Date: 12th February
Venue : Administrative Staff College of India,Hyderabad
Time : 2 PM
Group was of 9 people but one didnt turnup, so 8 people.
GD Topic:
Dilip joins a software company which has the motto “Treat each customer with respect and dignity”. He finds out that its not the case within the
pricing division of the company as they charge the old customers thrice the money as the new customers. He brings this issue to the notice of the manager who
scolds him for acting against him. What should he do now?
The GD was pretty smooth, no fish market scenario, no one cutting anyone else. I spoke about 8-9 times.
PI:
People were being called in random order. I was the fourth to be called.
The panel consisted of a Guy(G) and a Lady(L) both in their 40s or 50s.
I(M) enter and greet both of them. The lady asks me to take a seat while the guy takes my certificates.
L: Tell me about yourself
M: Told.
L: Do you read books?
M: No mam, I am not an avid reader.
L: Do you watch movies?
M: Yes mam.
L: What kind? Horror?
M: Primarily action and drama.
L: Telugu movies ?
M: Sometimes.
L: Whose is your favourite actor?
M: Told
L: Why not chiranjeevi ?
M: He is old.
L: There has been a lot of ruckus about his political entry and the recent rajasekhar issue. What do you think about it.
M: The problem is with his cult status. Followers shall blindly follow his ideology and cant take criticism against him etc.
L: Did A.P face this issue sometime earlier?
M: Yes, NTR – Telugu Desam Party.
L: Why do you think NTR won ?
M: Political Vaccuum, His fame, Pro-Poor policies.
L: What happened to TDP later?
M: Chandrababu naidu took over.
L: What do you think of him.
M: Tech savvy developed hyd, sec but could done a lot. Left Visakhapatnam, Vijayawada, Guntur which is a major tobacco trading centre, ports etc.
L: Tobacco – whats the international problem that India is facing with the tobacco problem?
M: I am not so sure but i think a consignment was rejected due to its poor quality.
L: Russia rejected it.
L: You are from IIIT – Tell me something about it.
M: It was established in 1998 with the state govt and private funding.
G: How many IIITS are there?
M: 4 – Hyd, Allahabad, Gwalior, Bangalore.Ours is not under any govt. while allahabad is under central govt. dont know about others. Ours is Intl. while the
others are Indian.
G: Why?
M: Explained.
L: You said you are from Ongole – what is ongole famous for?
M: Bulls
L: Why is ongole bull famous.
M: Breed is very strong – used extensively for plowing fields etc.
(By this time G goes through my certificates)
G: What is this computer vision course?
M: 2D to 3D.
G: Practical application.
M: Microsoft photosynth, CBIR etc.
G: CBIR?
M: Content based image retrieval – explained with the example of google images and how it differs from it.
G: Basic questions on CBIR – machine learning, benchmarking etc.
M: Answered.
G: When you type google.com what happens.
M: Are you talking about DNS servers etc.
G: Go ahead…
M: Explained DNS hierarchy, institute and ISP cache, NAT etc.
G: What is an IP address.
M: 32 bit identifier.
G: Write an ip.
M: 172.16.31.2 (hehe my room’s ip)
G: Explain what it is
M: 8 bits- 4 segments = 32 bits.
G: What is the maximum value?
M: 255.255.255.255
G: Explain the parts in IP address.
M: Network and host part, Class A,B,C,D,E ip addresses.
Stopped me while explaining B type.
G: What is TCP/IP?
M: Network layer protocol to ensure delivery of packets wrt to the ip addresses etc.
G: What is a dynamic ip address?
M: Allotted by DHCP etc.
G: What happens if I do some illegal stuff with my ip and then shut down my pc. Can you find me.
M: We can track down the MAC address but then we need to find to whom this MAC address belongs to etc.
G: Where does a firewall work ?
M: I am not so sure but i think that it would be Network or transport layer.
L: What are these layers?
M: Model – 5 layers , OSI – 7 Layers etc.
G: Placed ?
M: Yes sir, Oracle.
G: Thats it.
L: Do you have any questions ?
M: Mam, does IIMI provide any course on IT and management etc
L: There are electives that can be taken in 2nd year – finance, BM, IT etc.
M: Can we take multiple ?
L: Sure.
G: Only IIMB offers such course – distance learning havent you heard of it?
M: No sir.
L: How many calls do you have?
M: 6
L: Is this your first interview?
M: No mam, Lucknow was the first.
L: How did it go?
M: GD was not so good, Interview was fine.
L: How would you rate your GD today.
M: On a scale of 10 , 5-6.
L: Rank yourself in the group.
M: 4-5.
L: If you convert all the calls which one would you join.
M: Mam, i would like to do an MBA which stresses on IT ..
G: He would ask all the colleges and then decide right
M: Yes sir 😛
L: Any more queries.
M: No mam.
G,L:You can leave.
M: Thank you.
I think both GD and PI went fine. If only i hadnt asked them the last question 😦