SP Jain interview experience

                      Well probably the longest of all the interviews ... and spent more time waiting before the interview started than the time for the entire interview process. In all a good experience with two rounds of group interviews with the first round being an elimination round.

                      I reached there at around 2: 30 with my interview scheduled to start at 4 but started around 6 !! The first round was mainly based on the introduction given by me and a bit of questions on the profile sheet and statement. Questions ranged from why finance to why MBA to why not join army to why SP Jain .. mainly HR type. After the first round we were asked to wait for around 20 min before the results were declared . Then a wait of another 10 minutes before the next round began.

                      The second round hovered around ethics and values and was more subjective rather than one which requires a best answer from you . There were two people in the panel an aged guy and a woman from DOCC of SP Jain and the questions ranged from what do u interpret of the word maturity , which value do u follow most intensely, which is the one strength of yours which you admire the most and a few a few reactions to situations. Many of the answers that came from the group were repitative as you can expect...

                      In both the rounds we had 7 people  in each group and i was the lone fresher in each and so it wasnt difficult to distinguish myself from others.

XLRI interview experience

Venue : XLRI, jamshedpur

Probably the worst possible interview i could have had. The way it started i really felt they wanted me to be in but the way things went they wont even think about it again!!

-no current affairs.

-no academics.

-did not even see the folder.

-most of it was knowledge based and none with an easy tag attached to it definitely.

- did not try to guess ended up saying i dont know or noy sure for most of them.

P1: probably an economics fellow as i can get from the brochure.

P2: probably finance prof asked me about breakeven and twitter.com making profits or not.

P3. Did not speak a word was busy reading the newspaper in the most inconsiderate manner and stopped to stare at me once or twice.

 

I entered the room wished them. They wished me back and asked me to sit down.

 

P1: Is this you first interview for management?

M: Yes, sir.

P1: Ok, what other calls do you have?

M: Sir, IIM Shillong.

P1: Oh....(in a manner that it doesnt matter)....

P2: Where have you been placed, Bharat?

M : Sir, NVIDIA Graphics Pvt Ltd.

P2: Oh ...  (like they had never heard of the company)

P1: Bharat, you have mentioned something about medicine ATM, was it a B-Plan or something?

M: No, sir. We actually had thought about going ahead with that but when we evaluated it after the success of our project we found that ... blah blah.

P2: Ok, you mentioned breakeven somewhere.. can me explain ti to me please?

M: ya explained that it is when the company’s total initial investment is balanced by the total profit it has made till date. Then P2 gave me a paper to explain it with an example did so

P2:Then what do you think it is called when a company have sales equal to cost in a particular year?

M:  no profit no loss ....

P2: isnt this breakeven ?

M: No sir, I dont know if there is any other term for no profit no loss but this is not breakeven.

P2: Ok over to you (pointing towards P1).

What follows after this is well what CRAPPPPP!!!

P1: Why do you want to do an MBA right after college?

M: want to come up with a venture in long run, have worked on ideas mainly technically till now and want to gain business knowledge well. 

P1: What do you think is the greatest innovation ?

M: nothing else stuck me... Google

P1: Is, that the biggest innovation? (why did i not say a transistor the entire interview would have gone my way after that.... but i had heard as innovator ... WhY!!!!)

M: According to the scale and the number of people benifited yes Google.

P1: What do u mean by scale??

M: Sir the number of people it affects.

P1:  No, tell me someone from other sector, may be medical, somebody who invented the  famous eye cataract operation.

M: me after a thought, sir I just know know one Nagarik Swasthya sangh who is involved in the eye cataract operations and is successful and I dont know the innovator behind this ( smiles all around because of the manner in which i said this)

The biggest blunder comes now!!

P1: Which sector are u interested in?

M: Sir ....  (after a thought) no sector as such!!! (((WHYWHY!!)) .... this was followed by a pause of 5 seconds at least when he was staring at me )

P1: Ok, Bharat you told about google as an innovation what all products of google........... do u think were there own?

(I was already on the backfoot so did not want to guess )

M: Sir i am sure of the search engine, i am not sure about anything else.

P1: You dont know about the gooogle ventures.

M: Sir, I know about them but I am not sure which are their own.

P1: What does nvidia work in?

M:told them.

P1: Who is the leader in gaming today?

M: Sir I think it should be one of microsoft and sony for the playstation  and xbox3.

P1: But are they the leaders?

M:  I think microsoft , not sure sir. ( came to know it is in terms of turnover )

P2: Ok, Bharat have u heard of twitter.com. Do u think it is making money?

M: Sir, they must be making money with the traffic that they have specially on  the day the gmail went down and blah blah ... ( later came to know that it is not meant for making profit right now L)

P1: Ok, bharat what are your hobbies?

M: Sir playing chess, watching movies ... (stopped for the first time in the interview)

P1: Did you just say movies.... who holds the copyright for bollywood?

M: ( now man this answer came in a fraction of a second) ...  i dont know sir.

P1: Ok, then i guess thats it from our side, do u want to ask us something...(  just 8 min down the interview)

M: (after a killing pause) .....  Sir, may i tell you something about myself, told them about only my achievements cutting everything short because I desperately needed them went for about a minute....

P2: (As if he had not listened to whatever i had said) .... You had said chess is your hobby.... how do you think chess is different from other sports ?

M: told them about strategy and not a physical test as such...

P1 & P2 simultaneously : What is strategy?

M: answered in one sentence.

P2: Ok but how do u think is chess different from something like ludo or snakes and ladders?

M: Snakes and ladders for example involves luck and no strategy.

P2: So that is the word i was looking for ..

P2: I guess then thats it ... thank you

M: Thank you sirs ( pretty happy to be out of there )