PGDBA Interview Experiences – 2017-19

Hello Applicants!

First of all Congratulations for getting shortlisted for the interview round of the PGDBA 2018-20. To help you out with the preparation, we have collated some of the interview experiences of the students from the current batch. The interviews were mostly based on the profile and background of individual candidates.

1. Name : Amit Borkar

1.       Work Experience :  Software, IT & ITES, 40 months
2.       Duration of interview(in minutes) : 20
3.       What questions were asked related to your work experience?

• What was your startup about? Explain briefly.
• Any other startups you worked in?
• What was your role in startup?

4.       What questions were asked related to your college academics and projects?

• No questions were asked about acads and projects.

5.       What questions were asked related to Mathematics/Statistics/Analytics?

• How comfortable are you with Stats and Probability?
• A basic question on conditional probability was asked.

6.       What questions were asked related to your extra-curricular activities/hobbies?

• No questions were asked about extra-curricular activities.

7.       What questions were asked related to current affairs and general knowledge?

• Name the companies of Elon Musk?
• Questions about Warren Buffet.
• Questions about Arab Springs.

8.       What questions were asked regarding your motivation to join the course?

NA

9.       Any other question asked?

NA

10.     Any suggestion for the candidates?

• Be well prepared. Try not to bluff, say I don’t know.! Stay positive during interview, it helps. All the best 🙂

 

2. Name : Vishakha Bansal

1.       Work Experience :  Software, IT & ITES, 36 months
2.       Duration of interview(in minutes) : 15
3.       What questions were asked related to your work experience?

• What is my profile at Oracle ?
• What all projects I worked on in Oracle ?
• Despite my good experience , I want to leave Oracle and join this course . Why ?

4.       What questions were asked related to your college academics and projects?

• Being good in mathematics , why didn’t I pursue further studies in that field ?

5.       What questions were asked related to Mathematics/Statistics/Analytics?

• Definite Integral Question

6.       What questions were asked related to your extra-curricular activities/hobbies?

• I mentioned my hobbies in the interview form , they asked if I took part in any of the competitions  or involved in some activities .

7.       What questions were asked related to current affairs and general knowledge?

• How can we improve the role of women in politics ?
• Why law and order situation is not good in Kerela despite being the highest in terms of literacy in the state ?

8.       What questions were asked regarding your motivation to join the course?

• What made me choose Data Analytics ?
• What do I expect from this course ?

9.       Any other question asked? – No
10.     Any suggestion for the candidates?

• Keep the answers to the point.

 

3. Name : Manoj Mana

1.       Work Experience :  Consulting/Analytics, 36 months
2.       Duration of interview(in minutes) : 35
3.       What questions were asked related to your work experience?

• Since I have work experience in Marketing Analytics and one of the Interviewer is a friend of my company’s COO, most of the questions were related to my work.
• What all models did you build?
• How is a Random forest different from classification tree?
• What is bootstrapping?
• Types of biases in sampling data?

4.       What questions were asked related to your college academics and projects? – None
5.       What questions were asked related to Mathematics/Statistics/Analytics?

• A question on basic Trigonometry
• Define periodic function
• Difference between convergence and boundedness of a sequence

6.       What questions were asked related to your extra-curricular activities/hobbies?– None
7.       What questions were asked related to current affairs and general knowledge?

• Since I am from Telangana, my views on Telangana separate statehood
• Do you support Aadhar system?
• A data breach in the  Aadhar system might be a national security concern, do you still support the system given this shortcoming
• Which other country follows a Aadhar like system?
• Do you support Edward Snowden? Why/Why not?

8.      What questions were asked regarding your motivation to join the course?

• What do you intend to learn from this course

9.       Any other question asked? – None
10.     Any suggestion for the candidates?

• If you are a fresher, expect more questions from math. If you have experience questions will mostly be related to your work. Be adept in current affairs.

 

4. Name : Tanmay Choudhary

1.       Work Experience :  Software, IT & ITES, 36 months
2.       Duration of interview(in minutes) : 20
3.       What questions were asked related to your work experience?

• What kind of work you do?
• How is working environment different in Intel(onsite) than in Infosys(parent company)?

4.       What questions were asked related to your college academics and projects? – None
5.       What questions were asked related to Mathematics/Statistics/Analytics?

