[joy_dreamer]

Hi,

I had my IIM Indore GDPI today.
Place : Kolkata - Kenilworth Hotel .
(Have been to this hotel almost a dozen times , but never dreamt in the wildest dream that I will be coming here one day for an IIM GDPI. My coming today , was predecided even then.)

Time : 8.30am

Reached there by 7.45am .. Did not take the taxi . To remain cool and bindaas I took my bike . The Kenilworth gate keeper did not allow to park my bike within the Hotel premise !! So , I had a 15 mins fight with them and complained to the Hospitality Desk . The Day started with some action.Warm Up

PROFILE:

Acads:
X - 89 % 49th Rank in West Bengal state
XII - 85 % 96th Rank in West Bengal state
Undergrad Major - Production Engg . 2005 - Jadavpur University
83 % 1st class 3rd

Work-Ex:
3.5 Years - ERP Consulting in PwC / IBM / Cognizant ( No more IT companies left in Sector- V, Kolkata :eyepop: .. Have to convert at least 1 call this time ...)

CAT %ile:
DI 95.86
Quant 86.03
Verbal 99.79
Aggregate 99.61


Any other special thing abt u:

Stock Market Trader - Qualifed four modules of NCFM - Derivatives , Securities , Capital Mrkts , Beginners' Modules.

Painter - 3 awards from Art Exhibition in Tokyo.

GD:

20 people were called at 8.30am .We were divided into 2 groups of 10 . 2/3 people were absent.
Topic: Susan - Married to Army officer Navin - Susan sees the other side of the coin .. Dilemma . Same case study as the previous post.
Number of Ppl present : 8
Time: 30mins for reading and writing the analysis on the last page of the yellow form.20mins for discussion.

Brief Snapshot of Discussion: Very Structured GD. Not a fishmarket at all. Everyone got fair amt of time to speak. No cross - talks . The sound level was well within the normal range.

Imp : Since 30mins were given for writing the case analysis , everyone got the chance to clearly write down his / her points . So , I feel even if someone is not quite vocal , he wont get a zero in the GD as he has clearly written down his points .


Other Salient Details: As our GD was well structed and everyone spoke , the panel did not even ask someone to summarize at the end.

PI:
I wasin the second panel.
Panel Members Intro: Prof . Abha Chatterjee (Madam)
Prof . GR Chandrasekhar (Sir)
Questions:

Sir : Where are you from ?
Me : Kolkata .
Sir : Which part ?
Me : South Kolkata - 15 Kms from this hotel.
Sir : You have studied Material Science in ur B.E.
Me : Yes Sir :eyepop:
Sir : What is ..... ..... ....... ...... .... (very tough terms)
3 questions on Material Science
Me : Surrendered ! Sir , I have read those in 2002 .. 7 years ago ... in my 1st yr of BE. It was not my fav subject .. so did not revise

Sir : What do u do as an ERP Consultant ?
Me : Thank God
My strength area - alomost 10 / 12 questions on ERP . I work on Oracle Apps . Comparison between Oracle apps and SAP .

In this part I was confident and answered all the questions .
3.5 years of hard labour in IT Consulting - Kuch to kaam mein aaya

Sir : Hobby ?
Me : Stock Markets - Had a discussion about Stocks for sometime.

Madam : After 3 yrs in IT Consulting , why do u want to do an MBA ?
Me : I justified and supported the points I had written in the form .

Then we had a comfortable discussion about art / painting and the awards I have got .

Madam : You mentioned a couple of theories in the GD .. How did you learn them ?

Me : wikipedia.

Long Live Wikipedia !

And the interview ended on a happy note .

I was asked to take a toffee . I took one and left.

My interview was over by 11.15 am .

MISC.

My first IIM interview of my life .. It was not a stress interview at all.
Freshers were asked a lot of acads . The interview lasted for around 15-20 mins for most of the people.

Next Stop : 16-Feb IIMB.


Verdict : Converted

[nitish603]

Hi joy

I am also working as Oracle apps consultant from last one year. Could you Please help me with the kind of questions they asked during the interview which were related to ERP.

I have my interview three days from now. It would really be helpful.

Thanks
Nitish Srivastava
+91-9958795420

[live2die]

Originally Posted by nitish603

Hi joy

I am also working as Oracle apps consultant from last one year. Could you Please help me with the kind of questions they asked during the interview which were related to ERP.

I have my interview three days from now. It would really be helpful.

