IIM LUCKNOW INTERVIEW EXPERIENCE
PROFILE- 75.16/75.33/71.52 Ews Non eng male.
CAT-99.67
Date -27th March
Venue- IIM LUCKNOW(Noida campus)
WAT Topic- How Ai is reshaping corporate skillset landscape.
P1- Male professor, very serious
P2- Female professor, very serious as well
P2- please come in and have your seat.
Me- Greeted both of them.
P2- You had B.com in your graduation?
Me- yes ma'am
P2- Okay, quickly introduce yourself.
Me- gave prepared answer
They looked at form and maybe they saw the percentile in first page and wasnt even interested to look further, they didnt even look at my Why Mba nor asked me
P2- Favourite subject in college?
Me- Marketing.
P2- Marketing vs selling?
Me- Told
P2- Do luxury product need marketing?
Me- Told also added economics term veblen goods
They asked me something and i mentioned that gold price crashed few months back. They started acting weird like i used the term "Crash" wrong here. So i said that "i might have used the crash word wrong here"
P1- Why gold prices are falling?
Me- told that Us dollar and gold has inverse relationship
(again they started acting weird, and said from where did you study this)
Me- Ma'am i might be wrong but this is my understanding of the issue and there is a war going on as well
P2- okay, so mention quickly 3 impact on india?
Me- Lpg shortage so now government is promoting shift to PNG. Rupppee value falling so will have to pay more money for same amount of goods. and we might have a strain in relationship with Iran.
P2- but i heard this morning, strait of hurmoz is open for India.
Me- yes ma'am, but India didn't give a strong statement on Khamenei's murder given the fact that Iran stood for us in Kashmir issue and even condemned Pakistan for Paghalgam attack. (Also mentioned the stance we are taking is the need of the hour)
P1- Do you read newspaper?
Me- i do
P2- Which one?
me- The mint
P2- Can you name another newspaper from the same publishing house?
Me- no ma'am.
P2- But it is a very famous newspaper.
Me- Hindustan times? (i was right)
P2- (shocked) Do you know this? or taking a guess.
Me- taking a guess
P2- Okay i am done
P1- tell me difference between these two subjects you studied (business statistics and business analytics)
Me- Told
P2- Do you know what inference is.
Me- I can tell you what that means but if you are asking in a particular context i might not know it.
P2- no, in context of business analytics.
Me- No sir
P2- Do you know this test? (some test dont remember the name)
Me- wasnt in my course sir
P2- What is prescriptive analysis?
Me- Told.
P2- Are you familiar with Normal Distribution?
Me- Yes sir
P2- (handed me pencil and notepad) Draw graph for me.
Me- (drew that and mentioned 3 standard deviations as well)
P2- How much data does the graph represent.
Me- Told
P2- what are these deviations you have mentioned.
Me- Told(68-95-99 rule explained)
Looked at each other and gave each other nod and then asked me to go. I am so amazed by the fact not once i have been asked Why mba or Why mba as a fresher, like in none of the interview. So i need to 25/50 to convert this one. Let me know how was this. Thankyouuuuu
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