Let us read further to know how it went.

Name: Yerramsetty L N Siddhard

Ques. What was your interview score as per the key released by the institutes?

–

Ques. Your Professional Experience (Please mention total years of work experience, your designation, company, profile – Please mention all the companies you have worked with)

Two years, eight months(2011-2014). I worked as a design engineer in Analog Devices. My work was on the verification of digital components of VLSI chips.

Ques. Your Panel (number of interviewers/their background/other details):

Three interviewers. Member 1 and 3 are male, and Member 2 is female.  

Ques. Please mention details of your PGDBA 2020 interview (Please elaborate as much as possible. This will help future aspirants in the same way past years’ interview experiences helped you this year).

Member 1

He read my details in the bio-data form and asked me if I wanted to tell anything extra. I mentioned to him my hobbies in a way that he didn’t read from the bio-data. I also told him that I was preparing for civil services after resigning from the job. 

Member 2

Asked me why I wanted to join PGDBA, for which I answered. Then, she asked me questions about current affairs. What are the issues related to the implementation of the National digital health mission? What is Mission Karmayogi, and how is it going to be implemented?

Then, Member 1 asked me two maths questions, which I answered. 

Member 3: (He seems to be a faculty in ECE).

He asked me technical questions related to electronics and communications. 

1. What is the Nyquist rate?

2. What are the benefits and issues related to the scaling down of transistor size? 

I didn’t expect technical questions to be asked as a long time has been passed since I last worked in the field. I answered the questions but didn’t give complete answers. The Panel kept in mind that I studied these a long time back. Member 3 was helpful, and he was giving me clues. I recollected the concepts and answered the rest of the points based on the clues. 

Then, Member 1 asked me if I could show them the original certificate of an extracurricular activity(Related to an astronomy exam in 12th). They gave me time to bring the original from the cupboard. I got the original and showed them.

On the whole, Panel was cordial.

Ques. Please mention specific Statistics questions asked in the interview.

None

Ques. Please mention specific Machine Learning questions asked in the interview.

None

Ques. Please mention specific Mathematics questions asked in the interview.

1. How many permutations are possible with the word “MISSION”?

2. Say, There are 120 chips. These are numbered from 1 to 120. There are some faulty chips among these. Faulty chips are divisible by 2, or divisible by 5, or divisible by 7. How many numbers of chips are non-faulty? How?

Ques. Please mention the specific General Awareness question asked in the interview.

1. What are the complications involved in National Health Stack?

2. Do you know about Mission Karmayogi? How is it going to be implemented?

Ques. Please mention the specific HR questions asked in the interview.

You wanted to go for civil services. That is a different field. Why do you want to come for PGDBA?

Ques. Please mention anything else that formed part of your PGDBA 2020 interview but not covered above.

None.

Ques. Any suggestions for the next year batch?

None.

Ques. How did AI Monks help you in your overall preparation? Also, any suggestions/feedback for AI Monks.

AI Monks was very helpful for interview preparation. The mock interviews helped me understand the kind of questions that are asked in the PGDBA interview. Their feedback helped me rectify the mistakes before the final interview. 

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Read Sayan’s PGDBA 2020 Interview Experience to better understand what the interviews could be like, and enhance your PGDBA Interview preparations.

Name: Sayan Mondal

Ques. What was your interview score as per the key released by the institutes? 

123

Ques. Your Professional Experience (Please mention total years of work experience, your designation, company, profile – Please mention all the companies you have worked with)

Work Experience- Fresher

Interned with ANZ – Credit Retail Risk Modelling Analyst Intern

Ques. Your panel (number of interviewers/their background/other details)

Three interviewers

Rushed interview, thus it wasn’t possible to figure out anything about them.

Ques. Please mention details of your interview (Please elaborate as much as possible. This will help future aspirants in the same way past years’ interview experiences helped you this year)

My interview felt rushed as it lasted only 15 minutes. Interviewers were polite, and the interview wasn’t stressed at all, but the sheer lack of questions made me feel more anxious, which probably messed it up as well.

Ques. Please mention specific Statistics questions asked in the interview.

None.

Ques. Please mention specific Machine Learning questions asked in the interview.

None.