Thanks
Nitish Srivastava
************

Nitish if you want to have details then PM Joy your queries .. moreover posting contact information on threads is not allowed :-)

~Live

[karanmaroo]

PROFILE:

Acads:
X (CBSE) - 91.6%
XII (CBSE) - 91.2%
Undergrad- B.Tech CSE (IIIT Hyd)
GPA - 8.43

Work-Ex: Nil

CAT %ile:
DI : 84.92
Quant : 99.88
Verbal : 99.18
Aggregate : 99.86

Others: Lots of extra curriculars- quizzes, debates, cricket, blog, writing for newspaper and college mag, blog, organising events etc.

Date and Place: 13/2/2009 (8:30 AM), Hyderabad.


GD: Case study.
“
Ramcharan was looking into the problems that he was facing. He was reading the resignation letter of Sarah. She was the forth experienced worker who was leaving the job.
His father and his uncle Radheshyam were the ‘Karta’ of the joint family. Ramcharan, Ramdev (not too sure about this name ), Leeladhar were siblings and Radheshyam had just one daughter Radha. They had a big ancestral home and 20 acres of cultivable land on the banks of a small river. Radheshyam was a teacher and traded in agro based products like wheat.
Ramcharan was a fresh graduate from college when Radheshayam had suggested him to go for a career in IT but Ramcharan wanted to start him own cashew processing unit. So without any prior experience in the corporate world he started his own business. He required experienced people and so he hired them at high pay and also arranged for their families to be moved. He started with two varieties of cashew (medium and high end). For the first two years he was able to make good profit and so he was able to procure bank loans to buy new machines. He was thinking of expanding the unit to a cold storage and mango-jelly processing unit.
Recently due to high produce of cashew all types of processed cashew’s value reduced by 20%. The price fell to a level where he was having difficulty in meeting his expenses as well. So he had to cut down on the routine maintenance of the machines. Moreover not-so-reliable supply of electricity from the electricity board was also resulting in loss of productivity. For this the consultants advised to use generators for electricity. There were some high-end Technicians in the company and they were also asking for a raise in pay.
His brother Ramdev had completed his MCA and was getting an admission in one of the top 20 universities in US. He expected the joint family to take care of his educational expenses. Radheshyam was thinking of marrying Radha to an IT consultant who belonged to the same place and was doing well. Also from last two years Radheshyam was not making any profits in his business. At this time he thought that the prices of wheat have reached an all time low and it is the time to invest in wheat and store stocks of wheat.
In her exit interview Sarah told Ramcharan that her son was doing well as an IT engineer and he did not want Sarah to work here anymore. This echoed the same thing even other workers who left the job had said. What should Ramcharan do?”

The GD was a fish market for the first 10 mins and quite peaceful after that. I think I did quite well. I started the GD and gave it a direction, pitched in a lot of times and gave quite a few original points. I was satisfied with my performance.

No summary. Like yesterday, we were asked to write our learnings from the case for 30 mins before the case.
I was the first one to be interview. Lets call the professors P1 and P2.
Ask for permission to enter the room and sit. Wish them.

P1: So Karan, How’r you doing?
Me: Fine sir, Thank you.
P1: So you’r doing your B.Tech?
Me: Yes sir.
P1: You want to shift to management?
Me: Yes sir.
P1: Why?
Me: Sir, I think the possibility of leading and guiding businesses excites me. It’ll give me high levels of accountability and responsibility which I cherish. I believe that I am a natural leader and have in me to give vision and lead the fortunes of a company. In the future, I would also like to set up my own venture.
P1: What are the qualities which make a good leader? Why do you call yourself a good leader?
Me: Sir, a leader should have qualities like 1) visionary (elaborated) 2) good himself (elaborated) 3) inspirational (elaborated).
Then spoke about how I fulfill these qualities. How I was elected coordinator for my college fest, a 1.5 million INR event. Then spoke about the challenges I faced during the fest and how I handled them.
P1: What is network security?
Me: Talked about the definition of network security and what are the different types of security issues: 1) impersonation (elaborated) 2) interception (elaborated) 3) viruses.
P1: How do you make sure that a network is secure?
Me: Talked about asymmetric and symmetric cryptographic algorithms. Elaborated on the differences between the two, which is used in which situation and why.
P1: But are they effective? Whatever is available in the market today?
Me: To a fair extend sir. Then I spoke about RSA, RC4, DES, SDES, AES and how they are being used today.
P1: Then what is a virus?
Me: Sir a code written to make sure that the computer program performs in an ineffective way.
P1: Can you name a famous virus?
Me: Sir, Y2K.. :detective:
P1: (Cuts me) No no..
Me: Sir, the “I love you” virus. It was started in Thailand in 2000. (elaborated)
P1: Ok. Now tell me something about database management systems.
Me: Spoke about what is db and dbms. Then spoke about issues facing a database, distributed databases, database admin’s role etc.
P1: What is a relational database?
Me: Defined. (But was not very confident here)

P1: Ok.

