[venkatesh629]

Had my interview tody at Rain Tree Chennai. It was more of a PG Meet almost all are puys s. Okay Il start my experience.

Course applied : BM (Didnt apply PMIR) sos may b i was not asksed abt it.
Profile

Xth : 91.5%
XII : 94%
B-Tech : NIT Warangal (Mech) 9.23 CGPA
XAT : 99.21 %tile
Work Ex: Telecom 20 Months
Acheivements : A couple of them.
Extra curiculars : 4-5 paper presentations worked as gen sec of Mech assoc and also sstudent head of national level fest

Any other : NA

Three Profs whose names mentioned earlier. Looks like one profs askss sone looks at file and other looks at the student.

And it was sprof Gangopadhyay who asked 95% of qns
P1 Gangopadhyaay P2 file looking P3 No qns
Experience :

P1 : So Mr venkat are you from Guntur native or any other ?Is Amaravati near to it ?? ( So much he knows)
V: I am from a small village in guntur ( AP) and yes sir amaravati is aorund 10 kms frm it
P1 : Atcha its a cool place except the hot chillies of guntur.
V : Yes Sir Guntur is the world No 1 in chilli production. (largest market also)
P2 : Okay venkatesh tell me you have done your Btech attttttt NIT W hmm gud college and Mechanical engg and u got gud %tage also and now you are in Telecom ( All of them) that too in S/W and now you want an MBA. Where is the link can you connect them ??
(Wow wat a nice way to put an y MBA )

V : I feel an MBA as a bridge to my long term career goals

P1 : Aha wat are your long term goals
V : Atround 10-12 mins on this only (out of 20 mins)
P1 : wat are the companies that are already in to tis type .
V: told and explained how the pressent is and how i would like to do. (Looks convinced)

Now starts
P1 : Venkatesh tell me wat is branding? You know your suit I should say has well suited for you looking gud ( all acknowledged) . It has a tag (louis Phillippe) LP
y do they put such things. you know i am feeling like to buy the similar one u wore. explain me the concept.

V : Sisr the idea is to create the same thought u have got and I would say LP is now successful I would term branding as symbolizing the produucts to make customers identify. The target customers wo already have our product if they can display the product with an identity that hepls new ppl to buy them. For ex my frn has reffered me thi is a gud one.

P2 : In the middle but looks like your suit is dominating you. you have to be marketed but yu are like a brand ambassdr for LP

V: Smile. If that is the case, i ned to rethink be4 makin any branded decisions and make sure it should only serve the needed one.

P2 : No probs its sreally gud for you.

P1 : Now venkatesh tell me wat you do at your work
V : Told the skills nedded and profile roles and resp and some awards

P1 : Okay lets change the topic tell me if valentines day clebrations needed to be banned in India i mean like wat karnataka witnessed

V : told as long as the indian values ( mentioned them) are not dis regarded theres no harm in that. Had some discussison on it

P1 : Okay you know abt the lawers ting in Chennai ? wtas ur opinion

V : told 2 points seach on lawer and and the police and if those two points are removed the case would not have hit head lines and i would go on lawers side if u remove that point as expressin concern for thier fraternity is a freedom of speech and they can take it inb lwful way

P1 : okay now tell me who is our home minister ?
V : (Kaun) yah chidambaram Sir,

P1 : aha preveiously he was ?
V : finance min

P1 : now tell me wat do you think abt him is he succesful ??
V: took time and " yes Sir wat ever UPA has promised that it will do like common mans welfare etc that all can be best done by budget and he has played a key role. If you take my case i am benefitted by inc in ta slab and if you take the case of farmers the loan waiver has benefitted them and overall i feel he has kept his promises

P1 : tell me wats a rain forest and where ist in AP ?
V ; ummmm I dont know Sir.

P1 : okay no probs. So any thing else he loked at P2 and P3.

P2 okay venkatesh we are done gives bak the file after scrutnizing them thorugly. Did you sign it ?
V : Yes Sir. Thankss a lot it was nice speaking to you have a nice day.

So thast its puys PM me wat you feel abt the intrvw. NO acads no tell me abt ur self. More imp i wasnot asked abt form. But looks like they have read it and were having an idea abt it.

