People... and Interview Questions

Saturday, June 7, 2008

This is a typical setting one will find at IIM A..
You will find four people outside Cafe Tanstafl (CT)...

One of them is a Professional Wine Taster from Mumbai
Second guy is a serial entrepreneur from Delhi who has opened and closed 3 companies including a dotcom in the past 9 years
Third guy is a professional Event Coordinator from Dubai
And fourth one is a Agriculturalist from Kerala..

And people say that IIMs are filled with Engineers... ( Yeah Right!!..and Cows will fly)

Trust me, the last thing you will be asked is what have you studied.. No body is interested in where you are coming from .. They do rather know where you are going!!!... 

So far I have come across a Doctor, a Sailor who travelled around the world and then gave it up to start a Apple Farmyard, a guy who made helicopters at Hindustan Aeronatics Limited , an editor from PricewaterhouseCoopers and lots of interesting personalities..

The Tuchas are yet to come back from their Summer internships. The remaning 200 Fachas will join ard the 20th June.. So I am expecting to bump into a lot many interesting characters... 

One of the batchies was narrating his interview experience - 
"Suppose there are 5 parachute jumpers in a plane. At an altitude of 14000 ft, they all think of jumping out of the plane. However, one of them changes his mind. How many jumpers were there in the plane at 14000 ft.. ? 

"Sir, There will be five jumpers still in the plane... There is a difference between thinking of jumping,  and actually jumping...!!" 

I was impressed.. I had gotten it wrong... So thought of asking the same question to other batchmates.. I asked 14 guys and 2 girls...
16 of them got it right...

Damn!!!

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