[2009] XLRI GD/PI Experiences - BM and PMIR

With the next round of the XLRI selection process beginning tomorrow, it would be great if all the people who finish with their interviews keep posting their interview experiences here. I suggest using the following format, to maintain consis…

With the next round of the XLRI selection process beginning tomorrow, it would be great if all the people who finish with their interviews keep posting their interview experiences here.

I suggest using the following format, to maintain consistency, and to try and 'judge' your interview.

Course applied for (BM or PMIR):

Educational Profile:

X:
XII:
Undergrad Major - GPA/%age:
Any other professional certification or course undertaken:
XAT percentile:

Work profile (if applicable):

Number of years:
Sector/Industry:
Special achievements at work:


Other differentiating factors (anything great that you have done in life, that's out of the ordinary):

GD Topic:
Number of participants:
Panelists' intro (if possible):
Duration:
Brief snapshot of discussion:

PI Questions:

Any other details that you think are relevant:


Request:
1. Kindly do not post anything other than your experiences of XLRI GD-PI.
2. If you like reading someone else's experiences, please use the THANK button to express that. Or, send that person a PM, instead of cluttering up the thread.

Please help in keeping this thread clean and useful.

All the very best, and I'd love to see all of you here. :thumbsup:

X: 84.53
XII: 82.5
Undergrad Major NIT JAipur ece - GPA/%age: 6.84
Any other professional certification or course undertaken:
XAT percentile: 99.08

Work profile (if applicable):

Number of years: 10 months
Sector/Industry: Telecom Industry Airvana Networks
Special achievements at work: None


Other differentiating factors (anything great that you have done in life, that's out of the ordinary):

GD Topic: Na
Number of participants:
Panelists' intro (if possible):
Duration:
Brief snapshot of discussion:

PI Questions:
VENUE RAIN tree hotel chennai
slot 1120 hrs 23 feb 2009
20 min behind schedule.
hotel is posh.
reached at 10 in morning

at 1140 was called in the rtoom

Three ppl L(Very senior prof Mr. Gangopadhyay) Centre young prof supriya kumar de Right middle age prof(Rajiv sharma)


I may i come in sir
panel yes
(I sit down)
they ask me to sign register wid my name
L had my application form , the one we filled in oct online for our educational details) asked my 12th marks since it is not printed there
I : answered(he knows a lot about mumbai ).
L: asked me about my college he knew a lot about it also. Asked my ATKTs . which I had one (you can bluff but i dint, no check done)
L asked me about my company
I told
L asked my work profile
I told
L asked if in India if u have to do smthing to change in dia what will u change three points.
I Per capita income
L what is per capita income
I told
L what is recession, slow down
I : I messed up by saying american firms in IT sector.
then i said Smthing bout IBM accenture
L what is full form of IBM why.
told
L what did it make before computer
I dint know(coffe machine)
M what is Sensex, mutual fund
told not full
R what is satyam debacle
I told but not completly satisfactory

NO CV NO ESSAY NO ONLINE FORM but they asked for other people. they may ask about your hometown IMP plz read about your state and your city .
Plz comment I shal write more as an when I recollect
Since I have to leave for bangalore
All the best u folks
and plz close the door wen u leave it closes very slow and becomes awkward

X: 84.53
XII: 82.5
Undergrad Major NIT JAipur ece - GPA/%age: 6.84
Any other professional certification or course undertaken:
XAT percentile: 99.08

Work profile (if applicable):

Number of years: 10 months
Sector/Industry: Telecom Industry Airvana Networks
Special achievements at work: None


Other differentiating factors (anything great that you have done in life, that's out of the ordinary):

GD Topic: Na
Number of participants:
Panelists' intro (if possible):
Duration:
Brief snapshot of discussion:


NO CV NO ESSAY NO ONLINE FORM
Plz comment I shal write more as an when I recollect
Since I have to leave for bangalore
All the best u folks





