Heading towards your Interview for PGDBA? Below is a questionnaire filled for you by Mr. Harikrishnan M B.
Read his experience at the interview for PGDBA 2019 and then think of what answers you would have given if you were in his shoes.
Name: Harikrishnan M B
Current Designation: Associate Analyst (Data Analytics)
Current Organization: EY GDS
Your interview location: Bengaluru
Your panel (number of interviewers/their background):
P1(ISI) P2(IIT) P3(IIM)
How was your interview?
It was longer than average as I was the first candidate for the morning session. They started out by asking me to introduce myself and further asked me why I was going for PGDBA, even though I was already working in Analytics. The interviewers later moved on to other topics. There were more questions related to academics than I expected but it was a balanced interview.
The panel was chill and appeared indifferent.
What technical questions (related to analytics/machine learning) the panel asked?
The following technical questions were asked-
1: “What are the KPI you use in your visualization project? What have you done in Advanced Analytics?”
2: “What do you mean by clustering in ML? What is unsupervised ML? What do you mean by labelled and unlabelled data?”
What mathematics/statistics questions the panel asked?
The following questions in mathematics/statistics were asked-
1: “Write the exponential function as a polynomial.”
2: “Do you know about the correlation coefficient? Explain.”
3: “What is the null hypothesis? Why is it called the null hypothesis? What is p-value and what is its use?”
4: “Solve (x^2 -3x +5)^(x-4) = 1″
What academics questions did your panel ask?
Panel asked the following academic questions-
1: Favourite subject in engineering? What is Reynold’s number? Give its expression and the value at which flow transitions
2: Do you know Manning’s coefficient? What is Chezy’s formula?
3: What is Bernoulli’s equation? Name its components
4: Second law of thermodynamics?
5: How does knocking occur in IC engines? How do we determine if the fuel has anti-knock properties?
Did the panel ask you questions on general awareness or general knowledge?
Yes. The panel asked: “Do you follow politics? Isn’t politics propagated through social media bad? Do you know about an echo chamber? Compare an echo chamber to politics propagated in social media.”
Did you feel that your interview was a stress interview?
No, it wasn’t.
How did you prepare for the entire process – written exam, application, and interview?
Written Exam – Had been preparing for CAT at the same. Studied +1,+2 NCERT texts.
Application and PI – Prepared alongside IIM calls. Read upon previous PI experiences and prepared HR questions. Studied expected math topics and basics of one grad subject.
Knew Analytics and ML due to my work background.
If you were following AI Monks during the preparation, did you feel AI Monks was useful at any point in time?
I didn’t follow AI Monks, but I am sure that if I had, it would have been of more benefit to me while preparing for the interview for PGDBA.
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