Monday, March 27, 2006

How was ur IIM interview?

When we meet our friends and acquaintances, we greet them with a casual "Hi", "Hello" ... but this is different for a poor soul undergoing the traumatic process of IIM GD/PI. Every good friend of his does not ask him common courtsey Qs like how are you doing or which movie did you watch? but the big one "How was ur interview?".

It really pleases the young lad to know that he has so many well wishers and good friends but what hurts him the most, is that he cannot answer his friend. The basic truth is you never know how was your interview? Unlike an examination, it is nearly impossible to objectively evaluate your performance in an interview. Moreover, your self-evaluation is meaningless since even after you may have answered all your questions correctly (as per your perception), you may well be rejected since the senile IIM profs did not find you good enough. And, some other day someone with the only answer "I do not know, sir" may be accepted on account of his politeness, behavior, ettiquettes or may be past performances in CAT and acads. what I do not follow is if the guy was sure shot selection, why waste resources in conducting futile GD/PI?

I do not follow many other questions like what were the changes brought in India during Chola dynasty (to an engg. graduate) , which rivers flow in Andhra Pradesh (to someone who has never been to South India)? So, if you ask me how was your IIM interview, the only honest answer can be "I do not know".

6 Comments:

Blogger Philotics said...

Kaunsa IIM poocha yeh Chola Dynasty wala Q?

2:19 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

@arnab:
IIM A, not to me but some girl from Osmania University, ECE major.

2:33 PM  
Blogger maxi said...

haan bluff marke apna mktg potential batata...
Joking!!
U did right to politely show ur unawareness abt questions...
What i will like to see a tete-a-tete
of ur interview on ur blog with a prologue and epilogue

7:12 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

@free_soul:
thanks for ur suggestion, but no thanks.

@ashish:
ok, will think abt it.

9:13 PM  
Blogger Divya Rao said...

great suggestion for chola question!guys..i was the victim.n kapil,full essence of the 'plight' of candidates after the interviews is covered.. but maybe we could collect all the funny questions n post them too!

5:25 PM  
Blogger Unknown said...

@divya rao:

all my interviews before Ahmedabad have been very short (less than 5 mins on two occassions). may be u can help me with funny questions.

6:26 PM  

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