WAT Topic: freedom of speech is important in a democratic nation. How does a corrupt media impact? What is your take on this.
Time : 20min 200 words.
Interview experience:
There were 3 interviewers who interviewed me.
M1: 45 to 50 years male.
M2: 30 to 35 years male.
F: female.
F: “ You are an electrical engineer from IIT Roorkee and since when are you working with Nestle and what do you do ?”
Me: “I have been working with Nestle for over 2.5 years. I’m an automation & maintenance engineer. I’m the electrical incharge for Maggi production lines which can product 150 Tons of Maggi per day.”
F: “ Did your company recovered from the Maggi crisis?”
Me: “ We are still recovering, we lost 2400 crores and gave the breakup”. (This is so inside info..)
F: “Do you think how Nestle handled the situation is correct?”
Me: Told we should have responded quickly, gave my arguments supporting why the way nestle handled the govt and FSSAI is correct.
M2: “Where does lead come from in Maggi?”
Me: Told the lead in Maggi noodles in within the norms , lead can come from soil and raw material, told about the quality checks we have at Nestle.
F: “if you have to one thing at your workplace what will it be?”
Me: “ Told about the time taken by purchase team for few activities, discussed about how we can improve and the impact it will have on overall plant operations.”
F: “Your grades started falling from 2nd year, there are a lot B grades especially in economics and management courses?” She asked as she scanned through my grade sheets
Me: Oh…here it comes. Interviewers can pick things which you don’t want them to …thinking in my mind. Took a deep breath and answered “ Ma’am…. grades may not be the true reflection of how much we know and B grade is 7/ 10 so its a decent score.”
F: “You scored a B in photography? Why? And what did you learn?”
Me: Did you just dig your own grave now?….Idiot’ I think. I don’t even remember doing a course in photography. But I somehow recall one rule my friend taught me about photography “ There is this rule called 3×3 rule, you can split the photo into a 3×3 grid and if you keep the subject in left center or right center grid, photos will look much better than keeping the subject in the center”
F: “How will you take a photo of 3 of us ?”
Me: “From this angle, your faces will look dark as there is a lot sunlight behind you”. There is huge glass window behind the interviewers.
F: “How will you take a better pic?”
Me: Now is the time to use your Physics acumen “ I will adjust the angle of focus, so that I can decrease the amount of light from outside and increase the amount of light reflected from 3 of you.”
F: Did you continue photography after 2012?
Me: “Not as a regular hobby”
I mentioned cooking as my hobby in the form .
F: “So, cooking is your hobby? “
Me: here comes the question, I have been waiting for.. a relief.“ Yes, I stayed in hostel for 6 years and I’m starving for home made food , so learnt cooking from my mom, I can cook almost all South Indian dishes and I’m learning how to cook Rajasthani Cuisine from my roommate”
F: if I come to your hometown, what dish shall I try ?
Me: “ You should try Gongura Pickle. It’s a pickle made from leafy vegetables and served with hot rice and ghee”
M1 and M2 smile at me. Maybe they know what Gongura Pickle is.
M1: “what is the energy efficiency of your plant?”
Me: That question came as a surprise to me. We were talking about Food and M1 jumps into plant efficiency. Answered it immediately , as I remember all the facts and details about Nestle plant operations.
M1: “where do you stay in Goa,?”
Me: Finally some questions about Goa….a relief. “ I live in Bicholim in North Goa”
M1: “you came all the way from Goa for this interview?”
Me: “ yes sir”
M1: “Take a cookie for your trip”
Me: I thanked them and took one
They said the interview was over and while I’m leaving the room
M1: “Is this your only interview? “
Me: The most difficult questions of all, comes at the end… “ No sir”
M1 : which other calls you have ?
Me: “ I have calls from IIM Ahmedabad and Bangalore”
They smile at me.
