SP Jain GI (Group Interview) Experiences (2008)

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Hi, While I know that there is a thread for the discussion of GD/PI, I thought iot would make sense for a thread where users post their experiences. There’s a lot more information on that thread, for anyone to go thorugh. Puys, please post…

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Hi,
While I know that there is a thread for the discussion of GD/PI, I thought iot would make sense for a thread where users post their experiences. There's a lot more information on that thread, for anyone to go thorugh.

Puys, please post how your GI experience was like.

Cheers.

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hi puys,
waiting for experiences from ppl who have done with their interview...pls post yr viewx n experiences

surbhi

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Here are the links of 2 of this yr's experience posted in the other SP thread..

http://www.pagalguy.com/forum/cat-and-related-discussion/27354-2008-spjimr-call-getters-profile-63.html#post944761
http://www.pagalguy.com/forum/cat-and-related-discussion/27354-2008-spjimr-call-getters-profile-62.html#post944142

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Puys.. we are waiting for the experiences..

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@All

There is already an existing thread for SPJIMR Group Interview related discussions: http://www.pagalguy.com/discussions/2008-spjimr-call-getters-profile-group-interview-related-discussions-25027354

I do not really know if there is a requirement for this new thread. Requesting moderators to please go through both the threads and decide to close one of them / rename accordingly.

Cheers..
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Hi,
While we realise that there is a similar thread, that one has too many generic queries, on calls, profiles, what to do if I have filled details wrong etc. and 60 odd pages of that. The idea here is to simply share and discuss the GI exp. cause thats all that a lot of us want. A better idea of what happens there. Anyways if mods feel need to integrate both the threads so be it, not much action here anyway :)

Cheers.

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Hi,
I know it sounds repetitive, but, anyone, who has been for the sp jain gi, pls post your experience.


Thank you.

Chinmaya

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Hi all,
Had my interview on 16th Jan, 11 clock session. Went in at ten, they verified my 10th, 12 th and college marksheets, work ex certificate. My interview started around 11.10. There were six of us. We were asked to introduce ourselves. They patiently listened as we all rambled. Then they spent 5- 7 minutes on each person individually questioning them on what they had said. For me:
1.Why do you like Bharathanatyam?
2. Has Dance helped your career?
3.Give an instance where dance helped u perform better in work
4.Youre from DAV, then SSN. I know both the institutions well. How was the transition like? Did u find any difference?
5. Who is the principal of DAV?
6. Is discipline that important?
7. Give an instance where discipline helped you
8. What about innovation then? I said innovation and discipline are not contradictory and gave a puzzled look. They said , ya, what do u think is the relation between discipline and innovation? I said something about discipline paving way to value based innovation and they were quite satisfied with this answer.

In about ten minutes they told us we were selected 5 got selected from my panel. We were made to take a psychometric test. there were 24 columns. Each column had 4 words, adjectives rather. In each column, I had to select the word which describes me the best and that describes me the least. Was pretty ok, although selecting words was kinda tuff sometimes.

Second round- started in 15 minutes after the test. It had 2 proffs- more senior and serious looking proffs. And one first year girl from spj. She was sweet, had an encouraging expression in her face.

  1. Have you all been to Bombay before? What did u think about Bombay?
ya when I was in class 7. the night life of Bombay..
I was interrupted, 7th std u knew about night life of Bombay??
I said No I was about to say shops were all open past midnight, very energetic and active city
oh ok
  1. Why mba? And whatever we answered they kept trying to say for that u could have opted for something else, why mba?
  2. somebody said something about managers and leaders so they imm questioned are managers leaders?what is the diff? we all gave our opinions one by one.
  3. ok lets have a gd now. MBA characters are hyped. Discuss.
Inbetween the gd I mentioned something about hype being an aspect of marketing and the proffs started out another sub gd on marketing and lying. Then they themselves asked us to revert back to the original gd topic and conclude it.
  1. What channels do u watch?
  2. What are values? How would u define values ? one by one we all answered.
  3. What are ur values? As and when ppl answered , they were sub questions like are honesty and integrity the same? etc.
  4. What are ur views on Tata nano? Here too they asked a few sub questions based on what people answered.
  5. What do u consider ur greatest acievement?
  6. What management book have u read?
  7. What book has impacted u the most?
  8. What other institutes have u applied other than spj?
  9. Sum up in one line, why should we select u?