They had my form which comes as a print from the XLRI website that we have submitted b4 exam. I could see my all details in it.

Will corrct my post for spell mistakes later.

Verdict :- Waitlisted at 70 Got converted.

[vileye]

@maruvit
didn't they ask u anythin frm the essay or the questionnaire which we hv submitted?

[sumitrocks]

Folks, a couple of small requests from me....

1) Please don't quote the entire post. It makes the page longer, tougher to read, and once the traffic on this page increases, it will make life much tougher.

2) If you have a specific query, please send it to the 'poster' using PM, rather than carrying out one-to-one conversations.

3) Take everyone's experience with a pinch of salt. There is no panel consistently tough or consistently easy. A lot depends on you. Please don't go in with preconceived notions.

4) Do make sure that you're well-versed with your 'Why MBA', 'Why HR', 'Why Finance' etc. answers. These people are all very senior profs, and can generally figure out when someone is bluffing.

Please post any queries on the relevant thread rather than here. I would appreciate your cooperation, because we here are a bit stretched for time over the next week or so with submissions, exams etc.

All the best!!

[PuneetAggarwal]

Originally Posted by dewan_iitr

@Anshat - Dude...how long was your interview..
seniors how long are XL interview in general

The length of interview varies but is often around 15-20 mins.
Personally my interview was on the shorter side (<15 mins) but that is more the exception than the norm.

BTW, if you see last yr's interview experiences, u'll notice that many interviews were in fact based on your hometown (mine was completely based on tht). And not just your hometown, but also your place of study (college) and work...

[retronai]

Couldn't find a thread for posting PI experiences for the 2009 XLRI batch so had posted in the wrong thread... Re-posting my BM experience here...

Profile:
x: 92% (CBSE)
xii: 97.5% (TN State)
Engg: 78% (electronics)
XAT: 99.5
3 yrs work exp in korean and american MNCs.

PI:
Date: 23rd Feb
Interviewers: Not sure, but one of them was probably Dr Gangopadhyay.

I was called in 20 mins ahead of time. So reach the place early.
Prof1: [Read aloud my educational profile, my current job and salary too :-|, then settled on the fact that i live in bangalore ] Name some national parks in Karnataka.
Me: <Named some arbit places, was asked to name something closer to bangalore, finally said bannerghatta national park>
Prof1: Do you know a place called Jigni in bangalore?
Me: No sir.. <very faintly> Is it a restaurant?
Prof1: <laughed a bit and said it was a Industrial township near Bhannerghatta.>.
Prof1: Name some pharmaceutical companies in india <my dad's a doctor>
Me: Dr. Reddys...
Prof1: Where's it located?
Me: Hyderabad..
Prof1: <joked about it being the obvious guess...> Any more?
Me: Ranbaxy..
Prof1: Heard of any scandal involving them?
Me: Nope...
Prof1:<told me about some fraud concerning ranbaxy coming out in the US> Any industry you specifically interested in?
Me: <shameless plug> Entertainment industry.
Prof1: Name some new entrants into indian ent industry..
Me: UTV making more movies these days.. Warner bros...
Prof1: What is Big TV?
Me: <forgot about the reliance owned venture> Owned by viacom. <prof1 corrected>
Prof1: What other ent stuff?
Me: European football... <convinced them it was a big industry... formation of EPL in 1992... big business now.. football suffering>
Prof1: Why's the US dollar still so strong despite the US economy being down?
Me: Forex currency of choice for most countries... as long as demand is high value will remain high..
Prof1: What's happening in dubai?
Me: Real estate down... no oil..
Prof1: so what's being done?
Me: Abu dhabi will help them out... They have oil..
Prof1: But abu dhabi is the capital of UAE.. so will be obligated to help them out... <not sure whether my answer was correct at this point>

so far so arbit...

Prof2: What's your job profile.?
Me: Driver development... Explained
Prof2: Why does BBC radio reach all parts of the globe and not FM?
Me: Explained that FM is higher frequency.. so interference is more...
Prof2: What are semiconductors?
Me: Explained... <throughout prof2 kept poker face... slightly disconcerting>
Prof2: PN junction:
Me: Explained... struggled to do so though.. sometimes stress interviews are better than emotionless ones...