Result: Converted
I had my WAT-PI for IIM C in IIFT, New Delhi . They had different time slots for different set of candidates. Before coming for the WAT-PI, we were given a form to fill. It had basic questions about our profile ( resume based question). On reaching the venue, all the students for that time slot were assembled in a room and their documents checked. After that we were given 1 hour (I think, might be half an hour also) for the written ability test. The topic was very easy – Should caste based reservation be abolished.
After that they started calling candidates one by one for the interview session. It was a very coordinated process with each candidate being allowed a panelist before hand. There were ~ 10 panels operating in that time slot. Each panel had 2–3 panellists sitting on it. After waiting for around an hour, I was called in the for the interview.
My interview was conducted by a Marketing professor and an Economics professor. Both are brilliant professors and during the interview, they did their best to keep me at ease. They were genuinely interested in getting to know me and my profile. After a basic round of introduction, they asked me basic math questions – types of means, how is it calculated, the formula for all types of means. Since I belong to Punjab, they asked me to elaborate on 2 problems ailing Punjab and how would I tackle if given a free reign. Then they asked me about my hobbies (mine was reading novels) and then probed further to know why I loved reading books. Then they asked me if I had researched about the institute and about the courses they had to offer.
Then the last and most expected question – “Do you have any questions for us”. There were no questions from the essay topic. The essays are marked and their score is taken in the cumulative score prepared in the end to make the final list.
I came happy out of the interview room and had a good feeling about the interview. Needless to say, I cleared it in the first go.
IIM C, 20th Feb(IHC Delhi)
CAT 2017, 99.79
USIT, B.Tech CSE, 78.14 percent
Class XII, X – 89.8 and 88.7
Work ex 19 months in Adobe
Second last in panel, 2 females and one male
P1 – (as soon as I sat down) describe yourself in two adjectives
Me – humble, and ready to learn if ready to learn is an adjective
P1 – is it?
Me – well ma’am, an adjective is used to describe the qualities of a noun, and me being a noun, that makes it an adjective phrase
P1 – (smiled)
P2 (the male) started reading out my profile loud
P3 – So Varun, you are a self taught guitarist? You took no classes?
Me – Yes ma’am. I taught myself how to play the guitar and the piano all by myself.
P3 – And what fantasy novels do you read? GOT?
Me – No ma’am, I’m a big Harry Potter fan.
P1 – In what house would you be in if you were at Hogwarts?
Me – Gryffindor for sure ma’am.
P1 – You seem very sure of that .
Me – (half smiling) I gave a test on pottermore ma’am
(All three smiled back)
P3 – so what qualities does a Gryffindor have
Me – chivalry and the nature to help others
P1 – But these aren’t the qualities you described when I asked about you in the beginning
Me – well ma’am I attribute all these qualities to myself.
P3 – laughing, you say that you have so many qualities. That’s not very humble
Me – justified it by saying, a humble can be a person with all these qualities. But they act humble in various instances, like when they are learning in a class, or working with a peer group(gave an example for the latter)
P1 – OK varun, did you read today’s news
Me – no ma’am
P1 – yesterday’s?
Me – yes I did
P1 – what happened in the south?
Me – I don’t recall having read anything about that ma’am
P1 – In the northeast?
Me – The Tripura elections ma’am. They were discussed
P1 – anything else?
Me – nothing I remember ma’am
P2 – varun, give me the differentiation of x!
(I tried, he suddenly asked me draw it’s graph.. I drew a continuous curve… Is it continuous?…. I realised not… It’s discrete)
Me – it’s discrete sir… A value of y for all positive integer values of x… It won’t be differentiable since at each point it can have multiple slopes.
(P1 and P2 nodded seeming satisfied)
P3 – what’s your favorite band
Me – lamb of God
P3 – why?
Me – it helped me get through a tough time in my life
P1 – who are the competitors of Adobe
Me – (told and discussed)
P1 – Varun tell me about a fantasy novel you read after 2016
Me – Sophie’s world by jostein gaarder
P1 – how did you like it?