It lasted for probably 40- 50 minutes. Basically u an steer the interview to your convenience. I was the 5th in the panel. It was sometimes advantageous, by the time the question was asked I had enough time to listen to others and frame and answer that is radically different to ensure they notice me. It was disadvantageous sometimes as by the time they came to me they used to say ok ok quickly and push off. Over all, it was amazing. I was so confident about the whole interview that for the last question I simply said because Ive done the interview well. Let see. All the best to the others! Know about yourself in and out. And a bit about Glaring current affairs. That should do.
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Hi, This is to get this thread back on the front page
Please post your experiences guys...

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Hi puys

I had my interview yesterday and it was a great experience of sorts... My first GI began at 10:15 AM..there were 7 people (4 with workex>2 yrs, two were 2007 passouts and one fresher).. It began with the normal introduction to ease out the tension.. Then we were asked to select an issue which we thought was close to our heart.. issues ranged from brain drain, corruption. social service, unemployment and so on.. then we were asked to formulate a topic which would encompass all of these topics.. We zeroed down on a topic name and then there was a discussion on that for around 10 min. Then there was some grilling from our profile sheet.. I had mentioned that i love reading books and newspapers.. So, was asked to talk abt my fav book and was asked to compare the newspapers 'HINDU' and the 'Times Of India'. A person who had opted for finance was grilled on the subprime.. The panel member asked him to recommend her few stocks which he felt would reap good dividends.. Then they gave us a scenario that we had to assume that we r the panel members and had to grill the person on our left with one question of our choice.... Once this got over, they asked us if we wanted to know something abt spjain.. This concluded the 1st round... It was 11:30 by the time we came out... :nervous:
4 ppl from my group got thru to the next round.. and surprise surprise, i got thru too i found it hard to believe .. Took sometime for the feeling to sink in

Then we had our round 2.. 7 ppl again(6 guys and a girl.. one fresher and others with some work ex) .. totally chilled out panel.. kick started with we talking abt our USPs .. The girl mentioned abt robotics.. so we were asked to discuss the areas where we can use robotics and where we could not... Then some ppl were grilled on their work.. it was chilled out... Then there was a discussion on the sydney test match for abt 5-7 min.. In between the girl was asked to sketch the panelists as she was good at painting..A guy was asked to advertise an event (as he was into RJing in college) Thats just about it.. It was all of 20 min...
In between the two GI's we had a pyschometric test... . nothing to worry about... All in all, a great experience... My first GI ever.. so had a lot to take from this experience.....

As for the ADCOM committee, they were thoroughly professional.. Hats off guys.. U r doing a fantastic job.. kudos :bigups:

I didnt get the opportunity to meet our heroes- Prasanna and Abhinav.... I guess they were not present in the registration room... Wanted to thank them personally... Great job that u r doing guys, helping us aspirants out.... cheers to u guys....

And junta who have their interview lined up , all the very best.... Play it cool and be yourself...

Cheers!!!!