Ques. Please mention specific Mathematics questions asked in the interview.

Q: There are n people in a room. Anyone can shake hands with the other (n-1) people in the room. They might also choose not to shake hands. Thus any one person can have a minimum of zero handshakes and a maximum of n-1 handshakes. Prove that there will be at least two people in the room with an equal number of handshakes. (Pigeon-hole principle)

Q: There are ten red balls, ten white balls, and ten blue balls in one bag. What is the minimum number of balls that have to be picked out of the pocket with replacement to get four balls of the same color?

Ques. Please mention the specific General Awareness question asked in the interview.

Q: State three major reasons in short why India and China war will not happen soon.

Ques. Please mention the specific HR question asked in the interview.

None.

Ques. Please mention anything else that formed part of your interview but not covered above.

Q: Do you have a rough idea of which sections of the course are taught in IIMC, and can you elaborate on the same?

Ques. Any suggestions for next year’s batch?

My suggestions for upcoming batches would be not to interrupt the continuity in their preparations. We faced setbacks for which I had given up hopes of ever getting to sit for the interview, which I deeply regret now.

Ques. How did AI Monks help you in your overall preparation? Also, any suggestions/feedback for AI Monks.

AI Monks has been a constant guide in preparations, especially for the written test, and I think I would not have progressed this far without them.

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Read Ashwin’s PGDBA 2020 Interview Experience to better understand what the interviews could be like, and enhance your PGDBA Interview preparations.

Name: Ashwin Anil    

Ques. What was your interview score as per the key released by the institutes?

123

Ques. Your Professional Experience (Please mention total years of work experience, your designation, company, profile – Please mention all the companies you have worked with)

Work Experience- Two years 

Field- RPA in Mumbai, Bangalore, and Trivandrum.

Company- Capgemini and FourNxt in Tvm.

Ques. Your panel (number of interviewers/their background/other details):

Three members from each institute.

Ques. Please mention details of your interview (Please elaborate as much as possible. This will help future aspirants in the same way past years’ interview experiences helped you this year)

Questions on Physics from 1st prof. 

In which direction does friction act when a bicycle is pedaled forwards?

Why do boats capsize more often than ships?

2nd Prof:

• Describe work ex. 

• Describe the supply chain of book manufacturing. 

• Tell me about the last book you read. 

3rd Prof:

• How many subsets when you have numbers 1-10. How many of them have an even number when multiplied.

• Questions on limits and algebra.

Ques. Please mention specific Statistics questions asked in the interview.

N/A

Ques. Please mention specific Machine Learning questions asked in the interview.

N/A

Ques. Please mention specific Mathematics questions asked in the interview.

• Lim n-> inf. (1-1/n)^n

• How many solutions to (x-a)^3+(x-b)^3+(x-c)^3 = 0

Ques. Please mention the specific General Awareness questions asked in the interview.

N/A

Ques. Please mention the specific HR questions asked in the interview.

Why do you want to do PGDBA?

Ques. Please mention anything else that formed part of your interview but not covered above.

N/A

Ques. Any suggestions for the next year batch

N/A

Ques. How did AI Monks help you in your overall preparation? Also, any suggestions/feedback for AI Monks.

Great experience with AI Monks.

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Let us read further to know how his PGDBA 2020 Interview went.

Name: Karthik Ananthakrishnan

Ques. What was your interview score as per the key released by the institutes?

118/150

Ques. Your Professional Experience (Please mention total years of work experience, your designation, company, profile – Please mention all the companies you have worked with):

• Mechanical Engineering Graduate from BITS Pilani, Goa.
• Work Experience– Two years
• Company- A multi-Physics startup
• Designation– Member of technical staff- Sankhyasutra Labs (majorly owned by Jio Platforms)
• Profile- Perform numerical simulations to solve differential equations using C++.     

Ques. Your panel (number of interviewers/their background/other details)?

• Three members on the panel, one from each institute.
• All male and middle-aged.
• Each of them took around 10-15 minutes, starting with ISI, followed by IIM Calcutta and then IIT Kharagpur.

Ques. Please mention details of your PGDBA Interview Experience. (Please elaborate as much as possible. This will help future aspirants in the same way past years’ interview experiences helped you this year.)

