Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow
Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
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Filter interviews byIndian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow Placement Interview Questions
Updated
10 Jan 2025
525 interviews found
I applied via Campus Placement
2 Interview Rounds
1
Case Study Round
Tell me a little about your life journey.
How has your IIM Lucknow journey been till now?
Why Consulting?
Asked to explain the work I did at Deloitte.
Case- The client is the ministry of Logistics of India. Develop a cost optimization strategy for the Indian logistics.
[Please note that I stands for Interviewer and C stands for Candidate]
C- Started with clarifying questions- Why cost optimization is required? Do we have any constraints in terms of time and resources? Are we looking at both domestic or international logistics? (Asked one by one)
I- India is spending a large percentage of its GDP on logistics if compared to US. Thus, we need to find a way to reduce costs. We can look at both short term and long-term ways. No constraints in terms of budget. Look at only domestic logistics.
C- (After taking around 30 seconds) I told her about my structure -logistics consisted of two main components (Transportation and Warehousing) I would look at each of them separately.
Under transportation. I would first divide it into modes of transportation and separately look at each of the modes. Under warehousing again i would look at the current process that is being followed. Under each of them I would try to identify the issues and from that I would develop a cost optimization strategy.
I- She told me that in India the most frequent mode of transport used was railways and buses whereas US used waterways. She asked me to identify the reason for the same. Also, she told me to concentrate on land as a mode of transport and take the case of a cement industry.
C- For the difference between US and India - I spoke about connectivity, the difference in the geographical area, time, and cost. Taking land as a mode of transport I drew a value chain of the inbound and outbound logistics for a cement factory.
I started analyzing each aspect of the value chain and identifying the problems. I spoke about the time, cost, wastage, the condition of the transport system and the efficiency of the labor etc. The interviewer helped me with the required information from time to time. I identified that in land transport - even though railways were cheaper the factories were using trucks to transport their raw materials and finished goods because of time. I suggested we could use a mix of both trucks and railways to achieve an optimum in terms of cost and time.
Discussed a few more problems and solutions at each step of the value chain. Then she suddenly stopped the case.
2
Case Study Round
Which committee are you a part of?
Which Industry are you efficiency comfortable with?
[Please note that I stands for Interviewer and C stands for Candidate]
C- Sir, pharmaceuticals.
I- Then of course I am not giving you a case related to that.
Case- The client is a school conglomerate. It was growing at a good rate till a few years back but suddenly it has no money left. Help me identify the following.
a, Why is the conglomerate in this condition?
b, Where did the money go?
c, Help design a growth strategy for the conglomerate.
Started with clarifying questions. What does the conglomerate comprise of?(schools, smart classes, tuition centers, and stationery and uniform business) How long it has been operating? Where is it located? Whom does it cater to? About the competition it is facing. (Interviewer told me that he would tell me about the competitors once I had answered the first two questions)
Then I told him, there could be an issue with the revenue, cost, or both. I spoke about how we can improve on revenues through current operations or by finding an alternative (Like renting out the school space in after hours) He agreed and then asked me to focus on the cost side. He had assumed that I had studied MANAC in term 1 and wanted me to use those concepts.
When I clarified that I hadn't studied MANAC, yet he asked me to draw a cash flow statement. I started identifying the operating, investing, and financing expenses and income for the conglomerate.
He suddenly stopped me and asked me to draw a cashflow statement for the conglomerate in case it was planning to set up a new school. I spoke of the basic costs and income that I could identify under each of the cashflow heads at that moment.
Additionally, I told that if the school is set up in a rural area where there are no government schools, we can ask the govt to fund us since we are helping in right to education.
I also said that if the school is planning to use rainwater harvesting (my school had planned to do so - I suddenly remembered) or solar energy then it would incur additional investment costs. He said good and ended the case.
Interview Preparation Tips
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - 1. Interactions with seniors.
2. Internet.
3. Keep the following things in mind for the interview:
a) Speak with confidence and be happy& cheerful while answering the interview questions. (Remember there is nothing to lose, you can only gain out of this entire experience - hence try to be stress free.)
b) There will be moments in the interview when you might not know what to do next. Ensure you take thirty seconds to one minute from the interviewer - it will help you calm down as well as think about your approach.
c) Don’t try to put in a particular structure to solve the case. Logically proceed, you will automatically develop your own approach/structure.
