[2009-2010] Great Lakes GD PI Experiences

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Hi Friends,

Atlast My intelligence input worked....
Check the results here

http://greatlakes.edu.in/cc/

Congrats to all the call getters....

Lets use this thread to discuss our GD PI experiences...

My CAT Score : 98.73%
Scheduled for Chennai 18th Feb

All the best for the process...

Seniors!!
We are here to trouble u more 😃

Let us start with a brief intro abt ourselves. preferably a mock for 'Tell me abt yourself' (not really )

I'm Swapna Mukherjee.
CAT %ile: 93.11%ile :confused: - Can prove to be dangerous while conversion.

Acads:
X: 89%
XII: 95%
Grad: 88%

Work Ex: 32 months in Oracle.
Extra-curriculars:- Good

Interview Details:
Hyderabad on 14th Feb at 10.00 am.

All the best to all for GDPI. 😃

Dear Seniors,

Can we have inputs on GD/PI please?
Is it case-study or abstract or factual topic GD? And some inputs about number of aspirants and duration of the GD.

Int Date: 21st Feb@Blr

My profile:
Vamsi Mohan with 95.5%ile, 86%,87%,88% in CAT, 10th, 12th and B.Tech respectively

I am working for Geometric Global Ltd. in Bangalore for 28 months.

All the best to shortlisted aspirants.

Hi...

I am Laxmi Narayanan from Chennai

CAT Score : 98.73%

X: 89.9%
XII : 96.75 %
Grad : 77.14%

Completed B.E EEE and B.Tech IT (Dual Degree)
Work Ex : 44 Months experience in IT
Extra Curriculars : Very Good :)

Interview on 18th Feb Chennai

Hi,

Thanks for creating the thread. My Intro

Myself puneet malik
GMAT: 710/5.0
Work: Infosys/4.5 years/ ~20 months International
College: IT-BHU/decent acads

Interview: 17th Feb, Chennai

Hope to find some fruitful discussion on the thread...ATB everyone...

Thanks.

Posting some good matter abt GDPI process that seniors posted a few days back on the previous thread.

GD/PI Process:
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The process is very simple. You will be bunched with people of your background and would be asked to come for a GD on one of the assigned dates. After the GD, there will be interviews for all short listed candidates. The whole process will take anywhere between 2-8 hours, depending on when your interview gets scheduled. I got out of the venue last year in an hour and half!

There might be a simple psychometric test immediately after your GD. This would assess your ethics.


Cheers,
Aztecmonk
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Let us start with a brief intro abt ourselves. preferably a mock for 'Tell me abt yourself' (not really )

I'm Swapna Mukherjee.
CAT %ile: 93.11%ile :confused: - Can prove to be dangerous while conversion.

Acads:
X: 89%
XII: 95%
Grad: 88%

Work Ex: 32 months in Oracle.
Extra-curriculars:- Good

Interview Details:
Hyderabad on 14th Feb at 10.00 am.

All the best to all for GDPI. :)


first of all congrats 2 all da call getters...

as we r shortage of time.. i think we shd start preparing 4 gd/pi rite away.. guys who've come through case studies plz share.. i'll post some 2morrow..

all the best 2 u all..
luv u all..

Hey guys ,

I am Apoorv .

My profile is ,
GMAT: 700/4.0
Work: 5 years IT / 13 months International

Interview: 14th Feb, Hyd 10 AM . got to get it rescheduled though .

Hi All,

I am posting my last year's GD/PI experience for your benefit....


I had my gd/pi slot for great lakes today. I had the GD first.

The topic given to us was a case study.....here goes
we are all the directors of a charitable organization that is looking to raise funds for health safety and human development programs in Africa. We have a found a donor in Mr.Mukesh ambani who has a srplus of 22 billion dollars. We have to approach him and convince him about donating the money and also explain to him as to how we are going to use those funds for our programs. He is supposed to be business minded.

So i just spoke about the major issues plaguing the african continent such as AIDS, and other diseases...the need to educate, provide basic facilities etc. I also said that we had to convince mukesh that he would stand to gain by sponsoring this campaign.......and so and so forth.....

Interview

there were 3 panelists.....after the intial formalities of greeting....they asked me to tell me something about myself which is not there in the resume....

