Name: Partha Sarathy
cat percentile (OA): 99.97
Sec1: 99.97
Sec2: 98.71
10th: 87.80 (CBSE, 2002)12th: 91.5 (State Board AP, 2004)
Work Ex : 54 months
Extra-curricular/Co-curricular: Quite a few project presentations, Technical fest organizing
Date of Interview: 18-FEB-2013
Place of Interview: Hyderabad
WAT - In most cultures marriages are an occasion for celebration .Do you agree with this? Give your reasons for the same
WAT experience : I was happy with my WAT experience. The topic was relatively broad and I was able to do enough justice within the time
Preparation: 4
Performance: 4
No. of people in the interview panel: 3 (P1: Sardarji, P2: Senior Prof, P3: Prof)
Questions in PI:
1.) What do we call you? - I have a very big name
2.) Where are you from basically? - Visakhapatnam
3.) What is your opinion on Telangana?
I said I am for it and gave valid reasons for the same.
4.) What about people who do not want to separate?
Gave ways in which their concerns can be handled in a nice way. New projects to other reasons and al. This part of Telangana discussion went well
5.) What book do you generally read and what are you reading now?
Jeffery Archer's Clifton Chronicles.
6.) Authors I like? - Sydney Sheldon, ROwling, Tolkien, Archer
7.) No Indian Books? Only a few of Chetan Bhagath.
8.) Author of the recent Shiva Trilogy? He is from IIMC...
I could not recollect - They said that is alright and I did not miss much.
Now all hell broke loose
9.) What is Vector (as in Maths)?
Could not recollect exactly....
10.) Difference between Speed and Velocity?
Said an alright answer but had to relate vector question with this. Speed with a direction is velocity.
11.) Sin theta representation. Asked me to show Sin 0. I was about to start by saying in a Right Triangle but my over-thinking mind ruled me out saying it cant be so easy. So drew a Sine Curve and tried explaining from there. At last on much prodding, when I gave the opposite Side/Hypotenuse answer, they said that was what they were expecting.
12.) Trigger concept in Database - Answered
13.) Normal Forms in DB - Was answering and was cut off by P2 and taken back to that Sin 0 Question.
P2 was not happy with the time taken to answer Sin 0 Q. I said I was thinking from an entirely different perspective and apologized
P2 said, I need to recollect all my math (my Quant is strong), cox there will b3 6 courses in 6 weeks and then exams after which we cannot go back to that 6 courses at all. So I have to be careful.
They said Good and Thank you. I thanked them back and left.
Duration of PI:20 mins
Fingers crossed, but I felt IIML interview was better. I am just hoping I could scrape through IIMC.
PI Preparation: 3.5
PI Performance: 3
Please give your opinions.
Regards,
Partha
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