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Slot : Jan 28th, 3:00 pm
Here goes my experience..
Well.. Things didnt start off very well. Got stuck in horrible Mumbai traffic and reached the campus at 2:30! The ride was the most nerve-wrecking thing ever:nervous:! Thankfully, things went off brilliantly from there..
The registration people were very nice and polite. Took hardly 5 min to finish all the formalities! I was, then, put in a Group with 4 other people. Dont remember the specializations but I was the only Marketing person there. Chit chat before the interview told me that all the others were engineers with work ex. I got kinda scared, being a Microbiology fresher. But I guess that worked in my favour. It wasnt too difficult to differentiate myself!
There were 3 panelists, 1 male Mktg prof (MP), 1 female Finance prof (FP) and 1 First Year student (FY).
We were first asked to introduce ourselves. Each introduction was followed by some cross-questioning.
Some questions were:
  1. Why Microbiology to MBA?
  2. Im doing a PG Dip in Business Mgmt, so was asked why another PGDM after already doing one.
  3. One Mktg theory I would like to see in practice.
  4. Why a particular specialization? (Focus required, no global answers like I love numbers and money management for Finance!!!)
  5. Role at work.
  6. Suppose u have to meet a deadline at work and u know there is no chance u would, what would be ur course of action?
  7. Cricket as hobby What kinda management did cricket teach u? Who would be the ideal opening pair for the Indian cricket team right now?
Pointer: Dont let ur intro be too long. Theyll let u go on forever, u need to know when to stop! This guy in my group went on and on and on and finally FP stopped him.. Leaves a bad taste in the mouth.. :splat:
This was followed by a GD, topic What if the Earths speeds of rotation and revolution were interchanged?. FP told us that we have to start as soon as she says the topic. 10 seconds pause and I began. It was pretty chilled, no moderation required. More like friendly chit chat since the topic was fun. They asked one person to conclude and I did..
One of the guys (who got rejected later) had done some NSE certification course. They grilled him a lil about the stock market. He couldnt answer very coherently. The collapse came in and we all put in our own views about it.
This girl was a diabetic. They asked her about her therapy and stuff and then asked me to talk about the recent developments in the treatment of diabetes.
In the end, I was asked to design an ad/radio jingle for a pen in 30 seconds..
That was the end of it.. We went back to the registration room where after 10 min, the results were announced.. 3 out of 5 were selected from my group. No pattern there.. We, then, went for the 7 min test, the pattern of which has been described earlier.. Thereafter, we were reshuffled into different groups. My group had 5 people.. 4 engineers with work ex!!! Including puy, abhirathore! :biggrin:
The second panel had 2 profs, more authoritative than the 1st one. Surprisingly, it was very very short. We were asked to introduce ourselves for 3 min each. I was sitting on one end, they started from the other. Since I was the last one, they started cross-questioning me immediately..
  1. Why Micro to MBA?
  2. Why Mumbai for grad and not Delhi?
  3. Why another PGDM?
  4. Wot did u do in ur free time over the last few months?
  5. Why a particular specialization?
  6. Would u offer bribe to get an order for ur company?
  7. Something about domain knowledge for the work ex ppl.
  8. Why not Exec-MBA?
  9. Role in organization?
Oh and they asked me what calls I have.. I was the only one to be asked this question in the group. No idea why!!! :-o
I was happy after the 1st GI. The 2nd one was too short to make anything out of. Im sure the panel members are experts at this and would spot a good candidate when they see one.
This was followed by a 55 min Psychometric Test. 3 parts..
Part 1 50 questions, 2 line answers. Answers from the top of ur head..
Part 2 On the lines of describe urself..
Part 3 Information-based.
A great experience!!!! I loved every moment of it.. Amazing organization and co-ordination.. Awesome work!
Fingers crossed..
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Slot : Jan 28th, 3:00 pm
Here goes my experience..
Well.. Things didnt start off very well. Got stuck in horrible Mumbai traffic and reached the campus at 2:30! The ride was the most nerve-wrecking thing ever:nervous:! Thankfully, things went off brilliantly from there..
The registration people were very nice and polite. Took hardly 5 min to finish all the formalities! I was, then, put in a Group with 4 other people. Dont remember the specializations but I was the only Marketing person there. Chit chat before the interview told me that all the others were engineers with work ex. I got kinda scared, being a Microbiology fresher. But I guess that worked in my favour. It wasnt too difficult to differentiate myself!
There were 3 panelists, 1 male Mktg prof (MP), 1 female Finance prof (FP) and 1 First Year student (FY).
We were first asked to introduce ourselves. Each introduction was followed by some cross-questioning.
Some questions were:
  1. Why Microbiology to MBA?
  2. Im doing a PG Dip in Business Mgmt, so was asked why another PGDM after already doing one.
  3. One Mktg theory I would like to see in practice.
  4. Why a particular specialization? (Focus required, no global answers like I love numbers and money management for Finance!!!)
  5. Role at work.
  6. Suppose u have to meet a deadline at work and u know there is no chance u would, what would be ur course of action?
  7. Cricket as hobby What kinda management did cricket teach u? Who would be the ideal opening pair for the Indian cricket team right now?
Pointer: Dont let ur intro be too long. Theyll let u go on forever, u need to know when to stop! This guy in my group went on and on and on and finally FP stopped him.. Leaves a bad taste in the mouth.. :splat:
This was followed by a GD, topic What if the Earths speeds of rotation and revolution were interchanged?. FP told us that we have to start as soon as she says the topic. 10 seconds pause and I began. It was pretty chilled, no moderation required. More like friendly chit chat since the topic was fun. They asked one person to conclude and I did..
One of the guys (who got rejected later) had done some NSE certification course. They grilled him a lil about the stock market. He couldnt answer very coherently. The collapse came in and we all put in our own views about it.
This girl was a diabetic. They asked her about her therapy and stuff and then asked me to talk about the recent developments in the treatment of diabetes.
In the end, I was asked to design an ad/radio jingle for a pen in 30 seconds..
That was the end of it.. We went back to the registration room where after 10 min, the results were announced.. 3 out of 5 were selected from my group. No pattern there.. We, then, went for the 7 min test, the pattern of which has been described earlier.. Thereafter, we were reshuffled into different groups. My group had 5 people.. 4 engineers with work ex!!! Including puy, abhirathore! :biggrin:
The second panel had 2 profs, more authoritative than the 1st one. Surprisingly, it was very very short. We were asked to introduce ourselves for 3 min each. I was sitting on one end, they started from the other. Since I was the last one, they started cross-questioning me immediately..
  1. Why Micro to MBA?
  2. Why Mumbai for grad and not Delhi?
  3. Why another PGDM?
  4. Wot did u do in ur free time over the last few months?
  5. Why a particular specialization?
  6. Would u offer bribe to get an order for ur company?
  7. Something about domain knowledge for the work ex ppl.
  8. Why not Exec-MBA?
  9. Role in organization?
Oh and they asked me what calls I have.. I was the only one to be asked this question in the group. No idea why!!! :-o
I was happy after the 1st GI. The 2nd one was too short to make anything out of. Im sure the panel members are experts at this and would spot a good candidate when they see one.
This was followed by a 55 min Psychometric Test. 3 parts..
Part 1 50 questions, 2 line answers. Answers from the top of ur head..
Part 2 On the lines of describe urself..
Part 3 Information-based.
A great experience!!!! I loved every moment of it.. Amazing organization and co-ordination.. Awesome work!
Fingers crossed..


