[rahul.martial]

ppl there were worried fr tech interview, hay guys juz dont worry about it, juz show them tat u can go by basic n can build it on that, interviewer is not interested in knowin ur tech knowledge bt how ur approch to question is! then pi could be well driven!
smthn abt process, it was well driven. presentation was good but in question ans section students were defending. i dont understand y placement figs r so imp, lets first convert call fr which v r thea. placement is after. well its my opinion. one more thing, Seniors are helpful but u hav to approch them, they wont come n speak to u n ask abt nything,someof my friends thea at gdpi were expecting it.
well as they said on call letter its enriching experience. so enjoy it.

[sagaranjos]

I would say the volunteers were very helpful.
They did make me feel very comfortable there. They came upto me and struck up conversations even though I was not looking for help. They actually made me look forward to join the insttute.

I did feel they were pretty defensive during the Q&A.

[rahul.martial]

its personal view yar, every person is different, and really I cant generalise something about Iitb seniors. so Seniors dont mind about it. i love college too, seniors allowed me to roam in the whole college!!!
all the best to guys who hav gdpi comin up next. hope everyone gets his dream institute!!! c ya.

[srikant1983]

Originally Posted by sagaranjos

My GD/PI was scheduled for the 7th at 1:30pm.
Reached the campus by 12:30 and was seated at the auditorium.

Participants are required to register themselves and they are alotted to groups (A,B,C,D,E,F,G) The volunteers for some reason chose to adress these ppl as Alpha, Beta, Delta, Echo and Gamma. I missed out the C and F :-)

Very well organised and kudos to the admission council for a job well done, though I found the Alpha, Beta, Gamma a tad too much

The only reason for this was that Alpha , Beta, etc are easier to comprehend than plain A, B, C where B sounds like D and so on
and yes C was Charlie and F was Fox

[madhav.mohan86]

Rahul are you from an electrical engineering background? coz they asked you abt generation and stuff

[madhav.mohan86]

Originally Posted by sagaranjos

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The major (and maybe only) letdown was the address by a Mr. Bhargav who incidentally happened to be very sad abt not being able to increase the intake.
That address was the only point of time when I thought of SJMSOM as a Govt institute

So SJMSOM are not increasing the intake this year to 104? that would be a major let down :(

[rahul.martial]

yess Madhav, I m electrical engg. if u mention ur degree with specialisation, then tech ques will surely come!!

[gauravcc]

It was clearly toldto everybody at IIT-B that the seats have been increased to 104.

There is no direct increase in the general category seats as such but with OBC guys getting a reservation indirectly there will be a slight increase in general seats too.

[pratulshinde]

Had my GD/PI yesterday.
It was a nice experience. Co-ordinators were more than willing to help. Before GD, we were given a brief about SJMSOM. After that, we filled a form and proceeded for a GD. GD was case study based, a case on layoffs in a company. We were given 5 mins to read the case and 20 mins to discuss.
There were some chaos in the GD, with some cross talking. I could not enter in first min or 2. But then, could enter 4-5 times. But the quality discussion was lacking. So, overall a below par GD.

Then, in the auditorium, we got our documents checked. And, as I am willing to do Operations Management, I got some fundas cleared from the volunteers. They really helped me a lot, including Srikant, whom I got a chance to meet.

But interview was totally unexpected. I tried to direct it to SCM, but they only quizzed me abt IBM, its lines of business, my work, coding and testing etc. I was also asked to write an algorithm. Overall, it was an interview, where you answer everything, but can't say how the interview was. It was just like an informal chat where 3 people are asking you abt your work.

And talking abt the atmosphere, its really great. Also, seems SOM is buidling their separate hostel, so, we can expect a great living there.

Overall, the procedure was well organised. A great experience.

Pratul

[sumit2goody]

Hi friends posting my GD/PI experience:
Educational Profile:

X:81.4
XII:89.2
Btech : 78.8
JMET rank:132

Work profile : Infosys 14 months and Career launcher 4 months
I had it on 8th march 1:30 slot

Reached SOM at around 1:00 and the first thing i noticed at the notice board was score of the match written there at the top left corner , that was really interesting and confirmed me how much cricket driven people we are...good one som people..

then we were taken into an auditorium where we were first sent for registration..dont rush for registration ..your slots are already fixed.

after that there was a presentation on som followed by a video (Slumdog effect had MIA paper planes as background score, i think b-schools are smitten with SM as iun delhi interview it had dreams on fire as background score) , overall was nice ..then was followed by a presentation by a SBI folk about the loan scheme that you will get, was of great help and most of the claps went for that pres..

Also at the reg desk we were given a form in which we have to fill our semester wise marks and extra currics along with work experience

As i was filling the form we were called for the Case study

Case was about a supervisor suresh kumar for a distribution firm had appointed a new young technical grad sameer into managing the workers in the offload process and he was facing problems as workers were not much motivated and were not doing their work properly by taking frequent breaks and all....sameer tried motivated them but they didnt listened and end result was he was boycotted from their social activites....there was a senior worker named shankar dada who talked with sameer and sameer said thank god i am leaving you people soon enough as i dont want to be like you..to which shankar retaliated that if you would have been long here you would have become one of us.

it was followed by two questions:
1) was the role of supervisor encouraging or discouraging the workers to their job

2) was shankar dada's statement right or wrong

we were 11 people(1 was absent) and were given 5 min tyo think and 15 min to discuss

Case study went fine...in the end we were left short of time for discussing the second question so panel stopped us and asked 4 of us who hadn;t spoken much to give their views.

Ok done then we were lead back to the auditorium (to ADCOM the delta alpha method and all that co-ordination with walkies was superb)

their the form was verified and make sure that whatever you are mentioning in the form you have proof for that without proof they wont consider anything.

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