Now P2 takes over

P2: What is globalization?
Me: Spoke about the definition, the types of globalization- economic, cultural, social etc. Elaborated on each.. Gave examples like western culture affecting countries in Asia etc.
P2: What are the types of economic globalizations?
Me: Sir 1) Trade , imports and exports (elaborated) 2) FDI, when a company invests (elaborated) 3) Joint ventures between companies.. Gave the example of Vodafone Essar. 4) Acquisitions.. (elaborated) Tata-Corus acquisition.
P2: How many people in India below the poverty line.
Me: Sir, according to one dollar a day definition around 30%.
P2: What is the FDI cap in telecom in India?
Me: 74% sir.
P2: Banking?
Me: (Hmmm.. 49 ki 74?): Sir 49%.
P2: Insurance?
Me: Sir its been raised to 49% by the cabinet.
P2: Asked about some economic term.
Me: No idea, sir.:confused:

Back to P1

P1: Karan, what do you know about IIM Indore?
Me: Spoke about the vision of IIM Indore- thought leadership, world class entrepreneurs, managerial excellence, social awareness etc. Then spoke about the logo of IIM Indore, what it mean etc. Also told that it started in 1998. Spoke about integrity, excellence etc.
(All smiles)
P1: (smiling) So you’ve gone through the site?
Me: Yes sir.
P1: What did you find special about IIM Indore?
Me: Sir, the fact that it stresses and fosters thought leadership. It is in sync with the vision in life I have for myself. Spoke about how I wanted to be an entrepreneur. I also spoke about Iris, and the other fests of IIM Indore.

(All smiles again)
P1: Do you know someone in IIM Indore?
Me: Yes sir and named him. Spoke about Indore 360 the mentor system and how it has helped me.
P1: Why have you been moving from one state to another?
Me: Spoke about how family moved from Ranchi to Vizag for personal reasons, then about why I moved to Puttaparthi (spoke about Satya Sai Baba) for my 10th and 12th, then about why I dropped a year for JEE, then about my engineering in Hyderabad.
P1: Asked about something like <Garibu or kitanu states>
Me: No idea sir. :confused:

P1: Ok. What does your dad do?
Me: Sir, business.
P1: What business?
Me: Answered.

Both look at each other.
“Ok thank you, Karan. Please take your certificates”.
Me: Thank you sir. Good day sir.

Overall, the profs were pretty cool. Enjoyed my first GDPI experience.



Acads being asked to virtually everyone, including people with 3+ years of work-ex. So be careful about that.


All the best!

Verdict: Converted.

[ash1625]

Hi All,

Had my interview today, Feb 13 at Hyderabad.Two back to back interviews(had my K yesterday at Mumbai).Was in the same panel as karanmaroo's.

Profile:-
Xth - 86.7%
XIIth - 89.5%
BTech(Mechanical,N.I.T Jamshedpur) - 80.3%

Work Ex:-20 months ,Accenture

CAT Score:-

QA - 96.90
VA - 98.59
DI - 96.42

OA - 99.49

Have decent extracurriculars(sports and athletics).

GD:- It was a case study about Radheshyam and his Cashew manufacturing company. Please refer to the post on the previous page for the details of the case.

Was in karans group, a 10 member one.The first 30 mins we were asked to write down our views about the summary.
The next 20 mins,we discussed it. The first 10 mins were a fish market sort of. Each one had good number of points,so the eagerness to speak.I participated some 4-5 times totally. Made some decent points. But the whole GD was an average one for me.

Then the interview.
Was the 8th one to be interviewed.

The profs P1,P2 and myself.