Me – it really asked me significant questions about who I am. I was able to ponder on what I want to do in my life
P3 – And what is it you wanna do?
Me – I want to learn as much as I can. I think I can do this by being in a position of responsibility where I need to add value to things . Because to add value to something you need to add value to yourself
P3 – Can’t you do that in Adobe?
Me – I can, but there are various domains of the business that I don’t know about … (Gave the example of my director who takes strategic decisions for the firm)
P3 – how old is your director and how old are you?
Me – 42 and 25
P3 – then you’ll be able to learn all this by that time
Me – (tried to justify my stand by giving examples of people who had grown quicker than my director via the MBA route… But she kept giving counter arguments)
P3 – chalo… I’m all done… Anyone wants to ask anything else
P1 – (takes out The Economist from somewhere) tell me something about what the cover story could be saying
Me -(the cover story was data in medicine… I had ample data on that and spoke continuously for a straight two minutes)…
P1 – hmm… OK varun… I think we are done.. thank you
(PS – No toffee)
Verdict – wait listed at 49
And finally converted… Joka, here I come
Personal Profile –
General | Female | Fresher | Non-Engineer
Academic Profile –
X – 10 CGPA | XII – 96.2% | B Com (H) – 8.96 CGPA (till 4th sem) from DU
CAT 2017 Percentile –
VA & RC – 98.29 | DI & LR – 99.17 | QA – 95.58 | Overall – 99.09
IIM – Calcutta Interview
19th Feb, 2018, 8:00 AM
India Habitat Centre, Delhi
After document verification, we were distributed the WAT answer sheets in the waiting hall itself. The instructions were given and we were asked to start. The question was (non-verbatim) –
“Some people consider Nuclear Weapons as a deterrent to war. While others claim that they’re dangerous and hence of no use. What is your opinion? ”
Discussed both the sides, backed them up by relevant examples and concluded by taking the side with more pros than cons.
After the WAT, we were asked to wait for our turn. I was the 3rd person (out of 8) to be interviewed in my panel. When the 2nd person came out, she said that they’re asking whatever is coming to their mind. Like they asked her what is the capital of Rome? (Yes, Rome, and not Italy!)
My turn came at 11:00 AM.
The 2nd person had described the panelists inside as 3 gentlemen – P1, P2 and P3. She had said that P1 (left) spoke the least, P2 (middle) asked the technical questions and P3 (right) was having fun by confusing the candidates.
Just then, P3 announced my name and asked me to follow him. As I said this was my first interview at IHC, I hadn’t seen the room before. It took me a couple of seconds to realize how big the room was. P3 lead me to the end of the room, where the other panelists were sitting. I smiled, wished them good morning and took a seat with their permission.
P2 – Please hand over your file to me, Shweta.
S – (handing over the file) Sure, Sir.
P3 – (looking at my transcript) Commerce! What’s your rank in college?
S – First, Sir. But, that is up till 4th semester.
P1 – (going through my 10th and 12th mark sheets) You’ve consistently performed well in academics. Isn’t it?
S – (thinking if they’re looking for ego issues) I tried to maintain a decent academic profile, Sir. (kicking myself for using the word ‘decent’, who says it?)
P1 – (smiles) (signalling P3 to start with the questions)
P3 – So, Shweta, you have studied accountancy, right? I’ll give you a situation. Let us say, you’re a dairy farmer and you have 50 cows. One of your cows gives birth to a calf. How would you account for it in the books of accounts?
S – (whatt!?) (smiling, almost laughing) Sir, I don’t know, but I can try. Since the cows, in this case, are not my goods & services and instead are my fixed assets, the birth of a calf would appreciate the value of my fixed assets.
P3 – How would it appreciate the value of your fixed assets?
S – The calf can be sold in the market, which will be a capital gain and hence its birth has increased the value of my total assets.
P3 – Can you give me the journal entry for the birth of the calf?
