IIT Bombay Interview

This interview is hated for all the right reasons. It fell exactly on the day my close cousin got married and as a result, I had to skip it!!.....Me, pavan and pavan’s friend rakesh came along with me. I took the train this time. It was evening 4pm train and me and pavan got the berths at the same place. rakesh joined us from begumpet. Now started the fun part. The blabber mouth tht I was, went on n on about anything n everything in the world n also discussed many current affairs in the process since I had two brainy heads with me. Oh, by the way….pavan had IIM B,I,L calls while rakesh had all calls!!....so it was obvious tht I was the one benefited the most from those conversations!!....we discussed everything from crises around the world to flop movies to mba prep to future plans…..time just flew by and we slept sooner than we expected…..

Morning 3.30am it was and pavan woke me up!....we reached some place near dadar and got down at some station by 4am. We waited for a sub urban train tht came at 4.40am and landed up at the nearest station to IIT Bombay. Took and auto and having reached the girls hostel, I bade gud bye n waited for some girl to allot me the room. The room was big n already 5 people were fast asleep in tht room. I joined them too in a very short while. My interview was scheduled in the afternoon slot and hence woke up at around 9.30, got ready and had breakfast. Revised some crap and borrowed the news ppr from a girl who just landed into the room. I know this blog is getting boring now. Lemme directly jump into the interview part.

We were again divided into slots and we were the first to go for a GD. Our topic was again some case study. Its abt how a junior officer gets promoted on account of his work efficiency and the seniors hate tht and argue tht seniority should be given preference n go to the court. Is it legal to do so? Its some public firm where private partnership is involved. What is the due course of such cases in Indian Law? What should the company do now or what should it have done?.....fairly bad GD with occasionally becoming uncontrollable fish market…… we were 12 people and it was a bad GD!!.....

Highlights of the GD:

There was some guy sitting on No-7 in the slot and he started the gd by saying lemme take u thru the key points of the case study and started reading the lines of the case study!!!!!.....we let him make two points n I decided to interrupt but the guy beside me took over n did the same. Then there were too many differences of opinion about what should they have done and wat is the due course now…..according to me….the guy beside me scored the best as he also stopped many messy situations. He did say “lets allow the lady to speak” twice n I cud make my points. tht did give him some brownie points since I had soar throat and wasn’t able to shout my way thru the gd. Many of the good points were given by the guy beside me and one more guy. I made just 3 entries n made 2 good points. Many ppl were iterating their points and I thot it all got messed up many times since 4 people were talking simultaneously!!.....finally we did manage to sum up properly what we all thot and hence a happy ending to the fish-centered fairy tale…..

My interview was slotted last. Last but one rather. So I waited and waited and waited. I took feedback from every person who came out from my panel. We had a german on the panel and many of them were having trouble getting his accent. There was another lady stats prof on our panel. When I went, the panel was almost exhausted yet happy since the interviews almost came to an end on their panel and hence all general discussion happened. The biggest burning issue then was the budget. We got it just 1 day back. Hence the whole world was discussing it. I was asked to elaborate on points of my interest in the budget and also few other things on budget. Then they asked me abt why I left my job and what I am doin now n I elaborated the same. the german was keen on knowing more abt how I spent my time after I quit my job and also few things abt my prep.

The stats prof didn’t seem interested in me since, since at some point, she made a comment like. U left ur wonderful job just for preparing. Now wats the gurantee tht u will do justice to this course when u find a gud job. U might loose interest in it then. Oh, cmon mam!!....dont act like my 6 year old cousin who has great logical questions all the time but never do they come anywhere close to reality!!.....i realized tht the lady prof was very unimpressed with me for whatever reasons. I think there are gen I dont like u vibes from lady profs anywhere in the world when it comes to girls!!...something similar but much better than this happened to me in delhi too!!....there were few questions on who is shiv khera and some other crappy guy who I never even heard of!!....so I answered abt shiv khera n bluntly didn’t acknowledge the second person’s name!!.....

Having completed the interview, I know I wudnt make it. My deep sub conscious mind tht woke up just now told me so…..so its petty strong n clear tht I wudnt make it[:P]….. how ever after narrating my interview, ppl had something nice to say……some even went to the extent of saying…..hey tht second guy….may be it was just a fictious character….they wanted to check out the way u handle unknown things!!......very sweet of them but I knew I didn’t do well….some how I felt so….rakesh was on the afternoon batch too n he was on different slot. I kept waiting for him and many of the seniors came up to me and asked how the interview went n what they thot abt it…..i did get many contradictory reviews on my interview but I knew what was in store for me. rakesh was also last on his panel n came out very late. He said his interview went well and the panel ppl were happy with his answers!!....well atleast someone I know shall make it thru IIT Bombay!!!....a special mention here shud go to the seniors who organized the whole things for us…..they are all amazing n they coordinated well….lucky are the ones who would be goin there to study with those seniors!!....

pavan had his interview the next day afternoon and I was already bored!!....i spent the evening lazing around in the hostel and slept off after an early dinner. By the way, we had to buy food coupons in the mess but I never did. Only on day1 breakfast, I bout one coupon!!...rest all muft mein khaliya!!....arre yaar room ke liye already 200 paid off….why again for food is my point!!....anyway the next day, my mom’s first cousin called up n asked if I wud want to visit their house and I said yes. I went n met them n in the evening aunty, me and my cousin went shopping on the roads of Bombay…..it was amazing. Bombay has the cheapest n the best stuff anyone could ever get!!....i did some small scale shopping since the budget wasn’t permitting me….i took a sub urban train again n landed in the Bombay station….i had pavan waiting thr already and we had dinner on the train, spoke for a while abt the interviews and then slept off since it was an eventful yet tiring day…..

First impressions on the city:

the city is over crowded with people. In the 4.40am sub urban train….there was no place to sit!!....i couldn’t believe what my eyes saw….so many ppl on their way to work n tht too so early in the morning!!....i can’t believe it!!....the streets are too narrow…..the bus service is gud n also ppl seemed courteous too!!....one special feature among the buses there was to enter thru the back door n come out from the front door….i took tht bus from the campus to my relatives place….the long journey to tht place was good….too much of work was happening on the roads…..not too many tall buildings around the area tht I saw…..the main roads were real wide n smooth….people are hardworking n nice….auto people took one rupee less than the meter there!!....now how impossible is tht!!....

this trip was memorable in its own way since its my first trip to bombay. I did miss my cousin’s wedding in the process but I dont regret it anymore….get my cousin to hear it n she might want to kill me for saying this!!