My date with 'K'

Hi...

Wondering why K? why not B??..all queries accepted. I will certainly come up with my B interview experience but I thought to share K's because in any interview things don't turn out like this and I bet you will enjoy reading it.

Arena details:

By 'K' I am referring to IIM Kozhikode. My interview was scheduled on 27th of march after a gap 3 days after A,C,L interviews.The process included a 15 min essay,15 min GD followed by a 20-25 minz PI.

I was pretty confident of clearing this interview because of the fact that K gives a lot of emphasis on academics. Therefore,I was relaxed as compared to other interviewees. Come on!! one would be relaxed after facing interview process of the elite IIMs. I was unaware of the fact that this confidence had reached its ignition temperature and could any time result into a superior version(over confidence :P).
That would be enough for trailer.Lets begin the movie.
Starring in & as 'Shubham Jaiswal'
Villains:-2 professors of IIM K .

Sharp at 9,we were divided into groups of 8 and were made captive in a Hotel room which was decorated for board meeting.Villain 1 gave an introductory speech about the process and then announced the essay topic "One must be unconventional in his thinking as this thinking will become conventional in future" along-with a disclaimer that none should try to pen down even a single alphabet after 15 minutes.I had chipped in few examples of Copernicus and Galileo stating their theories which were ahead in time and then concluded it comparing with the present scenario.Overall, a coherent one.I would rate it 3 on a scale of 5.

At 9:30 we all were sitting around the round table ready to take a final call on bombarding pakistan ;-).GD was a case based one regarding privatization in agricultural sector.After, a flying start in essay ,I wanted to lead the discussion and score a brownie point but alas!! I couldn't. So,I wanted to enter as soon as the 1st person finished.Till now my confi level had crossed all boundaries and cut short the first person when he said that the contribution of agricultural sector in GDP was around 40-50%. What??? I corrected him saying it was 15 %.Overall,GD was a decent one and I had made around 5-6 entries with 4 new ideas.I was ecstatic.

I was the 2nd person to be interviewed and we were waiting in the lounge.The person whom I had cut short came and said me 'Friend! I had said 14-15%' . "WTF?" I was shocked and alarmed and was in a state of extreme distress.Horrible thoughts were pouring in and I was called in for the interview.

V1- villain 1 ; V2 - villain 2; S-me the 'hero':P

S-May I come in Sir!
V1-Sure!shut the door and come fast!!!
(Interviewers were really far away from the door)
S-Good Morning SIRs

V1-GM! shubham ! Take your seat and tell me have you heard of LISTENING SKILLS.
(baap re baap!!! lag gayee....)
S-Thank you sir.And yes I know it .I am extremely sorry .I had misinterpreted the information and heard it wrong.It is completely my mistake.My friend just corrected me outside.I am sorry Sir.

V1-Were you listening him or you were thinking.
S- I was listening him but I heard it wrong.I am sorry sir.
(This continued for 5 more minutes and I was at the receiving end and was just saying sorry)
And all this time V2 was looking at me as if he would pounce at me anytime like a tiger and tear me into parts.

V1- Ok! lets leave this.After scoring such high marks in you school,why you are not into a good college.
S-Sir,KIIT is one of the best institutes in eastern india(LOL!!!).
(V2 shocked but was still churning his teeth)

V1-(clarifying) I mean why not into IITs or NITs.
S- I couldn't clear chemistry in IIT and was not getting comp sci in any of the NITs.

V1-How can chemistry be weak.After all,it's easiest of all.
S-I was more interested in physics and maths.And I liked solving more of them.
(V2 was behaving as if I am an uninvited interviewee looking here and there)

V1-(looking at V2) how could one be weak at chemistry?Tomorrow if you dont like something you will disregard it?

[kyun pareshan kar rahe ho yaar!!! Abhi tak main GD nahi bhula hun :-( ]
S- Sir,I hadn't avoided chemistry.(Gave some Gyan about my 12th marks and IIT marks explaining that it was just not sufficient for cut off).and I ended of saying 'I am still weak in chemistry'.

V1-OK! lets leave this too!
(Looks at V2 and says him to ask ques.But V2 behaved as if I was the most stupid person he had ever seen and was not even interested in my face.May be it reminded him of his daughter's boy friend who had eloped with her and I was praying kuch to puch le plz... )

V1-OK! let me ask! What is the difference between Computer science and Information Technology
S-Told him that technology is more of application and in Comp sci, we deal more into the computer architecture and theories alongwith giving example of compiler design paper.
[LOL! only this paper differed in our curricula from IT]

[V1 was not at all satisfied and V2 was ready to bang my head or else he would have jumped out of the window]

V1- (angrily) Tell me something related to Hardware.
S- Sir,Hardware study in basically done in various networking course like CCNA.

V1-(wipes his head)Ok ! lets leave this too!!(Again he persuaded V2 to ask ques but V2 denied and I was crying inside for my mistake of GD).
V1- So teach me something in computer science.
S- (started teaching Data structures whole-heartedly to impress them)
V1-Tell me a real life example of Stack.
S- Calculator.
V1- NO !!! real life

S-(ab real life me calculator nahi hota hai to kahan hota hai.)Gave an example of speed post centre saying that they collect all goods and go on piling and in evening they sort it from top.Thus, LIFO.
[Answered as if it was KIIT sem exam and proved a theory using any vague concepts]

V1- food storage units??
S- yes sir! they could be when you pile a sack over other and then remove from top but then you need to empty those sacks which are going to rot first.
[now what was the need to explain this?? In any food storage unit how would you remove the bottom sacks among thousands of sacks over and around it.]

V1-ok continue teaching(sarcastically).
S-[gave gyan till linked list & was into trees]

V1-I got Bored!!!You may leave.
S-[What??Do you think I am here performing salsa for you?you ***censored****].
S-Sir,any other subject like DBMS,OS etc.

V1-No!! you may leave.....(v2 probably ecstatic at this moment)
S- Sir,extremely sorry for my GD mistake.You could ask me on my hobbies etc.
V1- see shubham, we can give only 20 minz to a student and we cannot sit with you whole day.You may leave now!!
S- sorry sir..and Thank you.
[V2 hadn't even uttered an alphabet in the interview]


And our hero of this movie walked dejectedly out of the room, just to know that V2 was not saying anything to anyone.However,I had no hope of converting it after a horrible experience.

Results:- CONVERTED.
Even I am shocked my friends.Probably,I had accepted my mistake without any reasoning and was answering looking at both professors irrespective of the fact that V2 was horrifying.