Hola Applicants!
To help you cope up with your preparation, we have collated the interview experiences of our current batch students. The interviews were mostly based on the profile and background of individual candidates. We hope this would be insightful and all the best!
| Full name | Rajat Gupta |
| College | IIT Kharagpur |
| Specialization | B.Tech + M.Tech (Dual) in Civil Engineering |
| Work Experience (in Months) | Experienced (12) |
| Organization(Name) | Oceanergy |
| Designation | Structural Engineer |
| Work Experience Background | Oil and Gas |
| Interview Location city | Mumbai |
| Rating interview experience (out of 5 being very good) | 5 |
| Relevant Technical/ Analytics/ML questions | None |
| Maths/Stats questions | https://qr.ae/TWILlI |
| GK/Current Affairs asked (if any) | No |
| Is the interview stressful? | No |
| Tips for Written Exam | https://www.exambazaar.com/blogpost/pgdba-course-exam |
| Tips to fill Application Form | https://www.exambazaar.com/blogpost/pgdba-course-exam |
| Personal Interview | https://www.exambazaar.com/blogpost/pgdba-course-exam |
| Any other interaction post-interview | – |
| Full name | Anadi Vashist |
| College | Hindu College, University of Delhi |
| Specialization | M.Sc. Statistics |
| Work Experience (in Months) | Experienced (23) |
| Organization(Name) | EXL Services Private Limited |
| Designation | Senior Business Analyst |
| Work Experience Background | Analytics/Consulting |
| Interview Location city | Delhi |
| Rating interview experience (out of 5 being very good) | 4 |
| Relevant Technical/ Analytics/ML questions | Statistics |
| Maths/Stats questions | 1)MLE of Uniform distribution. X~U(0, theta) and then X~U(-theta, theta) 2) Hypothesis testing: How to formulate hypothesis? Composite null and alternate hypothesis testing? 3) Method of Moments Estimation 4)Linear Regression: OLS estimation and how to obtain normal equations? |
| GK/Current Affairs asked (if any) | No |
| Is the interview stressful? | Yes |
| Tips for Written Exam | Revise Mathematics of 11th and 12th. Start with basics, Ncert and RD Sharma for concepts and formulae. |
| Tips to fill Application Form | Nothing too specific. |
| Personal Interview | Revise Graduation Courses relevant to the course. |
| Any other interaction post-interview | – |
| Full name | Shubham Sureka |
| College | BIT Mesra |
| Specialization | BE Information Technology |
| Work Experience (in Months) | Experienced (36) |
| Organization(Name) | Olympeo Infrastructure LLP, ZS Associates, Snapdeal |
| Designation | Assistant Manager, Decision Analytics Associate, Business Analyst 2 |
| Work Experience Background | Marketing/Advertising, Analytics/Consulting |
| Interview Location city | Delhi |
| Rating interview experience (out of 5 being very good) | 4 |
| Relevant Technical/ Analytics/ML questions | Few questions were there about my project I did at Snapdeal. I had to explain them the project. There were questions on Joins in SQL (some random sample data and they asked me to get a result). I remember briefly the question. Q1: There were some tickets along with their timestamp (created time stamp). Against each row, there was a column highlighting if the ticket if closed or not. Also, another columns showcasing the time when the ticket was closed. I had to find the maximum time taken by a ticket to get closed. Same for minimum. Also, how many tickets are still not closed? All using joins.Solution: Just do a left join on the ticket id and Mark the condition as closing date greater then opening date. Then calculate the difference in the time stamps (Closing-Open). Then group by functionality can be used to get the results.The discussion on this went for around 10-15 minutesKnowledge about Left Join and Inner Join was sufficient. They also made me write sub nested sub queries. The level was not very difficult. |
| Maths/Stats questions | What is correlation? Draw some examples? Basic idea about regression? They made me draw some graphs of some functions. They were bit tricky, but doable. |
| GK/Current Affairs asked (if any) | Yes |
| Is the interview stressful? | Maybe |
| Tips for Written Exam | Cat series (IMS or CL for English, DI, LR and few Maths questions) Do prepare Maths NCERT Miscellaneous exercises. In case you feel difficulty in some topics, brush up on JEE notes. |
| Tips to fill Application Form | Focus on what your work experience is. This will help you keep the interview in control. Don’t put lot of different things. Your form should be crisp and clear. For freshers and people with non analytics background try to do at least one project or course. This certainly shows that you’re interested for the course. Try to connect business and Analytics together. You can always quote some examples from your work experience or studies. This will convince them that you understand how analytics can be integrated in various business fields and will get you a brownie point 😉 |
| Personal Interview | I read all the techniques through YouTube. I prepared my CV points pretty well and to some extent I was able to keep the discussion around that. Jb statistics be a good resource for few basics. |
| Any other interaction post-interview | – |
| Full name | Srijan Gupta |
| College | Pandit Deendayal Petroleum University, Gandhinagar |
| Specialization | B.Tech in Chemical Engineering |
| Work Experience (in Months) | Experienced (18) |
| Organization(Name) | Defence, L&T Limited |
| Designation | Sectional-in-charge |
| Work Experience Background | Manufacturing |
| Interview Location city | Delhi |
| Rating interview experience (out of 5 being very good) | 5 |
| Relevant Technical/ Analytics/ML questions | What is analytics? How do you relate yourself to analytics? Why is analytics a buzz word these days? |
| Maths/Stats questions | I was asked to solved an integral with cubic expression in the denominator. It reduced to a fraction of linear and quadratic expressions upon partial fraction. I forgot the formula for the standard quadratic at that time, so showed the panelist the expression formed. |
| GK/Current Affairs asked (if any) | Yes |
| Is the interview stressful? | Yes |
| Tips for Written Exam | NCERT mathematics is a great source for fundamental mathematics, and that easily got me through 75% of the maths section. The remaining question needed an extensive deductibility of NCERT concepts. Some standard AIEEE (JEE Main) book might be helpful. Do cover calculus portion judiciously and diligently. |
| Tips to fill Application Form | We were asked to provide our extensive background, including why you want to join this course, and hobbies. To answer the first question, I related the course to my long term goal and it made the whole process a cakewalk. Hobbies is something that should be genuine and something that you really are passionate about. the panelists can easily sense when a person is cooking up, and then they can grill you down even further. |
| Personal Interview | TIME mock interviews were a great help. To supplement the analytics domain knowledge, linear algebra basic concepts, normal distribution fundamentals, engineering level project management or operation optimization topics like decision tree and transportation problems might come in handy. |
| Any other interaction post-interview | – |
| Full name | Immidisetty Anudeep |
| College | IIT Kharagpur |
| Specialization | Civil Engineering |
| Work Experience (in Months) | Experienced (12) |
| Organization(Name) | Wipro Ltd. |
| Designation | Project Engineer |
| Work Experience Background | Software/IT and ITES |
| Interview Location city | Bangalore |
| Rating interview experience (out of 5 being very good) | 4 |
| Relevant Technical/ Analytics/ML questions | 1. Why do you want to do PGDBA? 2. Applications of analytics in business. 3. How can you use analytics to develop the business of an MSME type industry |
