Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow
Your seniors at Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow helped you with their notes. Now they're helping you with their placement interview questions. 🙏
Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow
Your seniors at Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow helped you with their notes. Now they're helping you with their placement interview questions. 🙏
I applied via Campus Placement
Your client is a manufacturer (Assume industry of your choice), and it wants to improve its productivity.
Find areas of improvements and make recommendations to the client.
[Please note that I stands for Interviewer and C stands for Candidate]
C: Clarified the problem statement and the objective. Defined the industry type. Asked few questions on company profile.
I: Agreed to all the assumptions.
C: Followed the profitability structure - revenue and costs.
I: Focus on operational perspective.
C: Mentioned the major buckets involved in manufacturing in order: procurement of raw material, inbound logistics, loading, manufacturing/production process, testing, storage of final goods, dispatch, distribution channels. Asked if I should focus on any specific bucket.
I: Start with procurement.
C: Suggested probable issues and recommended ways to improve.
Further, identified gaps in every bucked and suggested ways of improvements.
(At every stage I linked circumstances with my work experience and mentioned how we used to handle it and suggested better ways of handling. Mentioned lean manufacturing, six sigma, 6S, Kanban, Kaizen and tools used for operational efficiency)
I: Good. Liked your suggestions. Do you have any questions for me?
C: Asked a question curiously on report released by KPMG a week ago. (I had read the report from company website and coincidently the report was from Partner’s vertical)
I: Explained challenges and gave some tips on how one should analyze segments like food and agriculture.
I applied via Campus Placement
Calculate the number of transactions for Paytm in India in a particular day?
[Please note that I stands for Interviewer and C stands for Candidate]
I: How will you go about calculating the no. of transactions for Paytm in India in a particular day?
C: Solved the guesstimate by following the basic structure. (1st step: Urban/Rural, 2nd step: Income Group, 3rd step: Age Wise, some of the other factors taken into consideration are Mobile and Internet penetration and also the probability of the person paying through Paytm out of all other possibilities)
I applied via Walk-in
I applied via Walk-in
I applied via Referral
I applied via Referral
I applied via Campus Placement