if u remember can u please tell what questions were asked to that nse guy abt the stock market??
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Hi Abhinav may i know why you chose marketing? i have my Sp jain interview on Feb 12 and i am an engineer.
I am expecting a question like, why general marketing and not Information Science marketing, any perfect answers???

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saketkhaitan Says
if u remember can u please tell what questions were asked to that nse guy abt the stock market??


I- Interviewer
C - Candidate

I - Do u know about Valuation of stocks?
C - Yes.
I - There is a lot of talk about the Indian stocks being over-valued in the lght of the collapse.. What ratio tells us whether a stock is over or under-valued?
C - Umm.. *Thinks for 10 sec*.. PE ratio?
I - What is PE ratio?
C - Couldn't answer..!!!! They threw it open and I volunteered.
I - How is the PE ratio related to valuation?
C - Didn't know.. Others made random guesses..
I - Why did the stock market collapse?
C - US recession..
But they were looking for the IPO thing.. So he kinda screwed it up there..

All the best!

PS -Saket, please do not quote such long posts.. Edit them..
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hi friends,
is any one of u scheduled for interview on 13th feb? please suggest what questions can be asked regarding operations as specialisation

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Hi Guys.. Please forgive if this is the wrong thread to be asking this question but does anyone know when is SP Jain planning to come out with the 2nd shortlist..???

Sam

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hi Abhinav,
Please tell me is there any eligibility based on the CAT Score for Profile Based interview calls from SP like if the guy is having 85 percentile then only he is suppose to attend the interview, etc ... Please Reply me back ASAP

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HEY ANY one can tellme that wen is the second list gona be out..
i got 97.10 in XAT . DO I STAND A CHANCE!!!
working in GM rite now!!

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hi friends,
is any one of u scheduled for interview on 13th feb? please suggest what questions can be asked regarding operations as specialisation

Hi Guys.. Please forgive if this is the wrong thread to be asking this question but does anyone know when is SP Jain planning to come out with the 2nd shortlist..???

Sam

hi Abhinav,
Please tell me is there any eligibility based on the CAT Score for Profile Based interview calls from SP like if the guy is having 85 percentile then only he is suppose to attend the interview, etc ... Please Reply me back ASAP

HEY ANY one can tellme that wen is the second list gona be out..
i got 97.10 in XAT . DO I STAND A CHANCE!!!
working in GM rite now!!


For all such queries, kindly use the GD-PI discussion thread.. Please retain the sanctity of this thread and let it be for experiences alone..

Here is a link for the appropriate thread..

http://www.pagalguy.com/discussions/2008-spjimr-call-getters-profile-group-interview-related-discussions-25027354