My college experience

I applied for N L Dalmia, MET, Sies, Symbiosis. I was hoping for Symbiosis but due to Covid, I didn't want to stay in a hostel. Hence took admission to Welingkar, Mumbai. You require 50% in degree exams & should have taken any of CAT, XAT, GMAT, ATMA or CMAT. Cutoff was around CAT - 75, XAT - 75, CMAT - 80, ATMA-80, GMAT-600.Only PI was conducted due to the pandemic & online interviews were fairly new during that time. The process was well coordinated & managed.

The course has the application of Design Thinking & Innovation in all Management Verticals. It is a general management course. If you want to be a consultant, this is the right choice. It heavily focuses on entrepreneurship, innovation & business. They also taught us legalities, formalities to start a business, making a full-proof business plan, the financial model of self-financed growth, bootstrapping, etc. The projects extensively are practical research based - the more primary research you do, the better to understand the market. About the faculty: Dr. Shrinivas Gondhalekar (Dr G) is a world class operations consultant. He is a practitioner of Lean, Kaizen, 6 Sigma & gave us many real life experiences & also industry visits even in this pandemic. Dr Kaustubh Darghalkar (KD Sir) is a favourite of every student in BD. He is an entrepreneur & pioneer in the InnoWe cell of WeSchool which is an incubator for startups. The exams were timely & quite easy MCQs & subjective. We did a lot of projects.

Morgan Stanley -Fund Accounting Rs. 50,000, Adobe - Sales Process & Performance Mgmt - Rs. 40,000, JioSaavn - Account Management (Brand solution) Rs. 30,000, Infosys ORC Rs. 30,000, CCIL HR Rs.20,000, Teleradiology Solution HR Rs.15,000, TCS DISQ Innovator Rs. 10,000, Profinch Solutions Marketing rs. 10,000, Aminu Life Marketing Rs.10,000, Applied Cloud Computing Operations Rs.8000, MyGlamm Product Development Rs.6000, Growisto Social Media Marketing Rs.5000.

Students become eligible for SIP interviews from the first trimester itself & for executive placements from 4th trimester. 8.47 lacs is the average salary & 15.45 lacs is the highest salary. 74% of students are placed. Fingpay, Native, EY, Infosys, L&T infotech, Airtel, Kotak Mahindra, Axis, ICICI, Accenture, Wipro, Deloitte USI, Cognizant, IRM(UK), Reliance Retail, UNI design, Scaler academy, Motherson Sumi Infotech Design, IDFC, Connect Residuary, GEP, ZS Associates, Enparadigm, Tagmango, Phoenix Compliance.

The fee is 11 lacs for 2 years. They provide Bloomberg Marketing concepts certification. 1-year access to Microsoft Office 365. The CMC (Placement Cell) brings a lot of live projects & internships. Most internships are basically live projects with 0 to very little stipend. I did a live project with Scinuvo LLP. Another with a friend of KD sir & my SIP is at Outlook Publishing. The stipend at Outlook is the sales commission. The live projects are however full of learning as you get to apply the concepts you learnt in class. They are easy to manage with lectures.

Due to the pandemic, only a few social gatherings were conducted randomly. We had a music fest organized by the Media & Entertainment batch. There was an international week by Igneous Faces where speakers from various countries spoke about their cultures, working in different countries & adjusting to their culture. They also organized a competition & the winning team of 10 people got a SIP with them. Igneuos Faces also took a quiz on identifying travel destinations around the world. They offered a live project to 3 winners. We recently has a session on international Yoga day.

There was an online interview where they asked me about myself, about my work-ex. I was asked to describe in detail my work-ex. Few questions on technologies as I was a software developer. Few questions on the theory of my hobbies as I am a certified dance instructor. I prepared a concise Tell me about yourself & followed the STAR approach. I tried to tell my key takeaways from each of my experiences.