IIM K interview experience, 7th feb, Mumbai, hotel Mirador
IIM K interview experience
WAT topic - privacy concerns is a myth. People put their personal life out there. Discuss
I was the last in the panel, panel no. 5, which was also the last panel no.
M1, F1
As soon as I enter the room
M1 - sorry you had to wait this long
Me - no worries sir, I was in the last panel and the last one for IIM A's interview on 2nd Feb as well. I'm used to it.
M1 - why do you think this happened with you
Me (after 2 seconds) - sir, I maybe the last to enter but I'll be the first to convert.
M1 - great answer, I like your optimism
Why 12 th so low?
Was prepping for JEE
So, you got into any good college?
Yes sir IIT Bombay (discussions around that)
Discussed my interests wrt mechanical engineering
M1 - And why in engineering also your score is low?
Told
(Pretty satisfied)
M1 - Describe your job
Me - told
F1 - Why Mba?
Told
About startup everything
M1 - so tell me, the biggest crisis that you think, india is facing now and what we should do to overcome it?
Me - told air pollution, nikhil kamath podcast bryan came etc on that. That it is a major issue that india doesn't know how bad it is, since it's so clean in foreign countries they can judge better on that parameter. Etc etc
M1 - Very random question, so
What is the percentage of people who do startup let's say from IIMK,
Me - just after passing out, or after three - four years?
M1 - after 3-4 years
Me - around 12%
M1 - that's pretty pretty accurate, how did you guess so accurately?
F1 - why India is called a republic country?
Me - I think it works for the public that's why, just a guess haha
F1 - no
F1 - India is a federal country, why?
Me - ma'am I have very little idea about civics and politics, I can't answer much
M1 - What other calls you have?
Told
F1 - Tell me a bit about Kozhikode
Told
M1 - what shall we ask you for your chances to get maximised? 2 things
Me - about my hobbies
Told everything in detail
About writing quotes and memes and they enjoyed those.
They were laughing out loud. A really fun time indeed.
Asked me about a recent quote I wrote -
Told, and they liked it very much!
M1 - Apart from your hobbies what else shall we ask you?
Math sir
M1 - what level shall we ask you?
Me - the highest level you can ask a candidate who's finding a place in IIM kozhikode (this came out pretty sweetly and confidently tbh)
M1 - Okay! You only said that, be ready.
So, tell me the ratio of number of elements in a set of even no.s to the number of elements in a set of natural numbers (both going until infinity)
Found out ways
Said it could be either 1/2 and also 1
It could be both actually
M1 - think again
After some thinking, I said sir I think it's not defined.
M1 - actually it's both 1/2 and 1 🥲🥲🥲
He also explained the answer,
I asked do we get to learn this in Kozhikode, yes you do in some finance courses
M1 - so okay another question
You have 3 dices.
Me - sir, I've not done probability even for JEE
Great, so you have 3 dices
Me - a fair dice? 🥲
M1 - yes
First die is rolled and we don't know and it's number is hidden inside a parda let's say
Second die is rolled and number on it is 6 that's confirmed
Third die is rolled and I'm telling you the number is even
What is the probability that the number rolled on third die is 6
Me - me after five seconds 1/3
M1 - kinda shocked
Explain it
Me - the number on the first two die doesn't even matter as the question was about the third die.
So, if number on it is even then we have 2,4,6 and probability of getting 6 is 1/3
It was pretty easy sir 🙂
M1 - what do you call the term when you've ignored
The first two dies
Me - ehh mutually exclusive?
M1 - Independant
Okay you can go, all the best, bye bye
Me - thank you sir, bye bye
And as I was coming out, I went back and said
I haven't wished out good evening have I?
Good evening sir, good evening ma'am
*All laughed*
All in all it was very very chill,
I got more chill than Netflix while I was getting the interview done.