IIM Lucknow Admission Experience

Last Updated : 30 May, 2023

Date: 27^th February 2023, IIML Noida Campus:

Time: 8.30 am. I get out of the interview room around 11 am.

WAT Topic: Artificial Intelligence in Academia: Dawn of a new era? [15 min, 300 words limit]. Not so good, felt a bit of a time shortage.

Interview: I was the 5^th of my panel (panel-9, total 12 panels). There were 2 male interviewers (M1 in his 40s, M2 seemed to be around 50). It was a 10-12 min interview.
Me: Greeted both.
M1: Asked me to sit and asked for the personal data form. Also said to put the file on the table.
M1: So tell us why you left your first job within 3 months?
Me: Answered as prepared (my personal preference)
M1: So you are from CSE background yet not interested in computer subject?
Me: Clarified that I am still working on domain related to computer subjects (Data Structure & Algorithm) [M2 also clarified it to him]
M2: So how does your company functions?
Me: Told them.
M2: So you sell contents?
Me: Told that they are open for all, but we also have some courses that are sold.
M2: Then how the company makes money?
Me: Answered
M2: Do you think your job requires ethics and values?
Me: Yes because the contents are consumed by students all over the counntry and even outside. So it is our duty to provide the correct content.
M2: Have you heard of Chat GPT?
Me: Yes
M2: Don’t you think it will soon obliterate coders from the field?
Me: In my opinion though Chat GPT can provide contents, it cannot ensure that the content it is providing is completely correct or can provide new contents.
M2 interrupts: So in that case we only need testers and not developers.
Me: Was answering that it cannot write something completely new but got interrupted
M2: So do you think it can write a code of network socket?
Me: I guess it can because those are already available and the model might also be trained for that.
M2: Then won’t it take the jobs of developers in next 3-5 years.
Me: (I felt that instead of trying to elaborate my thought I should directly say the keyword because of repeated interruption) I don’t think so Sir, because it doesn’t have the innovative ability.
(M1 remarks: innovation hmm.)
M1: So tell us about any two companies which you think are doing innovative works in the field of technology or any other field:
Me: (I could recall only one, So I added) Sir, one I would say Chat GPT itself and the other I will say Tesla in the field of EV.
M1: So tell me why research is called “research”?
Me: Sir I particulary don’t know, but what I can think of is that, in research work we are not trying to innovate anything out of the blue, but forming a base on some known topics and based on that trying to find something new.
M2: So do you think EV is good for society?
Me: In my opinion Sir, it is good for society but … (interrupts again)
M2: So you are saying Lithium is not harmful?
Me: Yes sir it has pollutant nature but compared to fossil fuel which is dominantly used nowadays it is less harmful.
M2: Is Lithium abundant in nature?
Me: Sir, I exactly don’t know but based on the fact that recent discovery of Lithium mine is said to have good impact on Indian export I guess it is not abundant.
M2: Have you heard about the FAME scheme of Govt?
Me: Yes sir, told a bit about the scheme.
M2: What do you think is the drawback of current EV scheme of the govt.?
Me: Sorry sir, I haven’t read the schemes in detail.
M1: What are your hobbies?
Me: Told them (Sudoku and Online Games)
M2: Can you tell the impact of Rabindranath in our literature?
Me: Said his overall expertise in all forms of arts and also in that period it instilled nationalism among the people.
M2: Can you tell the difference between Rabindrasangeet and other form of songs?
Me: Sorry sir, I don’t have knowledge about songs.
M2: So you are not interested in art forms?
Me: No sir not much.
M1: Tell us why any party in West Bengal is ruling for so long, earlier CPI(M), currently TMC?
Me: In my opinion it is due to the lack of strong opposition.
M1: So why not 2 or 3 parties combinedly try to do so?
Me: (I didn’t have any particular reason but tried to say) Talked about the issues with oppositions throughout the line and their lack of organization.