S – (thinking) Sir, I’m sure that the Assets a/c will be debited, but I’m not sure what to credit as there’s no money involved. So, probably P&L a/c. (Turns out it is the Capital a/c which will get credited)
P2 – (suddenly) Shweta, who was Kirori Mal?
S – (my memory was betraying me) Seth Kirori Mal was the founder of the trust which managed our college after partition.. err, (running out of facts).. umm, Our college was named after him..
(they try to control their laughter and I realize what I had just said, of course our college was named after him, you idiot, isn’t it already known to them?)
(damage control) Sir, our college faced staff management issues during partition and his trust really helped the college gain its reputation back. It was shifted from Qutub Road, it’s earlier location to North Campus and was also renamed from Nirmala College to KMC in the memory of Seth Kirori Mal.
P2 – (scribbling something on a piece of paper) What is an Indifference Curve?
S – told.
P2 – (hands over the paper, which has two ICs drawn, intersecting each other with 3 points on them, labelled as A, B and C) Can you rank these points in the order of preference for a rational consumer?
S – Sir, it isn’t possible to rank them. The intersection of the ICs violates the basic definition of an IC. It is a contradiction.
P2 – What is a Giffen good?
S – told.
P2 – How is the shape of its demand curve?
S – told.
P2 – Any example?
S – told.
P2 – What is the substitution effect?
S – (went blank at this point) Sorry, Sir. I’ve read it but I’m unable to recall.
P2 – You’ve done a module in financial markets, tell me what is SENSEX?
S – told.
P2 – How does it act as a representative?
S – Tried to explain. Companies from different industries with high market cap, how its movement is an indicator of investors mood, etc.
P2 – What are derivatives?
S – told.
P2 – What can be the underlying assets?
S – gave examples: shares, indexes, currency, commodity, etc.
P2 – If price of the commodity doesn’t change, will price of the derivative change?
S – (not sure) I think it can, Sir.
P2 – Why do you think so?
S – (very unsure) Because the price of the derivative also depends on the buyers and sellers of the derivative. The volume exchanged will impact its price.
P2 – What is LIBOR?
S – Sir, I’ve heard of it, but I’m not sure.
P2 – Leave it. What is risk free rate of return?
S – told.
P2 – Do you know the rate prevailing in India, in terms of percentage?
S – Sorry, Sir. I am not aware of that.
P1 – Shweta, what has brought you here, why MBA?
S – (excited to mention marketing) start with how I was interested in marketing during undergrad, more about it, the extent to which I like it.. (interrupted)
P1 – “Ye to prepared lag raha hai”.. (This sounds prepared)
S – (facepalm!) No, Sir, it’s not like that.. (interrupted)
P3 – Don’t worry, Shweta. We’ll get to that part soon. Do you read newspaper?
S – (sad that they didn’t let me talk about marketing) Yes, Sir.
P3 – As an accountant, how’d you highlight the problem in the Nirav Modi case? Remember, Shweta, just in 2–3 words. Pin-point what was missing.
S – (after thinking) Internal Check. That is what was missing.
P3 – Please explain.
S – Internal check ensures that the work of an employee gets checked by another employee which reduces the chances of fraud. In case of PNB, the work of employees issuing LoU was not checked by senior staff members.
P3 – But, if the work of one gets checked by another, wouldn’t this go infinitely? Any other body to check this?
S – There are audit committees to ensure fair audit reporting by the auditors.
P3 – And what if they also join hands in committing the fraud?
S – The company can appoint an independent body to check the auditors.
P3 – What if they join hands too?
S – (I give up) Sir, then the company needs to incorporate moral ethics in its employees’ value system which is again a debatable issue.
P3 – Have you read the Cadbury Report on Corporate Governance?
S – No, Sir.
P3 – Have you read the Birla Report on Corporate Governance?
S – No, Sir.
P3 – (perplexed) You haven’t studied Corporate Governance?
S – (understanding now) Sir, it is a part of my curriculum for this semester as the subject ‘Audit and Corporate Governance’. We’ve covered only till Audit in class.
