Mu Sigma Senior Manager interview questions

1. Initial screening done by HR. Beware HR has no clue of what they are doing. The process is not clear to anyone 2. Then they give you a case study to return in 48 hours. Average difficulty especially if you are from a consulting background. Make sure you cover all angles in your case study 3. Then had an interview with someone at Director / VP level. They went over my profile, checked analytical skills, thinking, etc. Again average difficulty. There was then a huge wait for the next round. Took almost a month in my case. Never any clarity or communication of whats going on. I then had to travel to Bengaluru. There were around 20-25 folks all applying for different levels. Again surely this can't be sensible process !! The face to face interview was as follows - (Entire process takes 6-8 hours on a day) 1. Starts with a video synthesis test. You are given a video clip to watch and you are expected to synthesize it. (describe key takeaway) 2. Then you are required to write a psuedo-code / algorithm for a program. Again more to test your logical and thinking than the syntax 3. You then have a group activitiy. You will have to work in a group and come up with a presentation for a given problem. You have 45 minutes as a group to think and 15 minutes for presentation. Groups of 3 usually 4. You then have what I felt was the crappiest round of them all called "creativity test". You are given a wierd sentence like "Dirty water polluted the river" and you are expected to think creatively and come up with a story and enact / narrate it. 5. Finally you have a face to face interview which again goes over most of what you have done in earlier rounds like case study, resume walkthorugh, etc After spending a day, you will be told if you are in or out but no salary details will be provided. Salary details will come a day or 2 later and will be a shocker when they arrive !!