INTERVIEW EXPERIENCE #1
Name Aunkur De
Company Deloitte South East As Specialisation Operations Management
Selected 4-5 co.s at the outset that I wanted and told myself I would be indifferent between them.
Consequently there was a lot less pressure, and I was able to approach each round as an interaction not an ordeal Background also helped, because I had to spend less time convincing them that I could be in the industry and perform
Special preparation tips for Consulting Companies
I was not a member of the Consulting Cohort, so I am not the best person to guide you on consult specific preparation- I just about skimmed through the Michigan Casebook and sat with someone for a half an hour case study/ guesstimate crash course the night before the process.
INTERVIEW EXPERIENCE #1
Aunkur De
Deloitte South East Asia Operations Management
Page 152 5 co.s at the outset that I wanted and told myself I would be indifferent between them.
Consequently there was a lot less pressure, and I was able to approach each round as an interaction not an ordeal
ause I had to spend less time convincing them that I could be in the industry and
Special preparation tips for Consulting Companies
I was not a member of the Consulting Cohort, so I am not the best person to guide you on consult specific I just about skimmed through the Michigan Casebook and sat with someone for a half an hour case study/ guesstimate crash course the night before the
2014 SPJIMR Consulting Casebook Selection Process : PPO/PPI- PPO/Finals Finals Number of Interview Rounds 3
Round 1: Partner Round Interviewer Mr Sachin
Narration of the Interview as descriptively as possible
a) With such a good core operations
want to come into consulting instead of going back to you earlier company, why did you leave the company in first place and came to do an MBA and why you not going back to the same company in a different role where you can leverage yo
Ans – To answer this question I picked from the point he ended i.e. my prior experience and then explained the highlights of my experience like my prior experience was in Project management of power projects where I was fortunate enough
completion of an entire Gas based power project. I covered mentioned all the aspects I learnt in my earlier company and then talked about the similarity of work in all the projects then narrowed down to the point of flatt
curve, repetition and saturation. Then I made it clear that after that I was interested in taking up the business development or corporate strategy role which is usually given to MBA graduates and how the growth is accelerated
Round 1: Partner Round
Mr Sachin
With such a good core operations experience why do you want to come into consulting instead of going back to you earlier company, why did you leave the company in first place and came to do an MBA and why you not going back to the same company in a different role where you can leverage your past experience.
To answer this question I picked from the point he ended i.e. my prior experience and then explained the highlights of my experience like my prior experience was in Project management of power projects where I was fortunate enough to have worked since inception to completion of an entire Gas based power project. I covered mentioned all the aspects I learnt in my earlier company and then talked about the similarity of work in all the projects then narrowed down to the point of flattening of learning curve, repetition and saturation. Then I made it clear that after that I was interested in taking up the business development or corporate strategy role which is usually given to MBA graduates and how the growth is accelerated Page 153
experience why do you want to come into consulting instead of going back to you earlier company, why did you leave the company in first place and came to do an MBA and why you not going back to the same company in a different role
ur past experience.
To answer this question I picked from the point he ended i.e. my prior experience and then explained the highlights of my experience like my prior experience was in Project management of power projects where I was to have worked since inception to completion of an entire Gas based power project. I covered mentioned all the aspects I learnt in my earlier company and then talked about the similarity of work in all the projects ening of learning curve, repetition and saturation. Then I made it clear that after that I was interested in taking up the business development or corporate strategy role which is usually given to MBA graduates and how the growth is accelerated
2014 SPJIMR Consulting Casebook post MBA.
Why consulting:
question where I talked about
- Exposure: how you get to interact with the best in business.
- Depth: How your thought process is challenged on regular basis.
- Impact: Recommendations creating an impact on topline and bottomline of the client company.
- Internal: How consulting job excites me, in this you have to link life experiences to the attributes of a consultant to show how you can be a good fit for consulting.
b) Then I was asked to explain my work e
Ans- This answer in my opinion should be prepared beforehand consisting of your highlights from experience. The fact that you have worked on diverse problems and understood or worked on various aspects of the business should come out clearly fr
much into technicalities of your experience, you should simplify your answer so that even a layman or a person without any knowledge of your sector could understand it easily. The answer should also bring out your attribute willingness to learn and ability to grasp things quickly.
c) He asked me to explain my Autumns project from the work I did to the recommendations I made.
Ans - This answer should usually be answered following a CAR (Context Analyse and Result) framework
post MBA.
Why consulting: I took an EDII approach to answer this
question where I talked about
Exposure: how you get to interact with the best in business.
Depth: How your thought process is challenged on regular Impact: Recommendations creating an impact on topline and bottomline of the client company.
Internal: How consulting job excites me, in this you have to link life experiences to the attributes of a consultant to show how you can be a good fit for consulting.