JCB Summer Intern Interview Questions and Answers

Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: Case on taxi-driver: A taxi driver in mUmbai is not earning enough, how will u help him.

I anlaysed the case by workign from 2 sides i)how to reduce his cost i) How to increase his revenue



-Revenue: i) I assumed the rate to be fixed, then said may be the locality in which he is operating is not appropriate.

Then the next point was, that he might be returning empty to his stand which is leading to wastge, maybe should tie-up with two stands and then return to the stand closest to his destination for a route. Thus preventing wastage.

Cost side: Identifying the elments: Fuel, Maintenance charges, Fee paid to the stand, and Depreciation (even after almost 2 course in MANAC this was the last thing that came to my mind;) )

Then it was about improving mileage, improving maintenance

The i said may be he can rent out the taxi in the night to increase his revenue.

I made the mistake of assuming that not much can be done with the fuel thing…which he later pointed out can be done by replacing diesel with CNG/LPG

Few more things that i dont recall, but this was pretty much the entire discussion.



Case on a bank (yeah! another one! ) A bank had 5 branches in a city that were offering home loans. The bank took a decision to centralise the entire loan lending operation to the main branch. The number of loan takers dropped drastically. What should the bank do?- This case had some number crunching….i think this one was only about asking different questions. I tried to approach the case from a marketing perspective but soon realised that it was an operations case and finally the reason came out to be less than required manpower.Nothing specific I remember about third round, fourth round was about making the offer.

General Tips: Key Observations across all consult interviews:i) very friendly setting (much beyond expectations)ii) great focus on understanding why consult and not i-bankiii) flow of interview very smooth with one thing leading to another, as in no abrupt change of topic.iv) the questions you ask them in the course of case discussion are as important as the answers you offer.
Skills: Case analysis
College Name: NA

Round: HR Interview
Experience: The usual norm in consulting interviews is to start each interview with a little HR before getting into the case solving – this usually begins with an ‘about me’ of the interviewer followed by the ‘tell me about yourself’ for the candidate.

Round: Case Study Interview
Experience: Some of the other questions that were asked- My biggest achievement,something that is not on my CV, how can your background in quizzing help you in consulting, about me home city, on my extra curricular activities and my experience at the London school of economics
Tips: Made a rapport with the interviewer,kept my structure in place all the time, asked all the relevant questions concerning one particular aspect of the business before moving to the next bucket,  also, i failed to “crack” the first case but i still got called for the second round – so it is not necessary to get to the final solution always but always keep your thoughts structured. I did quite well in the second and third case, reaching solutions and discussing implementations as well

General Tips: Iwas not asked a single question about the firm in any of the three rounds. Still – it is wise to be prepared with “why us ??” .Be confident and always smile, a smile really goes a long way,think out loud whenever you are coming up with the solution – show your thought process- don’t just scribble the numbers and then just say the final answer.the first thing I realized was that the interviewers are really looking to just have a nice conversation with you – it wont feel like an interview at all.Further- while practicing the cases – we try to solve the entire case in our head by laying out the entire structure and then asking question-but on the final day – the case structure was actually laid out by him- so he asked me to start by asking a few defining questions and setting up the problem statement, then he asked me to further probe various factors governing competition, following it up with a comparative cost study- so what i am trying to get across is that the case shall further be divided into “mini cases” – so they are just trying to see how you think for each segment…try being unique and extremely structured all the while.
Skills: case analysis, Economics
College Name: NA

Round: Case Study Interview
Tips: I messed up my cases big time. Don’t do that!

General Tips: Do the cases well. They matter a lot. Engage the interviewer and try your level best to convey and maintain a good impression throughout.
Skills: case analysis
College Name: NA