Anisha has done MBA in Marketing from NMIMS And Executive Management(PMNO) from Harvard Business School. She has been instrumental in growing CATKing Digital with her experience with Marico and Henkel in the past.
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VGSOM (IIT Kharagpur) PI Experience 1:
Date: 27 Feb 2021, 11:30 AM (About 12-15 mins)
Panelists: 2 (Both Male - Cameras off)
P1
- Where are you? Hometown or workplace?
- Are you still working or are you on a break?
- Tell me about yourself, briefly.
- Mention 4 qualities that a manager should have. (I had prepared 3, so talked about the manager being a leader, faced a cross question, which I tackled by citing an experience)
- Difference between growth and development.
- I'm done. Over to my colleague.
P2
- All questions on work experience.
P1
- Any questions that you would like to ask? (Asked)
Both panelists were very friendly and allowed me to complete every answer without interrupting.
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VGSOM (IIT Kharagpur) PI Experience 2:
Date: 28th Feb 2021, Afternoon Slot
Panelists: M1 and M2
M1
- So please introduce yourself.
- Are you still working? Can you explain your day?
- Please explain the BI process.
- Which sectors' clients do you have?
- So how is your computer science degree helping you in BI?
- Okay, suppose I'm your client. How will you deal with me?
- How do you deal with data?
M2
- What is the difference between structured and unstructured data?
- Give an example.
- What is a page fault? (Couldn't answer)
- What is the difference between a tree and a graph?
- Can you give a brief algorithm on how to find if a graph is a tree?
- How do you use BFS? (I had told about DFS)
- Suppose you have 100 lines; how many points do they intersect with each other at max? (Had to use paper to solve it, he was not interested in the answer but in the process; showed him how to derive and he helped with the solution too.)
- Tell me 5 imports and exports of India. (Could tell 3 only?)
M1
- Okay, so what happens if a country imports more and exports less?
- How does a country's import/export affect the economy?
- How can India achieve a 5 trillion economy through exports?
- Is that the only way to achieve it?
- Do you have any questions for us?
It was a pretty long interview (25-30 mins).
The panelists were interactive and helped with solutions during the problem-solving questions.
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VGSOM (IIT Kharagpur) PI Experience 3:
Panel Number: 13
Interviewers: 3 (1 Industry Professional, 2 Profs: 1 from ECE and 1 from Management)
(i) From the Industry Professional
- Tell us about yourself.
- Tell us about your profile at work.
- Why then switch from tech to MBA?
- What if for some reason you can't pursue MBA, what is your plan B?
(ii) From the ECE Prof
- Played totally on telecommunication. Nothing on electronics (although I had described my work-ex in analog power design).
- What was there in telecommunication 20 years ago which has changed now?
- Working of packet, message, circuit switching.
- Congestion and queuing.
- Analog vs digital communication, modulation, advantages/disadvantages.
- What is VoLTE and its major players?
- TDMA, FDMA, CDMA.
- Are we using wired communication somewhere now, or is it totally gone wireless?
(iii) From the Business Management Prof
- General topics:
- BSE, NSE
- Crude oil prices
- USD to INR exchange rate
- The 2G scam, what was being auctioned in that scam?
- Some questions from my hobbies:
- On Table tennis: Notable players in India, past champions.
- On yoga: Yoga was part of which ancient book, what are the 4 Vedas, name some modern yoga gurus.
- What do you think is Patanjali's business model? How does it compare with Amway's?
The questions covered a range of technical, business, and personal interests.
Focus was on telecommunications, management, and understanding of current affairs.
VGSOM (IIT Kharagpur) PI Experience 4:
Profile: GEM IT Engg, 21 months work-ex
Panelists: 2 (1 F, 1 M)
- Tell us about yourself.
- Discrete distribution and its types.
- Difference between GDP and GNP.
- Draw a Tan curve.
- Supervised and Unsupervised Learning algorithm with examples (workex).
- Difference between AI and ML.
- If someone takes credit for your work, how will you handle the situation?
- Waterfall model.
- Spiral model.
- What is caching?
- Poisson Distribution, Bernoulli Distribution.
- Any Management subjects in your undergrad? Project management.
- Five topics you learned in Project management.
- OSI models - Networking.
- What is Serializable Schedule - DBMS?
The interview was technical intensive, with a focus on mathematical and technical concepts.
No current affairs questions were asked.
The candidate found the interview challenging, especially with the math-related queries.
VGSOM (IIT Kharagpur) PI Experience 5:
Institute: VGSOM Kharagpur
Date: 6th March
Panelists: 3 (35M, 40M, 50M)
Profile: GEM, 33 months work-ex at Infosys, 97.98% CAT
- Tell me about yourself that is not on your CV.
- What was the work you did in Infosys?
- So, basically your work was Installation, not Implementation in SAP technology. How does Implementation differ from Installation?
- Tell me about a saying in Electronics for Chip making advancement or Law?
- Answer: Moore's Law, explained that.
- What are the limitations in Moore's law?
- Why are people able to make billion-dollar companies with just a few people these days?
- Answer: Gave the example of WhatsApp – 20 employees in WhatsApp during its sale to Facebook. Explained differential value addition for coders compared to agriculture or clerical work.
- What is Unemployment?
- Is a person preparing at will unemployed?
- What is Disguised Unemployment?
- Tell me about Op-amp and its sign?
- Zener Diode and its sign?
- Trade Unions Bargaining Process?
- Resistor Colour Coding Scheme from an example?
- Pi Matrices Multiplication?
- Vector Multiplication?
- y = mod(x) graph, and why can't you differentiate at x = 0?
- Why can't we differentiate at edges?
- Tell me about Maxima? How do we find it? What are the conditions where Maxima can't be found in 2nd differential? Why is it negative in 2nd differential?
- Is high fuel prices disincentive to Carbon economy?
- Views on Electric vehicles?
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