{"id":146,"date":"2022-06-15T10:08:11","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T10:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.isbmantra.com\/wp-interview\/?p=146"},"modified":"2022-06-16T10:59:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T10:59:50","slug":"technology-tech-4years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.isbmantra.com\/isb-interview-experiences\/technology-tech-4years\/","title":{"rendered":"ISB Interview Exp. (Technology): Tech II \/ 4 years"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

This is the real ISB interview experience of a candidate who has 4 years of work experience in Technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The ISB interview was conducted on October 21, 2018. In his\/her opinion, the interview was mainly focused on the application.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interview Date<\/strong><\/td>21st<\/sup> October, 2018<\/td><\/tr>
Work Profile<\/strong><\/td>Technology, DE Shaw, 4+ years of experience<\/td><\/tr>
Re-Applicant?<\/strong><\/td>No<\/td><\/tr>
Your Opinion on the approach of the interviewers and their key focus<\/strong><\/td>The interviewers were trying to validate each and every line that I had written in the application. They were interrupting frequently without listening to my entire answer. I found the interviewers to be slightly on the aggressive side.<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Qn:<\/strong> How did you generate 25% increase in the revenue? What will you do to generate such an increase for my company (interviewer had a Pharma consultancy firm)?
A<\/strong>: Sir, instead of referring to any particular industry, I can tell you what I did in my firm. I utilized the existing network of doctors on my platform and asked them to refer their patients to take a lab test on my platform. The doctors provided the customers with a promo code. The promo code also helped me keep track of those customers.
I also improved the search quality of the system so that anyone who searches for a lab test on Google will get our website in the top results. Moreover, I also improved the internal search platform. For e.g., if anyone searches for diabetes in the website, <\/strong>he\/she will be able to get the test details on our platform<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Follow-up Qn<\/strong>: Did you do this all alone or was there a team?
A<\/strong>: I did this all alone with one business coordinator who joined at a later stage<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Follow-up Qn:<\/strong> What was the commission of the doctor?
A<\/strong>: If the lab test was for less than 1K, his commission was 5%. Else his commission was 10%<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Follow-up Qn:<\/strong> What was the search infrastructure that you used?
A<\/strong>: Answered<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Follow-up Qn<\/strong>: Were you appreciated by the team for this?
A<\/strong>: Our team was very small (around 6 members). I was not monetarily rewarded but the CEO appreciated my effort. There was no hurrah as such.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Qn:<\/strong> Have you met any product manager?
A:<\/strong> I have worked directly with several project managers in my career. In fact, in Snapdeal, I worked with RIshiraj who was an ISB Alum himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Qn:<\/strong> Why ISB?
A: <\/strong>ISB already has a lot of connections in the technology industry and a strong alumni base in this sector. For e.g. Alok Goel (ex Freecharge\/ ex Redus) and Ankur Warikoo (NearBuy CEO).
ISB is also a research-oriented institute. I mentioned the examples of the projects that SRINITE (centre of excellence) got from Microsoft, Telangana Govt etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Follow-up Qn:<\/strong> You can anyways approach the alumni?
A: <\/strong>Association with ISB would bring familiarity and a common connection. It would help me connect, interact and stay in touch much better with them. Being part of the ISB Alum brings exclusivity factor that otherwise won\u2019t be there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Follow-up Qn:<\/strong> Have you read their career path?
A<\/strong>: Yes<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Qn<\/strong>: Who is the Product Manager?
A<\/strong>: Product manager is a mini CEO kind of role of a product. (Was interrupted and asked to avoid giving clich\u00e9d answers). I then explained that the product manager is someone who wears multiple hats and studies customer behaviour to design requirements, manage the product lifecycle, coordinate with cross-functional teams etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Qn:<\/strong> What are your short-term goals?
A:<\/strong> My short-term goal is to join a B2C company working on solutions for the Indian market. For e.g.<\/p>\n\n\n\n