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BH - Interview Transcript
BH - Interview Transcript
Interview Transcript
Date: 23/02/2019
Pre-Interview
● Actual interviews are on first come first served basis.
● Waiting time: 20 min x (your serial-1) + (aap waqt se kitna pehle aayenge)
● If food is on your mind, sorry. No in house canteen.However, if you ask well, chaai
biskoot will be given!
● If you are nervous, there is a hotel with a party scene nearby. Give the DJ an
advance list of your favorite numbers. Pro-tip.
● They will check all your degrees and papers. Advisable to carry original and
photocopy of:
○ PRC.
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● Due to some magic, the staff becomes so friendly, you want to say main tere
qurbaan!
● The actual interview takes place in a conference room. You sit on an elliptical
table. Chairman and you occupy the opposite ends of the semi-major axis of this
ellipse.
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Interviewee Background:
1. BTech in ECE. Supplementary qualifications in Tech Entrepreneurship, Green
Economy.
2. Work Experience: Yes
3. Extra Curriculars: Inclined.
4. Optionals: Philosophy and History.
Sawal-Jawaab
● Chairman: Introduce yourself.
○ Talked of my education, work and extra-curriculars.
○ Focus was to give the panel enough talking points as the members don't
have your DAF. Only Chair does.
● Chairman: What is green economy?
○ Explained.
● Chairman: Why did you not join CISF?
○ Explained
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● Chairman: Asked about my UPSC record.
○ Answered.
● Member one: Is it possible to make fool proof digital systems?
○ Argued cryptographic systems are a function of algorithm, complexity of
algo, and computational power available. Using RSA as an example,
explained how no cryptographic system is truly foolproof.
● Member two: Which decade is the decade of de-colonization in India?
○ 1950’s
● Member three: If you were to write an autobiographical book today, what would
you title it?
○ Shade and Sunshine.And explained the logic.
● Member four: Give a draft plan for a sustainable Handloom sector using
principles of green economy.
○ Focussed on production chain, and manufacture. Was cut short. He
suggested that I must tackle issue of weavers too. I said I was about to
move on to it. However, next member’s question followed.
● Member 5: Draft a report on state of Indian Economy as on date.
○ Took the sectoral approach, delved on fiscal and monetary policy
challenges in an election year. Concluded with growth prospects.
● Member 6: How sustainable is sustainability?
○ Talked of inter-generational equity and how economic processes are
inherently un-sustainable. So, sustainability is not sustainable unless
innovation comes in. Gave an example. Spoke from Sapiens. I don't
remember how but somehow ended up talking of colonizing Mars.
● Member 7: Conditions that lead to Revolt of 1857.
○ Explained.
● Member 8: Difference between hard and soft skills.
○ Explained with an example of a doctor whose hard skills are his medicinal
qualifications and soft skills are his value system such as empathy,
accessibility. .
● Member 3: Where have you prepared for the interview?
○ Friends’ feedback and have a mentor.
● Member 3: In your assessment, how was your interview today, shade or
sunshine?
○ Said, hopefully sunshine.
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End of Interview
My 0.2$
● 9 interviewers and 25 minutes make it a shallow, tangential exercise.
● The questions were exclusively from DAF.
● If the interview panel were condensed to 5 people, interview would be
holistic, thought provoking and far more enjoyable.