Me:-May I come in sir?
P1:- Yes, come in
Me:- Wish them both and sit down,P2 takes my file.
P1:- Tell me some material manufacturing processes,like forging,casting
Me:- Casting(told),Forging(told, but was very specific)
P1:- Which material is used for electricity transfer?(I dont remember the exact question)
Me:- Sir,Aluminium. It has a high thermal conductivity.
P1:- But Aluminium is costly.Any other(He asked something regarding some new material)
Me:- Sorry sir:confused:
P1:- What is MIS?
Me:- Management Information Systems(Had this subject in Engg)
P1:- What did u study in MIS?(bhai yeh kahaan se aaya, some core mech please)
Me:- Explained it briefly(It is the application of Management Concepts to information systems)
P1:-What is Systems?
Me:-It is a repository of Data
P1:-What is the difference between data and information?
Me:-Data is a raw form and information is refinement of data.
P1:- Give me an example?
Me:-Consider a sales shop which sells T-shirts, this particular thing is data.Consider a particular brand of T-shirts and u have observed that a section of people say b/w 15-20 yrs prefer this brand.That is information.
P1:-Discussed something with me regarding the same and gave a more gyaan of an answer for systems(the previous question).
P1:-Did u have any appraisal in your company?
Me:-Yes sir, in September
P1:-How much did you get on a scale of 10?
Me:-Told that we dont have any such system and started explaining about the appraisal process.
P1:-Are you a good people manager?(I talked about it in the appraisal process)
Me:-Yes sir
P1:- How much do u rate yourself on a scale of 5?
Me:- 4 out of 5 sir(very humble)

Now P2 enters

P2:- So what skills do u lack?
Me:- Told that I am still in a learning process and cultivating my skills.
P1: Asked my hometown
Me:-Told(I'm from Hyderabad)
P1:- Do you know anything about Indore?
Me:- Told that it is the commercial capital of Madhya Pradesh.Indore is to Madhya Pradesh as Mumbai is to India.
P1:- Why?
Me:- One of the growing cities of India, has few industries...
P1:-Tell me some industries of Indore?
Me:- stumped
P1: What places do you know in M.P?
Me:- Yeh hui na baat.I told many places(kuch das bola hoga) and said had few friends from M.P.Then told him about the famous railway institute and the locomotive plant situated in Jabalpur.
P1:- Anything famous?
Me:- It has a famous national park(Bandavgarh National park).
Again P2 comes in.

P2:- Did India win any medals in Olympics?
Me:- Told him about Abhinav Bindra,Jitendar Kumar and Sushil Kumar and the events they have won it in. Was not sure about Sushil Kumars's so told that I am not sure.
P2:- Who won the Australian open mens and womens?(I wrote tennis in my extracurriculars)
Me:-Told
P2:- Did anyone from India win?
Me:- Told,Mahesh Bhupathi and Sania Mirza in mixed doubles.
P2:-How many grand slams did Mahesh Bhupathi win?
Me:- Was not sure about this, told 11 and said I was not completely sure.
P2:-How many grand slams did Mahesh Bhupathi and Leander Paes win?
Me:- Told 4
P2:You know any one in Badminton from India?( mein ne badminton kahi pe bhi mention nahi kiya tha:eyepop
Me:Saina Nehwal,Pullela Gopichand and Prakash Padukone.
P2:- When did Prakash Padukone win the All England title
Me:-1980
P2:- Gopichand?
Me:- told 2000 or 2001.
P1 and P2:- Ok,thank you
Me:- Wished them both and proceeded towards the door.

door bahut puraana tha.jaise mein latch open kiya, vo mere haath mein aagaya.ab door locked hei.mere haatch mein latch:eyepop:, aur andar do prof baite hein(yeh kya hora hein bhai).Prof asked me,any problem?.Told him the same. He came and tried for 1-2 mins. Finally the door opened. What a relief. IIM profs know everything.Thanked the prof and came out. Was ecstatic that I was not struck up inside the room with the Profs.Bahaar public soch re the ki andar mujhe vo log peet rein.

The panel was very very cool.


Donno wat to say. Pinned high hopes on this, esp after my K disaster.Neways, was a mixed experience.

[the_phantom]

Good interviews till now!

Keep posting as much info as possible in order to help out other puys..

ATB,
Anand

[Tr4ilBla4er]

Location : Administrative Staff Collge , Hyderabad
Time : 1:30 pm

Profile:
10th 91.8
12th 95.6
Btech cse 7.67 cgpa
work ex 16 months , IT

Extracurriculars:counter strike and Dota , quizzing and guitar

GD :
Case Study : I was abt companies collecting private data abt customer and employess,like there web access,phone calls etc.

