Shillong, 12th April.
PROFILE:
Acads:
X- 94.5
XII- 95.5
Undergrad Major - EEE,SSN,Anna University. 83 %
Work-Ex: Placed in CTS, but working as relationship manager at an educational organisation for better work ex for 10 months now.
CAT %ile:
DI - 84.5
Quant -94
Verbal -98
Aggregate -97. odd
Any other special thing abt u: National award in dance
GD:
Topic: case study, about what decision a manager should take..
Number of Ppl present - Only 4 out of 20 turned up!!!
Time: 5 minutes to read the case, 10 mnts to discuss, 5 mnts to write summary of what was discussed
Brief Snapshot of Discussion: this manager guy has a supplier who has been delivering high quality goods at low cost, the supplier cant afford the rates anymore and the supplier requests the managet to accept his hiked cost or else he has to shut down his company. The manager has been asked to cut down costs from his companys side too and supplier decision is made based on lowest bid, so if price is hiked it goes to sum other supplier.. now what shuld manager do??
PI:
Panel Members Intro: tthree snr proffs from IIM A..
Questions:
(P refers to panel, m refers to me. )
P:you are from Chennai, why have you come all the way to shillong for your interview??
m:so that i could take a look at the campus , find out more about shillong
P:
(cutting me short) : so you dont trust us?? you want to come all the way to see for yourself.
m: its always best to know evrything before taking a decision
p: will you live with your husband before marriage?
m: ???? i beg ur pardon sir...
P : will you live with your husband before marriage??
m: (
what crap!! i didnt know how to react lol! ) My culture doesnt permit me to do so sir.
p: So isnt this like that??
m: not really sir, before getting married, we look at the grooms photo
p: (
laughing) you had the campus photo on the website
m: and then we talk to the groom and the people around him and find out about his character, whereas in this case there were no previous batches to talk to...
p: you have pagalguy
m: in this case, there is not much info there too sir
p: (
all were laughing) so after coming what did you find out about shillong
m: Its a beautiful place to live in sir and all the msiconceptions are not really true
p: what are the conceptions and what are the misconception about north east?
m: Its quite surprising how little i know about the north east so i may not be in a position to list out all the conceptions but i can say that nature is at its unravished best, unhintered by man (blah blah) misconceptions- there are a lot about how its not a safe place to live in owing to the terrorism..
p: name the 8 states in the east
m:( I
named 6, they themselves named the other 2 , damn i 4got sikkim and tripura, just that moment it slips out)
p: Now you are the interviewer, I am the student, what are the last 3 questions you will ask me?
m: Do you have other IIm calls, then wuld u take up shillong, Why mba and How far do u think an mba at shillong wuld be beneficial
p: now answer those (
looked at other 2 and laughed)
m: err.. i have no other iim calls..
p: other institutes??
m: i got through IMT and SPJain
p: Got through? are the results out?
m: yes sir, IMt a week before and SPJain just yesterday.
p: ok why IIm s then?
m: IIm brand blah blah
p: ok next question
m:(
by this time i had even 4gotten what the other 2 questions were) err.. mba..because..
(all the rhetoric about theory, practicality, faculty experience, peer group blah blah)
p: ok you spoke about ethics in the GD, how can you when u are not ethical yourself
m(
realised this was meant to be stress, so i wasnt stressed, smiled and went on) Im sorry sir, to my knowledge my conduct has always been ethical
p: no you didnt follow the instructions i gave for the GD. Repeat the instructions i gave.
m: to my knowledge i did so sir. anyhow, ( i
repeated everything)
P : so i said first 5 minutes you can look at the case study, then you are supposed to discuss, but you kept looking at the case study then and there (
a stern look)
m: (
smiling) sir there was no instruction saying we shouldnt look at the case study during the discussion, by all means what i did wasnt wrong.
p: (
nodded brightly in acknowldegment, i went very happy at this instant)
show me your certificate file (
they pointed at newspaper cliipings with picture of my dance, write up was in tamil and telugu so they asked me what it was, was talking about my national award and they probed a bit into what award, by whom etc)
you studied Maths right?