Prof3: Draw a XNOR gate..
Me: Took 2 mins.. drew something... don't remember if the logic i drew was XNOR or XOR... Prof was looking for truth table which was correct...
Prof3: Explain some business in which this logic can be applied...
Me: Legal tenders... both people agree on something... Dunno...
Prof3: Anything else we need to ask you?
Me: Mentioned my interest in writing.. co editor of college year book.. Left...

Vibes overall: not great.

[sv_manivannan]

Course applied : BM (Didnt apply PMIR).
Profile

Xth : 89.8%
XII : 95%
B-Tech : Anna university (CSE) 7.63 CGPA
XAT : 99.90 %tile
Work Ex: IBM 20 Months

Interview was at RainTree Hotel, Chennai

P1
why MBA?
who plans for India?
who is the chief?
who is the finance minister?
why Pranab filed budget?
What is centre's role and state's role in planning?
what is RBI?
who is the chief?
whose signature is on a Re1 note?
what is the highest denomination of $ note?
what is CRR?
what is fiscal policy?
what is monetary policy?
where is XLRI?
which state?
what are the neighbouring states?
what are the newly formed states?
what is the capital of chhattisgarh?

P2
What are the 5 qualities of good consultant? (I wanted to be a consultant)
Prioritise them
how does RBI differ from this hotel?
how does RBI and indian defense differ?
what is money laundering?
what is recession?

P3
a question from the questionnaire that I had filled
what is ur religion?
what does spiritualism mean to u?

[luckyu]

Do they put u under stress during the interview or is it like they ask you questions and listens to your answers irrespective of their merit/relevance?

[sumitrocks]

Originally Posted by luckyu

Do they put u under stress during the interview or is it like they ask you questions and listens to your answers irrespective of their merit/relevance?

There is no general rule, really. They might... or they might not... and even the same panel is not consistent in terms of stress interviews. It could happen that you hear about a panel that's putting people under stress, but they end up being the nicest, most genial people you've ever spoken to.

So, don't go too much by what people say. Ultimately, the stress that's there or not there will be mostly dictated by you.

All the best!!

[ganesh.tv]

Course applied for (BM or PMIR): BM
Place: Chennai
Date & time: 23 feb 4:40 slot

Educational Profile:

X: 85%
XII: 82%
Undergrad Major - GPA/%age: 74.2%
Any other professional certification or course undertaken: None.
XAT percentile: 99.26

Work profile (if applicable):

Number of years: 7 Months
Sector/Industry: Digital T.V (software)
Special achievements at work: None.


Other differentiating factors (anything great that you have done in life, that's out of the ordinary): Massive amount of certi’s, Best outgoing student of Coll.


Number of participants: 3+1
Panelists' intro (if possible): Abhijit Gangopadhyay, Supriya Kumar De and Rajeev Sharma
Duration: 25 mins

PI Questions:
P1,P2,P3 (Abhijit Gangopadhyay, Supriya Kumar De and Rajeev Sharma in that order) and Moi

My interview was slated to be at 4:40 went in at 4:30.

Wished the panel asked if I could sit and was told to.
P2 asked me for my file (which is quite large, 109 extracurric certis) I gave it to him and he almost dropped it and looked impressed with the number of certi’s

Interview:

P1: Lets leave all this MBA, technical things aside, my colleagues will ask you that, you tell me something about women’s empowerment, why women are oppressed and what you will do to solve the problem

M: started off with the historical problems of men to be the breadearners and women seen to be the homemakers and nowadays when women want to go out and achieve their lot they meet with opposition,

P1: asked me when I get married and my wife wants to work what will I do,

M :gave a nice answer, don’t remember exactly but it was something on the lines of accepting her views and respecting her goals,

Some general discussion went on..

P1: we are in recession if you’re a minister give me 3 points what you do to combat this recession

M: Talked about how the recession is caused by a lack of confidence in the banks and lack of confidence of the banks themselves so the points were:

1)give confidence to the banks to lend
2)build confidence in the ppl w.r.t the banks
3) give some short term sops to affected sectors

P1: What sectors are affected is your sector affected?

