
P2: I have a doubt. How does one manage power demand and supply? Blackouts, Power surges?
Me: Told(Demand-response, Energy efficiency key here)
P3: Still, I have a doubt. Blackouts at night ... Dont they drastically increase grid frequency?
Me: (Told about the entire ABT(tariff scheme) and how producers change load and takers intimate the regulatory authority earlier.)
P2, : keeps asking a few power questions and how situation can be improved.
Me: (Explain patiently.)
P1: Ok, you're good at power, Tell me what are the main issues of people in Kudankulam and how will you resolve it.
Me: List them out and give solutions(Issues convince him, my solutions not so much)
P1: List out European countries.
Me: (I do.. Eng, Ger, Fra..)
P1: (interrupts)Whats nuclear power as a percentage of Fra total power gen?
Me: A sizeable number. Areva,...
P1: (interrupts) no , a number.
Me: Dont know
P1: 80% . Now, Why no problems in France with this nuclear safety situation?
Why no neighbors of Fra agitating?
Me: (try giving an answer saying the demography and its livelihood needs to be taken into account... Probably more natural resources related occupations(agriculture, fisheries) in India
P1: (interrupts).. Wine as a percentage of French GDP?
Me: No idea.
P1: It is quite high. So now do you think it is related to the livelihood? What about other motivations?
Me: (Thinking..about to answer)
P1: (interrupts)hmmm.. So what do you think about Kudankulam localites? Are they educated or not about Nuclear n all? No other motives for agitation?
Me: They are to an extent. The extent varies, and so does the level to which they are influenced by politics.(or something on these lines)
P1: (seems convinced)
P3: Ok, so your SOP.(starts asking questions about this, that..)
Me: (Here it goes..)
P1, P2 , P3 : (start grilling me about my motives, my aspirations, my past, present , future, my influences, my preferences, moral,societal, economic and professional viewpoints, ... all that jazz for about 15 min)
(In short, A lot of this went around power consulting(something that I mentioned in the SOP), what I knew about the field, the firms in it, their expertise and what they had done in the past and scope for the future. What I look for in a firm, my ideal firm, my inspirations, motivations, obligations.. yada yada..)
Me: (thoughtfully and patiently answer..)
P1, P2 , P3: (seem convinced)
Me: (Phew!! )
P1,2,3: Thank you! That would be all.
Me: Thank you sirs.
Rate your preparation(0-5): 4
Rate your performance(0-5): 3.5
MISC.
Any other relevant detail. : 30 min. Overall, they seemed to stress on Work-ex and career aspirations.Only P1 seemed to poke/joke/question pointedly every once in a while. P2 and P3 were chilled.Compared to this one, I felt the IIMC interview had a more hobby-interests bent and IIMA had a academic feel to it. To each, it's own I suppose.
Advice: Thoroughly research every word in your SOP. Every word.
Positives: Well thought-out answers. Positive frame of mind. Cheerful disposition
Negatives: The Kudankulam solutions and French questions.
VERDICT: Converted.
PROFILE:
Acads
X %,Board, year 90.13, Maharashtra board, 2004
XII%, Board, year 90.33, Maharashtra board, 2006
Undergrad Stream(BA, BE etc), Specialization(CS, mech etc), Percentage, Year, Institute. Btech- ECE, 90.3, 2010, NIT Calicut
VERDICT Awaited
Nice one dude ! It seems a convert ! No stress interview, different panel, right ?
or is it only me that I thought mine was a stress interview and and in reality it wasn't lol
Good Luck !
Nice one dude ! It seems a convert ! No stress interview, different panel, right ?
or is it only me that I thought mine was a stress interview and and in reality it wasn't lol
Good Luck ! :cheers:
Yeah, different panel. One guy did interrupt often. Otherwise,it wasn't a Stress interview in the sense that the other two gave sufficient time to think and answer. But all 3 were on the lookout for faulty statistics and flawed logic. Kind of a think-think interview. 😛 How was yours? You would have done well!
haha...check it out ! my experience is posted before yours. you must 've missed it !
NI4CAT Sayshaha...check it out ! my experience is posted before yours. you must 've missed it !
Read it. Agree with it, except the last line. Don't be too hard on yourself. You never know what they look for. Some good points will have caught their eye. All the best for L!
