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
3 Interview Rounds
1
Case Study Round
ABC condoms have high brand awareness in the country and are also of high quality, but have low sales since local companies are setting up deals with distributers who are preferring the latter to ABC. How do you increase sales and also how do you allocate budgets for the same?
2
HR Round (4 Questions)
- Q1. Tell me something about yourself.
- Q2. Describe your work experience and related questions. Example - Describe clients and markets, timeline of work-ex, types of campaigns, most successful campaign, ...read more
- Q3. Search funnel for a product, Market share/search impression share of the client vs competitor etc.
- Q4. Any questions for us?
3
HR Round (6 Questions)
- Q1. Why marketing?
- Q2. What do u prefer - brand marketing, digital, sales etc?
- Q3. How does sales fit into your goals?
- Q4. How would you interact with subordinates who are elder to you?
- Q5. What if a subordinate isn't delivering result on time?
- Q6. Still isn't working inspite warnings?
Interview Preparation Tips
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - 1. Internet.
2. Company website & product list.
3.Be well versed with details regarding work experience.
2. Company website & product list.
3.Be well versed with details regarding work experience.
I applied via Campus Placement
2 Interview Rounds
1
HR Round (3 Questions)
- Q1. Being a fresher, why are you choosing consulting as your starting career?
- Q2. What are the things that you will improve in these months before joining the firm?
- Q3. Question regarding academic project.
2
Case Study Round
VC wants to invest x amount in Byjus, after how many years will it get back the investment.
[Please note that I stands for Interviewer and C stands for Candidate]
I: Which sector/industry you are comfortable with?
C: Education sector (as I have done my project related to that).
I: I am a VC and want to invest x amount in Byjus, after how many years will I get back my investment?
I: Use your phone to get as much information as possible and tell me exact number of years after 2 minutes and also the parameters that you considered.
C: Searched about the valuation of Byjus,expected growth potential, inflation rate, future
projects.
Communicated the parameters I looked upon with reasoning and said that it will take approximately 5 years to get back investment.
I: Profitability of the company is also very important and should have also been incorporated in decision making.
Interview Preparation Tips
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Understand the company's values, culture, and mission, and be prepared to demonstrate how your skills and experience align with the job requirements.
I applied via Campus Placement
2 Interview Rounds
1
Group Discussion Round
1.10 panelists
2. Topic: "Indian Avengers movie" and how to create that.
3. Involved discussion about cast, budget, advertising, Social factors
2
Case Study Round
Tell me something about yourself.
[Please note that I stands for Interviewer and C stands for Candidate]
C- Explained about my school, college and work ex.
I- Which sports do you like?
C- I told them cricket.
I- How will you bring 5 young players to nationals
from your hometown ?
C- I mentioned about collaborating with State cricket board and build an academy focused on identifying new talent.
I- This is star India and as you know from our GD we like creative stories. Describe your life as a story in short and how your friends describe
you.
C- I brought in some additional points and told about personal qualities.
I- What did you do to solve the case in your marketing internship (I did one and mentioned about a Case which I solved))
C- I started from problem statement and mentioned the solution of that case.
Later interview ended and important thing is to be strong in HR questions and don't get too focused on talking about one domain (It was marketing in
my case)
Interview Preparation Tips
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - 1. Be strong with the HR questions.
2. Don't get too focused on talking about one domain (It was marketing in my case).
3. Mock GDs/PIs.
4. Internet
2. Don't get too focused on talking about one domain (It was marketing in my case).
3. Mock GDs/PIs.
4. Internet
I applied via Campus Placement
2 Interview Rounds
1
HR Round (1 Question)
- Q1. Duration: 45 mins Introduction. Asked about gap in workex. Answered about freelancing & time with family.
2
HR Round (1 Question)
- Q1. Duration: 25 mins. 1. Asked If had ques that could not be asked in last round. Asked a few again. 2. He said he had only 2 questions to ask. He asked instances ...read more
Interview Preparation Tips
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - 1. PI Prep sources: Interactions with seniors,
Intensive CV and HR prep.
2. Resources: The leadership principles of Amazon. Read about the recent articles about amazon.
3. Dos - Extensive CV prep is must for Amazon. Its very important to know everything about your CV. They generally pick up a project or workex and deep dive into the problem faced.
Intensive CV and HR prep.
2. Resources: The leadership principles of Amazon. Read about the recent articles about amazon.
3. Dos - Extensive CV prep is must for Amazon. Its very important to know everything about your CV. They generally pick up a project or workex and deep dive into the problem faced.
Interview experience
Excellent
Difficulty level
Moderate
Duration
Less than 2 weeks
Result
Yes, I joined the company
I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Jan 2024.
1 Interview Round
1
One-on-one Round (2 Questions)
- Q1. Why do you want to join By ?
- Q2. What do you do want to build a career in supply chain consulting and not core manufacturing/retail companies ?
