[sumit2goody]

About the interview:

was fourth in order of interview and there is a co-ordiantor assigned to you before interview (amarnath in my case helped me a lot thanks man) , he told me that one is a prof and the other one is a INFY guy

so here we go
The convention Prof : P , Infy Guy : I and Me

me: Entered Good afternoon and all
P: Sit
P: So sumit what is your rank?
Me: sir 132
P: no, your class rank/
me: i said 5th or 6th (he wrotte 6th in a form)
P:how many students were in your class
me:45
P: tell us about urself which is not in the form
me:told about my nature and n the last put it that working for infy(the infy guy suddenly wakes up)
I: ok so which department of infy u work
me: mentioned the dept along with the IBU and the domain
I: what is this IRB infotech(my previous organization)
me: sir its a frachcise for career launcher, was responsible for consulting and quant skills trainer
I: so you good at quant
me: Gave a sheepish smile
P: so sumit what are your hobbies (he was continuously looking through my file)
me: watching movies, watching cricket , playing Table tennis (kyun bola yeh)
P: ok so which level you have played?
Me: just play as a timepass not at a particular level
P: ok so what are different shots in TT/
Me: mentioned serve, spin shot, drop shot, chop shot and one or two others
P: can you draw the graph for the spin shot on xy axis (WHATTTTTTTTTTTT
me: drawed something
P: which mathematical graph it represents
me: said quadratic eqn then said no no its parabola
P: draw graph and eqn for parabola
me: kar diya
P: whats the focus and focal length for parabola
me: muttered somethin
P:; what are the forces acting on the ball?
me: spin that u ahve entitled and the friction by the table?
P: is friction a force?
me: yes ir
P: whats the other?
me: accelration no no sir spin , pata nahi (forgot the rorational force here)
I:What is the best thing you find about infy?
me: told abt the work culture and low power distance stuff
I: How many number of DC's infy has?
me: goofed up here mentioned all except bhubaneshwar DC
I: ever heard of bhubaneshwar?
me: yes sir forgot that
P: so tell me something abt ludhiana (my native place)
me: told abt textile sector and known as manchester of india
P: is it really known like that
me: yes sir
P: tell something more
me: hero cycles and PAU is there
P: when was PAU formed
me: no idea sir
P: how many districts in punjab
me: no idea sir , around 7 may be not sure
P: named 10 districts
me: gavea sheepish smile
I: what are the qualities that should be there in the code
me: mentioned about readability, modularity , coding conventions
I: any other
me: no sir
I: scalability
me: whats that sir
I: extensibilty
me: yes sir it should be extenisble
P: tell abt your final year project (yeh kahan se aa gya)
me: had to recollect a lot but bata diya
I: what shoudl infy do in thsi period to overcome recession
me: focus more on maintainance projects, go into products a bit more and look outside US
I: to P anything else sir
P: No
Me: Thanks sir

Was around 13 mins interview and the best part was i forgot my pen inside(i t was a gifted pen) so asked amranth ke lade bhai..he was nice enough to oblige that (later on panel was asking who's pen was that )

overall a nice process and keeping my fingers crossed now

a big thanks to the admission team , were really helpful and cheering and motivating you...many guys knowed me as sumit2goody (PG Rocks) , special thansk to amarnath and another 1-2 seniors couldn't remember the name , you guys rock

[iim_phodu]

First of all I would like to thank all the members of Admission Committee for conducting such a memorable and enriching GD PI process..........

About Case study and PI.........

Case Study was HR related, in a mill new machinery are implaned and there is chaos among employees that there will be firing...their superviser ensured that there will be no firing at any dept ....later superviser had call from CFO that there will be firing in other depts but not in ur dept......after some time a young man from his dept came and ask supervise will there be really layoff or not.....

Ques were how superviser should handle wiith young man and will he be seen with skeptics now by employees......

Our group created Fish Market and there was total chaos ...i believe everyone would hav got less marks ....

PI: There were P1, P2 and me
They asked me about Bhopal (my home town), Why MBA, Academic ques on Software Engineering, ques related with work ex, project , hobbies , books that i hav recently read.

PI was good.....and panels were cool........

Overall it was a nice exp and hope I will be in next year's Adcom committee of SJMSOM

[aman18narang]

Originally Posted by srikant1983

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

u kno wen i heard things like "delta rolling" when grp D ws moving for our gds n " delta7 in buffer" when i ws nxt for PI i kinda felt i ws in sme military training area.. hehe

[Varun Alurkar]

GD: Case study about hourly-wage workers not performing in a pharma company. Would it help if incentives/wages are linked with performance (this is not done currently)?
The GD was okay. There were many interruptions in spite of only 9 people (3 were absent).The good thing was that almost everyone made 3-5 points. The bad thing was that we did not come up with anything innovative as a group.

