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Is there anyone for whom the panel did not ask for the folder during the interview? Or just me? HRM.

Your BM interview duration?

  • 20-25 minutes
  • 10-15 minutes
  • less than 5 minutes
  • 30+ minutes
  • 25-30 minutes
  • 5-10 minutes
  • 15-20 minutes

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Is it only me or anyone else found delhi bm 1 panel very chilled out??

Hey puys, do we have to take a resume along with us or would they already have the baic info with them?? 

Till when are the interviews going on?

Which one shall I go for?? If possible state your reasons.

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  • IMT Hyderabad (Marketing)
  • MDI Murshidabad

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Xth - 94.86% (ICSE)

XII - 90.6 (CBSE)

Grad - 74.1 (IT engineering VTU)

18 months work ex

XAT - 99.08%



XLRI BM INTERVIEW EXPERIENCE


WAT - If great entrepreneurs are not MBAs than why are we doing MBA?

GD on the same topic. 

Discussion was mostly on that MBA is not a pre-requisite to become an entrepreneur but it definitely helps. And MBA program also enables one to become good managers. 



PI

What do you do at work?

Talked about my work at Akamai. Talked about what Akamai does. 


If you have a company of 100 employees which is not getting much projects, how would you go about cost cutting?

I told about how I would try to reduce not so important expenses like pantry free food and lunch and dinner. That would be 1% of employees salary. (Asked to show how did I arrive at that number) I showed it to them but the percentage came out to be 4% after solving the guesstimate. I told I did a rough calculation. 

Then I told about skill development program so that employees can get other projects. That would be a one time  cost of 13% of salary.

They asked me I am saving 4% but spending 13% to which I told that 4% is monthly savings and 13% is a one time expense to add value to employees. 

Then I told that last resort would be to let go the employees. 

They asked me how would I know how many employees to fire. I told looking at the net profit and loss and revenue and expenses. And also by making a case wherein i am left with X employees. Would the company do better or worse. 

After arriving at a number to fire, I would see the business that is not doing good or the low performing employees. 

Then they asked what should the main focus of a B school. I told them that main focus should be to develop original thinkers and innovative minds. 

Should start at school level itself but can be utilized by B schools further. 

I told them that rather than people focussing on ROI and Placement focus should be on the type of course and quality. 

They asked me if B-Schools should stop providing placements. 

I told that this happens in Western Countries like USA and the UK. There are job fairs but no placements. Yet to happen in India. 

That way aspirants would focus on quality of teaching and value addition. 

They asked what other changes a B school can do to make itself better. 

I told about better industry integration. 

Providing Niche courses and electives. 

Providing specialized courses that would enable a person to get into techno-functional roles too. (as tech is important too)

Then Asked about types of innovation.

I told that I don’t know. I tried explaining with examples. Something that comes out a blue like the wheel. Or something that is made better from previous iteration

But then they asked me about how can I answer this in context of team and other teams. 

I told innovation can be different for different teams. 

Waterfall model, agile models are innovations that are suited for different teams. 

Asked about what is another types of model?

Told clean room model.


Another guy asked if I can name a model which is completely opposite to waterfall. I told that I don’t know. 


Then they asked if there is something else that I want to tell. 

Told about my blogging website and how i have hired content writers. 



Asked me to take a candy and leave.


What are my chances? 



  • Selected
  • Can’t say
  • Rejected
  • Waitlisted

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What are my chances of conversion at XAT 95.3 percentile With 71 percentile in GK? Female, 2017 grad, pursuing post grad, no workex, acads: 95/95.6/82.3 Both BM and HR interview went average HR GD/ WAT was better than that of BM. What are my chances in both?

XLRI HRM Interview experience:

Venue - Mumbai
XAT - 94.077
GK - Poor Score below 20%ile
Academic - 81.56, 75.5, 78 (B.Tech CSE)
Work Experience - 19 months (BI Developer) + 20 months (Business Consultant)

WAT/GD topic - success comes before work in dictionary, can it be considered the case in real life as well?

10 minutes for WAT
25 minutes for GD

GD:
Group of 9 out of which 2 were absent. Pretty decent GD, everyone was on the same wavelength stating how work does take precedence over success and everyone got fair chance to speak. I pitched in a little late but stated decent points to support my argument.

PI:
Panel of 3 members, 1 Lady and 2 Gentlemen all of them very welcoming. They asked me questions related to work, my role, company’s business, why I switched job, competitors, how can I bring value to HR being from CSE background. I answered all the questions but they kept on grilling me and I felt they weren’t convinced with my answers. They grilled me on why colleges offer moral certificates but I finally managed to answer the answer they were expecting after they dropped in a couple of hints. After 25 minutes of grilling on these topics they told me they are done and asked me to take a toffee.

What are my chances?

  • Waitlisted with no chance
  • Waitlisted with chances of converting
  • Straight Convert
  • Rejected

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For HRM, Venue - Mumbai XAT : 97.1 Academics : 89/82/70 GK: 99.4 Work Ex: 3 y WAT: average GD: decent PI: decent( long and very chilled out, the most fun interview I've had this season) What are the chances of converting with this score?

  • Should convert
  • No conversion
  • Very little chance
  • Wait listed
  • Surely convert

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P.S-  You might find some motivation in there 😄 


https://insideiim.com/how-i-got-into-xlri-jamshedpur-after-6-interview-attempts/?src=ity&referrer=parminder

XLRI HRM

Venue : Jamshedpur

Acads : 10 CGPA / 95%/ 8.26 CGPA ECE

XAT: 99.029

Fresher B.Tech


WAT: Nothing should come for free in a developing country like India

(Decent)

GD: Average


PI:

P1- How was your gd ?