P3 – (nodding) Do you know what it is?
S – tried to explain, but wasn’t satisfactory.
(P3 looks at P1 and P2, they nod, but P3 still doesn’t wanna end the interview)
P3 – Last question, Shweta. Do you read?
S – Yes, Sir.
P3 – Which was the last book you read?
S – (the honest answer) David Ogilvy’s ‘Ogilvy on Advertising’, Sir.
(P1 and P2 smile and P3 gives a look of disbelief)
P3 – Shweta, are you sure you’ve read that book?
S – (smiling) Yes, Sir.
P3 – Tell me one famous line from that book.
S – (instantly) “If it doesn’t sell, it isn’t creative”.
(P3 smiles and so do I, more so because it ended on marketing, the area they didn’t let me talk about. Probably that’s why P1 and P2 were smiling too)
P3 – Thank you, Shweta. Please have a toffee.
S – Thank you, Sir. Would you like me to send the next person in?
All – No, no, it’s okay.
Personally, I liked the calmness, with which the interview was being taken. There was no grilling, no random questions except some interesting ones. Even when they didn’t let me talk about marketing (the only thing I was unhappy about), the interview ended with it, which became a pleasant memory.
Verdict – Waitlisted 12.
Converted. Joined iim A 🙂
IIMC Interview.
Date – 22 February 2018 (Morning Slot)
Venue – Indian Habitat Centre, New Delhi
Profile –
Xth -> 10/10 [CBSE]
XIIth -> 94% [CBSE]
B.Tech (Electrical Engg.) -> 9.24/10 [IIT Ropar]
Work Ex -> 8 months at ISRO
CAT -> Overall – 99.97
General | Engineer | Male
WAT – “Vertical development of cities is better than the unorganized and unstructured horizontal growth. What do you think?”
There were three panelists. I was the 4th one to be interviewed.
One of the panelists came to call me in. As soon as I entered, I found that the other two panelists were discussing the interview of the last candidate, and scoresheet was lying on the table. I thought that I should stand a bit away from the table. From behind, the other panelist was telling loudly to other panelists, “Guys, Aseem has arrived. :P” They didn’t listen to him 2-3 times. When that panelist reached the table, he waved fervently in front of them and said: “Guys, Aseem has arrived.” They hurriedly covered the scoresheet. 😛
P2 – Aseem, tell me about yourself? Restrict your answer to your family background, educational background, work experience, hobbies.
Me: Answered. (Forgot to tell about my elder brother, he is currently studying in IIMC only).
P2 – Do you have any siblings?
Me – (Realising my mistake) Told I have an elder brother; he is currently studying in IIMC only.
P2 – What is his name? How is he doing in IIMC?
Me – Told and said he is going fine in IIMC.
P2 – So, you might have got feedback about IIMC from him. What did he tell you about IIMC?
Me – Told
P3 – Since you mentioned Stock markets as your interest. Do you invest/trade in Stock Market?
Me – Yes ( Here comes my favourite topic of discussion 😀 )
P3 – What was the closing value of Sensex yesterday?
Me – Told that I checked the value at 12 pm yesterday (Told the value). I don’t know the closing value.
P3 – What approach do you use to select stocks to invest?
Me – Top-down approach and Bottom-up approach.
P3 – Explain Top-down approach.
Me – Explained (Quite confident about this) .
P3 – Why are stocks overvalued now?
Me – Told that stocks had gone high in speculation. Investors are speculating high economic growth in the future. (Forgot to tell about a massive influx of money in equity market due to demonetization)
P1 – If you are so much into the stock market, you could have made a career in this. Don’t you think you have wasted four years of your engineering and a seat in IIT?
Me – (My mind: Please don’t ask me that :p ) Told that I consider stock markets as a source of passive income and never considered it as a career option. Also told how I got interested in stock markets.