• Derive the area of circle
• Prove sin^2 + cos^2 = 1 without using any mathematical formula

6.       What questions were asked related to your extra-curricular activities/hobbies?

• What all sports do you play?
• Where was the last fifa world cup held, score of germany vs brazil?

7.       What questions were asked related to current affairs and general knowledge?

• Nagaland Manipur issue, CM of Nagaland, Messi endorses which Indian brand

8.      What questions were asked regarding your motivation to join the course?

• Why PGDBA over MBA

9.       Any other question asked? – None
10.     Any suggestion for the candidates?

• Try to be honest and do keep a smile on your face even if you don’t know the answer.

 

5. Name : Palvika

1.       Work Experience :  Oil and Gas, 31 months
2.       Duration of interview(in minutes) : 20
3.    What questions were asked related to your work experience?

• None

4.    What questions were asked related to your college academics and projects?

• None

5.    What questions were asked related to Mathematics/Statistics/Analytics?

• Questions on the following topics were asked: Probability distributions (poisson), limit and continuity questions,  first principle of differentiation, differentiabilty question

6.    What questions were asked related to your extra-curricular activities/hobbies?

• None

7.    What questions were asked related to current affairs and general knowledge?

• What is happening to  women politicians in india(Mayawati,  Sonia Gandhi, Jayalalitha)? Are they going through down phase?

8.    What questions were asked regarding your motivation to join the course?

• Why do you want to join this course?  Why not other course? What if not selected?

9.    Any other question asked?

• Why analytics?

10.   Any suggestion for the candidates?

• Figure out why u want to come to analytics and this course. Prepare calculus, matrices and probability basics.  Be confident!!

 

6. Name : Tajendra Mehta

1.       Work Experience :  Consulting/Analytics, 21 months
2.       Duration of interview(in minutes) : 20
3.    What questions were asked related to your work experience?

• I was asked about the nature of my work.
• What level of exposure to analytics I had in the different projects.  

4.    What questions were asked related to your college academics and projects? – None

5.    What questions were asked related to Mathematics/Statistics/Analytics?

I was asked two questions on mathematics. One on Linear Algebra and the other on calculus.

• They asked me to define co-factor and rank of a matrix. I was given a system of equations and had to find number of solutions using rank of the matrix.
• From calculus, I was asked to write the Leibniz integral rule (Interviewer didn’t mention the name, they said write the derivative of a definite integral).

6.    What questions were asked related to your extra-curricular activities/hobbies?

• I played squash in my college, so they asked me whether I still play squash or have I discontinued it.  

7.    What questions were asked related to current affairs and general knowledge?

• Given that the Uttar Pradesh elections had recently concluded, they asked me about the possible reasons why Samajwadi Party lost.
• Another question was whether Manmohan Singh right to join politics?  

8.    What questions were asked regarding your motivation to join the course?

• What is your reason behind joining this course?
• Do you think being good in Maths is sufficient for this course?

9.    Any other question asked?

• None

10.   Any suggestion for the candidates?

• They are judging your willingness and enthusiasm for this program. They look for your thought process instead of the right answer. If you are stuck in a problem, they will mostly guide you so that you can proceed.

7. Name : Shubhank Bhandarkar

1.       Work Experience :  Consulting/Analytics, 21 months
2.       Duration of interview(in minutes) : 25
3.    What questions were asked related to your work experience?

• What is the domain you work on (at Fractal Analytics)?
• Tell me about projects you work on?
• This was followed by Analytics related questions  

4.    What questions were asked related to your college academics and projects?

None

5.    What questions were asked related to Mathematics/Statistics/Analytics?

Mathematics:

• You have 2 sets x & y. Both has values from 1 to 100. A pair is chosen with one value from x and one from y. What is the probability that both values are even?

Analytics:

• What is Linear Regression? (Based on what i answered in question 1)
• Directing towards a whiteboard, (which had some points plotted with line passing though points) What is this line called as? (Related to Linear Regression, it was the Least Square fitted line)
• What are the methods to get the regression line? (MLE, ordinary LSE)

 

6.    What questions were asked related to your extra-curricular activities/hobbies?

• What are your hobbies? (Nothing more on that)

7.    What questions were asked related to current affairs and general knowledge?

• 1-2 current affairs questions while wrapping up the interview

8.    What questions were asked regarding your motivation to join the course?

• None. (Maybe because of work-ex in Analytics)

9.    Any other question asked?

None

10.   Any suggestion for the candidates?

• Be calm and take your time to respond to the questions. The interviewers are cool and give you time to think and even help in case you are stuck.
• Don’t give up if you don’t know the ans. They don’t expect you to know everything. Just tell them your approach even if you think the ans may be wrong.

