Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad

Hyderabad, Telangana

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user image Anonymous

posted on 21 Oct 2022

I applied via Campus Placement

3 Interview Rounds

1

Technical Round (1 Question)

2

Technical Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Multiple Cases; How to pitch a SAP platform to a construction firm; Use Blockchain to improve any industry of choice
3

HR Round (1 Question)

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user image Anonymous

posted on 3 Oct 2023

Interview experience
4
 Good
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 Less than 2 weeks
Result
 Yes, I joined the company

I applied via Campus Placement and was interviewed before Oct 2022.

3 Interview Rounds

1

Resume Shortlist Round

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2

Case Study Round

Market entry case framework discussion and Guessestimates

3

One-on-one Round (1 Question)

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user image Rahul Mishra

posted on 19 Dec 2015

I applied via Referral

3 Interview Rounds

Interview Questions

  • Q1. Tell about a trait of your personality that you think is a strength in personal life but does not serve you well in professional life? "one trait that think is ...read more
  • Q2. An international Office stationary retailer has just entered India and set up a sample store in Bangalore in association with an India Retail Giant. The store h...read more

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: HR Interview
Experience: This round was primarily a personal round revolving around the CV. The question broadly covered the various things done at ISB and the extra-
curricular. A lot of expected question were there on the Strengths, weaknesses, successes, Stay at ISB, Comparison with Undergrad education at IIT-B.
The interviewer was insistent that I answer both but I answered the first part and said that there was nothing I could think of for the second part because I just could not relate to such a separation in personal and professional personalities. Of course the answer was detailed and elaborate and ultimately convincing.

The conversation was a very easy one. I think I was able to break ice very early in the discussion and was always conscious for the crispness of my answers. As a result we were able to have a long discussion about a lot of different issues during the 30 minute+ long discussion. I was also trying to build a coherent storyline throughout by citing examples and connecting back to things I had earlier said in the interview.
Tips: Be sure to have a consistent story for all of the above and make sure that you keep corroborating your claims and assertion from time to time. For every aspect I was asked to site an example.
Be very thorough with you CV. Elaborate every point of your CV and prepare answers to the standard expected questions. Make sure you have rehearsed them well enough.

Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: I started by looking at the international retailer (Company) and its Indian partner? Why the venture, what strengths, type of contract, etc. it seems the company had efficient back end operation and the front end expertise was with the Indian partner. They would need 6 months to get out of contractual obligations. The operation is merely breaking even right now. I also looked at the competition and customers buckets and there was not enough information available on this.
After this initial analysis the case question was flipped to find out the drivers of setting up a retail store. Some of the drivers discussed were :
- Geography (decided by regulation, logistics, operations, etc)
- Store format (Departmental, Hypermart, location in city or outside city)
- Product Mix ( What would be item stocked)
- Partnerships (potential allies)
- Competition
- Target Customers (to decide Footfalls X Conversion Rate X Ticket Size)
The next part of the case was that where will I gather information about all these, customers, geographies, etc. I said there could be two ways of collecting information: Primary Research and Secondary Research. Primary we can collected from other stores, scanner data, Pilot study, survey, etc Secondary could be done through industry and analyst reports like Crisil, Datamonitor, ISI Emerging markets, These reports normally give detailed outlook about cities, types of formats, conversion rates, catchment area and other parameters. Given that we had just one monthinformation, Secondary research would be more appropriate.
Tips: Keep your cool

Skills: HR Skills, Case Analysis
College Name: Indian School Of Business (ISB)
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user image Kaustubh Verma

posted on 19 Dec 2015

I applied via Referral

3 Interview Rounds

Interview Questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: After listening to the question I immediately analysed by asking myself some questions.
a) What can be the internal issues due to which trucks stay in the premises overtime? This could be broken down into - No preparation by the warehouse - No space in the warehouse- Shortage of tools and materials to unload Point no. 1 can be broken down into why there is no preparation by the warehouse personnel. One can analyse that there may be no communication between procurement division and store manager and the store manager may not know what he is getting, how much is he getting and at what time. The other reason can be that the truck is entering the premises with the wrong items (contrary to what was ordered) Point no. 2 can be broken down into several inventory management issues. Demand estimation, service cycle levels and are they reasonable and things like that. Basically a whole lot of OPMG from term 3. Point no. 3 is what do they use to upload. In this case the labour was fine but then there was a problem with the pallet availability. Pallets can be unavailable because they are procured from a vendor with high lead time. b) What can be the external factors that influence increase in costs? Are these the only transporters? Can we get better rates from another transporter Are these transporters getting rate of the items brought in.
Tips: Stay cool and confident. A case is just like doing a 30 min project under a
guide. Engage with him and be interested in knowing more.

