Date: 10th Feb 2020, Forenoon slot
Location: Novotel, Kolkata
Profile: 10/12/Grad: 88/80/84, GEM (BTech, CSE, 22 months IT Experience)
CAT Percentile: 97.8
Written Ability Test
- Topic: Is the RBI’s surplus transfer to the government enough to boost the economy?
- Time: 20 mins
Was a decent one.
Two panelists, both male
Personal Interview: Two panelists, both male
M1: Tell me about yourself.
M2: So you want to start a payments app? How will you make it secure?
Me: Told about how a payments app verifies IMEI by sending SMS automatically apart from OTP verification.
M2: From a user’s perspective, how will you make it secure?
Me: Again told about the OTP.
M2: No no…from user’s perspective.
Me: Sorry sir, I didn’t get you.
M2: I mean have you seen questions being asked to you?
Me: Yes sir, security question. But those are in net banking not present in modern UPI apps.
M2: How is Paytm different from UPI?
Me: Told
M1: Any recent economic news?
Me: Told about the RBI’s 6th bi-monthly policy
M1: What is repo rate? (From my previous answer)
Me: Told
M1: How does repo rate affect the economy?
Me: Told
M1: How will you measure inflation?
Me: Don’t know sir.
M2: So you are a CSE graduate. What subjects did you study?
Me: Told
M2: So u studied relational DBMS. Can u give me an example of one to one and many to many relationships?
Me: A teacher-student relationship can be one to one as well as many to many.
M2: It is a one to many relationship.
Me: Yes sir, it can be one to many also.
M2: Then how is it one to one and many to many?
Me: A private tutor teaching a student at home will be one to one and in school, many teachers teach different subjects to many students will be many to many.
M2: Ok…do you know about sorting algorithms?
Me: Yes. Bubble sort, Insertion sort, Selection sort.
M2: What is bubble sort? Why is it named bubble?
Me: Told
M2: Do you know about heap sort?
Me: Sorry sir, I don’t remember now.
M1: Who got the Nobel prize in economics?
Me: Told
M1: What was their area?
Me: Alleviation of poverty
M1: What is poverty? How do you measure it?
Me: Tried to explain but they seemed to be not satisfied.
M2: So you work in Cognizant. Are you currently working?
Me: Yes
M2: Do you work in a team? How many members?
Me: Yes. 4-5
M1: How will you contribute to the environment?
Me: As I said I want to include one and all under the digital domain through payments app, it will reduce paper usage and hence save trees.
M2: Where is Rann of Kutch? (Out of nowhere)
Me: Gujrat.
M2: Everyone knows that. Where in Gujrat?
Me: Don’t know sir.
M2: Why is it famous?
Me: Salt production.
M2: Apart from that?
Me: Don’t know sir.
M2: Name two endangered animals.
Me: One-horned rhinoceros, bengal tiger.
M2: Bengal tiger is no more endangered. Any other?
Me: Don’t know.
M1: Ok so we are done. Thank you.
Overall the experience was decent. I was 2nd in my panel, so the process was quick for me.
Verdict:
- IIM Ranchi – Rejected
- IIM Trichy – WL 471 (not converted, WL moved till WL 224)
- IIM Udaipur – WL 1251 (not converted, WL moved till WL 1093)
- IIM Raipur – WL 853 (not converted, WL moved till 58)
- IIM Kashipur – WL 1075 (eventually converted)
Converted the baby IIMs except for Jammu.
Later, after the CAP results were out, I filed an RTI to know my scores. Here are the responses:
- Written Ability Test: 63%
- Personal Interview: 59%
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