My IIM I interview

My IIM I interview
result - SELECTED AND JOINING

2 panelist .. 1 lady prof and 1 old and healthy male prof( i will call the male prof as prof )
This was one of my final interviews ( i had been giving interviews since 2.5 months.so was actually bored .. I was unprepared for this interview.. I didn,t read news papers for last 10 days.. didn,t study much .. had done lots of travelling for IITs .. anyways
process started with an essay
"is indian movie industry getting globalised "
the panelist were reading my essay when i entered the room



me :- good afternoon sir, good afternoon maam.
lady :- good afternoon , have a seat
me :- thank U
prof :- so u r an electronics engineer having work ex as a software engineer in patni. okay in ur essay U have written "NRI abroad ".. Do u think its right
me :- no sir it has a grammatical error
prof :- what kind of error say to me in the language of data structure
me :- sir it wud be redundancy
prof:- explain the error
me:- ( it shud be only NRI or abroad ,I explained properly)
prof :- ( reading my essay) hmm kollywood and tollywood movie industry in south .. what r these
me:- kannada movie industry is kollywood and telugu movie industry is tollywood
lady:- tell me the 4 states and thier languages in south india
me :- (said )
lady:- what is this u have written e-globally
me:- Maam I have written globally..
lady :- okay
lady :- complete this sentence if u agree with it
" democracy is not good for india .................. )
me :- democracy is not good for india because in india majority of voters are illiterate who can be manipulated easily by politicians . The vote bank politics played in our country divides the country and its people..
lady :- anything else u dislike about democratic system in india and what kind of goverment u want
me :- maam in coalition government, it is not possible to make good decision quicky which is in the interest of the country since most parties r looking for their own interest ... like we saw what happened while passing the nuclear bill
I feel a benevolent dictatorship wud be good for india.
lady :- what u mean by benevolent dictator.
me:- a dicatator who takes quick decison in the interest of the country, who is not corrupt ,peace loving, and thinks of the growth of the country and welfare of the people .
lady :- can u think of any past ruler in india who was a benevolent dictator
me :-(thinks) I think akbar was.. he respected all religions and always thought of welfare of his people.
lady :- Name any other form of government , apart from democary and dictatorship
me :- communisim
lady:- which countries in the world follow communism
me :- China , and i have read somewhere about chile being communist
lady :- okay :) what u mean by autoXXXX (i can,t recollect)
me:- i can guess its a form of goverment similar to dictatorship
lady :- what is autocarcysyncracy ( i can,t recollect :D)
me :- i don,t know
( male prof takes over)
prof:- what is this subject u had in ur final year.. mechattronics
me :- sir its a subject which has principles of both mechanical and elctronics engineering
prof :- so can u answer questions from this subject
me:- sir I can try but am not sure I will be able to recollect .
prof :- what was there in it
me:- about PLCs, transducers
prof :-so what was ur fav subject in engineering apart from data structures (hahahaha he asumed I am good at data structures since i worked on it )
me :-sir I guess microprocessor
prof :- what is the diffrence between micro processor and micro controller
me :- explained correctly
prof : where are micro controllers being used
me :- in any appliance which does a fixed job .. like a TV , a microwave oven etc where the

processor can be programmed to do a fixed job we use micro controller
prof :- what is used in a laptop
me :- sir micro processors because laptops has to to multitasking and we need lots of

external memory for that
lady:- what is used to implement Fuzzy logic
me:- maam I don,t know fuzzy logic
lady:- the one that is used in washing machines
me:- if its used in washing machine.. then it must be micro controller( i was very good in

explaining why)
lady :- hmm so u have mentioned that u are creative ( we had a small psychometric test

before the essay in which we had to mention all this)
(she kept few plastic pins in front of me,paper clips)
okay tell me 10 uses of this apart from its normal use.
me :
1) it can be used to clean ur ears 2) scratch ur head 3) to remove something it gets struck

in a narrow hole 4) to play by kids since they were colorful 5) as paperweight
6)since its flexible u can use it as friendship bands if u tie it on ur fingers
( i was thinking when she stopped me)
lady :- so u have mentioned the reason for leaving patni as ur ambition to study for CAT.. whereas U have written in the column below that u have a gap becoz u were asked to resign from patni and took it as opprtunity balh balh
prof :- u shud have mentioned the same reason tht u were asked to resign
me:- sir I cud have easily got another job given my experience. but i found it unethical to work for few months in a firm and leave it for MBA.. so i decided to take a gap.. so the main reason was my ambition
prof :- but the reason for leaving shud n,t be that...
me :- yes sir but since ,there was a separate column ,i wrote it that way..
lady :- so u were honest in ur answer here
Lady:- so what r ur extra curricular activities.. what else u do apart from studying for CAt and working for patni
lemme see oh so u have done cartooning .. draw my cartoon
prof :- (interrupts the lady ) he has organized the competition .. i guess he himself isn,t

a cartoonist
me :- yes sir.
lady:- so u like football, cricket and and and ( she searching for something in

extracurricular to ask me)
prof :- so u like rock music.. whats the difference between heavy metal and hard rock
me :- Sir i guess hard rock is a vast genre of music and heavy metal is a subset of hard

rock
prof :- u sure
me :- ( not so confidently) yes
prof :- U just destroyed my artistic talent( he said something like that and laughed)
a lil bit of smiles followed and they asked me to leave....
i said thank u and left