Round: HR Interview
Tips: You can prepare for all the basic questions in a PI. Tell me about yourself is a standard question and should really be the clincher in any interview. Try not to talk only about studies and projects. Bring in a human and humour element to your anecdotes. And of course relevant anecdotes.

Skills:
College Name: Indian School Of Business (ISB)
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user image Jatin Gulati

posted on 19 Dec 2015

I applied via Referral

1 Interview Round

Interview Questions

  • Q1. You have to make a choice between 3 consulting offers that you have and you should prepare an issue tree analysing the situation

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: The theme of the interview was to test how I react when put under pressure and I think the way I responded to it is what clinched the interview for me. I think the interviewer was very aggressive in his questions and tried to make the questions as uncomfortable as possible for me.One learning that I would want to leave out of this experience is that it works better if you take a stand and are hard on that throughout. Just hang-in, by using different arguments possible or even repeat the same arguments in different ways but its important to just hang-in. For example, on the consulting vs. I-banking issue, there were moments when he dominated the discussion so much that I could have shifted my stance a bit but in hindsight that could have been fatal.
Tips: Frankly, issue trees are ambiguous in the sense that you can cut the problem any which way and I made a 3 level issue tree. Don’t think I should give the one that I made here as benchmark because its easy to make any issue tree and then defend it. I presented the tree and the interviewer seemed to like how I did it. He raised a point that I missed incorporating information about the and adjusted my analyses promptly.

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College Name: Indian School Of Business (ISB)
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user image Ujjwal Mukherjee

posted on 10 Dec 2015

I applied via Referral

1 Interview Round

Interview Questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: HR Interview
Experience: Was comfortable with PI What was good: Confidence What could be better: Did not have knowledge on the projects / kind of work done by different divisions


Skills: Personnel Management
College Name: Indian School Of Business (ISB)
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user image Ujjwal Mukherjee

posted on 10 Dec 2015

I applied via Referral

1 Interview Round

Interview Questions

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: Q. Confirm understanding of LCVs – Is it like the Tata Ace?
Yes
Q. Estimate the market or only for our company?
Do it only for our company, and assume we have last 10 years of sales data

Tips: The case was not hard, but I was taken aback when asked to stop. Interview lasted for only 15 minutes which unsettled me What was good: PI, scoping and structured approach What could be better: Speed in solving the case.

Skill Tips: Before jumping into size, I identified factors that would drive sales of pre-owned vehicles like total cost of ownership, emergence of a better vehicle, expansion of alternate use by customers etc. Was asked to concentrate on TCO and I probed for yearly data of costs. Did not come up with a number as he abruptly stopped the interview Summarize the case. [Not more than 30 seconds!]
Skills: Case Analysis
College Name: Indian School Of Business (ISB)
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user image Pranai Agarwal

posted on 10 Dec 2015

I applied via Walk-in

4 Interview Rounds

Interview Questions

  • Q1. There is an international bank (US based) that has been operating in Asia for the past 10 years. However, recently it has noticed that a lot of its customers ar...read more
  • Q2. Tell me something about your work and what you exactly did?
  • Q3. What did you do in relation to financial products?
  • Q4. Which horizontal and vertical do you see yourself working in at Accenture?

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Stress Interview
Experience: The company focuses on Heavy on cases relevant to your past work experience and functional expertise. Structured approach while solving the cases rather than exact solution.

Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: Q. Is there anything that has happened in the economy that is resulting in this change?
No, nothing has happened in the economy.
What does the company do? What are the products provided?
Company provides deposits, lending, but major into processing of payroll related data.
Q. What are the various sources of revenue?
Payroll related services and processing capabilities to other companies.
Q. Is the processing of payroll data carried out differently in the USA as compared to the Asia Pacific region?
Yes, that is exactly what it is. In the US, majority of the processing is being done manually, and this process has been copy pasted in the Asian subsidiaries. However, in Asia, technology and automation is being used by other regional and local banks, hence they are able to provide faster and better service.
Q. Where all does the firm operate in the Asia pacific region?
All over.
Q. Who are the competitors and are they offering any different services?
Not relevant.
Tips: As you can see the case isn't much hard. The focus is more on structured approach and the way you are involving the interviewer. This was the feedback that I received. 4) Good approach with the economy, company and market 5) Could have been a bit faster with the questions In general for Accenture, prepare for cases from your industry as there is a high probability you will be put in an interview with someone with that particular industry expertise.