| Maths/Stats questions | 1. Give real-life examples for Poisson Distribution. What are mean and SD of Poisson Distribution. Ans. Accidents occurring on a road, Number of Calls arriving at a call centre. Mean = variance = λ. 2. Where does Normal Distribution meet X-axis Ans. At infinity. He tried to confuse me here. 3. Properties of Normal Distribution Ans. Bell curve, uncorrelated implies independence, 2 parameter distribution defined by its mean and sd. Generally fits most practical situations. 4. Differentiability of abs(x) Ans. Differentiable everywhere except 0. 5. How do you say when a function is continuous. Ans. When left limit = right limit = f(x) for all x. 6. How do you say if a function is differentiable? Ans. When left derivative = right derivative. |
| GK/Current Affairs asked (if any) | No |
| Is the interview stressful? | No |
| Tips for Written Exam | Arun Sharma – Reading Comprehension and Logical reasoning books |
| Tips to fill Application Form | Be true. Do not overstate as it may back fire. Write only those points to which you can answer, discard those which you are not sure of. Try to connect your goals to business analytics. |
| Personal Interview | 1. medium.com 2. Probability and Statistics by WW Hines and Montgomery |
| Any other interaction post-interview | Also, they asked some Civil Engineering related questions as I was a Civil Engineering Graduate. |
| Full name | Karthikeya R |
| College | IIT Kharagpur |
| Specialization | B.Tech in Agricultural and Food Engineering |
| Work Experience (in Months) | Experienced (11) |
| Organization(Name) | PhonePe |
| Designation | Business Analyst |
| Work Experience Background | Analytics/Consulting |
| Interview Location city | Bangalore |
| Rating interview experience (out of 5 being very good) | 4 |
| Relevant Technical/ Analytics/ML questions | Hypothesis Testing, p-value etc. |
| Maths/Stats questions | Asked to Prove Pythagoras theorem [Draw the perpendicular from the right vertex to hypotenuse and use Similar triangles theorem] |
| GK/Current Affairs asked (if any) | Yes |
| Is the interview stressful? | Maybe |
| Tips for Written Exam | I would recommend practicing from Previous year JEE Mains Questions (Arihant) [only intersection topics], any popular test series (to improve speed). |
| Tips to fill Application Form | Write what is relevant to the professional background. Most of my interview was stressed over what was written. |
| Personal Interview | Questions on Matrix Linear Transformations, Mathematical Induction, Applications of Analytics in Payments Industry followed by Why PGDBA, General Awareness Questions, etc. |
| Any other interaction post-interview | – |
| Full name | KOLLI PARASURAM |
| College | NIT Bhopal |
| Specialization | B.tech in Electronics and Communication |
| Work Experience (in Months) | Experienced (33) |
| Organization(Name) | Bharti Airtel |
| Designation | Assistant Manager |
| Work Experience Background | Telecommunication |
| Interview Location city | Delhi |
| Rating interview experience (out of 5 being very good) | 5 |
| Relevant Technical/ Analytics/ML questions | Nothing related to above topics. The panel asked me about work i do in my company. Then they asked if i know coding. I said no. Then they asked what i know in technical. I said Mathematics. Then interviewer asked what in mathematics and gave examples like statistics, probability. I said i am ok with any of the topic. Then they asked if i am comfortable with random variables. I said Yes and from that point interview started. |
| Maths/Stats questions | Q1. Find probability mass function of discrete random variable at one point giving its value at all other points? Ans:- Sum of probabilities is 1. So subtracted the sum of probabilities of all other points from 1 to get required answer. This took a good amount of time for calculation and gave correct answer. Q2. Plot the probability mass function of above discrete random variable? Ans:- I drawn it correctly. Q3. Find the probability of a continuous discrete random variable to lie between 1 and 2 giving cumulative distribution function (cdf)? Ans:- If cfd=f(x) then integrate f(x)dx with between lower limit 1 and higher limit 2. I did not solve it completely i drawn the graph and shaded area and wrote the integration form. Interviewer seen the equation and said it correct and not needed to solve completely. Q4. Find expected value of expected value of discrete random variable in first question? Ans:- summation of xf(x) from x=-infinity to x=infinity where f(x) is pmf in terms of random variable x. I answered it correctly. Q5. Find the expected value for the continuous random variable in third question? Ans:- Integration of xf(x) from x=-infinity to x=infinity where f(x) is cdf I answered it correctly. Then he asked if i know about situations of two random variables. I said i can do but only to basic level. Interviewer said he will ask basic level questions only and asked. Q6. Joint pdf of two random variable X and Y is given and asked to find marginal cdf of y where 0<x<y<1. Ans:- Integrate the x from 0 to y for the joint pdf to get marginal cdf in term of y. I answered it correctly. Q7. Find the probability of the function now? Ans:- We have to integrate the maginal cdf in y for its limits 0 to 1 where we get answer as 1. I got confused about the lower limit of integration here weather 0 or x. I took a bit of time in thinking and expressed doubt put x but he said it wrong then changed to 0. Sir( interviewer) later gave reason for it. Q8. Draw the plot of the joint pdf region? Ans:- I drawn the region 0<x<y<1 and shaded region on XY axis correctly. |
| GK/Current Affairs asked (if any) | Yes |
| Is the interview stressful? | No |
| Tips for Written Exam | I did not read anything specific just went through my +2 Math textbook Agarwal that to only for additional topics to CAT like Integration, Differentiation,Vectors and Matrices |
| Tips to fill Application Form | Follow the rules prescribed correctly. |
| Personal Interview | I watched 3Blue1Brown youtube videos on Linear Algebra. Can study other topics also from 3Blue1Brown channel. Advanced Engineering Mathematics by Erwin Kreyszig. Very good book especially for Probability and Statistics. This is the book i followed during my interview preparation. |
| Any other interaction post-interview | They asked why this course and how i use this knowledge. That’s it. |
| Full name | Hemanthkumar E |
| College | Amrita School of Engineering |
| Specialization | mechanical |
| Work Experience (in Months) | Experienced (20) |
| Organization(Name) | Infosys limited |
| Designation | Systems Engineer |
| Work Experience Background | Software/IT and ITES, Analytics/Consulting |
| Interview Location city | Bangalore |
| Rating interview experience (out of 5 being very good) | 4 |
| Relevant Technical/ Analytics/ML questions | Explain entropy in decision tree. Explain logistics regression. |
| Maths/Stats questions | Explain type 1 and type 2 error. What is precision and recall. What is F1 score . |
| GK/Current Affairs asked (if any) | No |
| Is the interview stressful? | No |
| Tips for Written Exam | I went through 40 year paper solved iit JEE mathematics Amit M Agarwal |
| Tips to fill Application Form | Give more importance on those topics which you are comfortable in. For instance, I want the interviewers to ask questions from my work experience so I wrote about my work in the application form. |
| Personal Interview | I went through ncert math book. For data science related topics, I analytics Vidya website was helpful. |
| Any other interaction post-interview | – |
| Full name | Sakshi Nagori |
| College | IIT Madras |
| Specialization | B.Tech in Naval Architecture and Ocean Engineering |
| Work Experience (in Months) | Experienced (11) |
| Organization(Name) | LnT Defence |
| Designation | Design Engineer |
| Work Experience Background | Oil and Gas |
| Interview Location city | Delhi |
| Rating interview experience (out of 5 being very good) | 5 |