2. Internet.
3. Keep the following things in mind for the interview:
a) Speak with confidence and be happy& cheerful while answering the interview questions. (Remember there is nothing to lose, you can only gain out of this entire experience - hence try to be stress free.)
b) There will be moments in the interview when you might not know what to do next. Ensure you take thirty seconds to one minute from the interviewer - it will help you calm down as well as think about your approach.
c) Don’t try to put in a particular structure to solve the case. Logically proceed, you will automatically develop your own approach/structure.
I applied via Campus Placement
3 Interview Rounds
1
Other Round (2 Questions)
- Q1. Company Interactions: Number of interactions : 2 First - telephonic interaction with the buddy : Was pretty chill. The buddy wanted to understand a bit more abo...read more
- Q2. Second - Day (-1); In person. An informal interaction session was conducted in Hall 1, with the panel split in different corners of the Hall. We were permitted ...read more
2
HR Round (2 Questions)
- Q1. My overall interview experience was largely HR based as compared to technical evaluation.
- Q2. Hi. Tell us about yourself.
3
Other Round (1 Question)
- Q1. Why Investment Banking?
Interview Preparation Tips
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - 1.Interactions with seniors.
2.Mock GDs/PIs.
3.Internet.
4.Content on corporate finance institute's site.
5.CA books - Economics (CPT), Costing/FM/SM (IPCC), SFM/Costing/FR (Final); CFA L2 books for M&A/valuation.
6.Current affairs (online); Work-ex related technical content/concepts.
2.Mock GDs/PIs.
3.Internet.
4.Content on corporate finance institute's site.
5.CA books - Economics (CPT), Costing/FM/SM (IPCC), SFM/Costing/FR (Final); CFA L2 books for M&A/valuation.
6.Current affairs (online); Work-ex related technical content/concepts.
I applied via Campus Placement
3 Interview Rounds
1
Aptitude Test Round
An online test was taken for candidates who applied for the Company. The first test included Aptitude, LR and Verbal. Though the test was dominated by LR portions. The miscellaneous section had observation based tests that employ your attention to detail skills.
2
Psychometric Test Round (1 Question)
- Q1. Psychometric Tests followed by the case GD was taken. The test links were sent to people who were shortlisted in the first test. Case GD happened on Day 0.5. Th...read more
3
HR Round (5 Questions)
- Q1. Tell me about yourself.
- Q2. Any risks that you have taken in past. Explain.
- Q3. Tell us about your work-experience in past.
- Q4. A lot of questions were asked on personal life, family background, my start-up experience and my college life.
- Q5. Tell us any big change that you have brought in life.
Interview Preparation Tips
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - 1. Revise your Work Experience and be thorough with your HR answers as same questions might be repeated with different wordings to judge the consistency of your answers..
2. Mock GDs/PIs.
3. SOPs & Values of the company where I worked.
4. Internet.
2. Mock GDs/PIs.
3. SOPs & Values of the company where I worked.
4. Internet.
I applied via Campus Placement
3 Interview Rounds
1
HR Round (2 Questions)
- Q1. Tell me about your work-experience in brief.
- Q2. Tell me about the POR you hold at IIM L.
2
Guesstimates Round (1 Question)
- Q1. Estimate the yearly revenue of your favorite restaurant in Cyber Hub, Gurgaon.
3
Case Study Round
You are the consultant of a South Asian Company which provides different cards to companies, however, recently their profits in the travel card vertical are going down. How would you identify the potential clients which we can approach to increase our profits?
[Please note that I stands for Interviewer and C stands for Candidate]
I: Travel card vertical is where they provide travel cards to the companies which distribute it to employees for their daily travels/ trips /business travels. How would you go about identifying potential companies where we can increase our revenues?
C: Talked about Macro factors based on which new trends and insights can be obtained and potential companies can be identified.