P1 – But whatever you have learned in your engineering will be a waste as from IIMC you will probably go to some IB, PE or consulting firm? I want an honest answer, don’t answer me on the grounds of logical skills, analytical skills, etc. 😛
Me – Told that I have talked to my seniors from IIT Ropar who post MBA are working in jobs where they are using their technical skills backed with management skills and I wish to do the same as well. And things once learned will be used in one way or other in the future.
P3 – Do Indian markets follow global market trends?
Me – Sometimes.
P3 – Which company has the highest market capitalization in India and what is it?
Me – ( My mind singing: I know it, I know it :P) Sir, Reliance Industries has the highest market capitalization in India. It overtook TCS recently in market capitalization. Told how we could calculate the market capitalization.
P1 – What about at Global level?
Me – I know recently Amazon took over Microsoft to become the third highest valued company in the world. I think at 1st position, it will either be Apple or Google.
P1 – There is a course by the name “Algorithms in Ancient India” which you did in your B.Tech. It sounds like an exciting course. What was this course about? What did you learn from this course?
Me – Told that a visiting faculty from IISER Mohali taught this course. It was about various sutras and all of ancient India which were used to solve mathematical problems. But I did not like the course much, so I audited the course.
P2 – Can you remember any sutra from that course?
(Before I could answer, another panelist said with a sarcastic smile, he audited that course, he won’t be knowing it)
P1 – So we will ask a mathematics question now. Draw the pdf and distribution function for normal distribution.
Me – First wrote the equation of normal distribution and drew the graph. Struggled a bit with pdf of the distribution but completed it.
P2 – So what does the value of these two functions at a specific value on x-axis signifies?
Me – Told what pdf is for a continuous function and the value it specifies.
P2 – Any natural event where this distribution is observed?
Me – Marks distribution of a class in an exam.
P2 – If the number of students is 2-3 then also it will be normal distribution?
Me – No Sir, for a large number of students.
P2 – Then give a more practical example.
Me – Distribution of the population of a city.
P2 – (in shocking tone) Distribution of the population of a city?
Me – (Realizing the blunder) Distribution of height of the population of a city. Also, the birds, when they fly in a group, make a Gaussian shape, the reason being less air drag. ( 2 days before my interview, I attended a lecture of a Professor from IIT Roorkee at my workplace and he told this thing)
P3 – I have not heard of this. This way you can also say that airplanes are like Gaussian shape from the front due to less air drag. 😛
Me – Maybe. (Giving a weird smile)
P3 – By the way, I forgot to ask what other calls you have?
Me – I have calls from all the IIMs.
P2 – So what are your plans? Going to join your elder brother or somewhere else?
Me – told since I am a bit inclined towards finance, I will most probably join C. But I think I will be able to take a much-calculated decision after getting the results from all IIMs and after discussing with my elder brother, seniors and batchmates ( at different IIMs).
P3 – (returning my file) Aseem, all the best for your future. Please take a toffee. (Picked an eclairs :P).
Verdict – Converted 🙂
IIM C Interview Experience:
Venue:
Hotel Monarch Luxur, Bangalore
Panel: B1
S no: 8
Total students in my panel: 10 (6 females (maximum in my panel) and 4 males)
Date:16th march 2019
Slot: Morning slot
Reporting time: 8:00 AM
Document verification has already started when I reached there.
WAT started at 8:50 AM and was over by 9:15 AM.
WAT Topic(Duration: 20-25 minutes): The dictators like leaders are emerging worldwide. Their actions are divisive. What are your views on how will it impact the democratic societies.
30 minutes break was given for the refreshments. Interview started at 9:45 AM.
Panel:
There were 3 panel members.
P1: Prof Randhir Kumar (Male around 35 yrs)
P2: Prof Partha Priya Dutta (Male around 40 yrs)
P3: An Alumnus (Male around 40-45 yrs)
PI:
After a long wait of 2 hours and around 40 minutes, P2 called me at 12:25 PM for the interview. Entered the room, greeted them. P3 took my file and asked me to sit and sign on the attendance sheet)
P3: Introduce yourself.