I talked about my qualities as a person and my work and my hobbies....

they grilled me about corporate ethics....
one of the questions was that if i am stucjk in a traffic jam and a cop pulls me up for lack of license.....and it is getting late for the interview....wat would i do?

so, i just said that i would immediately inform the concerned people that i would be late.....and i would pay my fine in the meanwhile....

they asked if i may bribe the cop?

i said that i wont and i wont compromise on ethics....they kept on asking such questions and i kept on saying the same thing....

then they asked me about GSM and CDMA technologies....i answered that...

they asked me about movies....favourite actresses....wat do i do to beat stress?.....asked me about today's match.....who is ur role model.....y mba?......they asked me about my company infosys....positives and negatives of the company.....i answered all these......

overall above average performance.....i would say...not sure about the opinion of the panelists....

in the end they asked me if i have any questions...i asked them about the campus life in glakes?.....they explained for some 10 min about it....i just kept nodding....

i have a problem here
i lost my cat 2007 score card through which i had applied to GLIM..what shud b done in this case??

Hi,
I have been shortlisted for GDPI.Interview is on feb 18th in chennai. Congrats to all other call getters.
I have scored 96.1 percentile in CAT 2008.
CAT 2007: 97.00 percentile.
My academics:
10th: 86.8%
12th: 92.6%
B.Com: 75% (Gold Medalist)
Work Ex: 36 months (May 2009) Family business. Plus I am a Part time instructor in T.I.M.E, Coimbatore where I have taken nearly 300 hours of classes till date.

EXTRA CURICULAR ACTIVITIES
1) I have won in more than 50 management level competitions and 2 of them being at national level.
2) I have also made national level presentations.
3) I have been part of the organizing committee of various events in my college.
4) University level table tennis player. I have also won in various sporting competitions.

Will there be topic based GDs or only case studies?

Guess I am likely to be the Grand Old Man.....at the GD!!!!

12 yrs work ex/Investment Banking/B.Tech(Chem)/Finance(Alternative Investments)Intnl work ex s.e.asia HK(SAR) and China.

Why GL : Looking for a career shift --> entrepreneurship and looking to fill up the blanks in the areas of my work ex/knowledge.

1.Will there be cases to be discussed at the GD? cases as in mgmt scenarios! Wow I am pretty surprised.
2. I would like to know from the current batch(or alumni) it has been some time since i have been out of school,my latest GMAT does not show any great potential for academics(although my older ones are not bad), how do u think i should portray,how i could manage the gruelling academic content with such a large disconnect time from my Graduation.? your views on this would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers
V
p.s: I can volunteer the use of my residence (am at chennai near hotel park sheraton,Boat Club Road) or at my Club, probably this weekend/saturday or sunday for a network session and if possible some kind of a mock GD/PI ofcourse we will need the help of some one like aztec or some other current champions.

Got thru first round...

Gmat : 700,
GD/PI Schedule: 21st Feb , 1.30 PM Mumbai.

Whew! After a long wait !

Venue: Bangalore
Slot : 21-Feb 11:30

Profile : Cat-07 - 93 percentile
X/XII/BTech (NIT) - 92/83/7.2
Workex : 32 mths till date
Extra currics : excellent through out career

i too got a call 22 feb at 10 am in bangalore. This is my only call as i had only applied to GLIM and ISB .

But the catch is i have a very important official training on the same day 9-11AM . I cant skip the training as the trainer has specialy stayed back to give KT to me and it is a critical assignment .

Seniors please help , can it be shifted to 21st as 21-22 had been earmarked for the interview .

Please help me .

Any one got a call for the 20th at Bangalore??
Their websites says that Bangalore discussions are scheduled on 21st and 22nd.. Wondering if the date mentioned in my appl status is incorrect...

700/5, 2.6 yrs exp so far..

Hi everybody,

I got through as well . 18th February, 3 pm slot.

My profile:

CAT 08 - 97.56
X - 82
XII - 84
B.Com - 77

Experience - 30 months till date in Banking, Customer Service and Financial Research.

Are there going to be general topics for discussion or case studies like last year?

Cheers,
Krishna

Reposting from the Admissions thread -

With the GD/PI call list out, now seems to be a good time for Great Lakes institute to be added into the GD/PI Connect feature. :smile:

This gives us a fair idea of our fellow puys with the same GD/PI slots and their profiles. Folks, let's all post our slots and profiles once GLIM is added to this.

Link -> Home - PaGaLGuY GD-PI Connect

I request the moderators to add GLIM into the list of institutes that have announed their call list in the GDPI Connect feature.

Could the seniors follow up with this if possible please?

i have a problem here
i lost my cat 2007 score card through which i had applied to GLIM..what shud b done in this case??


Hi,

Even I've the similar case... Although i've my CAT admit card and also the prinout of the result from the internet.

Can someone plz help us on this?