M: My company isn’t affected and most development companies wont be. The service companies that cater to the banks will be affected.

The other sectors are Housing and auto because they depend on the bank loans and exports which depend on the countries in recession.

P1: Why you want to give up a job paying X lakhs and come all the way to Jharkand?

M: told my reason, P1 seemed satisfied.

P2: you seem to have won a lot of quizzes, I was asked a question by a small kid yesterday which I couldn’t answer, I’ll ask you that?

M: I’ll surely try sir.

P2: ok name 5 characters common b/w the Ramayana and Mahabahrata

M: (thought) Hanuman

P2 k give me more.

M: don’t know sir, (anyone know?)

P2: even I said only hanuman, Ok you’re a CS grad. What area in CS are you comfortable?

M: sir, my biggest strength and weakness is that I am comfortable with almost all areas,

P2: asked need for normalization

M: told

P2: asked what is a database and what is stored data or info

M: told defn of DB and told data is stored.

P2: asked diff b/w database and information system

M: told what I knew

P2: asked if I was sure

M: told I was not but it was my best try.

P3:: again asked why MBA what is field of interest

M: told reason told image processing

P3: (takes out an ad from the paper about animation) is this it?

M: (smiled) no sir, that is animation I am interested in computer vision. Comps can crunch numbers like humans but can’t see like us

P3: then you should do Mtech

M: no sir, there is a lot of technical know how in the field I am interested in the business aspects of it

P3: ok give me 5 uses of google maps

M: gave 5 good reasons, don’t remember them exactly
Gave an example with everything, seemed satisfied.

P3: asked about traffic situation and how to change it.

M: gave my idea with an example of blore traffic

P2: nice talking to you. Have you signed (said yes) you may leave.


In retrospect: Really chilled interview, at no point did i feel stressed, got into the flow and didnt feel any pressure. Very knowledgable panel (let me emphasise VERY!). No questions on my online form ( had filled it after a lot of thought) No questions on my work.

All in all I felt good after the interview.

Opinions please PUY’s.

Verdict: Selected.

[vinz007]

Course applied for (BM or PMIR):both ..this one BM

Educational Profile:

X: 80.2 %
XII: 81 %
Undergrad Major - GPA/%age: BE(EC) - 9.36
Any other professional certification or course undertaken:
XAT percentile: 98.13

Work profile (if applicable):

Number of years: 7 months
Sector/Industry: Telecom (IT support)
Special achievements at work: awarded 'P' grade ..won the annual quiz event


Other differentiating factors (anything great that you have done in life, that's out of the ordinary):
active participant in quizzes throughout skool n college ..scored a GPA of 10 on 10 in my 4th semester undergrad

PI experience:
venue - rain tree, chennai
date - 24th feb

went there almost 80 mins earlier .. saw few ppl there (maybe because of individual slots) ..
Panelists' intro (if possible):
OP: old prof
MP: middle aged prof
YP: young prof
M : me

person before me was quizzed abt sports, art movies ..(waah waah! ..kash mujhse bhi yeh sab pooche)

YP called me in ..
(shuru hoti hai dastaan)

