My IIM I interview
Posted by golimar thriller on May 31, 2010
My IIM I interview
result – SELECTED AND JOINING
2 panelist .. 1 lady prof and 1 old and healthy male prof( i will call the male prof as prof )
This was one of my final interviews ( i had been giving interviews since 2.5 months.so was actually bored .. I was unprepared for this interview.. I didn’t read news papers for last 10 days.. didn’t study much .. had done lots of traveling for IITs .. anyways
process started with an essay
“is indian movie industry getting globalised ”
the panelist were reading my essay when i entered the room
me :- good afternoon sir, good afternoon ma’am.
lady :- good afternoon , have a seat
me :- thank U
prof :- so u r an electronics engineer having work ex as a software engineer in Patni. okay in your essay U have written “NRI abroad “.. Do u think its right
me :- no sir it has a grammatical error
prof :- what kind of error say to me in the language of data structure
me :- sir it would be redundancy
prof:- explain the error
me:- ( it should be only NRI or abroad ,I explained properly)
prof :- ( reading my essay) hmm kollywood and tollywood movie industry in south .. what r these
me:- kannada movie industry is kollywood and telugu movie industry is tollywood
lady:- tell me the 4 states and their languages in south India
me :- (said )
lady:- what is this u have written e-globally
me:- Ma’am I have written globally..
lady :- okay
lady :- complete this sentence if u agree with it
” democracy is not good for India ……………… )
me :- democracy is not good for India because in India majority of voters are illiterate who can be manipulated easily by politicians . The vote bank politics played in our country divides the country and its people..
lady :- anything else u dislike about democratic system in India and what kind of government u want
me :- ma’am in coalition government, it is not possible to make good decision quickly which is in the interest of the country since most parties r looking for their own interest … like we saw what happened while passing the nuclear bill
I feel a benevolent dictatorship would be good for India.
lady :- what do you mean by benevolent dictator.
me:- a dictator who takes quick decisions in the interest of the country, who is not corrupt ,peace loving, and thinks of the growth of the country and welfare of the people .
lady :- can u think of any past ruler in India who was a benevolent dictator
me :-(thinks) I think Akbar was.. he respected all religions and always thought of welfare of his people.
lady :- Name any other form of government , apart from democracy and dictatorship
me :- communism
lady:- which countries in the world follow communism
me :- China , and i have read somewhere about chile being communist
lady :- okay 
what u mean by autoXXXX (i can,t recollect)
me:- i can guess its a form of goverment similar to dictatorship
lady :- what is autocarcysyncracy ( i can,t recollect 
)
me :- i don,t know
( male prof takes over)
prof:- what is this subject u had in your final year.. mechattronics
me :- sir its a subject which has principles of both mechanical and electronics engineering
prof :- so can u answer questions from this subject
me:- sir I can try but am not sure I will be able to recollect .
prof :- what was there in it
me:- about PLCs, transducers
prof :-so what was your favorite subject in engineering apart from data structures (hahahaha he assumed I am good at data structures since i worked on it )
me :-sir I guess microprocessor
prof :- what is the difference between micro processor and micro controller
me :- explained correctly
prof : where are micro controllers being used
me :- in any appliance which does a fixed job .. like a TV , a microwave oven etc where the
processor can be programmed to do a fixed job we use micro controller
prof :- what is used in a laptop
me :- sir micro processors because laptops has to to multitasking and we need lots of
external memory for that
lady:- what is used to implement Fuzzy logic
me:- ma’am I don,t know fuzzy logic
lady:- the one that is used in washing machines
me:- if its used in washing machine.. then it must be micro controller( i was very good in
explaining why)
lady :- hmm so u have mentioned that u are creative ( we had a small psychometric test
before the essay in which we had to mention all this)
(she kept few plastic pins in front of me,paper clips)
okay tell me 10 uses of this apart from its normal use.
me :
1) it can be used to clean your ears 2) scratch your head 3) to remove something it gets struck
in a narrow hole 4) to play by kids since they were colorful 5) as paperweight
6)since its flexible u can use it as friendship bands if u tie it on your fingers
( i was thinking when she stopped me)
lady :- so u have mentioned the reason for leaving Patni as your ambition to study for CAT.. whereas U have written in the column below that u have a gap becoz u were asked to resign from Patni and took it as opportunity blah blah
prof :- u should have mentioned the same reason that u were asked to resign
me:- sir I cud have easily got another job given my experience. but i found it unethical to work for few months in a firm and leave it for MBA.. so i decided to take a gap.. so the main reason was my ambition
prof :- but the reason for leaving should n,t be that…
me :- yes sir but since ,there was a separate column ,i wrote it that way..
lady :- so u were honest in your answer here
Lady:- so what r your extra curricular activities.. what else u do apart from studying for CAT and working for Patni
lemme see oh so u have done cartooning .. draw my cartoon
prof :- (interrupts the lady ) he has organized the competition .. i guess he himself isn’t
a cartoonist
me :- yes sir.
lady:- so u like football, cricket and and and ( she searching for something in
extracurricular to ask me)
prof :- so u like rock music.. whats the difference between heavy metal and hard rock
me :- Sir i guess hard rock is a vast genre of music and heavy metal is a subset of hard
rock
prof :- u sure
me :- ( not so confidently) yes
prof :- U just destroyed my artistic talent( he said something like that and laughed)
a lil bit of smiles followed and they asked me to leave….
i said thank u and left
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