CAT 99.6, Work ex 17 months, 10th/12th/Grad : 89/94/83.
Below average PI, I felt that they openly criticized me, though optimistic me is thinking maybe they were trying to grill me to see if I can handle. My demeanour was good throughout, did not fumble, was apologetic when I couldn't answer something. Overall, did not go to well from an answering the questions perspective but still I maintained my calm. Still a bad PI!
CS without Interview 23.xx
Interview: Average at best. Felt like I was being grilled. Answered some questions really well. For some the answer was "Sorry,I don't know sir"
Asked to deliver a funny speech which I did. Only good part.
March 5,2021
SJMSOM IIT Bombay, Morning Slot.
Profile:86/86/74 40months IT
Three panelists. P1 in late 50s, P2 &P3 in early 40s
P1: How are you?
Told
P1: Tell us about your achievements during college or at your company.
Told
P1: where did you work?
Told.
P1: How many employees work at TCS Nagpur?
Told
P1: Fascinating. Tell me about the development works in Nagpur
Started blabbering about some projets...
P1: Infrastructure and all is fine tell me about something else..industries
Told about major exports from the region
About early establishments like Empress mills.
P1: Anything about logistics.
He was interested in logistics and I didn't have any clue about it.Except there's a cargo hub, which I told.
Damn.
P1:Which stream will you prefer and why?
Told.
P2: What you worked on?
Told about technologies, apparently he was also interested in something else.
P2: Machine learning?
Told that I know what it is, but never had a chance to work in the field.
P2: Supervised and unsupervised learning.
Bomb...read it but couldn't recall. Only subject of engineering I didn't prepare for.
P2: why consulting?
Told.
P2: What skills you are referring to?
Told.
P3: So toastmasters, who is the founder?
Told.
P3: Why did you join?
Told.
P3:Tell me about last time you had to speak in public or address a big audience.
Told about my winning streak at humorous speech contest.
P3: Good. Can you deliver one humorous speech right now?
Did...2-3 minutes.
P1: Impressive, You are in which city right now?
Told
P1: Why sjmsom?
Told.
P1: Any professor you know? Or the activities of the club here?
Didn't know.
P1: Amul model is failing tell me about it.
Told him it isn't failing. Asked him to tell about the problem he sees so that I can provide a solution.
P1: It's working well only. I was just curious. Tell me who is MD of Amul?
Told.
P1: What's special about him?
Told
P1: Any alum of sjmsom you know of?
I knew...by this time I lost my mind. Couldn't recall.
P1: Operations as your second preference,why?
Told
Ok you can leave the meeting.
GEM
CAT 2020: 97.38 percentile
Academics (X/XII/Grad): 10 CGPA (CBSE)/93% (CBSE)/8.79 DGPA (WBUT)
Work Experience till 31st December 2020: 16 months
CS (without PI): 27.31
Everybody more or less had a good PI, so hard to predict anything there.
What can be expected?