Did they not ask you anything from the form we wee asked to fill in for the interview? I thought that would be were the screw tightens really...
Anyways, best of luck!!
X: 84.53
XII: 82.5
Undergrad Major NIT JAipur ece - GPA/%age: 6.84
Any other professional certification or course undertaken:
XAT percentile: 99.08

Work profile (if applicable):

Number of years: 10 months
Sector/Industry: Telecom Industry Airvana Networks
Special achievements at work: None


Other differentiating factors (anything great that you have done in life, that's out of the ordinary):

GD Topic: Na
Number of participants:
Panelists' intro (if possible):
Duration:
Brief snapshot of discussion:

PI Questions:
VENUE RAIN tree hotel chennai
slot 1120 hrs 23 feb 2009
20 min behind schedule.
hotel is posh.
reached at 10 in morning

at 1140 was called in the rtoom

Three ppl L(Very senior prof Mr. Gangopadhyay) C young prof R middle age prof(Rajiv sharma)


I may i come in sir
panel yes
(I sit down)
they ask me to sign register wid my name
L:(had my application form , the one we filled in oct online for our educational details) asked my 12th marks since it is not printed there
I : answered(he knows a lot about mumbai ).
L: asked me about my college he knew a lot about it also. Asked my ATKTs . which I had one (you can bluff but i dint, no check done)
L asked me about my company
I told
L asked my work profile
I told
L asked if in India if u have to do smthing to change in dia what will u change three points.
I Per capita income
L what is per capita income
I told
L what is recession, slow down
I : I messed up by saying american firms in IT sector.
then i said Smthing bout IBM accenture
L what is full form of IBM why.
told
L what did it make before computer
I dint know(coffe machine)
M what is Sensex, mutual fund
told not full
R what is satyam debacle
I told but not complely satisfactory

NO CV NO ESSAY NO ONLINE FORM
Plz comment I shal write more as an when I recollect
Since I have to leave for bangalore
All the best u folks

Dude how many panelists were there. What else did they ask you? Speak, speak ,speak! Your's seems to be pretty smooth sailing if only those questions were asked to u.

@Anshat - Dude...how long was your interview..
seniors how long are XL interview in general

Did they not ask you anything from the form we wee asked to fill in for the interview? I thought that would be were the screw tightens really...
Anyways, best of luck!!


no but they haVE THE FORM AND are asking ppl . study your home town well
@Anshat - Dude...how long was your interview..
seniors how long are XL interview in general


15 min to 20 min. on time .
vileye Says
Dude how many panelists were there. What else did they ask you? Speak, speak ,speak! Your's seems to be pretty smooth sailing if only those questions were asked to u.


3 panelists check there name .all are very informed and polite. they wanna know more about u. but one request study your home town inside oall out plz.

all the best

Course applied for (BM or PMIR): BM

Educational Profile:

X:75.2
XII:88.8
Undergrad Major - GPA/%age: B TECH/EEE 77.6
Any other professional certification or course undertaken: NO
XAT percentile: 98.24

Work profile (if applicable):

Number of years:1.5
Sector/Industry:IT(TCS)
Special achievements at work: Won an award for completing a module fast...Doesnt matter


Other differentiating factors (anything great that you have done in life, that's out of the ordinary): Nothing out of the ordinary...just normal stuff like organising college fests


PI Questions:
Venue: Raintree, chennai Slot:1440
Was present there by 150 pm...the guy at 2pm slot was already there and rest of us upto 320 were already assembled...profs came back by 215 from lunch...i was called in around 250

