IIM Ahmedabad GD PI

Venue: Ahmedabad 16th feb 9: 00AM

Electronics and telecommunication engineer

Work-Ex:2 years sales and marketing

So IIMA interview… actually that’s been a dream in itself let alone converting it… reached at 8 40… lil chilly … 23 people divided in 3 batches (8 + 8 + 7)… at dot 9 05 we were given the cases…(PL reach before time ppl). almost 5 people evaluationg our GD… was in panel 2…

Was a case study about Zimbabwe s agriculture finance corporation… it was in problems because they had computerized their systems without proper transition… public, media, and govt were all complaining…what shud afc do…

Gud case I thought… lots of points and angles to discuss… very little calculation ,,, 5 minutes to read… 20 minutes to speak and 5 min to write a summary… however they gave less time to write and many of us cudnt complete…

Overall our gd was good…atleast 6 ppl including me spoke well… no fish market… infact there were sorry thank yous n all……

Then came the PI… I was number 8 on my panel thts the last… was not askin everyone abt how theres went… wud hv put faltu pressure on myself… just revised some acads n stuff

3 ppl on panel…Prof 1, prof 2, Prof acads moi isshtudent (S)

P1: Please come have a seat… give me ur file..
S: Obliges

P1: So you seem to be a great guy… haan… (almost laughing)… so much in the form
S: (Whats happenin , stress????) : Yes sir very feebly….

P1: so you demonstrate bones, right?????
S: (Whts that ) I am sorry sir???

P1: You hv written it here…
S: Sir that’s “Bone Densitometer “ … it’s a product I used to sell whe I was at ******** ltd.

P1: what does it do?
S: long blah blah …mentioned abt osteoporosis, a bone disease because of lack of calcium, smokin and other stuff…

P1: (pointin towards P2) shud lecture him abt smokin

All of us hv a light laugh

P1: So what does patient with bad calcium shud eat:
S: eggs and milk preferably

P1: I m vegetarian and consider milk also to be non veg
S: Calcium supplements are available off the counter…

P1: No medicines for me
S: (Just forgot banana )… vegetables

P1: Which ones
S: I dont recollect sir

P1: ok anyways... so u were in sales for 2 yrs b4 u left.... did u like the experience...
S: loved it

P1: how were ur targets set...
S: blah blah blah...

P1: wats ARPU
S: i dont recollect sir( shit yaar , its avg revenue per user)

P1: What were ur 3 major learnings at blue star
S: blah blah (did decently)

P1: How do u define success for a salesman
S: blah blah

over to P2

P2: so u were in medical electronics
S: yes sir

P2: so what is telemedicine
S: lots and lots of blah blah (lucky yaar, had read a lot abt this while working)

Then P2 went into more more specifics of the same... examples... did well

over to PA

PA: so u r an electronics engineer
S: sir electronics and telecommunications engineer

PA: OK, (he structured this question very nicely in laymans language)... how does mobile switch to a particular frequency
S: explained the process...

PA: Ok, diff between transverse and longitudinal waves
S: gave some points , not satisfactory..

PA started getting into very basics of waves... 3d, x y z axis... almost 5-6 min faltered atleast 30-40% of the time... shit man if i cud hv 12th physics book wid me that time ... however, tried to smile still...

PA: Lets move ahead.... difference between light and radio waves...
S: Sir light has dual nature and...

PA: wait, consider only wave
S: sir both are electromagnetic waves... howevwer light has much higher freq.. its used in Optical fibres with much better BW...

PA: hmmm...ok

P1: Ok pratik,,, i think that will be enough... pl take ur certificates.
S: thank you sirs...

P1: btw what calls do u hv...
S: Sir A C I K

P1: OK thank you

Moi almost leaving..

PA: Please help urself with a toffee.
S: thanks sir..

Again the same feeling wat i had after K interview... no idea how did it go...almost 35 min

As for suggestions... do ur acads strongly from a practical point of view... e.g. for me it went into GSM CDMA from a basic phone call... and this was seen in lotsa interviews...

So small dream of appearin for A interview over ...

fingers crossed for big dream..

Stay good people....