Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow Placement Interview Questions

9 panelists; 2 moderators.

1. Were asked to select a topic, one of the candidate suggested "sustainability"; they agreed.

2. Had a huge scope to cover so covered almost every nuance of it.

3. Spoke about environment sustainability (talked abt the movements all over the world, Greta Thunderberg), business (talked abt Insolvency and bankruptcy code, recent corporate tax cut), waste disposal, disposal of white goods (as it was Samsung)

• Q1. How are you? Is it being hectic?
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• Q1. Tell me about yourself.
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• Q2. Why consulting?
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• Q3. Why Deloitte?
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• Q4. Question related to work ex - what are the factors you would consider if you want to carry out an M&A in banking.
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Why consulting again?

Did you get in touch with seniors at Deloitte?

How was their experience?

Case solving.

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• Q2. Tell me a situation where you resolved a conflict.
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• Q3. A very simple problem was given to solve using basic the equations.
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• Q1. This was a casual interview where I was finally assessed If I am fit for the company or not and to what extent can I go to achieve the given target.
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Topic - Should alcohol be legalized across universities?

• Q1. 4 candidates were being interviewed.
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• Q2. What’s your drive, describe a situation wherein you overcame an obstacle successfully?
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• Q3. Why AB InBev?
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• Q4. Questions related to Yoga (I had mentioned that I practice yoga and hence this question)
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• Q1. Walk us through your CV.
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• Q2. Write down 5 assets and 5 liabilities.
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• Q3. Describe your work experience.
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• Q4. Give 3 ratios which you consider are most important and why do you think they are important?
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• Q5. Draw the graph for call option.
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• Q1. Do you follow markets?
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• Q2. Tell 2 recent news that you might have followed that affected the markets.
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• Q3. What level are NIFTY and SENSEX currently trading at?
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• Q4. Where are the headquarters of DB situated?
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• Q5. Introduce yourself in German as you have read German in school.
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• Q6. Who is the CEO of DB?
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• Q1. You have identical ropes of the inconsistent thickness (such that you cannot divide a rope into 2 equal halves). You know for a fact that 1 rope burns in 1 hour...read more
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• Q2. A spider in a well climbs up 3m and goes down by 2m in a day. In how many days will the spider come out of the well if the depth of the well is 10m?
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• Q3. How many coins should you carry to the market to ensure that you could buy a commodity of any value up to Rs.100 using them?
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• Q1. How many pizzas will be sold in Lucknow today?
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• Q2. Will the number chosen by you in the guesstimate remain the same or vary across different days?
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• Q3. What according to you will be the effect of rising oil prices on the prices of cotton?
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Tell me something about yourself.

Share your previous work experience.

How did you expand your company's business?

Flipkart is going to launch wallpapers for the Indian market what kind of wallpaper you are going to launch, formulate the complete strategy.
This was a typical market entry case, the only thing you ought to think is the type of wallpaper you will launch and here your out of the box thinking comes into the picture, I mentioned I will be launching a PVC based economical segment wallpaper.

What is the professional achievement you’re most proud of?

This was a typical market entry case, the only thing you ought to think about is the type of wallpaper you will launch, and here your out-of-the-box thinking comes into the picture, I mentioned I would be launching a PVC-based economical segment wallpaper

Tell me something about yourself.

How in Flipkart are we going to sell real estate?
Over here they are looking at what ideas you can bring to the table. I mentioned the problem that why people are reluctant to deal in real estate online, then I presented the ideas whatever I was able to think off.

What are parameters you will leverage on to promote IIM Lucknow as a brand?
Again a typical marketing question on promotion, where I described the elements like Alumni base, the government rankings, the world-class infrastructure, the available courses like ABM, MDP

• Q1. About yourself.
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• Q2. Why RBS?
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• Q3. Challenge you faced - follow up questions on these?
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• Q4. What are the tools you used? (have fintech workex).
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• Q5. About bitcoins.
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• Q6. Why was it not successful?
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• Q7. What do you know about RBS?
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• Q1. HR questions
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GD: Your airplane caught fire and you’ve landed in a forest. Rank in order things that are necessary for you and your group from 1 to 15.

• Q1. General HR Questions.
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• Q1. Guesstimate: No of premium shampoos sold in India.
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• Q2. Marketing strategy: For a premium shampoo launched by ITC.
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This was a GD round. We were asked to setup a B2B meat business. Initially there were 6 of us. The discussion started on the value chain- where to procure from, where to store, and alike.

After 10-15 mins, they asked 3 people to leave. The rest of us were given individual areas to focus on then what would the revenue stream be, what would be the future opportunities, which parts of the value chain can be outsourced.

An in depth discussion of around 20-25 mins followed on the same. Possible bottlenecks were discovered and addressed.