The questions were-

• Self-Introduction.
• About Regional Maths Olympiad.
• Few Maths questions.
• Determinants using row operations, inverse finding.
• Bayes’ Theorem, Conditional Probability. Sample vs. Population. Sampling Techniques.
• Extracurricular.

– ISI over –

• GK- Moratorium period, LAC China.
• Applications and relevance of my work ex.
• Model Space vehicle reentry using my work ex .
• Technical aspects that should be taken into consideration while doing it?
• Why PGDBA?

– IIMC over –

• Different Numerical methods that I use in the company.
• What’s new about the methods than traditional ones?
• Order of algorithms.
• Condition on time stepping used in the code.
• Why numerical methods?
• What can physical phenomena be solved using numerical methods?

My feeling: Intense, especially IIT Kharagpur part. Answered all questions. Except sampling techniques and Order of Algorithms.

Ques. Please mention specific Statistics questions asked in the interview.

• Bayes’ Theorem, Conditional Probability
• Sample vs. Population
• Sampling Techniques.

Ques. Please mention specific Machine Learning questions asked in the interview

None.

Ques. Please mention specific Mathematics questions asked in the interview-

• Determinants using row operations, inverse finding.     

Ques. Please mention the specific General Awareness questions asked in the interview-

• Moratorium period, LAC issues with china.

Ques. Please mention the specific HR question asked in the interview-

• Self-Introduction and WHY PGDBA.

Ques. Please mention anything else that formed part of your interview but not covered above.

• Asked about national level extracurricular achievements.

Ques. Any suggestions for the next year batch?

• Be very confident during the interview. Attitude matters a lot .
• Do Probability, Linear Algebra, statistics, calculus for interview.
• Work ex questions are pivotal.     

Ques. How did AI Monks help you in your overall preparation? Also, any suggestions/feedback for AI Monks?

• The mock interview session was beneficial. It covered all aspects of Maths, Applications of Data Science, Personal Questions.
• Gave a very good essence of how the interview is going to be.
• Thorough conceptual clarity through web series.

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Let us read further to know how it went.

Name: Peyush Gautam

Ques. What was your interview score as per the key released by the institutes? 

99/150

Ques. Your Professional Experience (Please mention total years of work experience, your designation, company, profile – Please mention all the companies you have worked with)

Fresher

Ques. Your panel (number of interviewers/their background/other details):

Three interviewers – All Male

Ques. Please mention details of your PGDBA Interview Experience. (Please elaborate as much as possible. This will help future aspirants in the same way past years’ interview experiences helped you this year.)

The questions were-

1. Please tell us something about yourself.
2. Why do you want to join PGDBA?
3. How is analytics helpful nowadays, in the business world?
4. Is playing with data the only skill required in the business analytics domain?
5. How is business analytics useful in the e-Learning domain?
6. What techniques of business analytics are currently used in the e-Learning domain by firms?
7. What is NLP, and how it is used in today’s world? Provide some used examples.
8. What type of role are you looking for after business analytics professional education?
9. Which specific industry domain (finance/ marketing/ healthcare/ education, etc.) are you looking for after PGDBA?
10. Define the Rank of a matrix.
11. Define Linear dependent and independent vectors.
12. Normal Distribution and Central Limit Theorem.
13. From a population, we take two random samples, say S1 and S2. S1=(a+b+c)/3 and S2=(2a-b+c)/3 where a, b and c are selected randomly from the population. Which one out of S1 and S2 estimates the population parameter(population mean) closely.

Ques. Please mention specific Statistics questions asked in the interview.

1. Normal Distribution and Central Limit Theorem.
2. From a population, we take two random samples, say S1 and S2. S1=(a+b+c)/3 and S2=(2a-b+c)/3 where a, b and c are selected randomly from the population. Which one out of S1 and S2 estimates the population parameter(population mean) closely.

Ques. Please mention specific Machine Learning questions asked in the interview.

1. What is NLP, and how is it used in today’s world? Provide some used examples.

Ques. Please mention specific Mathematics questions asked in the interview.

1. Define the Rank of a matrix.
2. Define Linear dependent and independent vectors.

Ques. Please mention the specific General Awareness questions asked in the interview.