| Relevant Technical/ Analytics/ML questions | What is Linear Regression? How do we ensure minimum distance between estimated and actual points (Basically wanted me to talk about RMS method) Showed me a graph for non-linear relationship between variables and asked me about how would i approach finding a regression of such variables. |
| Maths/Stats questions | Logical Questions on Inference: Logical Consequence of Negation of a statement |
| GK/Current Affairs asked (if any) | Yes |
| Is the interview stressful? | Yes |
| Tips for Written Exam | I solved only last years’ question papers seriously and it helped. Solving the NCERTs would be of great help too |
| Tips to fill Application Form | Think carefully about the hobbies that you would be asked to write. They ask questions regarding that. |
| Personal Interview | They asked me a lot of current affairs questions like Insolvency and Bankruptcy Bill. Be prepared with your resume, work experience and educational background |
| Any other interaction post-interview | – |
| Full name | Murali Krishna |
| College | IIT Madras |
| Specialization | BTech Mechanical |
| Work Experience (in Months) | Experienced (23) |
| Organization(Name) | Citi |
| Designation | officer |
| Work Experience Background | BFSI/Finance |
| Interview Location city | Bangalore |
| Rating interview experience (out of 5 being very good) | 4 |
| Relevant Technical/ Analytics/ML questions | not specifically.It will be good if you have a brief idea of what those terms are and what is the current trend. |
| Maths/Stats questions | many of the question asked were based on my maths courses in my UG (linear algebra, Differential equations, calculus). The question are based on the answer u give for the last questions and related to what u have done. below are the some of the question asked: 1. Basic idea of how different graphs look Ex; draw graph of e^(sinx) and why the graph behaves.what is min and max. how do u calculate 2.write the differential equation of whose solution is e^(sinx) (equation can be one degree or two degree) – you can differential the equation twice and form a equation 3. Types of the distribution (like possion,binomial…).what is mean,medain,mode .some probability question 4. what are eigen vectors and values? How many eigen values can 3*3 matrix have? 5. some basic question were asked on core course (Mechanical engineering) 6. question on parabola..which country has a parabola shape? 7. capital of Austria? () some Hr questions…tell me about this yourself? why do u want to apply for this course 8. question of projects if ur experienced |
| GK/Current Affairs asked (if any) | Yes |
| Is the interview stressful? | Maybe |
| Tips for Written Exam | ncert (maths 11 and 12) + previous papers |
| Tips to fill Application Form | if u have any specific achievements.do mention it. Can be sport etc.. and question asked about it in interview. That might add u brownie points |
| Tips for Personal Interview | – |
| Any other interaction post-interview | – |
| Full name | Bhushan Chaudhari |
| College | College of Engineering Pune |
| Specialization | B.Tech IT |
| Work Experience (in Months) | Experienced (11) |
| Organization(Name) | Barcalys Technology Center |
| Designation | Business Analyst |
| Work Experience Background | Software/IT and ITES |
| Interview Location city | Mumbai |
| Rating interview experience (out of 5 being very good) | 4 |
| Relevant Technical/ Analytics/ML questions | No Analytics questions asked |
| Maths/Stats questions | 1) Solving system of linear equations using matrices? 3 equations were given i converted them in matrix form then panel asked me whether solution for this system exists then I calculated the determinant of matrix which happened to be not equal to zero hence I answered solution exists and calculated the answer by converting matrix into upper triangular matrix.2) What is rank of matrix and it’s physical significance? Number of independent rows in matrix . Then panel asked me relation between determinant of matrix and rank to which I answered if the rank is less than dimension of matrix then determinant will be zero and hence corresponding system of linear equation will not have unique solution. Physical significance – Amount of information stored in matrix. |
| GK/Current Affairs asked (if any) | Yes |
| Is the interview stressful? | No |
| Tips for Written Exam | class 11-12 Ncert Maths textbooks |
| Tips to fill Application Form | I was asked 2-3 questions based on hobby’s mentioned in form. So fill the form as you want but make sure that you will be able to answer any question if asked on any point you have mentioned in form. |
| Tips for Personal Interview | – |
| Any other interaction post-interview | – |
| Full name | Rohit Bajpai |
| College | NMIMS |
| Specialization | B-tech in Mechanical Engineering |
| Work Experience (in Months) | Experienced (18) |
| Organization(Name) | Mahindra Finance |
| Designation | Senior Area officer |
| Work Experience Background | Finance and sales |
| Interview Location city | Delhi |
| Rating interview experience (out of 5 being very good) | 3 |
| Relevant Technical/ Analytics/ML questions | – |
| Maths/Stats questions | Simple derivative and linear algebra question |
| GK/Current Affairs asked (if any) | Yes |
| Is the interview stressful? | No |
| Tips for Written Exam | Just go through NCERT Mathmatics textbook |
| Tips to fill Application Form | They generally ask about what you write in interview application form. |
| Personal Interview | – |
| Any other interaction post-interview | – |
| Full name | Deo Ashish Samanta |
| College | IISER Bhopal |
| Specialization | BS-MS in Mathematics |
| Work Experience (in Months) | Fresher |
| Organization(Name) | – |
| Designation | – |
| Work Experience Background | – |
| Interview Location city | Delhi |
| Rating interview experience (out of 5 being very good) | 5 |
| Relevant Technical/ Analytics/ML questions | 1) What is a probability space? define precisely. 2) Give an example of continuous probability distribution. 3) What is the expectation of this distribution? 4) Can we define a “measure” on some class of sets using the distribution functions? |
| Maths/Stats questions | The questions were from the mathematics courses I have done. 1) What is a complex analytic function? 2) Check at how many points |z| is analytic? 3) Write the Maclaurin-Laurent series for the function z*exp(-1/z)? What are poles and singularities? 4) What is Cantor set, measure of a Cantor set, Finite intersection property, Heine Borel Theorem. |
| GK/Current Affairs asked (if any) | Yes |
| Is the interview stressful? | Maybe |
| Tips for Written Exam | NCERT Mathematics |
| Tips to fill Application Form | Check all the details which you have given multiple times. Keep extra copies of all the documents just for the sake of backup. Though it doesn’t seem that they read your write-ups demanded on the application but, you must write it carefully and be ready to answer questions based on that. |
| Personal Interview | I think NCERT mathematics suffices for every thing. Practice some logical reasoning and data interpretation problems from CAT previous year’s papers. You may look at CAT papers for verbal sections also but, the level of questions would be easier in PGDBA. |
| Any other interaction post-interview | – |
| Full name | Subramania Bharathi |
| College | IIT KHARAGPUR |
| Specialization | B.Tech + M.Tech in Ocean Engineering and Naval Architecture |
| Work Experience (in Months) | Experienced (35) |
| Organization(Name) | Indian register of shipping |
| Designation | Assistant Surveyor |
| Work Experience Background | Service ( Classification society) |
| Interview Location city | Mumbai |
| Rating interview experience (out of 5 being very good) | 3 |
| Relevant Technical/ Analytics/ML questions | I was not have any prior experience related to analytics so most of the questions where about simple maths (geometry, probability etc). I was asked to explain the possibility of applying analytics in my field |