Panel:Three in the panel...same as above
i1: Abhijit Gangopadhyay(Slight Terror) i2:Rajeev Sharma & i3:Supriya Kumar De(I am still not sure him, the only photo in the prospectus that looked similar)

i1 left as i went in
me: may i come in sir
me:good afternoon sir
i3: yes, please take ur seat
me:thank u sir
i3: so u r working in tcs, it recently acquired a company tire?
me:yes sir, citigroup's bpo services
i3:mmm...so u kno everything abt ur company
me:yes sir
i3:what is the ltd at the end of tcs
me:publicly listed company...blah blah bse nse
i3:oh wat abt public companies, even they can use ltd?
me:yes sir...if they are in the share market
i1 enters :eyepop:
i3:wat is the diff between manager and leader
me:as i finished sayin one diff i1 intervened
i1:do u think manmohan singh is a leader or a manager
me:leader sir(sonia is the leader yeah but i didnt want to damage a pm)
as i started to explain my stand i2 intervened for the first time
wat do u think abt moon moon sen
laughs all around
me:shes is an actress sir...i ve no idea abt her(except of course 2 beau daughters, it didnt strike mat d intrvw)
i1:where else have u been other than chennai
me:i worked in delhi for an yr and did my final yr project in blore
i1:u know bihar right, before it was split up, it had an old university a very famous one but is closed down now
me::confused::eyepop: no idea sir(of all d places y bihar)
i1:try remembering
me: (university of patna, no never heard of it)BHU
i1: :new_Llol: banaras is in up :new_Llol: do u know allahabad...do u know wat its famous for
me:its famous for a temple, i am not sure
i1::new_Llol: no no not temple
i1:do u know any famous personalities from bihar
me: laloo prasad
i1,i3::new_Llol:
i3:tell us abt ur job
me:blahs of india
i1: u think its not worthwile continuing in tcs
me: i love my job but xlri will make me realise my dreams faster blah blah(pls ask me abt my future plans)
i3 intervened and ask me what other tata companies have acquired other companies recently?
me:(well)tata motors acquired jaguar and land rover last year
wat r the tata companies listed in sensex?
tcs, tata motor, tata tea
i3:(gotcha)tata tea...r us ure
me:yes sir, i ahve seen in tv channels, Tata Tea is a listed in company
i2:ok, u can go
i1,i2:thank u for coming
me:thank u sirs

Well thats it...it started out well...but started screwing up as it went on...
no idea about how i performed...was i impressive or not:confused: no idea...Keeping my fingers crossed...ATB Puys
Mr. Sumit i have a questn...of all d places y bihar...wat is the university that i should have been known??

waiting for venky's post

Dear dude's and dudette's
Lets keep the discussion at the other thread...let this thread contain only experiences

well i think they were asking about nalanda university. I guess i'm right.

Had my interview tody at Rain Tree Chennai. It was more of a PG Meet almost all are puys s. Okay Il start my experience.

Course applied : BM (Didnt apply PMIR) sos may b i was not asksed abt it.
Profile

Xth : 91.5%
XII : 94%
B-Tech : NIT Warangal (Mech) 9.23 CGPA
XAT : 99.21 %tile
Work Ex: Telecom 20 Months
Acheivements : A couple of them.
Extra curiculars : 4-5 paper presentations worked as gen sec of Mech assoc and also sstudent head of national level fest

Any other : NA

Three Profs whose names mentioned earlier. Looks like one profs askss sone looks at file and other looks at the student.

And it was sprof Gangopadhyay who asked 95% of qns
P1 Gangopadhyaay P2 file looking P3 No qns
Experience :

P1 : So Mr venkat are you from Guntur native or any other ?Is Amaravati near to it ?? ( So much he knows)
V: I am from a small village in guntur ( AP) and yes sir amaravati is aorund 10 kms frm it
P1 : Atcha its a cool place except the hot chillies of guntur.
V : Yes Sir Guntur is the world No 1 in chilli production. (largest market also)
P2 : Okay venkatesh tell me you have done your Btech attttttt NIT W hmm gud college and Mechanical engg and u got gud %tage also and now you are in Telecom ( All of them) that too in S/W and now you want an MBA. Where is the link can you connect them ??
(Wow wat a nice way to put an y MBA )

V : I feel an MBA as a bridge to my long term career goals

P1 : Aha wat are your long term goals
V : Atround 10-12 mins on this only (out of 20 mins)
P1 : wat are the companies that are already in to tis type .
V: told and explained how the pressent is and how i would like to do. (Looks convinced)

Now starts
P1 : Venkatesh tell me wat is branding? You know your suit I should say has well suited for you looking gud ( all acknowledged) . It has a tag (louis Phillippe) LP
y do they put such things. you know i am feeling like to buy the similar one u wore. explain me the concept.