NIL

Ques. Please mention the specific HR questions asked in the interview.

1. Why do you want to join PGDBA?

Ques. Please mention anything else that formed part of your interview but not covered above.

NIL

Ques. Any suggestions for the next year batch?

NIL

Ques. How did AI Monks help you in your overall preparation?

AI Monks helped a lot during the preparation, but there are two suggestions from my side.

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Name: Avishkar

Ques. What was your interview score as per the key released by the institutes? 

124

Ques. Your Professional Experience (Please mention total years of work experience, your designation, company, profile – Please mention all the companies you have worked with) 

Academic Background- Manufacturing Engineering Graduate from BITS Pilani.

Designation- District Lead for Tata Trust.

Work Experience- 15 months experience till the day of the interview.

Ques. Your panel (number of interviewers/their background/other details):

Three interviewers, probably one each from ISI, IIM Calcutta, and IIT Kharagpur.

Ques. Please mention details of your PGDBA Interview. (Please elaborate as much as possible. This will help future aspirants in the same way past years’ interview experiences helped you this year.)

My interview lasted for about 35-40 minutes.

P1: 

• Introduce yourself
• What are your hobbies?
• What are eigenvalues and eigenvectors?
• Asked me to solve a question in which I was given trace and determinant of a matrix and had to calculate the eigenvalues. I solved it using one approach, for which he asked why the sum of the eigenvalues equal to the trace of the matrix. He wanted me to solve by forming the characteristic equation, which I did when he provided a hint.
• What is the trace of a matrix?
• Is 1/log(mod(x)) continuous? What are the points of discontinuities?
• You must have studied probability and statistics in your undergrad. What is a Poisson distribution?
• If P(X=1) = P(X=2) in a Poisson distribution, what is the mean and expectation of the distribution?

He then asked P2 to continue with the interview. 

P2-

• Recently some public sector banks were merged by RBI, can you please tell me the reasons behind the same? I did not know about this and told him straight away; then, he asked me to make a logical guess based on why firms merge in the market.
• You have mentioned geopolitics and International Relations as a hobby. Please tell me what geopolitics is?
• Tell me about the Korean conflict. Also, tell me why the Korean war happened and why the US, Russia, and China were interested.
• Tell me all about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

He then asked P3 to continue with the interview

P3-

• Tell me again which engineering stream you have graduated from?
• Give me some examples where you think analytics can help in your work?
• Give two examples of how analytics can help in manufacturing.

Meanwhile, P3 came to know that I know a bit about ML, and he was surprised.

• Tell me how analytics with ML is different from analytics without ML?
• Supervised vs. unsupervised ML.
• When can we find the inverse of a matrix? What is the value of AA^-1?
• Asked me to solve a probability question on paper and gave me one minute for it. If a dice was thrown six times, find the probability that all outcomes will be unique.

Then P1 asked me to confirm if the audio was clear enough, and the interview ended.

Ques. Please mention specific Statistics questions asked in the interview.

Mentioned above.

Ques. Please mention specific Machine Learning questions asked in the interview.

Mentioned above.

Ques. Please mention specific Mathematics questions asked in the interview.

Mentioned above.

Ques. Please mention the specific General Awareness questions asked in the interview.

Mentioned above.

Ques. Please mention the specific HR questions asked in the interview.

Mentioned above.

Ques. Please mention anything else that formed part of your interview but not covered above.

None.

Ques. Any suggestions for the next year batch?

My suggestion would be to cover the following properly:

1. Read about your profile and work experience in detail and how analytics is applicable there.
2. Read the following maths topics properly – Statistics and probability, Linear Algebra, Calculus. If possible, go through the basics of Operations Research, Fourier Transformation, Laplace Transformation, Mclaurin, and Taylor series.
3. Read about some of the applications of Analytics in the industry and by the Indian government. Cover significant sectors like education, healthcare, agriculture, policy-making, etc.
4. Read the basics of your major undergrad subjects, especially if you have less work experience.
5. Cover major recent general awareness topics.
6. You can read about the theoretical basics of ML if you are not from an analytics background already. Most of these things are very easy to understand, like supervised vs. unsupervised, some basic ML algorithms like regression, decision trees, random forest, etc.