Every one got a chance to speak , though the noise levels were on the higher side it was not a fish market.

PI : P1 ,P2 and Me

P1,P2 looked at my certificates.

P1: Tell me abt ur company and ur project .
Me :Told

P1:What is a fire wall?
Me: told

P1 :what is cryptology and related questions
Me:told

P1 :What network topology would u suggest for IIM Indore?
Me:Tree topology

P1: Tree ? advantages and disadvantages?
Me:made up the story on the fly

P1:What is switching and packets?
Me:Told

P2: Who is the author of A brief history of Time?
Me: umm aa Stephen Hawkings

P2: Tell me abt Big Bang theory and Black Holes?
Me:told

P2: Name Indian scientists who got Nobel prize?
Me: JC bose ,Khorana and chandrasekhar

P2: what is chandrashekar limit
Me:its realted to black holes , but I cant recollect .

P2: thats fine nice talking to u .
Me:Thank u sir .

-----------------------------
so other puys .. be prepared to get grilld on acads , for CSE guys they were askin abt Databases,computer architecture.

after acads they move on to a general topics like ,corporate governance,big bang theory ,E-seva,land sealing ,singur,recession etc

[anilgora]

I had my interview on 12th Feb in Kolkata

PROFILE
X = 84.00% RBSE(Rajasthan Board)
XII= 82.31% RBSE
UnderGrad Major = Dual Degree(B.Tech+M.Tech) Mechanical Engg. IIT Kharagpur
CGPA = 7.1/10

Work Ex = NIL

CAT %ile = 99.76

GD:
No. of persons: 8
Penal members: 2
It ws a case study. 30 mins were given to read and write the analysis of case on the last page of interview form.
Case details: Case study involving Susan , a conservative religious Christian girl who is attracted by army life. She marries her childhood friend - Navin , an army officer against the wishes of her parents. After some time , she realizes army life is not so idealistic , as imagined by her. She comes to know that her husband has committed excesses and had an illicit affair when on posting in N-E. What should she do ?

Snapshot: Writing part ws good. I wrote down in proper format. . As soon as discussion start, one a**hole ws trying to go to the solution part. He jumped in between 3-4 times to start the solution part. But as a group we cut him short.
I was able to put forward some points in starting. I was quite silent in middle of GD. Then I put a couple of points in the end.

PI:
One was a lady prof.(HR )
P1: Lady Prof (Left to me)
P2: Prof (right to me)
M : Me

I was the secong last person to go for interview. They asked me to sit.
P2: So Where are you from?
M : Rajasthan
P2: Originally from rajasthan?
M : Yes. I am born and broght up in rajasthan and have done my schooling form rajasthan. Then I am in Kharagpur since my first year.
P2: Your acads are very interesting. You have got good grades in non-core subjects and poor grades in core subjects. whats the reason?
M : I am not good at mechanics part(I could not convince them why i got poor grades in department subjects)
P1: Why did u choose Mechanical engg?
M : That was the best option available to me. I hav consulted my seniors and I was naive at that time. I didnt know much about engineering
P1: What are your interests now?
M : Numbers, consultancy, optimization of things
P1: Like Operation research, Have u done any course in OR?
M : No
P2: You have got "B" in PDE. All of your colleagues have got C or D
M : (Smiles)
P2: What have you studied in "Industrial Management"
M : Roles of manager, other functions of management blah blah
P2: What r the roles of manager
M : blah blah
P2: What have you studied in "Intelligent Machines and Systems"(one of the core subject)
M : We have done a project and blah blah
P2: What have you done in that project
M : Blah blah
P2: (Over to mam), you ask
P1: You play AOE,
M : Not now, I have nt played since last 4 months
P1: What is the best thing you like about AOE
M : Its strategy making part, blah blah
P1: Can you give us one example from Indian history of some strategy part
M : Blah blah, give one example of mughal reign
P1: There is a book in chinese on war strategies? Do u know?
M : No
P1: You take part in dramatics?
M : Yes
P1: Which are the plays you have taken part?
M : Blah blah... (Mentioned one thing about secession and gave example of thing going on in West bengal, gorkhalaand issue)
P1: What is that?
M : Explained which are the parties involved etc etc
P1: Before this, when did this issue got in light before?
M : in 1970s
P1: What happened then?
M : Govt formed a committee to look after the needs of people in that region.
P1: Now?
M : then that committee went corrupt then people lost confidence etc etc
Some discussion on other extra-curricular, y i dont have certis of winning anything. I explained them that my hostel never wins
P1: Thanks, you can go

No questions from Cricket :sad:
Overall a decent performance.
Guys, PM me your feedback

[prem_ravi]

Sticking the thread...All the best for the Interviews..Please post only the Interview details, any personal feedbacks, PM it to the User..Also editing the thread name for easy identification...

