My Alumni interview was scheduled at 8:00 on a Sunday morning. Since this was my first visit to IIMB, I was naturally a bit nervous. My interview was to be held in a classroom numbered P-12, so when inside the campus I started to look around for management geeks for directions and none were to be found at that time. Finally I spotted a lone ranger jogging and he directed me to a very lonely looking road, away from what looked like the main entrance of the building. Reluctantly I decided to follow the guy's directions. Half a kilometer drive down the road led me to a building where a crowd was gathered. The crowd indeed looked like the one assembled for the interviews. I spotted a parking lot nearby and headed towards it, only to be alerted by the shrill shout of a security guard, The lot was meant for the professors and obviously I didn't look like one. So I had to again drive back to the entrance of the building and then had to trudge back to the spot where the interview was to take place. Though with the presence of signboards, finding the class room was not very difficult.
There were three people who had been called in for the same time slot that of 8 to 9 , so effectively each of us were to have a 20 minute slot. My interview was taken by a guy who was in his early 40's and a lady in her late 30's (Though was not able to catch their names nor their companies). I guess they were from the first batch of PGSEMr's. The interview began with them declaring that they were behind schedule and could give me only 10 minutes. The first question they asked was to tell something about myself. Then some follow up questions like why I wanted to move into management considering that I'm a technical guy etc etc. Then they started the often heard thing about PGSEM that it is a difficult course and requires very good time management etc. Finally, as they had promised they wrapped it up in 10 minutes. Seeing the intensity of the interview, I came to the conclusion that this leg of interview doesn't carry too much of a weightage and everything rested in the hands of the faculty.
The interview went off very smoothly and perhaps lulled me into a sense of false security which got scattered into pieces during the faculty interview. :)
There were three people who had been called in for the same time slot that of 8 to 9 , so effectively each of us were to have a 20 minute slot. My interview was taken by a guy who was in his early 40's and a lady in her late 30's (Though was not able to catch their names nor their companies). I guess they were from the first batch of PGSEMr's. The interview began with them declaring that they were behind schedule and could give me only 10 minutes. The first question they asked was to tell something about myself. Then some follow up questions like why I wanted to move into management considering that I'm a technical guy etc etc. Then they started the often heard thing about PGSEM that it is a difficult course and requires very good time management etc. Finally, as they had promised they wrapped it up in 10 minutes. Seeing the intensity of the interview, I came to the conclusion that this leg of interview doesn't carry too much of a weightage and everything rested in the hands of the faculty.
The interview went off very smoothly and perhaps lulled me into a sense of false security which got scattered into pieces during the faculty interview. :)
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