General Tips: Interviewee can start by repeating the case to the interviewer in order to make sure he/ she has understood the objective properly (very very important). Then start of by describing the economy of the country in which the client is in (read the papers) and ask if any external change is resulting in the issue. Then move onto the company and ask about what the company does, product mix, revenue and cost trends over time. Then move onto the market scenario (industry analysis) and ask about market size and growth rates, competitors and market shares. Use this data to start solving the case and involve the interviewer as much as possible. Summarize the case. [Not more than 20 seconds!
Skill Tips: In general for Accenture, prepare for cases from your industry as there is a high probability you will be put in an interview with someone with that particular industry expertise.
Skills: Case Analysis
College Name: Indian School Of Business (ISB)
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user image Tanmaya Prasad

posted on 10 Dec 2015

I applied via Walk-in

3 Interview Rounds

Interview Questions

  • Q1. Was asked to name the world champion of Table tennis
  • Q2. In the partner round of interview, I was asked to name my favorite subject during chemical engineering. When I told him the name of the course he asked me to na...read more
  • Q3. An on-line travel agency has a call centre. Recently they have been receiving complaints that the waiting time has increased. What could be the problem?

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: HR Interview
Experience: I guess he was trying to test how I would handle unexpected questions.
Tips: Keep your cool.

Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: Approach:
Q. What is the call centre for? Is it only for customer complaints or is it also for booking?
The call centre is for handling customer complaints and post booking transactions such as re-scheduling, cancellations etc.. It is not used for booking.
Q. Apart from the complaints about waiting time, is there any other objective that I need to be aware of?
No. Focus only on the waiting time.
Q. Have the customer complaints been validated?
Yes. The waiting time has indeed gone up.
Q. Now I want to look at demand side. Is there an increase in number of callers?
No
Q. ls there a change in the average time spent per customer.
No
Q. Has there been a change in the variability in number of incoming call?
No
Q. Has there been a change in the variability in time per call?
No
Q. Is there any seasonality in demand?
There is, but not relevant for period we are discussing.
Q. OK. Now looking at the Supply side. Has there been any change in average number of people working on shifts?
No
Q. Has there been a change in the Number of shifts per day?
No
Q. Has there been a change in the duration of a shift?
Yes. Last month, shifts were changed from 9 hours shifts to 8 hours shifts.
Q. Has there been any measures taken to compensate for the reduction in shift timings?
No.
Tips: The candidate should understand the objective first and establish if there are any other objectives. Then the candidate should explain what approach s/he is looking at to look at the problem. In this case, the increase in waiting time indicates issue with the operations. The candidate can consider using the waiting time equation from the operation management course. However that may be difficult to remember and hence one can look at the drivers of demand and supply. Demand = No of callers per day * Average Time spent per customer * Seasonality Supply = Average No of call centre employees per shift * No of shifts * Duration of the shift * Efficiency in effective working hours per actual working hours Also need to consider demand and process variability. The demand variability is the variability in number of incoming calls and the process variability in the variability in the call time of each call. Ask questions about each of the drivers to understand where the issue lies. Summarize.

Skill Tips: The solution should be in a detailed way. Shouldn't arrive at the solution quickly. Each and every factor must be considered. Follow a systematic way of analysis.
Skills: Case Analysis
College Name: Indian School Of Business (ISB)
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user image Anonymous

posted on 17 Sep 2015

4 Interview Rounds

Interview Preparation Tips

Round: Personal Interview
Experience: The interview questions asked:
- Expand on career highlights
- Specific details of your role in product development for
emerging markets
- Details of international work experience
- Since I have done product development in automotive
electronics for considerable part of my career, will I be able to
cope with assignments in non- automotive sectors, such as
telecom, healthcare, etc
- Talk about your extracurricular activities
- Talk about two defining moments in life which have made you
what you are today
- Two positives and two negatives which your family, peers and
superiors see in you. What steps have you taken to improve on
it?

Round: Personal interview
Experience: Personal Interview Questions:
- Tools used for product life cycle management
- Career progress
- How much did you score in DMOP?
- What is your CGPA?

Round: personal interview
Experience: Personal Interview Questions:
- Career progress
- Will you be able to cope with assignments in non- automotive
sectors, such as telecom, healthcare, etc
- Talk about your extracurricular activities
- Are you willing to relocate to Gurgaon?
- Salary expectation
Work experience and the relevance of work experience for the job description were helpful through the interview.

College Name: Indian School Of Business (ISB)
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