GMAT Focus Edition:

• Total Score: 655 (91st percentile globally, 83rd percentile for ISB)
• Quantitative Reasoning: 84 (85th percentile)
• Verbal Reasoning: 84 (89th percentile)
• Data Insights: 79 (76th percentile)
ACADEMICS
Undergraduate:
• Institution: Graphic Era University, Dehradun (NIRF - #48)
• Degree: B.Tech Computer Science Engineering
• CGPA: 9.58/10
• Class Rank: 3rd out of 700 students (Top 0.4%)
Research Achievements:
• IAS Summer Research Fellowship at IIT Hyderabad
• 4 Scopus-indexed research publications in signal processing and software engineering
• Research conducted during undergraduate years
Academic Awards:
• Rank 3 in graduating class of 700
• IAS Fellowship (highly competitive national program)
WORK EXPERIENCE
Current: Senior Associate Technology L1 | Publicis Sapient | 3+ years
• Leading backend
• Architected order management interface handling £400,000 daily transaction value and 36,000+ orders/day for a retail client in UK
• Led international deployment to Laos (team of 3) for CLIENT’s regional expansion
• Technologies: Azure Functions, Spring Boot, Microservices, Kafka, Azure APIM
• Received Innovation Award for technical excellence
• Reporting to Director-level leadership
Previous: Systems Engineer | TCS | 2+ years
• Developed AI-powered chatbot for Landmark Group (26,000 employees across 14 countries)
• Automated password reset process, saving 150+ hours monthly in IT support costs
• Led module development for retail operations
• Technologies: Python, Machine Learning, NLP, Integration Architecture
Total Work Experience: 6 years (6.5 years by ISB start date)
Key Achievements:
• £400k daily order processing (high-stakes production system)
• 14-market international deployment
• Cross-functional leadership across UK, Denmark, Laos teams
• Innovation Award recognition
LEADERSHIP & EXTRACURRICULARS
NSS (National Service Scheme) Student Coordinator | Graphic Era University
• Led 400+ volunteers in community service initiatives
• Organized blood donation camps(8000+ units collected) rural education programs, environmental drives
• Transformational experience: Shifted personal mindset from materialistic to service-oriented
• Demonstrated large-scale volunteer management and social impact
Trekking & Adventure:
• Completed 3 major Himalayan treks (Kedarkantha, Har Ki Dun, others)
• Trek coordinator experience managing logistics, safety, team coordination

Other Activities:
• Debate competitions (inter-district level)
• Painting/creative arts (personal hobby)
• Reading The Hindu editorials (current affairs, critical thinking)

Interview Experience :- My interview went something like this (for 45-50 minutes)-

1. Introduction
2. ⁠Questions on Summer Research Fellowship at IIT Hyderabad
3. ⁠Why did I join NSS? (Dont tell us social service)
4. ⁠What’s my career path so-far? And Why do I need an MBA?
5. ⁠what leadership traits I learnt in NSS? How have I used them in my job?
6. ⁠conflict management scenarios in my job. After one instance, they asked for another. Cross question - We dont believe you did anything outside your job role here. Convince us otherwise.
7. ⁠what’ld your friends say about your weaknesses and why? Reflect on reasons your weakness. Give us a holistic answer.
8. ⁠what’s your second weakness!? And what are you doing about it?
9. ⁠what if ISB doesnt happen? Why dont you go for certificate courses in your company instead of ISB? Will we see any goal change in your application next year?
10. ⁠what’s your biggest achievement at work and walk us through it? - interruptions - dont tell us about the user and business impact. Tell us on a personal level why is it so important to you.
11. ⁠what else do you do on weekends about leadership? Mentioned trek co-ordinator. - tell us how your day looks like as a TC.

(Might have missed some questions because there was persistent cross questioning)
Ending remarks - we grilled you so bad, grill us back now.