I: That's fine and that is for gaining new companies into the portfolio. How would go about identifying the potential companies from the current portfolio?
C: Talked about various aspects like financial insights and on the basis of size, revenue and growth rate of different industries clubbed together.
Interview Preparation Tips
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be prepared to discuss your leadership experience and style, including how you motivate and inspire teams to achieve common goals. Highlight examples of how you have led teams to success in previous roles.
I applied via Campus Placement
2 Interview Rounds
1
Group Discussion Round
Situation based GD to select a leader consensually.
a, All members were given 1 pager case depicting the situation of a plane crash and the character
sketches of 5 persons out of which we had to
choose one leader.
b, Arriving at Consensus was mandated in the
beginning.
2
Guesstimates Round (7 Questions)
- Q1. Tell us about yourself(emphasis on family background).
- Q2. ITC has Engage perfume range coming up. Estimate the number of premium perfume bottles sold in Lucknow.
- Q3. Why ITC?
- Q4. What are the new trends in FMCG sector?
- Q5. How is societal marketing relevant to the consumers?
- Q6. Any situation of conflict faced and your actions in response to it?
- Q7. How do you feel about ITC creating value on one hand and selling cigarettes on the other?
Interview Preparation Tips
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Do:
1.Be confident and know yourself inside out! HR answers are the key to a good interview.
2.Try to prepare for at least 2 domains just for worst case scenarios.
Don't:
1.Don't overdo the prep with information overflow.
Only read the relevant parts thoroughly.
2. Interactions with seniors.
3. Mock GDs/PI.
4. Internet.
5. Company specific.
6. Interaction with previous year ITC interns.
7. Detailed analysis of company website and latest news over internet.
Domain Specific(Marketing).
1. Kotler is the most important prep source.
2. Mock GDs help in preparing for actual ones. Even some.
1.Be confident and know yourself inside out! HR answers are the key to a good interview.
2.Try to prepare for at least 2 domains just for worst case scenarios.
Don't:
1.Don't overdo the prep with information overflow.
Only read the relevant parts thoroughly.
2. Interactions with seniors.
3. Mock GDs/PI.
4. Internet.
5. Company specific.
6. Interaction with previous year ITC interns.
7. Detailed analysis of company website and latest news over internet.
Domain Specific(Marketing).
1. Kotler is the most important prep source.
2. Mock GDs help in preparing for actual ones. Even some.
I applied via Campus Placement
2 Interview Rounds
1
Other Round (1 Question)
- Q1. An interaction was held for the shortlisted students on Day -1. Participating in the session was the key to appearing for the interview. They addressed all doub...read more
2
Technical Round (4 Questions)
- Q1. Tell us something about yourself.
- Q2. Questions about my work experience. One project that I liked the most and why. What was the financial structure of the client. The next 10 minutes revolved abou...read more
- Q3. Basic questions about my internship (it was related to finance: derivatives). What are derivatives? What other derivatives are there other than OTC derivatives?...read more
- Q4. Why Citi? Will you choose Citi over others?
Interview Preparation Tips
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - 1.Interactions with seniors.
2.Mock GDs/PIs.
3. Internet.
4. Participate as much as you can in the interaction. It decides the order of the interviewees. Prepare multiple logical questions in advance.
5. Engage the interviewers in the interview and stretch the area (work ex, PORs, etc) where you're most confident about.
2.Mock GDs/PIs.
3. Internet.
4. Participate as much as you can in the interaction. It decides the order of the interviewees. Prepare multiple logical questions in advance.
5. Engage the interviewers in the interview and stretch the area (work ex, PORs, etc) where you're most confident about.
I applied via Campus Placement
3 Interview Rounds
1
HR Round (5 Questions)
- Q1. Tell me something about yourself.
- Q2. Where did you complete your summer internship while at BITS?
- Q3. What was your project at HMSI?
- Q4. How did you go about the project?
- Q5. What did you do as the Business Lead for Corporate Strategy at Trident?
2
Case Study Round
Duration 15 mins:
Tell me about your work experience at Trident?
How did you move from Production Planning to Strategy?
What were the challenges you faced while leading a team so early?
What was your most interesting project?