PROFILE:
Acads
X %,Board, year : CBSE , 93%
XII%, Board, year : CBSE : 93.6%
Undergrad : National University of Singapore, Economics, 88%
Work-Ex: 0
Sectors, Company - Number of months
CAT 2011:GMAT 760
Extra curriculars : Dance, MUN, E-Cell
Any other special thing abt u:Spent 1 year abroad working
Interview & Essay
Venue: Bangalore
Date : 25th Feb 2012
PI:
Panel Members Intro:
P1: Sitting in middle
P2: On the Right
P3: On the left
Questions:
P1: Hello, you've been waiting for a long time .. what did you do while waiting, must have heard what the others said
M: No sir, only one or two people .. my cousin is from IIMB so I met him and spent time talking to him
P2: Oh no value add
M: Honestly, in 1 hour I don't know what value I can add or additional prep I can do. I preferred to stay focussed on my own.
P1: Okay so you did some prep - what did you do?
M: Just thought about what I want to do with my life and why and read about what's happening in the world.
P3: What's happening in the world?
M: Well, the eurozone is the big topic lately
P1:So what do you think will happen?
M: If Greece is able to live up to all its austerity measures and pay off its debts then it might recover. but that seems hard because of the difficulties the measures will cause the average Greek person - pay cuts, job losses.
P1: Okay, so have you faced any difficulties in life?
M: Yes sir.. (blah blah about my year working and studying at the same time, plus having a car .. )
P1: Oh why'd you have a car, where in the US were you - no public transport?
M: Told
P1: SO what happened to your car
M: 5 minute Mahabharata about my car tyre bursting and a friend bailing me out with his AAA insurance
P1: So you didn't have AAA?
M: No sir, but the next morning I got it
P1,P2, P3: HA..ha...ha.. Clever
P2: Okay so what courses did you do in the US
M: Told
P3: Oh okay understood
P1: So NUS - what courses do you like?
M: (like an idiot, was totally asking for it) Money and Banking
P2: Got excited - okay so imagine you're a German Citizen , how do you feel about Germany giving away your money to another country
M: True - on one hand my hard-earned money is being given away, but on the other hand lots of benefits to keeping Greece within the eurozone
P1: Oh really, like what? They're a sick country, just chuck them out
M:(amidst constant rebuttal about But capital in Greece will be devalued if they move to drachma, plus there's the trade issue, difficult to trade, also there's the contagion effect to other peripheral countries and the investor confidence in the euro will fall
P2: Gave some analogy about college and school and giving my marks/money to other people
M: Somehow we agreed that the peripheral countries should have been thoroughly analyzed before joining and probably not been allowed to be part of euro
Somehow interviewers still said oh we should through greece out and bring them back in if they do well .. I said no but lots of legal ramifications. P1,P2, P3 laugh and say haha.. economists don't care about the legalities
M: Haha..
P3: But why do you think the england didn't join the eurozone -
M: Said something about how they were strong in international trade, didn't need the eurozone as much..
P3: (Got tired) - actually they wanted to preserve their economy
Finally moved on
P3: Tell me your career plans
M: Told - (and NO cross questioning!! )
P3: here in your SOP , you took part in this e-challenge, what was it
M: Told
P1: So why did you not pursue that
M: Told ( interviewers seemed satisfied)
P1: Ok apart from studying what do you like doing
M: Dance - explained about a performance last week
Ps: (Seemed satisfied)
P1: Any questions for us?
M: Asked something about ethics
Ps: got excited, said many things
and that was the end
Rate your preparation(0-5): 4.5
Rate your performance(0-5): 3.5
I was the last one in my group and I think the interviewers were just tired of everything .. felt my interview was much shorter than the people before me - not sure why.. 
VERDICT : Awaited
PROFILE:
Rate your preparation(0-5): 4.5
Rate your performance(0-5): 3.5
I was the last one in my group and I think the interviewers were just tired of everything .. felt my interview was much shorter than the people before me - not sure why..
VERDICT : Awaited
Yours seems like a cake walk compared to mine 😞 What a disaster mine was. Anyway, all the best !!
@all those who are done with their essay/pi:
could you tell me how many sheets were given for the essay and how many in total had come for the interview ?
abaliga1990 SaysYours seems like a cake walk compared to mine 😞 What a disaster mine was. Anyway, all the best !! :clap:
Mine too.. Complete stress. When I said that I wanted to be an entrepreneur, they were like this is all crap which the coaching classes tell you to say in the interviews becoz it looks good, but no one becomes an entrepreneur. I countered his argument and he countered me back! Man, it was hell in there with the guy on the right mocking every answer of mine!
What do these guys primarily judge in a stress interview? The content or the composure?