| Maths/Stats questions | 1)Sum of any two sides of triangle is greater than the third, can we tell the same for any n sided polygon 2)To explain few theorems in analytics ( Since I was not aware of any of those, they asked me to choose my favourite topic in Maths) 3) I Chose probability, a) When probability of winning a event is given. What is the probability of winning the event for the first time in your 10th attempt. (Answered correctly so continued ) b) What is the probability of winning the event for the second time in your 10th attempt. |
| GK/Current Affairs asked (if any) | No |
| Is the interview stressful? | No |
| Tips for Written Exam | NCERT |
| Tips to fill Application Form | Just be honest |
| Personal Interview | Previous interview experiences from quora |
| Any other interaction post-interview | – |
| Full name | Kowshik Moyya |
| College | IIT Dhanbad |
| Specialization | ECE |
| Work Experience (in Months) | Experienced (32) |
| Organization(Name) | Microsoft |
| Designation | Consultant |
| Work Experience Background | Software/IT and ITES |
| Interview Location city | Mumbai |
| Rating interview experience (out of 5 being very good) | 4 |
| Relevant Technical/ Analytics/ML questions | No technical questions were asked.Questions were mostly around my work done in Microsoft and 2-3 linear algebra questions. |
| Maths/Stats questions | A professor from ISI gave a problem of linear algebra to find pattern and solve equations in an easy way. |
| GK/Current Affairs asked (if any) | No |
| Is the interview stressful? | No |
| Tips for Written Exam | PGDBA previous question papers.You can find easily in the internet. |
| Tips to fill Application Form | As far as I remember, mostly form was pretty straight forward,I took help from pagalguy for minor details. |
| Personal Interview | Essence of linear algebra : https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZHQObOWTQDPD3MizzM2xVFitgF8hE_ab Understand the importance of Eigen vectors ,Eigen values |
| Any other interaction post-interview | I was last in the panel to be interviewed for the day.So I asked them “Is the myth that last candidate to be interview will be at disadvantage,True?”.The panel laughed and said they were not in hurry and they consider each and every candidate meticulously. |
| Full name | Saikumar Korada |
| College | IIT Madras |
| Specialization | Naval architecture and Ocean Engineering |
| Work Experience (in Months) | Experienced (36) |
| Organization(Name) | Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd |
| Designation | Assistant Manager |
| Work Experience Background | Manufacturing |
| Interview Location city | Mumbai |
| Rating interview experience (out of 5 being very good) | 3 |
| Relevant Technical/ Analytics/ML questions | No questions about Analytics |
| Maths/Stats questions | Easy basic maths questions |
| GK/Current Affairs asked (if any) | No |
| Is the interview stressful? | No |
| Tips for Written Exam | Check the previous papers online. |
| Tips to fill Application Form | Panel had checked my application form thoroughly to known your goals and your interest in course |
| Personal Interview | I personally prepared basic statistics and probability but my panel hasn’t asked me any questions about it. They have asked about my work experience and concepts involved in my bachelors. It was a short interview to test my conceptual understanding and seriousness about course |
| Any other interaction post-interview | – |
| Full name | Suman Basak |
| College | Jadavpur University |
| Specialization | BE in Mechanical Engineering |
| Work Experience (in Months) | Experienced (24) |
| Organization(Name) | Tata Motors Ltd. |
| Designation | Senior Manager |
| Work Experience Background | Manufacturing |
| Interview Location city | Kolkata |
| Rating interview experience (out of 5 being very good) | 4 |
| Relevant Technical/ Analytics/ML questions | I was not asked any technical question related to Analytics/ML/DS, as I don’t have analytics background. But they asked about my motivation towards this field. |
| Maths/Stats questions | I have one course on Optimisation during my MTech. So mathematics questions were mostly around that topic.
Question: (Simple Optimisation problem) You have a wire of constant length (say l). If you bend the wire to make a rectangle, what would be the maximum enclosed area? Then series of questions linked to the above question like how is this maximum, why not minimum and things like that. Question: How to solve non-linear optimisation problem with multiple inequality constraints? |
| GK/Current Affairs asked (if any) | Yes |
| Is the interview stressful? | No |
| Tips for Written Exam | 1. Solve thoroughly ISI Tomato book for maths part. Pdf is available online. And any IIT-JEE maths book, you can refer.
2. For Verbal, DI & LR any standard CAT practice book will suffice. Note: As PGDBA is getting highly competitive with each passing year, make sure you practice thoroughly and get as much marks in written exam as possible. |
| Tips to fill Application Form | Just fill with the facts. And state good extracurricular points as I can remember my interviewer asked me about those. |
| Personal Interview | Though interviews are highly subjective and no amount of preparation would be good enough, you can refer interview experiences of previous & current batches. They usually test your mathematical.and analytical mindset. Questions from linear algebra, basic programming and probability were asked previously in the interview. Prepare them well. |
| Any other interaction post-interview | During interview they will thoroughly check your motivation. So be prepared with that. Be well versed about the course and how this course is different from regular MBA. Why you are not pursuing MBA! Be prepared with these kind of questions. |
| Full name | Aditya Gadepalli |
| College | BITS Pilani |
| Specialization | BE (Hons) Mechanical Engineering |
| Work Experience (in Months) | Experienced (10) |
| Organization(Name) | Capgemini |
| Designation | Senior Software Engineer |
| Work Experience Background | Software/IT and ITES |
| Interview Location city | Bangalore |
| Rating interview experience (out of 5 being very good) | 5 |
| Relevant Technical/ Analytics/ML questions | What is the difference between regression and curve fitting? |
| Maths/Stats questions | None |
| GK/Current Affairs asked (if any) | Yes |
| Is the interview stressful? | No |
| Tips for Written Exam | – |
| Tips to fill Application Form | Please mention any prior analytics experience even if its projects/internship related. |
| Personal Interview | |
| Any other interaction post-interview | – |
| Full name | Sugandha Ranjan |
| College | NIT Patna |
| Specialization | B. Tech. Computer Science |
| Work Experience (in Months) | Experienced (30) |
| Organization(Name) | UnitedHealth group |
| Designation | Software Engineer |
| Work Experience Background | Software/IT and ITES |
| Interview Location city | Delhi |
| Rating interview experience (out of 5 being very good) | 4 |
| Relevant Technical/ Analytics/ML questions | The technical questions were focussed on the following areas: On my work ex – project in UHG where I worked on extracting the data from the file on demographic information and drugs and maintaining the database. The panel asked how the file was read. How the patterns were identified to extract requisite info given the file was xml. How could one have used statistical tools to obtain this. On my b.tech. project – it was based on machine learning, classification. To identify if a devnagri script is a text or a non-text. The questions were on feature generation and what smoothening and other techniques meant. How the data was collected. |
| Maths/Stats questions | The first question was about to plot mod(sin x) which overlapped with the next question about integration. I cannot recall the exact question but it had something to do with replacement and transformation of algebraic expression using trigonometric identities. Next question was on radius of curvature which was mentioned in my b.tech project report. They asked me how to compute the radius of curvature and its physical significance and intuition. |