I am a Mobile Handset Manufacturer. A marketing associate has suggested selling my new mobile phone in the South-East Asian market. Help me quickly decide on this. Run me through the factor and the evaluation. Highlight any risks in the entry.
3
HR Round (10 Questions)
- Q1. What do you know about Accenture?
- Q2. What are your hobbies? What do you read? Most recent read?
- Q3. Why Consulting?
- Q4. Why Accenture?
- Q5. What in Consulting?
- Q6. What did you do at Trident?
- Q7. Discussion on each project.
- Q8. A challenging situation you encountered?
- Q9. Situation each where you managed people who reported to you and those who did not.
- Q10. How did you like your time at Trident? What was the best part?
Interview Preparation Tips
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - 1.Interactions with seniors, Internet.
2.Case & Point, Victor Cheng.
3.Focus on self preparation rather than following everyone with blocking case slots without self study.
2.Case & Point, Victor Cheng.
3.Focus on self preparation rather than following everyone with blocking case slots without self study.
I applied via Campus Placement
2 Interview Rounds
1
HR Round (9 Questions)
- Q1. Introduce yourself.
- Q2. Describe your summer internship experience.
- Q3. What was the biggest takeaway from your internship at Bain?
- Q4. Tell me more about your summer internship project. Which module was driven by you?
- Q5. How did you go about this? Do you think you could have approached it differently, how?
- Q6. How interested are you in AI? Have you ever worked closely in this field? (I had done a live project in this area, spoke in depth about what excited me about th...read more
- Q7. What were the differences/similarities that you saw in the two consulting firms that you have worked in: Bain and Deloitte? Which firm would you prefer to go ba...read more
- Q8. Why consulting with Accenture Strategy & not any other firm?
- Q9. Why did you work only for less than a year at Deloitte?
2
Other Round (1 Question)
- Q1. This interview was focused on gauging my interest in the firm and was taken by a MD at Accenture Strategy, IMU. Was completely conversational and after the firs...read more
Interview Preparation Tips
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Especially in case of Accenture Strategy IMU, the MD round is critical. To ace this, the key is to leverage your buddy and alumni at the firm so as to be able to ask enough questions that show your genuine interest in the firm (should be able to drive a half hour conversation).
I applied via Campus Placement
3 Interview Rounds
1
Case Study Round
About yourself.
Questions about C.
Case based on what's written in the CV - how can u take it forward?
Any app-suggest changes and why?
Any questions?
2
HR Round (4 Questions)
- Q1. Abt yourself and CV.
- Q2. Develop a strategy/plan for agriculture development in India using tech.
- Q3. Questions follow on what u answer and your approach, practicality, etc.
- Q4. Any questions for us?
3
Product Management Round (5 Questions)
- Q1. Tell me about yourself.
- Q2. CV.
- Q3. How would you implement the whatsapp seen status show to all except and hide from all except?
- Q4. Design an app for authors to add their stories in kindle that will guide them on how to write in the right format and more questions on how you answer more towa...read more
- Q5. Any questions for us?
Interview Preparation Tips
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - 1.Interactions with seniors.
2. Internet.
3.Read and keep updated of what’s going on in the world.
4. Previous knowledge from work ex.
5. Habitual reading about tech.
6.Know what company does. How it can improve its
products.
7.Read about other competitor businesses and what they’re doing.
8. Be confident, and answer only if u know Have some questions prepared to ask them
2. Internet.
3.Read and keep updated of what’s going on in the world.
4. Previous knowledge from work ex.
5. Habitual reading about tech.
6.Know what company does. How it can improve its
products.
7.Read about other competitor businesses and what they’re doing.
8. Be confident, and answer only if u know Have some questions prepared to ask them
Interview experience
Excellent
Difficulty level
Hard
Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Yes, I joined the company
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed in Aug 2023.
2 Interview Rounds
1
Assignment Round
Sales Simulation Assignment
2
HR Round (2 Questions)
- Q1. Questions based on Amazon Leadership Principles
- Q2. Situation based questions
Interview Preparation Tips
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Answer all your HR questions around Amazon Leadership Principles
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