Also, make short notes if possible as you can forget content a few days after you cover it, and having quick notes will be a faster way to revise.

Ques. How did AI Monks help you in your overall preparation? Also, any suggestions/feedback for AI Monks.

I had taken the PGDBA Interview prep package of AI Monks, and it was beneficial. There were some direct questions from my last mock interview, and the valuable feedback provided helped me shape my preparation strategy. One free counseling session was also included, and the inputs received were valuable. I also purchased the mock test for the written exam, and I found it excellent. The interface and questions were good and truly up to the level.

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Name: Atrey Dad

Ques. What was your interview score as per the key released by the institutes?

121/150

Ques. Your Professional Experience (Please mention total years of work experience, your designation, company, profile – Please mention all the companies you have worked with)

Designation: Software Engineer

Company: Cisco Ltd.

Work-Experience: 17 Months (till January 2020)

Ques. Your panel (number of interviewers/their background/other details):

There were three interviewers, one from each institute.

P1 – From IIT-Kgp

P2 – From IIM-Calcutta

P3 – From ISI, Kolkata

Please mention details of your interview (Please elaborate as much as possible. This will help future aspirants in the same way past years’ interview experiences helped you this year)

Mine was quite a grilling experience. It started at 4:30 pm sharp and ran for around 30-35 minutes.

P1 – Good Afternoon (P2 took over)

P2 – 

• P1 just greeted you good afternoon and not a good evening. Was he right?
• How it is decided whether to greet a good afternoon/evening. (according to him, between 12:00 to 4:30 pm is afternoon, and from 4:31 pm we start calling it evening)
• Why PGDBA?

     Then some counter-questions on this after I explained my reasoning for the above question

• So working with market leaders(Cisco) has no significance to you?
• Why do you think you would be a better analyst than a software engineer?
• Why do you think it is the right time to switch career paths?

P3 – 

Asked one question on definite integration(added in the Mathematics section), then P1 took over.

P1 – 

• They asked what product I am working on in Cisco.
• What technology is it using?
• What is my role or what I am responsible for in the product?

Over to P2 again…

P2 – Apart from job, any extracurricular activities are you involved in or like to follow?

        Told them that I am learning the basics of stock markets and also follow and play badminton daily.

P2 –

• Compare the playing style of Saina Nehwal and PV Sindhu.
• Has PV Sindhu ever played against Lin Dan?
• Who was the Spanish player which Sindhu lost to in the Olympic finals (told them, Carolina Marin)
• Apart from the Olympic final, Sindhu has lost to her in 1 or 2 more finals; why do you think Sindhu keeps faltering against her?

Overall, P2 grilled me a lot while P1 and P3 were chill.

Ques. Please mention specific Statistics questions asked in the interview.

The panel did not ask me any statistical questions.

Ques. Please mention specific Machine Learning questions asked in the interview.

The panel did not ask me any Machine Learning question.

Ques. Please mention specific Mathematics questions asked in the interview.

Yes, one question on definite integration was asked.

Calculate the value of ∫ |1−x2| dx with limits -3 to 2

Ques. Please mention the specific General Awareness question asked in the interview.

Covered in an interview experience part

Ques. Please mention the specific HR question asked in the interview.

The panel did not ask me any HR question.

Ques. Please mention anything else that formed part of your interview but not covered above.

None.

Ques. How did AI Monks help you in your overall preparation? Also, any suggestions/feedback for AI Monks.

The study material of AI Monks is quite good. Helped me to cover basics (especially about statistics).

After my mock interview, feedback helped me prepare general questions asked (like Introduce yourself, Why PGDBA, etc.) in a better and fairer way.

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Given below is the PGDBA Interview Experience of Jyothi G, who shares what he witnessed during his interview.

Name: Jyothi Krishna G

What was your interview score as per the key released by the institutes?

132 (Score still not released).

Your Professional Experience (Please mention total years of work experience, your designation, company, profile – Please mention all the companies you have worked with) 

Work Experience– 11 months

Designation- Graduate Engineer Trainee

Company- Varroc Engineering Limited

Your panel (number of interviewers/their background/other details):

Three male panelists.

Please mention the details of your PGDBA 2020 interview. (Please elaborate as much as possible. This will help future aspirants in the same way past years’ interview experiences helped you this year).