[arun_juee]

Some Ground Rules:
Didn't prepared for a single GD and PI. Went with guts : The worst thing can happen to me - I will be silent in the whole GD.

PROFILE:

Acads:
X - 84.75
XII - 80.7
Undergrad Major - 8.04 CGPA
Electrical Engg, Jadavpur University

Work Ex as of 31st Dec 2008 - 29 Months in one of Big 4 as ERP Consultant - Oracle Applications

Went to the venue 45 min before : saw a friend from my Engg Stream, same class, one more friend appear , Electronics from my College, same year, one more friend from Mechanical same batch.
( I thought 20 odd people, 2 panels, I know already 3, if probability is there, one/two of them will be in my panel , but God had some other plans for me. They were all in panel.)

Time: 1:30 PM, The Kenilworth, Kolkata

We were asked to sit in a room and wait. At about 2:10 Indian Institute of Management Indore - faculty detail came and took a quick attendance. I hope all were present.

Then another Professor came and took 10 out of 20 to another panel.

Then sometimes back Indian Institute of Management Indore - faculty detail came and escorted us to a conference room at First Floor.

We were seated in a 'U' shaped tables, I was in the right bottom corner of 'U' with panelists ( Indian Institute of Management Indore - faculty detail , Indian Institute of Management Indore - faculty detail ) being seated at both ends of 'U'. In our place, two pages were there, one containing case and another a blank sheet. We were given 30 min to read the case and write a case discussion ( only recommendations ) in the page left blank at the back of the Indore Form.

I read the case for 7-8 mins.Then suddenly started writing. Firstly I thought 30 mins were too much, then after sometimes when I was around 40-45%, Madam said : you are left with 10 min. Then I suddenly rushed and completed it within 28-29 mins.

Rating: 7/10

Then Sir told us to start the GD.

I was very sure about a theory: Dumb people have no enemy. So thought first 5 min I will say nothing. The worst thing can happen to me - ya ya I know, I mentioned it earlier.

Topic : About some guy Paul, who previously worked with a hotel developed a IT System to track feedback from guest. Now he got job at Bank where he need to develop a IT system to measure employee efficiency. One of his friend works at Telecom company SMS Ltd where a couple of security measures were mentioned in Case, but all decisions at SMS was taken by only one man, MD. What should Paul do?

My take: It was something on Business Ethics theory I hope, not say a very excited topic to discuss.

The CD: one guys, whose accent was really good started the GD, and after the signal, I hope nobody was willing to start. But in start he was cut by Mech friend and all went like blah blah blah. First 20-30 seconds I told myself, I will try to enter the GD after 5 min after I listen to all/a couple of peoples idea/perspective. But God again had some other plans for me.

After 1 min 40-45 sec, I just enteded the GD and told - Friends, why not discuss the case in some structured manner, we have 3 cases here, right? 1. Hotel, 2. Bank and 3. SMS, why not start with hotel first? and then the whole scenario changed ( for me atleast ). All people agreed. Suddenly the slumdog became the lakhpati. Then in Hotel case I pitched again like - the purpose at hotel is to serve guests better and the system implemented there was fully served its purpose, all agreed to me. then I moved the discussion from Hotel to SMS Ltd. But people were more aggresive to discuss about Bank. I let them go. Mech Friend told he is from IBM and Orkut is blocked and in this recession how IBM crossed xxx billion dollars, but one lady cut him and told we are diverting from topic. I was totally enjoying it. I was so involve in the discussion that I hardly remember it was IIM Indore GD. I involved myself as a general chatting with friends in a topic. In SMS Lts case, I hardly contribute any points. One I mention there should be a committee, no dictatorship should be there. I came with another point: data collection and analysis should be done prediodically not by sampling. Nobody understand me I hope. So nobody gave a response. Then Finally we were all involved in deciding the parameters of system should be implemented at Bank. One junior from JU ( ETCE I hope ) mention about employee leaving time and arrival time. I mentioned employee assignment start tie and end time. one mentioned to have a committee to monitor. one mention to have staff participation in this committee with higer management. I mentioned of having 2 committees , one for designing and other for monitoring. I also mentioned employee feedback system should be there to let them say something. After 13-14 minutes, we are almost over with 95% of the discussion. The topic became dry. people talking at too lenght. nobody was caring to take words from him/her. A couple of relatively silent members were there and they talked in this period. All appreciated their point. No fish market. I saw people were pausing if both of them started same time and gave each other opportunity to talk.

