Thursday, March 16, 2006

IIM-C interview experience

So I have had my IIM-C interview too.
Venue: IIMB
Date: 16th March
Time: 9:30 am
Reach place before time and find that my name is 10th in the 3rd panel(but it turns out that i am 11th as another gets added to the panel)
We go into the room filled with smoke and sound emanating from a stuck cd. So we are told the pattern where we have the GD topic, 3minutes to think, 12 minutes for discussion and each person called in random order for a 1-minute speech on the topic.
The topic for GD was : 'Poor countries cannot afford to protect the environment'
I think I did ok. It was a bit of a fish market for some periods of time but decent overall.
By the time I went in for PI, it was 12:45 and I was absolutely famished.So I go into the room with all my thoughts on food.The interview for previous people had a few questions on acads, so I go in expecting the worst
I get asked to tell about my self.The second line, I mention books and get asked about the last book I read.I say fiction : Porterhouse Blue by Tom Sharpe and Non-ficiton: Globalisation and its discontents(I mentioned it as discontents of globalisation)And currently reading the 'End of Poverty'
Then one prof says the name of the book is 'Globalisation and its discontents' and I say maybe he is right but I remembered the title in that way. Then asked about author, Joseph Stitglitz
Then a little gyaan about the book. I talk about IMF and how it has proposed single solution for all countries and so on.. All top people from Europe and US and so on.
Then we talked about the places that I stayed.The common problems of AP and Maharastra.Farmers and Separate State.Inbetween they asked me stuff about my job which I mucked up and then made a statement in between which said 'I am not particularly attached to machines'
Then one prof asks about some techonology which I hadn't come across and I say there wasn't the need for me and he talks about the curiousity and I smile.
Then one prof realised that my parents did their Bachelor of Divinity digree and wanted to know about the Theological university in West Bengal. Serampore(I wanted to talk more but then they talked within themselves)
Towards the end we talked about small states pros and cons.And then about making Nagpur the capital of India. I say that other than employment generation it would be too costly now.
end of interview.

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