| GK/Current Affairs asked (if any) | Yes |
| Is the interview stressful? | Yes |
| Tips for Written Exam | IMS PGDBA short term course might be helpful as it has the topics in brief. One can refer to the ncert books or other relevant books in order to brush up plus two maths concepts. |
| Tips to fill Application Form | Jot down all the points briefly and concisely. Try to use bullets. Write in a legible and neat manner. The descriptive questions pertaining to goals and motivation for analytics should be answered in a proper sense that accents one’s educational background and is relevant to the work experience. The answers should show that one is highly inclined towards pursuing the field of analytics |
| Personal Interview | I per se did not refer to any website or resources. Reading past experiences on quora was a major help. One should practice all the questions one can think about before going for the interview as it was a stressed one for me. |
| Any other interaction post-interview | Had interactions with other aspirants and got to know that few had interviews even more stressed than mine. The panel might ask certain bizarre questions like draw the map of Japan, etc, in order to put one under pressure. But staying calm and composed is the key. |
| Full name | Vineet Kumar |
| College | Jadavpur University |
| Specialization | B.E. in Computer Sc. & Engg. |
| Work Experience (in Months) | Fresher |
| Organization(Name) | – |
| Designation | – |
| Work Experience Background | – |
| Interview Location city | Kolkata |
| Rating interview experience (out of 5 being very good) | 4 |
| Relevant Technical/ Analytics/ML questions | They asked for a favourite subject. I told them Networks, Algorithms, Graphs. Started with Networks– Tell about OSI/TCP IP Model. Various Routing algorithms you know. Explain Dijkstra’s. Any other Routing Algo — OSPF, MSTs. Euler Circuits, Hamiltonians. Then a discussion on past projects and internships, BTP on NLP — what is NMF why it is important, Why apache-spark not Hadoop (from internship). |
| Maths/Stats questions | The number of one to one and onto functions between two sets of cardinality x and y, example of a continuous but nondifferentiable function and explain why such thing happens from first principle (I think they were looking for \epsilon \delta approach), prove Bayes theorem. |
| GK/Current Affairs asked (if any) | Yes |
| Is the interview stressful? | Maybe |
| Tips for Written Exam | I used my old TMH Maths book from JEE days. Almost no preparation of Verbal and RC. If you are adept at reading novels then I don’t think you need any preparation. If you have somewhat good maths background you can warp up quant section in almost 80 minute. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNn75PJi2J5OmZGuLCZGJPg this channel has good math review tutorials to brush up co-ordinate geometry. Key suggestions: Study probability & statistics. Preferably from ocw mit 6.041. Revise all the math courses of your engineering curriculum. |
| Tips to fill Application Form | Write whatever you can defend. |
| Any other interaction post-interview | Why PGDBA? Why not masters in CS? Why not accept your job? Sandwich was also offered 😛 |
| Full name | Adarsh Patankar |
| College | IIT BHU |
| Specialization | B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering |
| Work Experience (in Months) | Experienced (10) |
| Organization(Name) | Indian Oil Corp Ltd. |
| Designation | Engineer |
| Work Experience Background | Oil and Gas |
| Interview Location city | Delhi |
| Rating interview experience (out of 5 being very good) | 4 |
| Relevant Technical/ Analytics/ML questions | I was asked to tell various time series forecasting techniques that I have used for stock price forecasting. |
| Maths/Stats questions | I was asked to form appropriate null and alternative hypothesis about the next day’s stock price and clearly state the assumptions that I made about the variables. Basic concepts related to hypothesis testing was checked. Also questions similar to why you assumed X variable will follow Y probability distribution; what distribution will difference of these two variables likely to follow were asked. |
| GK/Current Affairs asked (if any) | Yes |
| Is the interview stressful? | No |
| Tips for Written Exam | Revisit class 11th,12th mathematics, specifically calculus. Previous years papers are must. |
| Tips to fill Application Form | Fill the application form carefully as the interview panel has your form. They do look at the form and interview’s starting questions could be based on that. |
| Personal Interview | Go through last year’s interview experiences. Prepare your past projects/internships/work experience in depth. (Specifically if related to Stats/Analytics) |
| Any other interaction post-interview | – |
| Full name | Anurag Malakar |
| College | IIEST Shibpur |
| Specialization | B.E in Mechancal Engineering |
| Work Experience (in Months) | Experienced (22) |
| Organization(Name) | Maruti Suzuki India Limited |
| Designation | Territorial Sales Manager |
| Work Experience Background | Marketing/Advertising |
| Interview Location city | Mumbai |
| Rating interview experience (out of 5 being very good) | 5 |
| Relevant Technical/ Analytics/ML questions | As I didn’t have any Analytics Experience and my background was Mechanical Engineering, no technical questions pertaining to the field of analytics was asked. |
| Maths/Stats questions | What is the probability that the digits of a randomly selected three-digit number will be in ascending order from left to right (without repetitions)?
Answer: 0 can’t be a part of the number. So, there are 9 numbers to choose from. When you have selected three digits out of 9, there are 6 permutations possible, out of which only in 1 will the digits be in ascending order from left to right. So, total number of desired 3-digit numbers = 9C3 Probability = (9C3)/900 |
| GK/Current Affairs asked (if any) | No |
| Is the interview stressful? | No |
| Tips for Written Exam | https://brilliant.org/ : This is a great website to practice Maths questions. Most of the concepts covered in the exam is available here.
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJicmE8fK0EiFRt1Hm5a_7SJFaikIFW30 : Good place to learn how to think logically. Helps in the DI-LR section. |
| Tips to fill Application Form | Be honest and direct, and mention points that you would like to be questioned on. |
| Personal Interview | Read the newspaper editorials thoroughly. Know about your place of work/undergraduate institute in detail. Have an idea of what PGDBA is all about, and what is your motivation behind applying for this course. |
| Any other interaction post-interview | – |
| Full name | Ankit Khairkar |
| College | NIT Trichy |
| Specialization | Instrumentation and Control Engineering |
| Work Experience (in Months) | Experienced (35) |
| Organization(Name) | Citicorp services India pvt ltd |
| Designation | Software Developer |
| Work Experience Background | Software/IT and ITES |
| Interview Location city | Mumbai |
| Rating interview experience (out of 5 being very good) | 4 |
| Relevant Technical/ Analytics/ML questions | – |
| Maths/Stats questions | I was asked to solve some basic mathematical equations related to logarithms and indices. Statistics questions were based on basic distributions. |
| GK/Current Affairs asked (if any) | No |
| Is the interview stressful? | No |
| Full name | Kunal Manchanda |
| College | BITS Pilani |
| Specialization | B.E. Mechanical Engineering |
| Work Experience (in Months) | Experienced (33) |
| Organization(Name) | ZS Associates |
| Designation | Associate Consultant |
| Work Experience Background | Analytics/Consulting |
| Interview Location city | Delhi |
| Rating interview experience (out of 5 being very good) | 4 |
| Relevant Technical/ Analytics/ML questions | A basic question on logistic regression was asked (I had mentioned it as part of the project I had worked on during job) |