I applied via Campus Placement
2 Interview Rounds
1
Product Management Round (1 Question)
- Q1. Role: BOLD Manager. Duration: 25 mins General discussion about the role and some HR based questions. I was asked the full form of BOLD (the role for which I was...read more
2
Other Round (1 Question)
- Q1. Duration: 50 mins 1. Started with a point mentioned on CV that highlighted cost saving, what was my contribution and some cross questioning on the numbers menti...read more
Interview Preparation Tips
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - 1. PI Prep sources: Interactions with seniors, Mock
GDs/PIs.
2. Resources: Reading the job description and
leadership principles should help a lot.
GDs/PIs.
2. Resources: Reading the job description and
leadership principles should help a lot.
I applied via Campus Placement
2 Interview Rounds
1
HR Round (7 Questions)
- Q1. Tell me about yourself.
- Q2. Why do you want to pursue consulting?
- Q3. Why do you want to pursue finance?
- Q4. Why do you want to join Synergy?
- Q5. Did you speak to any of your seniors who interned with us last year?
- Q6. What do you know about Synergy Consulting?
- Q7. Why do you think you are a good fit for the role?
2
Technical Round (9 Questions)
- Q1. What is Depreciation?
- Q2. What do you understand by Corporate Finance?
- Q3. NPV vs IRR, which is better and why?
- Q4. What will be the Discount Rate used?
- Q5. What is Beta? What is Levered and Unlevered Beta?
- Q6. How would you calculate the relevant Beta for a listed company?
- Q7. How would you do that for a Start-up?
- Q8. What will be the value of Beta for a niche firm with no comparable competitors?
- Q9. How would you value a company? What if the company does not pay out dividends?
Interview Preparation Tips
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - 1. Be thorough with Corporate Finance and Valuation concepts.
I applied via Campus Placement
3 Interview Rounds
1
HR Round (10 Questions)
- Q1. Tell me about yourself.
- Q2. Please elaborate on the work that Team Synapse does.
- Q3. Can you tell me more about the chatbot you built?
- Q4. What were the use-cases?
- Q5. What was your role at Wipro?
- Q6. How does a chatbot function?
- Q7. How would you go about building a customer service chatbot?
- Q8. Choose any industry of your choice.
- Q9. Which AWS services would you require to build the chatbot you just designed?
- Q10. Why Accenture? What do you want to do after an MBA? You have diverse experience, UG in mining engineering, work-ex in IT, and now management. What would be your...read more
2
Product Management Round (1 Question)
- Q1. Chatbot Designing.
3
Other Round (1 Question)
- Q1. Business perspective of technologies.
Interview Preparation Tips
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Understand the company's values, culture, and mission, and be prepared to demonstrate how your skills and experience align with the job requirements.
I applied via Campus Placement
3 Interview Rounds
1
HR Round (4 Questions)
- Q1. Introduce yourself.
- Q2. What are your strengths and weaknesses?
- Q3. Why Accenture? Why Consulting?
- Q4. Summer internship and live project-based questions.
2
Guesstimates Round (1 Question)
- Q1. Guesstimate the number of chairs in IIM Lucknow.
3
Case Study Round
How would you modernize a traditional retail store (based on my summer project)?
[Please note that I stands for Interviewer and C stands for Candidate]
I: Your summers project seems interesting, walk me through it.
C: I mentioned about my project and discussed the findings and actionable.
I: Let’s do a short case. How would you modernize a traditional retail store?
C: I asked for some time to gather my thoughts and build the approach. I tried to cover the entire supply chain from procurement to storage to in-store operations and at each step, suggested new methods or improvement in existing methods being followed.
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
3 Interview Rounds
1
Group Discussion Round
8 Topics.
Topics were mostly based on some kind of dilemma. I made 1-2 entries in every topic, speaking for at least 30-60 seconds.
Made it through the GD. Taking a stance and building on it seemed enough in such a short GD.
Very organised GD, kept a happy face on.
6-7 minutes for each topic (including topic introduction and conclusion).
New joiner in your firm. He is well experienced but still not liked by his colleagues. What should you do as manager?
Pollution due to one of your plants. What should you do?
A country is planning to attack. You are low on funds. How to proceed?
There is a football finals tomorrow, 2 star players are injured and 2 good substitutes are available. Its an important game. What should you do being a team selector.
2
Technical Round (1 Question)
- Q1. Lasted for 30 minutes approx. What did you read? Tell us about Mahindra, what have you read?
3
Other Round (1 Question)
- Q1. Gave me feedback, we didn't sit at all. It was brief. Shaked hands.
Interview Preparation Tips
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - 1.Interaction with seniors.
2.Mock GDs/PIs.
3.Internet.
4.Annual Report of company.
5. Keep smiling. Most essential element!!!
2.Mock GDs/PIs.
3.Internet.
4.Annual Report of company.
5. Keep smiling. Most essential element!!!
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