Congrats Shama for gettin final call from IIM-K

regds
Sunil

still itz not the kinda of attitude i hav somethgz wrong wit those views.. maybe u better chek out wit ur sleeping position

atlast u got it rite .. but din get the rite words for me :x

not yet

nice ones ankita.. where did ya find them ??? cos u r still missing a few sleeping postions cos minez nowhere in the list

my friend is in the waiting list wit wait list no: 18... wat may be the chances of he gettin thru ?? n also is it true tht last year XLRI's selected candidates went until wait list no: 45 odd :

Sunil

hii

had my IIM-Cal gd/pi on 22nd morn at IIM-B campus. GD topic was "United nations is dead . Long live United Nations" we were 8 of us and were asked to discuss instantaneously on tht topic for abt 15 mins...i was the last one to summarise and i did it for jus 30 secs.

i was in panel 3 which had 3 male profs of them one bein a young chap... i was last in the panel to be interviewed and most of the interviews went on for 20-30 mins.. tht was a day of bloopers with 3 guys making lotsa mistakes in their forms(not fillin their name, mother's qualification) my interview started off at 1.10 with panel being very polite and cheerful

1. they asked me abt my surname. i'm a Reddy n name doesn't hav reddy whereas my dad's name got it... was asked to justify on it n the reasons y i din't like to hav it in my name...spoke for abt 5 mins on it

2. name a famous politician whoz a Reddy but who'z name hasn't got a reddy in it ?
din knew the answer inspite of them givin me a clue.. they told me tht it was Sundarayya(dunno whoz he n whether hez a reddy) and asked me which position did he hold ? i told'em tht he mite hav been the CM of AP some years back n they started laughing when i gav this reply...i too joined them n told them i din knew anythg abt him thgs tuk a bad turn from here

3. the 3rd prof asked me abt the length of time i summarised my GD... told him tht 30 secs n told him tht since everyone where tellin the same pts... i told him tht i added a new pt which we missed out discussing during the GD

4. next was asked abt my poor acads n the number of backlogs i had... told him tht i was more into extracurrics n was asked the number of students having backlogs for a particular sem...in a haste i told'em 10/60.. shld hav told'em 30/60 atleast by tht i cld hav given evidence tht itz difficult to clear subjects in my univ(unfortunately i cldn't thnk of tht )

5. i was asked abt rectifiers... i spoke in length the different kind of rectifiers n their functions , the components involved n the entire procedure... then i was asked to draw the o/p waveform of the rectifier n a few Q'z on it followed.

6. asked me abt my work-ex... told'em wat i do... 1st prof asked me y i was doin such kinda job(marketing job) which any common man can do n y am i wastin my engg degree over there....i was aggressive n told him though it has no relevance to my engg, it requires gud skills to do it.. n also questioned him back sayin tht... watz the significance of the under grad degree of a mgmt grad whoz into mkting once hez into MBA... ... also told him tht if a comp sci engg takes up systems in MBA then his under grad degree carries forward or else undergrad has no significance....i was a bit arrogant here n tht mite hav surely pissed them off :(

7. the 2nd prof now asked" explain to a layman ...if he catches an electric wire sometimes he dies n sometimes he won't " my elec basics were very bad n i started off wit the funda tht the man wears slippers n so hez insulated n next time he won't n so he conducts... the young chap got wild by me reply n shouted at me n repeated the Q ... i mumbled somethg n atlast i said i dunno... he gav some reply which i cldn't follow... n said thank u n asked me to leave

i came out at 1.30 ...interview went on for 18 mins... but they seemed an uninterested lot as i was last in my panel for tht session n they were in a real hurry to push me off early...no Q'z on maths / extracurrics.. just those 6-7 Q'z in which they went into a lot of details....on the whole not a satisfactory performance... n not waitin to hear from them :(

Sunil

PG tu ne tho mera naam pe do baar bet laga diya kya ithna confidence hai kay mere pe ;)

n one more thng ... can i bet tht some xyz wld make it thru the iim's in 2nd list ?

hii guyz

my gd/pi for MDI went on fine.. atleast i was satisfied by interview performance.. had my gd/pi at IISc blore on 26th at 11.30.. the GD was a case study of 2 pages abt a CMD of an iron & steel mftging company firing his managers n later re-instating them... lotsa characters n data in the case i cldn't even manage to read the final para(had the crux of case here)... the discussion lasted for jus 6 mins as all we guys din discuss further (how cld we do tht when we din read the entire case ) ... gave a 1 min summary n later was given 5 mins to summarize on a piece of paper..

i was 1st in the panel for the interview...
1. started off wit the lady in the panel asking abt tell me abt ur self.
2. asked abt work-ex
3. do u want mba jus for the degree beside u r name
4. y entrepreneur
5. diff between entrepreneur n manager ( a fair chap in the panel had gud sense of humour)
6. under grad specialisation n diff between electrical n electronics
7. relation between them both
8. wat do u know abt inverters ? n draw the output waveform of the ac voltage
9. name 2 famous electronic companies
10. name an mnc competitor for motorola
11. whoz the IT minister in india(i wasn't sure abt arun shourie bein the IT minister.. so din answer)
12. which company compaq merged wit ? n y ?
13. do u think pepsi n coke shld merge ? justify ! (told'em all crap)
14.did u hear abt 3M ( din knew wat it was )
15. which country does nokia belong to ?( blunder.. told them i thnk sweden)
16. do u thnk GD is a fair criteria for selection ?(told'em it depends upon wat characteristics in a candidate they were luking at)

on the whole the interview went on fine n i cld maintian a gud sense of humour along wit the panel .. interview went on for 10 mins... but luking at their GD/PI schedule i feel the result is pre-decided n the entire process is jus a formality..

Sunil

P.S bingo tu ne tho interview panel ko phaadke rakh diya

hii

had my iim-k on 6th march in chennai.... GD topic was " shld J&K; issue to be resolved by a dialogue is justified ? " GD was calm and everyone got a chance whenever they wanted n over tht 2 of the guys out of 8 were absent :)

interview went on smoothly... was asked the current IT scenario and effect of MNC's investment in india... spoke on it for abt 4-5 mins.. then was asked abt my work-ex.. followed by interests.... it was over in 10 mins.... almost everyone had their interviews for 10 mins... lotsa guys wit gr8 work-ex and lone IIM-K calls were there on tht day ;)

Sunil