V : Sisr the idea is to create the same thought u have got and I would say LP is now successful I would term branding as symbolizing the produucts to make customers identify. The target customers wo already have our product if they can display the product with an identity that hepls new ppl to buy them. For ex my frn has reffered me thi is a gud one.

P2 : In the middle but looks like your suit is dominating you. you have to be marketed but yu are like a brand ambassdr for LP

V: Smile. If that is the case, i ned to rethink be4 makin any branded decisions and make sure it should only serve the needed one.

P2 : No probs its sreally gud for you.

P1 : Now venkatesh tell me wat you do at your work
V : Told the skills nedded and profile roles and resp and some awards

P1 : Okay lets change the topic tell me if valentines day clebrations needed to be banned in India i mean like wat karnataka witnessed

V : told as long as the indian values ( mentioned them) are not dis regarded theres no harm in that. Had some discussison on it

P1 : Okay you know abt the lawers ting in Chennai ? wtas ur opinion

V : told 2 points seach on lawer and and the police and if those two points are removed the case would not have hit head lines and i would go on lawers side if u remove that point as expressin concern for thier fraternity is a freedom of speech and they can take it inb lwful way

P1 : okay now tell me who is our home minister ?
V : (Kaun) yah chidambaram Sir,

P1 : aha preveiously he was ?
V : finance min

P1 : now tell me wat do you think abt him is he succesful ??
V: took time and " yes Sir wat ever UPA has promised that it will do like common mans welfare etc that all can be best done by budget and he has played a key role. If you take my case i am benefitted by inc in ta slab and if you take the case of farmers the loan waiver has benefitted them and overall i feel he has kept his promises

P1 : tell me wats a rain forest and where ist in AP ?
V ; ummmm I dont know Sir.

P1 : okay no probs. So any thing else he loked at P2 and P3.

P2 okay venkatesh we are done gives bak the file after scrutnizing them thorugly. Did you sign it ?
V : Yes Sir. Thankss a lot it was nice speaking to you have a nice day.

So thast its puys PM me wat you feel abt the intrvw. NO acads no tell me abt ur self. More imp i wasnot asked abt form. But looks like they have read it and were having an idea abt it.

They had my form which comes as a print from the XLRI website that we have submitted b4 exam. I could see my all details in it.

Will corrct my post for spell mistakes later.

Verdict :-
Waitlisted at 70 Got converted.

@maruvit
didn't they ask u anythin frm the essay or the questionnaire which we hv submitted?

Folks, a couple of small requests from me....

1) Please don't quote the entire post. It makes the page longer, tougher to read, and once the traffic on this page increases, it will make life much tougher.

2) If you have a specific query, please send it to the 'poster' using PM, rather than carrying out one-to-one conversations.

3) Take everyone's experience with a pinch of salt. There is no panel consistently tough or consistently easy. A lot depends on you. Please don't go in with preconceived notions.

4) Do make sure that you're well-versed with your 'Why MBA', 'Why HR', 'Why Finance' etc. answers. These people are all very senior profs, and can generally figure out when someone is bluffing.

Please post any queries on the relevant thread rather than here. I would appreciate your cooperation, because we here are a bit stretched for time over the next week or so with submissions, exams etc.

All the best!!

@Anshat - Dude...how long was your interview..
seniors how long are XL interview in general


The length of interview varies but is often around 15-20 mins.
Personally my interview was on the shorter side (
BTW, if you see last yr's interview experiences, u'll notice that many interviews were in fact based on your hometown (mine was completely based on tht). And not just your hometown, but also your place of study (college) and work...

Couldn't find a thread for posting PI experiences for the 2009 XLRI batch so had posted in the wrong thread... Re-posting my BM experience here...

