To help you prepare for the interview at PGDBA, we have been sharing a few interview experiences of the students who sat in the interview but couldn’t get through the process, and the ones who cleared all the rounds. Given below is the experience of Shashank Garg, who is currently pursuing the course in the batch 2019-20121.
Name: Shashank Garg
Past Experience:
Senior Business Development Engineer at L&T Limited.
Senior Embedded System Engineer at L&T Limited.
Your interview location: Indian Habitat Centre, Delhi
Your panel (number of interviewers/their background):
3 Panelists- One from each institute.
How was your interview?
I was the last person in the afternoon panel. The interview started with solving a Curved surface area of a cylinder. Then it moved to some general knowledge based questions on Indian Subcontinent geography, other countries’ culture, and global politics. The interviewer then asked about my preparation strategy, asking how did you prepare for the interview, from which they were figuring out the next questions to ask for. The panel was trying to avoid the questions they have asked the whole day. So, post that they started asking some HR questions like why PGDBA being from the non-analytics background.
Topics Covered
The next phase of the interview involved the questions on Calculus, Statistics, and Probability. The questions included solving a differentiation by basic formula, integration by parts and limits, continuity and differentiability of some exponential modulus function. After that some general questions on the comparison of two numbers e^pi and pi^e. The next set of questions were on general understanding of linear algebra, the role of basis vectors, Eigen values, Eigen vectors. The statistics questions involved random process and random variable and difference between the two. No questions were asked on analytics or machine learning to me. But other candidates were asked the questions on those topics too.
Overall, it was an average interview. They try to find your weak points and grill you on that.
What technical questions (related to analytics/machine learning) the panel asked?
None
What mathematics/statistics questions did the panel ask?
The following questions were asked-
- Area and Volume of a Cylinder
- What is a random process, random variable?
- Write 10 random numbers between 1-100.
- Limits, Continuity, and Differentiability of exponential under modulus function.
- Comparison of two numbers e^pi and pi^e.
- Linear Algebra basics: Eigen Value, Eigen Vector, Basis Vectors
Did the panel ask you questions on general awareness or general knowledge?
Yes. The panel asked the following questions-
- Neighboring countries of India and map them.
- The number of states in the US.
- Famous things of Canada
- Civilization in Mumbai in pre-historic times.
Did you feel that your interview was a stress interview?
Yes.
The Preparation
Divided my preparation into 5 baskets
- Analytics and Machine Learning
- Statistics
- Mathematics: Calculus, Linear Algebra, Coordinate Geometry, Probability.
- General Awareness: Indian and Global Politics, Economy and Recent affairs
- Self-awareness- Introductory Statement, Strengths and Weaknesses, and stories to support them, etc.
If you were following AI Monks during the preparation, did you feel AI Monks was useful at any point in time?
Yes. AI Monks helped me in setting up a framework for the preparation.
We hope this recent experience of an interview at PGDBA helped you understand the types of questions asked by the panel. AI Monks helped Shashank Garg prepare for admission to the course and both of us succeeded!
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