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 )