Me- I could speak all my points so, I am happy

P1- So u r happy. Tell us your points.

Me- If things come for free no one will work. But, certain things need to be free for some so that they come at same level and can work.

P1- Which is more land water or sea ?

Me- Sea

P1- What will happen if they come at same level?

Me- Earth will get flooded

P1- Then why bring people at same level

Me- All humans are humans, they are different things

Humans need basic inputs to survive, they don't

P1: And

Me: That's all

P3: Tell about automation in hr

Me: Can be used to fix retirement age, salaries etc but can't judge people

P3:Is judging good ?

Me: No but sometimes checking if values align with the organisation becomes important which can be difficult with automation

P3: Tell any hr news

Me: Told about pranam act of Assam

Mah govt schemes for beaurocrats

P3: Critique pranam act

P2: Tell both positive and negative things

Me: Positive

Parents brought us up now they need our support etc etc

Negative

Parents who abandoned kids can pop up and demand money

P3: But they r no longer legal parents

Me: Govt pensioners don't need support

Multiple children need not look after parents

P3: Ok

P2: I am seeing that u got placed at TCS and got a star rating , what is it for?

Me: I made an online food ordering system using Java EE, html, css3, JavaScript

P2: So basically u made a software

Me: Yes

P2: So we are done

Ok wait what are your hobbies?

Me: I love to write stories and am planning to publish a novel

P2: Tell us one story

Me: I'll tell the novel's story

Told

Cross questions from that

P2: That seems to be an interesting novel

P3: Has anyone told u that u have a very high volume?

Me: I know that is my weakness but I have improved a lot. I used to be louder

P2: No we didn't tell that is a weakness. May be someday u become a teacher at xlri and u won't need a mic.

Me: Thank you

P3: I just asked if anyone told u

Me : Yes almost everybody tells

P2: So u write supernatural stories only?

Me : Mostly supernatural but I write others too

P2: Thank u just leave the card before u go

P3: How lucky is no 2 for u?

Me: Very lucky ..I was hoping for it

P3: You were hoping for it and u got that

P2: Supernatural

Supernatural is very useful in hr. Sometimes u don't have solution to a problem and say supernatural

P2: Ok .. thank you


No toffees 😢

  • No conversion
  • Convert
  • Waitlist + Convert
  • Waitlist + No conversion

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What are my chances of conversion at XAT 95.3 percentile With 71 percentile in GK? Female, 2017 grad, pursuing post grad, no workex, acads: 95/95.6/82.3 Both BM and HR interview went average HR GD/ WAT was better than that of BM. What are my chances in both?

  • Waitlisted in BM
  • Waitlisted in HRM
  • Waitlisted both in BM and HRM
  • Rejected in both BM and HRM
  • Convert in HRM
  • Convert in BM

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https://insideiim.com/life-on-the-other-side-of-the-wall-b-school-edition-xlri-jamshedpur/?src=ity&referrer=raghunathan


While the gruelling schedule of interviews continue and with a long wait ahead here is a pacifier for your fears about life at a XLRI. 😄 


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Xlri hr interview

Date: 16th March 2019

Acads:8.8/88.6/72 (10th,12th , grad )
Engineer ( 4 month work ex)
Xat:99.562
Gk:98.867

Gd/wat : the rise of trump has been best thing happened to us in recent times

Wat : average ( wrote most of the point in favour ) writing may not be that good and some punctuation mistakes maybe be there .

Gd : Went well, raised points in regular intervals and was able to stick to point

PI
(1)Where do you work ?
Answered it with some cross questions coming up and was also asked question on various oil companies but was not able
To answer a question on total volume of oil wells reliance owns and told them my work in oil sector is more pertaining to electrical work and designing … To which they didn’t drill much

  1. acads questions
    First was why only did I have consolidated marksheets but explained to them the reason and how to get all the transcripts on time was not possible keeping in mind the slow administrative process , then they asked me the subject I was taught which I mentioned .Then some question on my research paper on analytics and general question on machine learning where I answered most except one on the assumptions of logistic regression ( here I was able to answer only some of them and fumbled a bit ) then a question on the use analytics in hr, which I was able to answer it to the point and no question was raised on the solution. Further the query was raised why not analytics if so much interested in it , was able to defend it through my tedx experience and interaction with one of our speakers, founder of infeedo…

Ethical question
The last question was on a situation where a an employee wants to resign due to other employees behaviour ( altough he is very good at his work and plays an important role but has nagging attitude )
Told them will identify all the stakeholders , and have a counseling session with the the nagging employess and tell him how his behaviours could be detrimental in his promotions and appraisal. If he still doesn’t improve then look for a replacement by taking in inputs from project manager… and for long term to include employee to employee relation as a benchmark to avoid such issues in future , altough with each solutions he started adding more constraints , at end he asked me what is more important to me people or project to which I replied project .

And then they asked me to leave

  • Wait listed but convert
  • Slight chance
  • Not convert
  • Convert

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Did anyone get BM call at less than 95 or HRM call at less than 93 percentile? If so, send a personal message or leave a comment.

  • No
  • Yes. If so, leave a comment

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What is interview call to seat ratio for hrm?

I want to take finance as my major Please try to give fair response

  • NIT Trichy
  • Poll Result
  • IMT Ghaziabad DCP
  • BIM Trichy
  • GIM Goa
  • Nirma, Ahmedabad

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Yes, i know a guy who got at 93 because of category

Is GIM Goa overhyped

  • No
  • Yes
  • I don’t know

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