m: for cat, yes sir
P: ha ha . im sure you even studied in BE. y= ax sqr + bx+ c. Plot this.
m: i dont have a pencil (
they gave me) I guess its a parabola sir, (
blank look from them so after a few seconds i said i couldnt)
p: you gave up cts, why?
m: blah blah on better work ex
p: what do u do in your current job as relationship manager?
m: blah blah
p: you were a BE, this has no relevance, so u wasted 4 years??
m: not really, BE i studied is outdated, it is just a platform to enhance logical and application skills, as in doing BE is tougher than finishing an arts degree, it gave me a perspective, developed my ability to think and apply . Besides im not from IIT to regret that i wasted govts money.
p (
nodded in agreement, i was happy again) who is ur role model?
m: biocon ceo - kiran majumdar sha
p: she didnt have an mba, why dont u be like her?
m: some thing i said about a spark and ambition blah blah
p: you're from Tamilnadu, who do u support AMMa or ANNA??
m: i would rather take a non political stand here sir.
p: (
laughed )
m: they both have their pros and cons which should be weighed
p: what are the cons of amma??
m: she tends to be quite audacious and impulsive, she could be more graceful while accusing her opponents
p: tell me, i never understand u tamils, year after year you again vote for these pppl, the whole country looks in awe
m: that is something even i dont understand sir
p (
laughed) always taking the safer stand huh?
m: well actually i voted for lok paritran sir.
p: ok thankyou you may leave
m: thankyou sirs.
p: one minute, even for the GD, you went out to bring your pen, even now to draw the graph you borrowed the pencil is this some style of yours, not carrying pens??i'll note it against you.
m: smiled helplessly .
MISC.
In the 9 clock slot- 20 were supposed to turn up, only 4 did, they were majorly grilled in their Engineering branches, in the 2 clock slot all 4 of us had a very relaxed interview...
I met the placement head, a very nice lady (
didnt ask her name). She was placement incharge for IIM A all along, now she and her husband, a prof, have been put inc harge of IIMs . they came on Jan 28 and have been living there ever since. she kept talking to all of us during out inetrview wait and i got some info from her.
# 12 faculty from IIM A have been transferred to shillong. 12 faculty for 60 students.
#the campus is actually the summer palace of Orissa king, been borrowed temporarily.
#the ppl of shillong are all very neat, decent, well behaved and speak english
#She kept saying shillong is an excellent place to live
# she arranged a security to show me around the place. ive taken snaps, which ill upload in my blog and give the link here soon.
# Since she has numerous placement contacts, she said getting us placed would be no prob at all. however i asked her why L, I, K was still not doing well as A, B ,C, she said thats why we're doing everything on our parts to ensure that shillong takes off well, and stressed that student co-operations is also very important for this
# she said she usually moves well with srudents, finds out their strenghts and weakness and places them accordingly, in a job which suits them and a job which theyll bound to enjoy.
# the whole campus is already WIFI enabled
# Furnishing is yet to be done, she said itll be done in a month or so
# the site for the new permanent campus is 200 acres and it is 15km away from central shillong. currently, the campus is very much in the central part. she said, if needed, it can be built in 8 months, as in the case of IIM A, but she said, it may take 2- 3 years too.
# she said it gets very cold in Dec, so she is thinking of starting the course a little ahead so that she can give a week off in Dec. Besides she pointed out that since ppl from south will also be taking up, one or 2 days holidays like other IIMs will not be sufficient to travel from shillong, she was planning on giving us a week off in dec.
# she asked us to be prepared for the worst as it will be terribly terribly hectic. 20 hours of study per day.
# she finally told my mother "send your daughter here, ill take good care of her" lol!
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oketoungeb
..Sir,CAT is more about how u perform on dat day rather than the preparation thing.I did prep hard but messed up DI n hence cudn get thru.:icon_frown:
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