PI: Panel was 1 Senior Prof. (SP) and 1 young lady (YL)

YL: So, tell us about yourself
Me: Blah Blah..... ended with "the last 2 years of my life have been the best for me in terms of performance" (Tried to divert them as far away from acads as possible right from the get-go) :innocent:
SP: So you work in Cummins?
Me: (I had been told he was from Ops, and looked like he was ready to rip me apart). No sir, it's KPIT Cummins. Cummins is one of our major clients.
SP: (with a disgusted look) Oh... so an IT firm? :rolleyes:
Me: (Completely empathizing with the disgusted look) Yes
SP: (Saw Quality Assurance (QA) in my work-ex details) So how do you measure quality in your project?
Me: Schedules, Defects, blah blah.
SP: Is it possible to have zero defect?
Me: Yes
SP: I don't think so.
Me: Yes it is... we ensure that by giving complete coverage (explained in detail)
SP: Let me take an example of exit polls. Are they 100% correct?
Me: Well, people may lie after they vote, or they may vote incorrectly.
SP: Assume that both do not happen.
SP: No, because only a few people are polled
Me: Yes, that is because a sample size is fixed. We don't have a similar situation in our project, because we don't test on "samples". We test on the entire product as a whole.
SP: Still, you can never really consider all the ranges/conditions?
Me: ( not convinced, but I did not my interview to be screwed up based on this, so reluctantly agreed) Yes, it may not be possible for us to simulate all physical conditions
SP: :-)
SP: So your branch is Telecommunications? You've studied mobiles?
Me: (Here We Go....) Yes.
SP: What is a cellular network? Why is it called so?
Me: Told in detail.
SP: Why are the cells hexagonal??
Me: :eh: I don't know.
YL: (Jumped in all of a sudden :! What is the difference between cellular and mobile N/Ws.
Me: Wasn't very sure, but told her what i thought.
YL: Which one has higher frequency capacity?
Me: Wasn't 100% sure again, but told her that it would be cellular networks because frequency is reused in cells. :satisfie:
SP: What is the frequency used by MTNL?
Me: Don't really know
YL: What is the difference between a product and a service?
Me: Told with an example
YL: What are your hobbies?
Me: :rolleyes: Told
YL: What is a 5-year plan?
Me: Told whatever i knew, mentioned agriculture and education sectors
SP: What about NSERG, health schemes?
Me: I believe these are not part of 5-year plans. They are probably supplementary, but separate programms by the Central Govt.
SP: But only agriculture and manufacturing? Aren't Health/Education sectors part of 5-year plans?
Me: Not sure
YL: So, you are from Pune.
Me: Yay!
YL: So is Pune in Pune district?
Me: (No idea why i said this) It's in Haveli
YL: Who is the Governor of Maharashtra?
Me: (I had specifically read this, but forgot at the last moment) I do not recollect
SP: Who is the Chief Minister?
Me: Told :redface:
SP & YL: Thank You...

(I gotta say, the YL had the straightest poker face I have ever seen. I couldn't tell if she agreed with my "not-so-sure" answers, or if she thought they were complete crap. She could win the World Poker Championship hands down.)

Overall, it was better than the IIT-D fiasco, but still I wasn't really satisfied.. wasn't as confident while answering the questions as I should have been. :-?

Things are looking really bleak for the 08-09 season

[Varun Alurkar]

The entire process was very well organized by the students. No glitches at all, and it was very pleasant.

Thanks to all of the members of the Admissions Committee!

[rahul.martial]

hi Seniors, beliv it or nt, SJMSOM has done some kind of magic on me, last two days atfr my gdpi there, I am dreaming about this college, its lyk love at first syt. I juz wana be there fr comin year. really

[aman18narang]

hi puys,
i wrote my whole exp here bt when i clicked post reply it jst wnet away n wsnt posted..dnt kno wts wrong..tried to write almost everything..made it very long n wud hv maden interestin read..hf hr wasted,,,wtf :( will try if i get time again

[rish_rock]

Hi Seniors,

Thanks for all you support and pep talks during the whole GD/PI process. It really helped. Really appreciate you patience.

@Srrikant - Sorry I did not mention your name in particular in the feedback as your whole team was quite good

Also, any idea when are final results expected to be out?

[rahul.martial]

@aman18, bad luck aman, may b problem in sm explorer, nyway, dsnt matr. enjoyy

[kill_cat]

Originally Posted by rish_rock

Hi Seniors,

Thanks for all you support and pep talks during the whole GD/PI process. It really helped. Really appreciate you patience.

@Srrikant - Sorry I did not mention your name in particular in the feedback as your whole team was quite good

Also, any idea when are final results expected to be out?

Can anyone from Adcom can clarify about the date when results would be out?
atleast a guesstimate can help ....it would provide some idea for poor souls like me who are countnig heavily on SOM....

TIA..