| Maths/Stats questions | 1. I was asked to write the equation of normal and binomial distribution, (I struggled a bit on writing the equation of normal distribution but they moved on saying that they don’t expect us to remember the entire equation but idea should suffice) 2. I was given a probability density function and asked to calculate expected value (It was a simple equation which required very basic concept of expected value) |
| GK/Current Affairs asked (if any) | Yes |
| Is the interview stressful? | No |
| Tips for Written Exam | NCERT for Maths, CAT material for DI/LR and Verbal and previous year question paper should be enough |
| Tips to fill Application Form | Make sure points are brief and concise. You should be prepared to get grilled on the points (My interview started with questions on my hobby) |
| Personal Interview | Case in Point has a very good chapter on interviews, it’s not applicable completely but you can use it as a starting point for your interview prep. |
| Any other interaction post-interview | – |
| Full name | Arnab Das |
| College | Jadavpur University |
| Specialization | B.E in Electrical Engineering |
| Work Experience (in Months) | Experienced (22) |
| Organization(Name) | PwC |
| Designation | Consultant |
| Work Experience Background | Software/IT and ITES |
| Interview Location city | Kolkata |
| Rating interview experience (out of 5 being very good) | 4 |
| Relevant Technical/ Analytics/ML questions | Algorithm |
| Maths/Stats questions | – |
| GK/Current Affairs asked (if any) | No |
| Is the interview stressful? | Maybe |
| Tips for Written Exam | Past years papers and +2 maths book |
| Tips to fill Application Form | – |
| Personal Interview | Basics of maths,statistics and analytics.Maybe algorithms if you have a background. |
| Any other interaction post-interview | – |
| Full name | Piyush Raj Gupta |
| College | IIT Kanpur |
| Specialization | Chemical engineering |
| Work Experience (in Months) | Experienced (11) |
| Organization(Name) | Loylty Rewardz Management Pvt. Ltd. |
| Designation | Trainee Data Scientist |
| Work Experience Background | Analytics/Consulting |
| Interview Location city | Mumbai |
| Rating interview experience (out of 5 being very good) | 4 |
| Relevant Technical/ Analytics/ML questions | What was your day-to-day job? Tell us a use-case where you used any data manipulation(and some cross-questions from the use case that was discussed). |
| Maths/Stats questions | Numerical methods for computations, Fibonacci Series, Golden Ratio |
| GK/Current Affairs asked (if any) | No |
| Is the interview stressful? | No |
| Tips for Written Exam | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4Ko_X8HKNi19Nn_zV59jVg |
| Tips to fill Application Form | Be honest. |
| Personal Interview | – |
| Any other interaction post-interview | I asked the panel about any reading materials that they could suggest for learning more about the field. |
| Full name | A V SatyaSai |
| College | SASTRA UNIVERSITY |
| Specialization | B. Tech in Electrical and Electronics Engineering |
| Work Experience (in Months) | Experienced (35) |
| Organization(Name) | TCS |
| Designation | Systems Engineer |
| Work Experience Background | Software/IT and ITES |
| Interview Location city | Bangalore |
| Rating interview experience (out of 5 being very good) | 4 |
| Relevant Technical/ Analytics/ML questions | Not completely technical, they have asked about descriptive analytics, predictive, prescriptive analytics and real-life applications of these analytics |
| Maths/Stats questions | Questions on Newton-Raphson & Simpsons rule & trapezoidal rule methods for numerical integration , double integrals and area under curve ,random variables & CDF, permutations & combinations |
| GK/Current Affairs asked (if any) | Yes |
| Is the interview stressful? | No |
| Tips for Written Exam | CBSE 11 and 12 textbook and Arihant books can be used for reference |
| Tips to fill Application Form | Be specific in providing hobbies |
| Personal Interview | For Maths, u can revise basics in CBSE 11 and 12 textbooks and prepare some basics of statistics, random variables, and distributions and quickly skim gkduniya for current affairs |
| Any other interaction post-interview | – |
| Full name | Subhasis Panda |
| College | IIT Bombay |
| Specialization | B.Tech in Civil Engineering |
| Work Experience (in Months) | Experienced (24) |
| Organization(Name) | TATA Strategic Management Group, KPMG |
| Designation | Business Analyst, Analyst |
| Work Experience Background | Analytics/Consulting |
| Interview Location city | Mumbai |
| Rating interview experience (out of 5 being very good) | 4 |
| Relevant Technical/ Analytics/ML questions | I was asked how analytics is used in healthcare because I had mentioned I was working in the healthcare industry in my job. There were 1-2 follow-up questions regarding the application. They made sure whether I really know the application, or it is something which is already existing, and analytics is not involved in it. Then, there was a case-study to apply analytics in Judiciary to fast track cases. What can be different analytical methods employed to reduce time for case completion |
| Maths/Stats questions | I was asked a question on conditional probability which was slightly tricky. I was also asked thoroughly about parameter estimation techniques such as likelihood functions and their relevance. |
| GK/Current Affairs asked (if any) | No |
| Is the interview stressful? | No |
| Tips for Written Exam | I referred my IIT JEE notes which was more than enough for mathematics. For English and DI/LR, Time material for CAT would do. |
| Tips to fill Application Form | Try to justify why PGDBA course is necessarily specific to your profile |
| Personal Interview | I prepared basic questions like why PGDBA, Introduce yourself. The details of the projects I had done in my job. I also tried to study basic class 11-12, engineering mathematics and statistics. |
| Any other interaction post-interview | – |
| Full name | Adityendra Pratap Singh |
| College | NIT Delhi |
| Specialization | B. Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering |
| Work Experience (in Months) | Experienced (30) |
| Organization(Name) | Infosys Ltd |
| Designation | Senior Systems Engineer |
| Work Experience Background | Software/IT and ITES |
| Interview Location city | Mumbai |
| Rating interview experience (out of 5 being very good) | 3 |
| Relevant Technical/ Analytics/ML questions | What is the difference between qualitative data and quantitative data? |
| Maths/Stats questions | 2 probability questions 1 comparatively easy and other hard |
| GK/Current Affairs asked (if any) | No |
| Is the interview stressful? | No |
| Tips for Written Exam | https://1drv.ms/f/s!AsfoM0Dyqhkcg6pe-ADH4m57maAaBg |
| Tips to fill Application Form | Your answers should revolve around ‘Data-driven decision making’ |
| Personal Interview | Be confident. Have a basic idea about data science and machine learning from google |
| Any other interaction post-interview | – |
| Full name | Bhargav |
| College | MGIT |
| Specialization | B.Tech in Electronics and Communication Engineering |
| Work Experience (in Months) | Experienced (15) |
| Organization(Name) | HPE |
| Designation | Software Developer |
| Work Experience Background | Software/IT and ITES |
| Interview Location city | Bangalore |
| Rating interview experience (out of 5 being very good) | 5 |
| Relevant Technical/ Analytics/ML questions | – |
| Maths/Stats questions | 1. proof of number of subsets in a set of n elements ? select o element +select 1 element + select 2 element so on 2. exp(|x|) value at lt x = + inf ,-inf and is it continuous or not |
| GK/Current Affairs asked (if any) | No |
| Is the interview stressful? | Maybe |
| Tips for Written Exam | Intermediate text books |
| Full name | Neha Dhookia |
| College | IIT BHU |
| Specialization | Metallurgy |