M: good afternoon sirs
all wished
M: can I have a seat ?
all said yes ..sit
YP: give your certificates to me and sign on the sheet
M: ok sir
YP: and ..relax
M: ok
OP: so you studied at the school (reading from a form) ..tell something abt it ?
M: gave name, its full form in sanskrit (yaad aa gaya) ..its in mayur vihar, delhi ..
OP: (interrupting) phase -1 or phase -2 ?
M: phase -1 (inko to yeh bhi pata hai)
OP: then college ..hmmm ..how much was fees ?
M: told him ..
OP : any other fees (main ab samaj gaya ..what he was upto)
M: sir, hostel fees
OP: no ..no ..anything else like capitation or donation fees ?
M: no(firm) sir
OP:what was procedure to get in the college ?
M: told him abt filling forms for engineering ..entrance test and then my selction
OP : marks ..how good are they relatively ?
M: top 8 in the batch of 135 students
OP : ok ....
(although only OP was questioning me ..while answering I was answering everyone ..though YP looked up sometimes MP was busy)
OP : recently some problem happened with manipal ?
M : (yeh kya ..pata bhi nahi chala) around 1.5 yrs back ..some drugs scandal ..students of some other colleges were also involved ..
OP : no some other in mangalore ..
M :(ab samjha) yes sir ..Sri ram sene, headed by pramod muthalik went on rampage ...
OP: what is your opinion ?
M: even though the message they wanted to convey wasn't that wrong ..but the way they imparted that message to youngsters was not correct ..
OP : ok ..say you are head of college (ha ha) how will you deal with students like these
M: close all liqour and ciggi shops ..
OP: close ..they will suffer then
M: close upto a distance ..say 1 km
OP: then they will drink there and come ..(yehi to hota hai)
M: sir, if they attend classes in inebriated state ..then take action (lol)
OP: what is your opinion about commonwealth games ..is it good to spend so much money when there's a crisis ?
M: maybe infra and real estate sector will rise ..boom ..games village can be allocated for the needy after the games are over ..buses, transport facilities will be developed ..
OP: no not abt develpoment ..is it good or not ? like china olympics ..now china is suffering
M: good ..olympics put beijing on the world map ..though labourers are suffering ..overall positive effect for delhi and india ..
OP: what do you think about delhi being given statehood ..it is capital then becoming state ..is it good ?
M: after becoming state .. many new things cam into place like CNG (arre ..yeh kyun bol diya)
OP: oh ..CNG ..you know CNG ..whose idea ?
M: no sir
OP: hindustan motors ..RTV(rural transport vehicle ..and gave lots of gyan on CNG) then ..NCR ..what is ?
M: delhi, noida, gurgaon, faridabad, ghaziabad
OP: gautam buddha nagar ? (all started laughing)
M: (main bhi has pada)yes sir ..another name for noida is gautam buddha nagar ..
OP: so how many states ?
M: three ..delhi, haryana, UP
OP: rajasthan ..?
M: no sir (sab phir has pade ..)
OP: then you joined this company ..what is this company ?
M: its a telecom co. in USA ..I am part of IT support here ..design GUI screens as per requirements ..
OP: so ..MBA now ..why ?
M: worked in technical for the past 7-8 months .good experience ..seen mangerial side ..seen ppl who are good at coding skills ..after getting management knowledge which I am lacking ..will deal better with technical ppl ..will reach a better postion
OP: so but ..MBA ..what is there in it ?
M: sir, faculty ..knowledgeable ..highly experienced .. have trained ppl for so many years ..where can I get that ..and sir, admissions process so rigourous ..written test and interviews ..brilliant ppl will come ..so can learn from them and interact with them ..
MP: (arre yeh bhi poochega!!) so what kind of work ..
M: we have conference calls from onsite ..requirements conveyed ..then we design GUI screens ?
MP: GUI ?
M: Graphical User Interface ..
MP: who uses it ?
M: system engineers in USA ..its like on entering Telephone number ..features etc ..
MP: so on one call ..requirements conveyed ?
M: yes sir ..then Team lead after mail correspondences ..clarifies doubts with them ..we prepare the screens and mail it for testing
MP: how many screens per day ?
M: not per day ..around 2 per week ..
MP: thats less ..easy ..lots of free time ..eh
M: there are issues ..read up on the project so that I understand business part too before going on to the screen part .. validation too ..yes it is easy
MP: any other thing you do at office ?
M: quizzing ..recently ..there was annual quiz event ..we came 1st
MP: first ? what was it like ?
M: written round ..india centric ..then finals ..6 rounds ..general..
MP: thank you ..anything else you want to say ?
M: no sir (bas itna hi bahut tha) ..
MP: thank you ..check if you have signed .
M: yes sir ..signed ..thank you ..
MP: nice meeting you ..
M: same here sir ..

came out ..checking my watch .ki kitna time hua ..then someone told me 22 mins ..didnt feel like 22 mins ..time just flew by ..

Puys ..one advice ..know well abt your city ..Online form wasn't asked for me and most of the ppl there ..and essay also wasn't asked ..

Seniors n Puys, kaisa tha ??