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12 Aug 2023, 23:26
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Latest IIM Bangalore EPGP interview questions compilation
IIM Bangalore EPGP Interview questions
Inflation and its effect on India(Discussion lasted 15 minutes)
Questions about projects mentioned in SOP and follow-up questions on the same.
Short-term goals
Long-term goals
Organizations you want to join and why?
Why IIM Bangalore?
Questions for us?
Motivations for MBA and alternate paths to achieve post-MBA goals
Questions related to my field of work and achievements mentioned in the application
Why MBA
What is the best way for a Tech company to give excess cash to their shareholders and why? There was a lot of grilling around this
What do you do? Tell me exactly.
Do you work with a team? - stakeholders and business
One question on the intriguing opening I wrote in my SoP
How does MBA fit into your plans?
Few perspectives and opinion-based questions on my current company.
What role do you want to get into?
What is your dream company?
What do you do in your current role?--- They wanted to understand what I exactly do. There was cross-questioning.
What is my company trying to be relevant for the future?--- Discussion on the long-term vision of my company.
What are your hobbies?-- A small conversation about my hobbies. Without any further probing.
Since I am in the credit card industry, they checked my knowledge about BNPL, its examples, and its impact on the overall business.
Future of the credit card industry
Where do I invest?-- I said crypto and gold. They further probed on the difference between ethereum and Bitcoin
Why Gold? What makes gold a valuable investment?
Tell us about yourself.
Why IIMB EPGP?
What do I do in my current work?
About my salary - am I happy or not?
Meaning of my name and its origin
Difference between sales and marketing Debate
Why do you say helping rather than sales? Lots of to-and-fro arguments around this.
How are you going to help IIMB
How did I help my undergrad
Asked the author of a book I mentioned.
How did your undergrad books help you?
How many districts in Tamilnadu
Name 3 entrepreneurs from Tamil Nadu
Asked me about my role.
My aspirational role was product manager. They asked me what new products can be introduced in the industry.
Asked me to introduce myself, the company I work for and the role that I am in.
about my company’s employee strength, and revenue and about our competitors
Tell me about yourself. (prepared answer with elevator pitch)
Post MBA goals. (Prepared answer with Qs on why strategy)
Industry-related questions on the Oil field and energy sector. (Since I belong to the fracking industry which is always under the radar for its environmental impact. I was also asked about my views on the US fracking ban and How did oil prices go negative during the pandemic which I had a good hold of.) Philosophical question on the future of the energy industry and what is my outlook. (I answered that by introducing my goals of pursuing my career in renewables. This was a two-way discussion with panel members countering renewables with nuclear energy and other clean energy sources. I accepted some points and countered some).
The last question was directed at convincing one of the panel members to adopt AI learning instead of classroom learning. (I took a few seconds to gather my thoughts and put in some pointers on the advantages of AI over physical interactions).
2 panellists, both very polite. P1 Started off with why MBA - halfway through my answer he interrupted and countered with 'Can you validate the skills you claim to have'. While I was validating P1 countered a couple of times, trying to pressurize a bit. Next P2 asked about an incident of conflict that I have faced within my team. Few counterarguments here regarding explaining my role in the situation. Thereafter asked about my target industry, and why supply chain. Finally my target role and target company. Altogether, a conversational interview is less stressful than IIMA. I felt it was a relatively short interview-15 mins.
Why MBA
Why IIMB
several cross-questions on the profile and on the extracurriculars and achievements in the application.
Finally a guesstimate question.
few basic questions about my current role
Started with the intro part and then pivoted to Why MBA.
On my standard answer, he started laughing and asked me to give other reasons. Don’t know whether I was able to convince him.
Panellist 2 - Asked a lot of cross-questions on work profile and a specific business strategy. Ended with "All the best".
My educational background
my work at IBM
difference between IT services and IT products
what I did in the UK
some history of IBM
Started with giving your Introduction. They stopped me when I mentioned my long-term goal. lots of management, strategy and business questions around this.
Then I mentioned my short-term goal.. and again lots of stress tests around this.
Extracurricular questions.. what are my plans?
P1 read my profile and asked me about my writing hobby. Some questions and discussions about it.
Then she went to my first job, why I left - some discussion on how the appeals work and all. She was interested in the ethical conflict that resulted in my departure, and then to the next n present job.
If you are a CA then why do MBA? Answered. Then it went to the economy. She wanted my views on the global economy, India. Some stats, I did mug up so it was easy.
Technical recession and what it was.
Liquidity and stuff, I gave some answers on how liquidity by itself won't help n we need to revive consumption.
what would you do if you were finance minister? I answered: I am not sure sir. I don't have a clear idea. You are a CA, you are perfectly qualified to answer.
Started on LTA scheme, rural employment guarantee, more income in people's hands, trends, and consumer confidence. Some cross-questioning, and cornering but I felt it went well.
P2 cut me off saying: it will be a bigger discussion and we can't have it now. So, let's say where do you want to get placed if you were to make it IIM Bangalore? I said e-commerce. He asked about any company. I replied no sir, but I like that field and it has good growth potential.
Electrical engineering-related Qs (my undergrad) and how it helps in my job.
Work-related Qs and how do you manage things?
Why MBA?
Do you plan to remain in the same sector post-MBA?
Qs for us?
Two interviewers (P1 and P2)
P1: Tell us about your everyday job. What do you do? Interrupted midway and asked do you have juniors. Do they report to you?
P1: Tell us about a project of yours.
P1: You mentioned a lot about IIM B in your SOP. Have you actually got in touch with anyone, alumni or student?
P1: What is unique about Ganga in Banaras? Think geography-wise.
P2: Shared his screen to ask for inference on a graph of a cumulative probability distribution.
P2: What is the male: female ratio at your current workplace?
P2: What do you think about the oil market future now that Trump has lost? Will it impact your industry?
P1: How do you optimize your product performance (work-related)?
13 Aug 2023, 02:01
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[What is unique about Ganga in Banaras? Think geography-wise.][/quote]
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22 Oct 2023, 07:41
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Can someone share interview debrief link for IIMB EPGP?
