IIMA, Delhi, 16th Feb, Morning Slot

9/9/8 B.Tech CSE, 18 months workex as Financial Market Analyst.

AWT: food delivery apps should be put to a stop. people should dine out now post pandemic, and look how e-learning is on a downward direction. Something along those lines.

Panel 3, Serial 6

M1(Finance Background) & M2 (Quants Background)
(both middle aged, 35-45)
Pretty lively.

I’m really interested in how you got where you are right now. First CS Engineering, then Futures Trading, and now looking for an MBA. 

Some questions regarding Futures and Derivatives.

What is the research team comprised of? What are their backgrounds?

Why didn’t you pursue CS more?

Elaborate more on how you make use of your degree in your current firm?

What does your job and day to day work looks like?

With advancement of technology, why is there a need for Manual Trading

Do you follow news?(M1 jokes about only the  ones the makes his market move)

General questions on Lok Sabha, Parliament and all. 

Then we discussed about my family’s business.

Questions revolving around what do you have in mind during and post MBA?

Tell us about things apart from work? What are your interests.
(I looked at my watch and told that if things go well, I’ll be a marathoner by this time next Sunday)

Then we talked about Marathon Training, Professional Cricket, and it was nice discussions.

Some questioning about my office structure, how MBA comes into picture and all.

We’re done. Do you have any questions for us?
(Talked about Sports Culture and Infra at IIMA)

Thank you for your time, Darashan, and please take something for the bowl.
(took a cashew, and then they joked that I’ll need more than that for a Marathon)

Overall felt conversational, they were pretty nice to talk to, and I had a decent time :)
Roughly 20-25 minutes.