C: Told the well prepared answer. (was interrupted in between by P3 to ask me the name of my current company again.)
P1 smiling the whole time I was answering and seemed quite impressed by my profile. P3 going through my CV File and he also seemed quite impressed.
P3: So what is your role in TCS?
C: Was about to tell that I have left TCS but interrupted by P2.
P2: She left TCS. Currently working in a start up. Anyways tell us your role in TCS.
C: Told.
P1: But your salary is almost similar in both the companies then why did you leave? Don’t you think you had better career opportunity there?
C: Told my prepared answer. (Was looking for steep learning curve and connected it well with my long term goal.)
P3: What are your plans in future?
C: Told my long term and short term goal. (P2 was smiling and seemed quite impressed).
P2: What is your CAT percentile?
C: (smiles) 99.82
P1: What other calls do you have?
C: All IIMs
P2: Ahemdabad and Bangalore too?
C: Yes sir. (Skeptical about the questions related to percentile)
P2: So you must have received gold medal for your performance in engineering?
C: Sir, I will receive. The convocation is not done yet for our batch. It is organized after every 3 years for 2 or 3 batches together in my college.
(all three of them were surprised)
P3: What are yours hobbies you told?
C: Singing and cooking.
P3: What is the difference between hobby and interest.
C: Told( Interest is something that comes from within but we may or may not take any extra effort to pursue it. But hobby is something for which I have interest and I take an extra effort to pursue it. Like I have interest in singing and I have taken training in vocal classical music for 4 yrs.)
(All three of them seemed quite satisfied with my answer.)
P2: (Pointing at a plug point in the room) So what is the rating of that?
C: I think 5 Amps.
P2: Can this Air conditioner be run using that plug point?
C: I think it will need the one with more rating.
P2: Can you see A/C written there on the board beside the plug. What’s that for?
C: I think it is written for alternating current (facepalm; as I felt that I uttered complete bullshit)
P2: (laughing) Try using that plug for Ac sometime.
C: smiles.
P2: Ok trains run on AC or DC?
C: AC I think.
P2: AC? I think it is DC.
C: (facepalm. Now I started feeling that I have screwed up)
P3: Initially fans had khat khat wala regulator, now it has a smooth one. What is the difference in the mechanism?
C: Told some concept related to stepper motor and resistances used in old regulators. Demerits of that and merits of new one. (Although I was not very satisfied with my answer)
P2: Initially trains were diesel engine based. Now they are replaced by electric ones. Can you tell what has been changed in their mechanisms.
C: I don’t know sir.
P1: OK, So what is the difference between DC motor and AC motor?
C: Explained the working of DC motor. For AC motor went completely blank. (Interrupted by P1 And AC me permanent magnet nai hota hai?) Sir, I know but….
P2: Take your time. Don’t hurry.
C:( took 10 seconds) Explained about the two types of ac motors. Induction and synchronous. And a little bit of the mechanism. (Though I was not satisfied with this answer. Could have done better.)
P2: Ok. That’s it. (asks P1 and P3 if they wanted to ask anything. They replied in negative.) Ok, Ruchika You may leave. Thank you!
C: Thank you sir.
The interview was over by 12:37 PM
Duration: Around 10 minutes.(Too short. A little worried)
Verdict: Awaited
IIM C WAT/PI Experience:
WAT: Crimes against women like rape/molestation are increasing. What do you think is the reason? What can be done to improve the situation?
PI: Very short PI.
You seem to have very good grades , why not do a phd in electronics?
Why MBA?
What parents are doing, a little bit about father’s company
They went completely into my extra curriculars.
I had mentioned music and playing guitar. They asked about favourite guitarists, bands.
Did bob dylan deserve the nobel prize in literature?
For the other people in my panel:
Current affairs, international current affairs, history of their state was asked.
In math Taylor series was asked
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