First, the professor of math asked to prove that 12 is a factor of (a+b)(a+c)(b+c)(a-b)(b-c)(a-c). I didn’t see a pattern, so I asked them to move further as I would just waste time. He insisted on trying, but I said the same. Then he said that he was done and forwarded to the next panel (my biggest mistake).

The next interviewer asked about probability distributions.

After the third interviewer had asked a few questions about my work experience, the first interviewer took over and said that the interview was over and that I should leave the call.

Overall, they wrapped up the interview in 10-15 mins.

Please mention specific Statistics questions asked in the interview.

None.

Please mention specific Machine Learning questions asked in the interview.

None.

Please mention specific Mathematics questions asked in the interview.

The questions were –

1. What is a Bernoulli variable and ?

2. What is a negative binomial distribution?

3. What is the memoryless property?

4. What is a geometric distribution?

They gave me an example – basic flipping a coin and asked what that distribution was.

They asked what did I know about hypothesis testing, and I was clear on that.

Please mention specific General Awareness questions asked in the interview.

The next one asked about my job and the automotive industry. I answered.

Please mention specific HR questions asked in the interview.

None.

Please mention anything else that formed part of your interview but not covered above.

None. 

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Name: S Hemanth Kumar

Ques. What was your interview score as per the key released by the institutes?

115.

Ques. Your Professional Experience. (Please mention total years of work experience, your designation, company, profile – Please mention all the companies you have worked with)

Work experience– Four years

Designation– Technical Analyst

Company– CitiGroup

B.Tech ECE ‘16 in NIT Trichy.

Ques. Your panel (number of interviewers/their background/other details):

Three members (P1 – ISI, P2 – IIMC, P3 – IITK). It was a 15 to 20 mins interview.

Ques. Please mention details of your PGDBA 2020 Interview. (Please elaborate as much as possible. This will help future aspirants in the same way past years’ interview experiences helped you this year)

P1 (ISI Professor)

• Asked me to introduce myself, Follow-up on my extra-curricular activities.
• Asked to choose any mathematics subject (I chose probability).
• Also asked the probability of getting a prime number when two dice are rolled.
• Further, asked the probability of drawing two white balls without replacement out of 8 Black and 6 White balls.
• What is conditional probability? What will it be in case events are independent?
• How does Gaussian random generator work?

P2 (IIMC Prof)

• Asked about my work and role?
• How my company is doing and more about work-related. About the CEO?

P3 (IIT Prof)

• Work-related. What kind of technologies do we use?
• Difference between website and web application? 
• Draw the graph of tan x, Normal distribution.
• Furthermore question on normal distribution, it’s characteristics, area under Mu + sigma?
• What is Hypothesis testing, P-value, type1, type 2 errors
• Why did Kodak run out of business?

Ques. Please mention specific Statistics questions asked in the interview.

What is Hypothesis testing, P-value, type1, and type 2 errors? Normal distribution.

Ques. Please mention specific Machine Learning questions asked in the interview.

None.

Ques. Please mention specific Mathematics questions asked in the interview.

Basic probability questions, as mentioned above by ISI Prof.

Ques. Please mention specific General Awareness questions asked in the interview.

Why did Kodak run out of business?

Ques. Please mention specific HR questions asked in the interview.

Introduce yourself. Other than that, details about extra-curricular activities and hobbies.

Ques. Please mention anything else that formed part of your interview but not covered above.

None.

Ques. Any suggestions for the next year batch?

Be strong in mathematics basics. Have a set of subjects prepared for the interview. 

Ques. How did AI Monks help you in your overall preparation? Also, any suggestions/feedback for AI Monks.

Preparation material was good and mock interviews did help in my preparation. 

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Name: Rajat Sharma

Ques. What was your PGDBA interview 2020 score as per the key released by the institutes?