| Work Experience (in Months) | Experienced (24) |
| Organization(Name) | Vedanta Limited |
| Designation | Process engineer |
| Work Experience Background | Production |
| Interview Location city | Mumbai |
| Rating interview experience (out of 5 being very good) | 4 |
| Relevant Technical/ Analytics/ML questions | How to estimate a parameter? Name two methods of estimating a parameter. |
| Maths/Stats questions | Proof of Bayes theorem? What is significance of this? Formula of normal distribution? What is normal distribution? Its characteristics then cross questions on it like what are different measures of dispersion. |
| GK/Current Affairs asked (if any) | No |
| Is the interview stressful? | Maybe |
| Tips for Written Exam | 11-12th Maths NCERT |
| Tips to fill Application Form | Keep it simple and try to justify why you want to enter analytics/this course. This is the question where you can be grilled in interview as well. |
| Personal Interview tips | AIMonks |
| Any other interaction post-interview | – |
| Full name | Jaiprita Prakash |
| College | NIT Allahabad |
| Specialization | B.Tech in Production & Industrial Engg. |
| Work Experience (in Months) | Experienced (30) |
| Organization(Name) | Tata Motors |
| Designation | Manager-Operations |
| Work Experience Background | Manufacturing |
| Interview Location city | Delhi |
| Rating interview experience (out of 5 being very good) | 4 |
| Relevant Technical/ Analytics/ML questions | – |
| Maths/Stats questions | What is p-value? What is its significance? Type-1 error, Type-2 error. Normal distribution curve, pareto distribution, Control charts, control limits. What distribution would you use for big data analysis. What is the principle that states this, I answered Central Limit Theorem then they asked me to define it. What is null hypothesis? Take a real life example and show how hypothesis testing works. |
| GK/Current Affairs asked (if any) | Yes |
| Is the interview stressful? | Yes |
| Tips for Written Exam | Previous year papers, any class 11th-12th Mathematics book |
| Tips to fill Application Form | Write relevant details, though the panel didn’t focus much on the form. |
| Personal Interview | Last year’s interview experiences, relevant topics related to course content such as basic statistics and analytics. |
| Any other interaction post-interview | – |
| Full name | Amrita Anand |
| College | IIT Kharagpur |
| Specialization | B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering |
| Work Experience (in Months) | Experienced (36) |
| Organization(Name) | Reliance Jio Infocomm, Gale Partners |
| Designation | Jr Data Scientist, Associate Data and Analytics |
| Work Experience Background | Analytics/Consulting |
| Interview Location city | Bangalore |
| Rating interview experience (out of 5 being very good) | 4 |
| Relevant Technical/ Analytics/ML questions | I had worked on NLP projects when I was in Jio, so the panel asked me about the approach to solve document classification problem and algorithms behind it in details. For eg. LSTM, TF-IDF etc. They were mainly focussing on the mathematical details and indepth knowledge and cross questioning regarding the same. |
| Maths/Stats questions | They asked me about Hypothesis testing. Basically, what is the significance of p value, Type 1 error, Type 2 error. |
| GK/Current Affairs asked (if any) | Why do you want to opt for PGDBA course if you already have analytics background? |
| Is the interview stressful? | Yes |
| Tips for Written Exam | RD Sharma and NCERT Maths- class 11th and 12th books. |
| Tips to fill Application Form | Fill the application form carefully. |
| Personal Interview | Revise all the topics that you prepared during your written PGDBA exams. If you have done any analytics project or you have analytics background then be more prepared and have thorough knowledge. Try to know the maths behind it. Atleast have the intuitive knowledge. Because, I observed that panelists were grilling those candidates more who had prior experience in analytics. Also, fill the interview form properly. Specially the SOP section. |
| Any other interaction post-interview | – |
| Full name | Bharath Bhambore |
| College | BMS College of Engineering |
| Specialization | Telecommunication Engineering |
| Work Experience (in Months) | Experienced (58) |
| Organization(Name) | Oracle India |
| Designation | Solutions Engineer |
| Work Experience Background | Software/IT and ITES |
| Interview Location city | Bangalore |
| Rating interview experience (out of 5 being very good) | 4 |
| Relevant Technical/ Analytics/ML questions | Functional questions like what factors would you consider while selecting a location for a base station. What inference can you get with ISD call data records? |
| Maths/Stats questions | Question was somewhat on the lines of: Given a circle of some radius, how will you get an equation for a chord of the circle. I’m not very sure if this was how they formulated it. Ans. Form a right triangle. Apply Pythagoras theorem. Differentiate partially with respect to length of perpendicular. You get a partial differential equation which is solved using one of the standard forms. |
| GK/Current Affairs asked (if any) | Don’t remember |
| Is the interview stressful? | No |
| Tips for Written Exam | Previous question papers, NCERT class 12 Mathematics books |
| Tips to fill Application Form | Past work experience can play a major role |
| Personal Interview | Go through Engineering Mathematics concepts learned in engineering |
| Any other interaction post-interview | Why did you choose this course? Explain your work etc. |
| Full name | Jaihind Sawant |
| College | MNNIT ALLAHABAD |
| Specialization | Marketing and Finance |
| Work Experience (in Months) | Fresher |
| Organization(Name) | – |
| Designation | – |
| Work Experience Background | – |
| Interview Location city | Delhi |
| Rating interview experience (out of 5 being very good) | 3 |
| Relevant Technical/ Analytics/ML questions | No but they only one question ask for me ( because of, i think i am the only one non engineering candidate in my panel, they do not focus much more in technical )responsibility of data analytics and business analytics, |
| Maths/Stats questions | Statistics SPSS Software , what is ANOVA how’s work Regression Tell me dependent and independent variableMathematics Probability coin based Question Matrix based one question |
| GK/Current Affairs asked (if any) | which company is the first to launch SPSS software |
| Is the interview stressful? | Maybe |
| Any other interaction post-interview | If you’re fresher, they might focus on projects, internships done etc. |
| Full name | PIYUSH CHAUHAN |
| College | IIT BHU |
| Specialization | B.Tech in Mechanical Engineering |
| Work Experience (in Months) | Experienced (42) |
| Organization(Name) | ONGC, Otis Elevator Company |
| Designation | Production Engineer, Assistant Manager |
| Work Experience Background | Manufacturing, Oil and Gas |
| Interview Location city | Delhi |
| Rating interview experience (out of 5 being very good) | 3 |
| Relevant Technical/ Analytics/ML questions | Do you know any ML algorithms? What is Logistic Regression? |
| Maths/Stats questions | What is rank of a matrix? (Answered that it gives complete information about the solutions of system of linear equations , whether the solutions will exist or not and how many solutions will exist) Then they asked to further elaborate the procedure of doing so if rank is less than ‘n’ for a n*n matrix. |
| GK/Current Affairs asked (if any) | What do you know about Venezuela crisis? |
| Is the interview stressful? | No |
| Tips for Written Exam | Verbal and DI-LR : Any good CAT book would be fine. Quant : I used my old JEE prep books. (Any good book that you have previously studied would be fine) |
| Tips to fill Application Form | Be true to yourselves and don’t state things you don’t know. |
| Personal Interview | Lectures by prof. Gilbert Strang were really useful for me to get basics of Linear Algebra.
