This interview happened on the 9th of April (at IIMB, 9:00am) . Its late to be posting these experiences, but if itll help neone.....next batch, whoever..then i might as well....
This was the only interview i attended where there was close to complete seriousness on the part of the candidates. For I, L it was extremely casual, and B and C midway. For some reason, all the groupings this time round were zonal, so it ended up that any GD/PI group i was in were mostly Keralites, and the rest (except for the C interview) would be from some other small city. For A,B,L,K i ended up having the GD with my college mates/junta from IMS or CL Trivandrum/school seniors. I thought this was strange.....theres something to being able to interact well with a group of strangers, but when half the GD group consists of your buddies then the group dynamics do change some, and things can get very casual and relaxed.
The GD:
A case study was given. Pretty simple: Guy wants to have some famous rock group perform on the last day of his college cultural festival, of which hes in charge or something. His college Director thinks there will be trouble as these people are very famous, but guy persists (they have the resources for this) and Director not in favour but agrees, and absolutely refuses to have anything to do with it. And if anything goes wrong, blame rests on guys head and no more fests for the college. On the night of the rock show, the bands flight arrives late, theres a traffic jam, and its already very late. A 10,000 strong crowd is waiting for them. Guy calls SP and asks for road clearance for them, SP says ok but get Director to request for it. What should guy do?
the discussion: It was quite an obvious topic, with everyone speaking plenty. Up to a point it was going smoothly and pretty logically. Then someone suggested that perhaps the band could call from a mobile from wherever they are and speak to the crowds to pacify them some. Immediately someone else jumped in saying a better idea would be to get them into a cyber cafe and use a webcam to relay some words from the band to the audience waiting for them (after all anyone could impersonate from a mobile fone right?
). Another guy begins to snicker. Fight begins..... The mobile phone and webcam idea guys vs the ones who think its ridiculous.....and here the discussion essentially stopped. Two of us started to talk about what he could do better next time, some of the rest are still with the webcam debate.....and at this point we were told to stop.
The PI:
The only properly structured PI i faced. It wasnt a go-with-the-flow interview.....they didnt ask me anything about myself or any general questions. More importantly there was absolutely no scope to lead the interview anywhere....first man asks lots of tech, second man asks general awareness questions, and third man observes. The questions were very pointed, asking for very precise answers. The panel was friendly and wasnt stressing anyone out, but one certainly HAD to know tech to do well in the interview
<Im not comfortable with the qn-ans-qn-ans format.....)
Tech guy started... Explain DC and AC motors. (Third sem topics that i was glad to leave behind
..)I gave them the basics, and they grilled me further about how the speed can be changed, what about the phase etc etc .... no idea. Then tech guy lifts a pencil and drops in onto the table, and asks me to explain the dynamics of the motion in molecular terms. Interesting question there.....i gave them a half-explanation (they didnt look happy with it) after which they asked me why the intermolecular attraction among the air molecules is less than that among the pencil molecules ( that was part of my explanation) ..... gave them somehting they didnt accept. Heck...isnt that why its a gas in the first place???? then something about Control systems...engg subject,,, then about my 6th sem project. (For the techies: its a microcontroller based temperature controller cum digital thermometer which gives an on-off output ...., is very easy to use and has some pretty decent features.....this guy tells me its not different from a kettle coz of the on-off control thing
). Some more questions about general electronix, instrumentation , companies in instrumentation, etc etc. And why traffic lights are red, orange and green. Tech guy finishes his part.
Next guy: How would you increase foreign investment in India in the instrumentation field? What all has been done to increase foreign investment generally? Why should we have foreign investment? Do you think the ruling front has done much in the past 5 years? What about Congress as a party....how are they? This went on for a short while and then it was over. They offered me biscuits and toffees and i was out. I shut the door behind me and realised id left my handbag inside ....
Overall ive performed badly here. With all that tech, lots of which i couldnt answer and even of what i answered, i guess it was really showing that i was not on sure footing. The tech part went on for a good 15 minutes.....they were probably probing to see if i knew *anything*,, and after a point that sort of stressed me out...it affected the second part too.....
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Anyways all the best !!!!
.... uve got patience buddy if uve read this far!!!!
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