Profile:
x: 92% (CBSE)
xii: 97.5% (TN State)
Engg: 78% (electronics)
XAT: 99.5
3 yrs work exp in korean and american MNCs.

PI:
Date: 23rd Feb
Interviewers: Not sure, but one of them was probably Dr Gangopadhyay.

I was called in 20 mins ahead of time. So reach the place early.
Prof1: Name some national parks in Karnataka.
Me:
Prof1: Do you know a place called Jigni in bangalore?
Me: No sir.. Is it a restaurant?
Prof1: .
Prof1: Name some pharmaceutical companies in india
Me: Dr. Reddys...
Prof1: Where's it located?
Me: Hyderabad..
Prof1: Any more?
Me: Ranbaxy..
Prof1: Heard of any scandal involving them?
Me: Nope...
Prof1: Any industry you specifically interested in?
Me: Entertainment industry.
Prof1: Name some new entrants into indian ent industry..
Me: UTV making more movies these days.. Warner bros...
Prof1: What is Big TV?
Me: Owned by viacom.
Prof1: What other ent stuff?
Me: European football...
Prof1: Why's the US dollar still so strong despite the US economy being down?
Me: Forex currency of choice for most countries... as long as demand is high value will remain high..
Prof1: What's happening in dubai?
Me: Real estate down... no oil..
Prof1: so what's being done?
Me: Abu dhabi will help them out... They have oil..
Prof1: But abu dhabi is the capital of UAE.. so will be obligated to help them out...

so far so arbit...

Prof2: What's your job profile.?
Me: Driver development... Explained
Prof2: Why does BBC radio reach all parts of the globe and not FM?
Me: Explained that FM is higher frequency.. so interference is more...
Prof2: What are semiconductors?
Me: Explained...
Prof2: PN junction:
Me: Explained... struggled to do so though.. sometimes stress interviews are better than emotionless ones...

Prof3: Draw a XNOR gate..
Me: Took 2 mins.. drew something... don't remember if the logic i drew was XNOR or XOR... Prof was looking for truth table which was correct...
Prof3: Explain some business in which this logic can be applied...
Me: Legal tenders... both people agree on something... Dunno...
Prof3: Anything else we need to ask you?
Me: Mentioned my interest in writing.. co editor of college year book.. Left...

Vibes overall: not great.

Course applied : BM (Didnt apply PMIR).
Profile

Xth : 89.8%
XII : 95%
B-Tech : Anna university (CSE) 7.63 CGPA
XAT : 99.90 %tile
Work Ex: IBM 20 Months

Interview was at RainTree Hotel, Chennai

P1
why MBA?
who plans for India?
who is the chief?
who is the finance minister?
why Pranab filed budget?
What is centre's role and state's role in planning?
what is RBI?
who is the chief?
whose signature is on a Re1 note?
what is the highest denomination of $ note?
what is CRR?
what is fiscal policy?
what is monetary policy?
where is XLRI?
which state?
what are the neighbouring states?
what are the newly formed states?
what is the capital of chhattisgarh?

P2
What are the 5 qualities of good consultant? (I wanted to be a consultant)
Prioritise them
how does RBI differ from this hotel?
how does RBI and indian defense differ?
what is money laundering?
what is recession?

P3
a question from the questionnaire that I had filled
what is ur religion?
what does spiritualism mean to u?

Do they put u under stress during the interview or is it like they ask you questions and listens to your answers irrespective of their merit/relevance?

luckyu Says
Do they put u under stress during the interview or is it like they ask you questions and listens to your answers irrespective of their merit/relevance?


There is no general rule, really. They might... or they might not... and even the same panel is not consistent in terms of stress interviews. It could happen that you hear about a panel that's putting people under stress, but they end up being the nicest, most genial people you've ever spoken to.

So, don't go too much by what people say. Ultimately, the stress that's there or not there will be mostly dictated by you.