 

8. Name : Yash Hansalia

1.       Fresher
2.       Duration of interview(in minutes) : 30 minutes
3.    What questions were asked related to your work experience?

N/A

4.    What questions were asked related to your college academics and projects?

N/A

5.    What questions were asked related to Mathematics/Statistics/Analytics?

• Give a practical explanation of poisson distribution.
• What is a relation in mathematics?
• Difference between continuity and differentiability.
• Give a function that is continuous but not differentiable?
• Explain what do you mean by hypothesis testing?
• What is supervised learning?
• Find domain of the following function:
• sininverse(logx^3(base2))
• Give a complex function that is continuous but not differentiable.
• What are different type of distributions in statistics?
• Explain central limit theorem.

6.    What questions were asked related to your extra-curricular activities/hobbies?

• Give details about your NGO experience?

7.    What questions were asked related to current affairs and general knowledge?

• Indian economy and poverty index
• Unemployment

8.    What questions were asked regarding your motivation to join the course?

• Why analytics?
• What field in analytics?

9.   Any suggestion for the candidates?

• Prepare basic statistics like different kind of distributions and their characteristics.
• Prepare calculus of Std 11 and Std 12 NCERT well ( not complicated sums but just concepts should be clear)
• Freshers will be grilled on academics.
• Why analytics? question  should be justified well.

 

9. Name : Deepanshi Seth

1.       Work Experience :  Consulting/Analytics, 9 months
2.       Duration of interview(in minutes) : 30 minutes
3.    What questions were asked related to your work experience?

• Almost half of my interview was about my work experience. They started by asking the basic questions about the company and my profile followed by the tools learned. Then there were questions on database management and ETL (ex: types of schema, basic definition of ETL, data cubes, dimensions, facts, differences between ROLAP and MOLAP etc). They also asked little bit about the type of projects I worked on.

4.    What questions were asked related to your college academics and projects?

None

5.    What questions were asked related to Mathematics/Statistics/Analytics?

• A fairly easy problem on permutations and combinations.

6.    What questions were asked related to your extra-curricular activities/hobbies?

• They asked me regarding my Kathak certifications and asked me to perform something from the street play that I did in college.

7.    What questions were asked related to current affairs and general knowledge?

• What is the full name of Narendra Modi?
• Who is the Defence Minister, Finance Minister, Education Minister?
• What factors contributed to the success of BJP in UP elections 2017?
• Compare and contrast the personalities of Uma Bharti and Mayawati.

8.    What questions were asked regarding your motivation to join the course?

• How is the course different from a management course?
• Do you plan to go for MBA after this?
• Why PGDBA and not MBA?

9.    Any other question asked?

• What programming languages I am comfortable with?

10.   Any suggestion for the candidates?

• The interviewers were very friendly and helpful. Be frank about your opinions and don’t try to manipulate things. You should be thorough with everything that you have mentioned on your interview form.

 

10. Name : V Adiseshu Naik

 

1.       Work Experience :  BFS/Finance, 12 months
2.       Duration of interview(in minutes) : 35 minutes
3.    What questions were asked related to your work experience?

• Tell me about your job role?
• what exactly RBS does and what value added my work?
• what is analyst?
• what are your achievements in the job?

4.    What questions were asked related to your college academics and projects?

• Tell me about yourself and your education background?
• what all projects i have done and all other extracurricular activities
• explaining about the projects i have done and clubs i have started in the college.

5.    What questions were asked related to Mathematics/Statistics/Analytics?

• There were basis statistics questions but interviewer asked me to solve on board. Attend with strong basic maths.
• Difference between Analyst and Analytics?

6.    What questions were asked related to your extra-curricular activities/hobbies?

• what are your hobbies and some interesting works which i have mentioned in CV

7.    What questions were asked related to current affairs and general knowledge?

• None

8.    What questions were asked regarding your motivation to join the course?

• Why do you want to join PGDBA ?

9.    Any other question asked?

• Where do you want to see yourself down the line after 5 years

10.   Any suggestion for the candidates?

• Be prepared in the basic maths and statistics. Tune the CV very well questions will be asked from the CV and from filled up in the interview process. Prepare well what all done in the job.