IIM K interview transcript
IIM K
WAT Topic- Entrepreneurship can help transform rural India
Both male panelists
P1: Where have you been? We have been shouting your name since long.
Me: sorry sir, my name wasn’t announced before
P1: you were first on our list someone said you went to take your documents
Me: no sir, I was waiting outside then I went to the restroom
P2: What does your name mean?
Me: sir it means someone who like listening to songs
P1: she actually loves listening to songs
Then discussion about kind of music I like
P1: asked about my job role
Me: explained
P1: you’re from bcom background how can you be in tech recruitment? Do you know some tools of NLP?
Me: I mentioned Bert and didn’t remember the rest
P1: so how did you take interview?
Me: I didn’t sir I just coordinated the process
P1: oh then you don’t need to know the tech tools
Me: sir but it’s advised to know and we learn it overtime to screen resumes and chat gpt also helps in explanation
P1: so what is generative AI
Me: explained
P1: what if I want to make a movie by putting my pictures
Me: chat gpt won’t help with that but there are other tools
P1: what are the threats of chat gpt
Me: I was telling from student perspective
P1: no overall society and then asked do you know Altman?
Me: no sir
P1: you don’t know? He was in news recently
Me: sorry sir I don’t recall
P1: who owns chat gpt
Me: I don’t remember and then I said open AI
P1: yes it’s open AI, how can you not remember? Altman is one of the founders
Me: alright sir, I didn’t know
P1: what is inventory turnover ratio?
Me: answered
P1: what is COGS?
Me: answered
P1: what is asset turn over ratio
Me: answered
P1: draw the graph to show a business’ exponential growth
Me: I couldn’t answer
P1: asked me about standard deviation
Me: answered variance and then explained
P1: 1,2,3,4,5, do they have any deviation
Me: tried solving and then said no
P2: you should’ve studied this in college
Me: sir I didn’t have stats. I studied stats in 11th
P2: it’s there in business mathematics
Me: sir I only remember about capital budgeting not stats
P2: you’re making excuses.
Me: no sir, I’m not making excuses
P2: you are you just said
P2: ok, what is gross working capital
Me: CA-CL
P2: what is networking working capital?
Me: I don’t know sir
P2: this is very basic you should know
Me: sorry sir, I don’t remember learning about this
P2: you don’t remember your grad how can you say you’re prepared for MBA? Basic qualification for MBA is graduation? Will you throw your MBA degree later on and not remember anything?
Me: sorry sir, I’ll make sure to revise everything before joining a bschool and try to retain everything as well
P2: do you know about sone awardees?
Me: yes, Bharat Ratna
P2: I started naming
They kept laughing and discussing the names
P2: who was MS Swaminathan?
Me: he was an agricultural scientist
P2: why is he being given an award?
Me: because he helped with food security
P2: what was he known as among people?
Me: sorry sir, I don’t know
P2: You should read current affairs everyday, it just takes 5 minutes and that way you’ll be aware about everything. Good
I think we are done all the best.
All the best. Don’t worry we don’t decide anything. We don’t give any marks, we will just tell how you behaved, nothing is in our hands that’s why we say all the best.