130/150 (written exam)

7/7 (10th)

6/7(12th)

Interview score – Not disclosed/pending

Ques. Your Professional Experience (Please mention total years of work experience, your designation, company, profile – Please mention all the companies you have worked with)

Formal work experience: 0 (Fresher)

Internships: 1)Data analyst at Samsung Electronics (2 months)

2) Technical intern at NHAI(National Highways Authority of India) (2 months)

3) Marketing intern at Monktree Education ( 2 months)

Ques. Your panel (number of interviewers/their background/other details):

Three Panelists. (one from each institute)

Ques. Please mention details of your PGDBA interview 2020 (Please elaborate as much as possible. This will help future aspirants in the same way past years’ interview experiences helped you this year)

F: Female from IIM Calcutta

M1: Male from IIT Kharagpur 

M2: Male from ISI

F starts by politely welcoming me to the online interview and asks for the government ID proof. They asked a few questions and after they were satisfied with my answers, F ended the interview by politely asking if I had any questions and then asked to leave the meeting.

Overall, the panel was polite, but they didn’t look happy with my interview.

Ques. Please mention specific Statistics questions asked in the interview.

M2: Are you comfortable with statistics?

• Yes, sir, definitely.

M2: How much comfortable? Easy or difficult level?

• Sir, I believe at least fundamentals are clear.

M2: Can you tell the relationship between regression and covariance.

• I answered that slope of regression eq. = Covariance (x,y)/var(x) .

M2: can you write down the equation what you are saying

• Wrote a simple y=mx+c and then told m=cov(x,y)/var(x). It is derived through partial derivation.

M2: what if I add more independent variables?

• Couldn’t answer. I told him that I had studied only linear regression with one variable as of now.

M2: what does c tell you in y=mx +c

• Y-intercept, the value of the dependent variable when x=0.

M2: yes, but what is its physical significance?

• I gave an example of a salesman whose salary is composed of fixed salary and variable salary(based on performance), c tells us the fixed salary he would get irrespective of his performance.

F enters again and gives some explanation of what c really tells about.

F: asks about hackathon wins I mentioned and whether they are co-curricular or extracurriculars?

• Being an IT engineer, they are co-curricular to me. (What she pointed was that I had uploaded the certificate in the extracurriculars section)

Ques. Please mention specific Machine Learning questions asked in the interview.

No such questions

Ques. Please mention specific Mathematics questions asked in the interview.

M1: Asked questions on what are rational and irrational numbers, give examples. 

• I answered.

M1: Then he asked about recurring and non-recurring irrational numbers

• I answered

M1: How can you measure root 7 without using a calculator. You can use the centimeters scale of natural numbers

• Couldn’t know from where to start

M1: gave a hint- use geometry and insist again, you can use a scale. First, tell me how you will measure root2.

• Took some time. Then I got the logic. Drew a unit square of 1 cm length, and then measure its diagonal. 

M1: Now proceed similarly and measure root7

• Didn’t strike my mind. After the interview, I realized it was too easy. Again, regret. 

Ques. Please mention specific General Awareness questions asked in the interview.

F: Asked about the condition of Delhi during Jan-Feb 2020 (before Covid)

• The protests and riots because of CAA-NRC, 

(Then follow up questions on CAA-NRC, asked me what actually is CAA, I answered but fumbled and couldn’t tell it accurately, lifelong regret.) 

Ques. Please mention specific HR questions asked in the interview.

F: Introduce your life and yourself

• Gave a well-prepared answer

F: So, are your final year exams still pending? 

• Yes Ma’am

F: Are you placed somewhere?

• Told the company. It’s a telecommunication company.

F: follow up questions on the future of the telecommunications industry

• Told about AGR dues, how Vodafone and Idea are on its knees, big chances of duopoly ahead(among reliance and airtel)

F: one more follow up question about the demand for the infrastructure of such telecoms and demand for related technology

• I said something very generic. She didn’t look happy.

F: Then asked about undergraduate college, where it is

• Delhi

(Then follow up questions on Delhi started)

Ques. Please mention anything else that formed part of your interview but not covered above.

None. 

Ques. Any suggestions for the next year batch?

Don’t ignore current affairs and GK sections thinking that the interviewers will ask questions only related to maths. Also, please be aware of your state happenings for every interview- they might end up asking questions on that.

Ques. How did AI Monks help you in your overall preparation? Also, any suggestions/feedback for AI Monks.

AI Monks really helped me with live webinars of statistics and applications of analytics. The mock interview conducted by then helped instill confidence before the actual interview.

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