All the best!!
Course applied for (BM or PMIR): BM
Place: Chennai
Date & time: 23 feb 4:40 slot

Educational Profile:
X: 85%
XII: 82%
Undergrad Major - GPA/%age: 74.2%
Any other professional certification or course undertaken: None.
XAT percentile: 99.26
Work profile (if applicable):
Number of years: 7 Months
Sector/Industry: Digital T.V (software)
Special achievements at work: None.
Other differentiating factors (anything great that you have done in life, that's out of the ordinary): Massive amount of certi's, Best outgoing student of Coll.
Number of participants: 3+1
Panelists' intro (if possible): Abhijit Gangopadhyay, Supriya Kumar De and Rajeev Sharma
Duration: 25 mins
PI Questions:
P1,P2,P3 (Abhijit Gangopadhyay, Supriya Kumar De and Rajeev Sharma in that order) and Moi
My interview was slated to be at 4:40 went in at 4:30.
Wished the panel asked if I could sit and was told to.
P2 asked me for my file (which is quite large, 109 extracurric certis) I gave it to him and he almost dropped it and looked impressed with the number of certi's
Interview:
P1: Lets leave all this MBA, technical things aside, my colleagues will ask you that, you tell me something about women's empowerment, why women are oppressed and what you will do to solve the problem
M: started off with the historical problems of men to be the breadearners and women seen to be the homemakers and nowadays when women want to go out and achieve their lot they meet with opposition,
P1: asked me when I get married and my wife wants to work what will I do,
M :gave a nice answer, don't remember exactly but it was something on the lines of accepting her views and respecting her goals,
Some general discussion went on..
P1: we are in recession if you're a minister give me 3 points what you do to combat this recession
M: Talked about how the recession is caused by a lack of confidence in the banks and lack of confidence of the banks themselves so the points were:
1)give confidence to the banks to lend
2)build confidence in the ppl w.r.t the banks
3) give some short term sops to affected sectors
P1: What sectors are affected is your sector affected?
M: My company isn't affected and most development companies wont be. The service companies that cater to the banks will be affected.
The other sectors are Housing and auto because they depend on the bank loans and exports which depend on the countries in recession.
P1: Why you want to give up a job paying X lakhs and come all the way to Jharkand?
M: told my reason, P1 seemed satisfied.
P2: you seem to have won a lot of quizzes, I was asked a question by a small kid yesterday which I couldn't answer, I'll ask you that?
M: I'll surely try sir.
P2: ok name 5 characters common b/w the Ramayana and Mahabahrata
M: (thought) Hanuman
P2 :ok give me more.
M: don't know sir, (anyone know?)
P2: even I said only hanuman, Ok you're a CS grad. What area in CS are you comfortable?
M: sir, my biggest strength and weakness is that I am comfortable with almost all areas,
P2: asked need for normalization
M: told
P2: asked what is a database and what is stored data or info
M: told defn of DB and told data is stored.
P2: asked diff b/w database and information system
M: told what I knew
P2: asked if I was sure
M: told I was not but it was my best try.
P3:: again asked why MBA what is field of interest
M: told reason told image processing
P3: (takes out an ad from the paper about animation) is this it?
M: (smiled) no sir, that is animation I am interested in computer vision. Comps can crunch numbers like humans but can't see like us
P3: then you should do Mtech
M: no sir, there is a lot of technical know how in the field I am interested in the business aspects of it
P3: ok give me 5 uses of google maps
M: gave 5 good reasons, don't remember them exactly
Gave an example with everything, seemed satisfied.
P3: asked about traffic situation and how to change it.
M: gave my idea with an example of blore traffic
P2: nice talking to you. Have you signed (said yes) you may leave.
In retrospect: Really chilled interview, at no point did i feel stressed, got into the flow and didnt feel any pressure. Very knowledgable panel (let me emphasise VERY!). No questions on my online form ( had filled it after a lot of thought) No questions on my work.
All in all I felt good after the interview.

Opinions please PUY's.

Verdict: Selected.