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| Any other interaction post-interview | Asked about my hobbies.( i had mentioned video games in the resume) |
| Full name | saurabh suman |
| College | Institute of Engineering and Management |
| Specialization | B.Tech in ECE |
| Work Experience (in Months) | Experienced (17) |
| Organization(Name) | cognizant |
| Designation | programmer analyst |
| Work Experience Background | Software/IT and ITES |
| Interview Location city | Kolkata |
| Rating interview experience (out of 5 being very good) | 5 |
| Relevant Technical/ Analytics/ML questions | some trivial question on basic data structures like linked list and map. I was asked to write programming code for Fibonacci series using dynamic programming and regression and then was asked to compare efficiency of both the codes. Apart from that some general question about my company and projects were asked. |
| Maths/Stats questions | – |
| GK/Current Affairs asked (if any) | No |
| Is the interview stressful? | No |
| Tips for Written Exam | https://www.pagalguy.com |
| Tips to fill Application Form | – |
| Personal Interview | https://www.pagalguy.com |
| Any other interaction post-interview | I asked the panel whether I can keep my bike inside the campus to which they humbly replied ‘NO’ |
| Full name | Koustav Mitra |
| College | IIEST Shibpur |
| Specialization | B.E. in Civil Engineering |
| Work Experience (in Months) | Experienced (35) |
| Organization(Name) | Accenture Solutions Pvt Ltd |
| Designation | Application Developer |
| Work Experience Background | Software/IT and ITES |
| Interview Location city | Bangalore |
| Rating interview experience (out of 5 being very good) | 4 |
| Relevant Technical/ Analytics/ML questions | Not Much. Some questions related to implementation of analytics in Sports Management and Health Care Industry. |
| Maths/Stats questions | Quite a few questions from Probability Distribution and some derivations. |
| GK/Current Affairs asked (if any) | – |
| Is the interview stressful? | No |
| Tips for Written Exam | More focus on Mathematics based question. |
| Tips to fill Application Form | Not much to write about. |
| Personal Interview | For me lion share of the interview went on question from Probability and Probability distribution. I would recommend to prepare at least 2 topic in math. Preferably Combinatorics and Linear Algebra. |
| Any other interaction post-interview | They asked me about my work experience and Under Grad subjects briefly. |
| Full name | Swadesh |
| College | IIT Bombay |
| Specialization | B.Tech in Chemical Engineering |
| Work Experience (in Months) | Experienced (23) |
| Organization(Name) | ICICI Prudential Life Insurance |
| Designation | Manager |
| Work Experience Background | Software/IT and ITES, BFSI/Finance |
| Interview Location city | Mumbai |
| Rating interview experience (out of 5 being very good) | 4 |
| Relevant Technical/ Analytics/ML questions | – |
| Maths/Stats questions | Most of the questions were from Linear Algebra. I was asked to define rank,bases ,eigen values, eigen vectors of matrix.They asked me to solve for eigen values and rank of a particular matrix. Then there was question on find the minimum and maximum of a function(which was actually difficult) |
| GK/Current Affairs asked (if any) | No |
| Is the interview stressful? | No |
| Tips for Written Exam | – |
| Tips to fill Application Form | – |
| Personal Interview | Introduction to probability and statistics for engineers and scientists Sheldon M Ross (Basic statistics, distribution functions and probability), Basic Linear Algebra (enough material on the web) |
| Any other interaction post-interview | Major part of my interview was based on my work-ex and projects done there. Since I did my bachelor’s in Chemical Engineering one of the panelist asked me few questions on Mass transfer as well. |
| Full name | Manasvi G |
| College | Indian Institute of Space Science and Technology |
| Specialization | B. Tech in ECE (Avionics) |
| Work Experience (in Months) | Fresher |
| Organization(Name) | – |
| Designation | – |
| Work Experience Background | – |
| Interview Location city | Bangalore |
| Rating interview experience (out of 5 being very good) | 5 |
| Relevant Technical/ Analytics/ML questions | What is MNF transform? Why did I use MNF transform instead of a simple PCA during satellite image processing? |
| Maths/Stats questions | Since I was a fresher from the space science industry, the first interviewer asked me as to why I wanted to shift from space to business analytics. I replied saying that my interest has shifted towards business analytics when I took electives like deep learning and optimization for operations research. I also mentioned that at the same time, my ‘interest’ and ‘grades’ in electronics subjects were gradually going down. They asked me to model an equation consisting of these two variables, and they also asked me to first answer as to which variable was independent and which was the dependent variable. Initially it took me some time to understand the question during that period I explained as to how these parameters depended on various other factors. Later when I understood their point of view, I answered that interest is an independent variable and grades are a dependent variable as the grades depend on my preparation, my attentiveness in class, etc. The first panelist seemed to be very happy with my response and handed over the baton to the second panelist, who asked me questions about my internship which was based on satellite data analysis. |
| GK/Current Affairs asked (if any) | The third panelist asked me questions related to my hobby and was upset to see that I had written just three sentences for the given three blanks. He mentioned that everyone has written very short replies to hobbies. I described all the sentences in detail and they asked me about the different kinds of books I read, followed by questions about my other hobby which was teaching the lesser privileged kids. They asked me questions as to what I taught and which grade of students I taught. That shifted to languages when I mentioned that I sometimes teach in the native mother tongue so as to drive my point home and make the students understand more clearly. My next question was what are the official languages of Andhra Pradesh and then I was asked about languages of Kashmir. I took a wild guess, and also told them it was a guess. Everybody just laughed and a few guesses turned to be right while a few of them were wrong. |
| Is the interview stressful? | No |
| Tips for Written Exam | Math is the most important section. I think 11th and 12th NCERT math would be the best place to start and brush up basics and later go on to practicing advanced math problems. Data interpretation and logical reasoning are pretty straight forward, and easy to solve. Going through last year question papers would be highly beneficial as a certain trend can be observed in the question paper pattern and one can prepare accordingly. |
| Tips to fill Application Form | This is very important, especially for freshers because all the questions in the interview are going to revolve around whatever has been written in the application form. Do not forget to mention any relevant projects since they will add an edge to your profile and the interviewers can ask questions related to those projects as freshers will not have any work experience. Also fill in the hobbies section carefully and thoroughly. |
| Personal Interview | I went through the interviews of previous years and made a list of topics to study and go through. But at the end of the day, I’ve been asked questions only based on whatever I have filled in the interview application form. I think its best to be authentic and candid throughout the interview process. Also, one should have a certain clarity as to why they want to pursue this course and how it would be beneficial to them in their future. The panelists are looking for candidates who have a keen interest and passion for business analytics. If they get a feeling that you are genuinely interested and have done your homework in this field, then the chances of converting the interview is very high. |
| Any other interaction post-interview | Why business analytics and why not space industry? This has been asked by two panelists. They were probably just surprised, the second panelist realized that I already answered and then he just said congratulations and all the best. |
| Full name | Chetan Mehatre |
| College | NMIT Bangalore |
| Specialization | B.E in Electronics and Communication Engineering |
| Work Experience (in Months) | Experienced (9) |
| Organization(Name) | Cognizant |
| Designation | Programmer Analyst |
| Work Experience Background | Software/IT and ITES |
| Interview Location city | Bangalore |
| Rating interview experience (out of 5 being very good) | 4 |
| Relevant Technical/ Analytics/ML questions | Difference between supervised and unsupervised learning Asked some questions on my graduation project |
| Maths/Stats questions | Explain Normal Distribution What is Kurtosis and Skewness? What is the integration of mod x? Write the formula and explain Bayes Theorem |
| GK/Current Affairs asked (if any) | No |
| Is the interview stressful? | No |
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