Overall I am happy with performance in GD.
Rating 9/10

Then the relatively bad part of the day came.

Called in PI 3rd. They were calling in random ( or following a secret complex algo to call, who cares ) I had not taken my lunch and was on the verge of dying. I was called in 3rd.

Arun: May I come in?
Sir: Come
I was standing near the chair.
Sir. Please Sit
Arun: Thank You Sir
Mam: Please your file
Sir: So, Arun, basically where are you from?
Arun: I am from Kolkata Only
Sir: So born,brought up, schooling, all here?
Arun: Yes Sir
Sir: Tell me something about your schooling?
Arun: I was in XXX in Xth. It was a good school in Kolkata situated at XXX. Then I went to XXX for XIIth..(cut)..
Sir: From there you went to Jadavpur?
Arun: Yes Sir
Sir: You had one subject in your Engg,System Thoery?Remember?
Arun: Yes Sir
Sir: What did it teach you?
Arun: It is about XXX...
Sir: How do you model a system?
Arun: blah blah blah ( skipping this part as my answers were not good even most of the times there are no answers, for a 2.5 yrs workex people, where his job no where connects his engineering discipline, it is hard for him/her to remember this delicate details )

Lot of Questions on System Theory/Electric Drives/AC Drives/DC Drives/Thyristors/PLC, etc. ( Any Electrical Engg can pm me, I will sher the Qs )

Then interview control shifted to Mam.

Mam: So Arun, I certificates on Arts of five years
Arun: I went for a course on Arts and Crafts @ XXX
Mam: Was it full time or part time?
Arun: It was part time. eveery 3 days a week we used to attend it after school from 6 pm to 8 pm.
Mam: What art you followed there?
Arun: We there generally followed Nandalal Basu, Jamini Roy School of Thought.
Mam: Arun, did you use oil color or water color?
Arun: Mam, we used both. We had some sessions on leno, thermocol works too.
Mam: I saw one of your certificates on Rabindrasangeet
Arun: I gave it a try for a year, I managed to score well but was not feeling for it, so quit.
Mam: Arun, you mentioned about movies in the Form, even you have print out for your personal good rated movies also, what movies you follow?hindi or english?
Arun: I followed both hindi and English movies. I watched both contemporary and classics.
Mam: Can you name and share a movie which you saw recently?
Arun: I saw The Life of David Gale a couple of days back acted by XXX and XXX. It was something about blah blah blah.
Mam: Can you name another movie which you like?
Arun: School of Rock of Jack Black, this movie is about blah blah blah..
Mam: Any more?
Arun: The Shawshank Redemption, it is about blah blah blah
Mam: The 3 movies you told, 2 of them related to prison.. is there any link?
Arun::eyepop: If you tell me Shahshank Redemption is a movie about prison, I disagree. It is a movie about freedom and friendship, (then explain them how the movie conveys freedom and friendship, blah blah blah... )

Sir: So Arun, you graduated in 2006. After that what did you do?
Arun: I joined XXX as ERP Consultant on 31st July 2006
Sir: Can you tell me what did you do there?
Arun: A ~2 min blah blah blah.. they listen carefully and Thanked me as asked me to take a couple of candy, I took two, Thanked them back and leave.

Rating: 7/10

Irrespecitve of acads part, I hope it went well.

A couple of points to be mentioned.
1. Comments are not welcomed.
2. I thought to mention this post in details to help others.
3. I haven't attended any mock PI, so my answers were too close ended.
4. Hats of to IIM Indore Mentorship Program, Thanks to Saket and Amit for their excellant help. Excellant support from them. Really a mervelous effort they made.
5. For my GD performance, Thanks to Soumyadut.
6. If someone has problem with my post tell/pm me. I will change the content if necessary.

All the Best to all of You.

Next meeting: IIM B on 27th Feb 2009.