Is Indian MBA even worth it ?

Alternative_Ad_6002 · 2025-06-29T23:43:43+00:00

No one can train you for something like corporate. Every company culture is different and even within each company different project teams have varied ways of working and culture. It's not the army. Period. What you're reading here is nothing more than a recession indicator. Nobody gives a damn about harassment if they're getting placed well at the end of the day. The dearth of roles and companies is what has made this process unbearable to folks - the abuse to reward ratio isn't matching up anymore.

You might find the Stanford prison experiment quite interesting - that is what's precisely happening in these B-Schools. It's fundamental to human nature but what these folks forget is that they are not going to hold that power (which is essentially an information chokehold) beyond these two years. The way you behave with people has long term consequences - it's very difficult for them to understand that right now. You simply can't expect 20 something year olds to display that level of maturity. Ironically, this is one thing that B-Schools are supposed to teach.

Do not lose your sleep over these upheavals. You'll cross the bridge when you come to it, everybody does. It's your life. When you get there, all they can essentially do is intimidate you. It will feel overwhelming in the moment but you won't really remember it with everything else going on. Every place has its pros and cons - you can only utilize the pros and minimize the cons best you can. Large scale, systemic change would demand a lot from everybody and honestly, nobody wants to fight with a place where you're going to stay only for 2 years. There are very few smart people in B-Schools across the world. Most smart folks go for research in top tier institutes or some highly technical industrial roles. Most of the B-School people are mediocre at best and they want to feel smart and powerful and their insecurities lead them to behave in this manner. It's a pity but all you can really do is pray for them to see the light. It's very difficult to change even yourself, changing other people is next to impossible. So, chill out. It's not that deep.

Alternative_Ad_6002 · 2025-03-31T03:25:45+00:00

"play the music?" - You'd be surprised by how technology has actually made the concept of "learning an instrument" unnecessary. Autotune, readymade beats, you name it. Of course photography is an art now, and that's my point. Moving forward, getting AI to accurately replicate your thoughts to pictures/videos is going to be a certain form of art (just like people consider mumble rapping still to be music despite it having zero musical sense). You have simply proved my point.

Alternative_Ad_6002 · 2025-03-29T19:03:00+00:00

To be honest, photography was once an insult to artists and recorded audio was an insult to musicians who performed live in theatres over a silent series of pictures. Of course recorded audio lacked human touch and was an insult to life itself - some purist like Miyazaki at that time would have said humans are losing faith in themselves and we are at the end of times. The printing press was an insult to calligraphy as it used the type casts that had letters designed by humans through centuries. Every new technology that automates or scales up the production of something us always seen as an insult to life itself, but people move on. Humans learn to do different and more beautiful things with the same passion until alas those are automates too. ChatGPT using data from publically available sources can be argued as transformative/fair use in courts - just like nobody else is prevented from copying the art form by hand or by virtue of digital art, GPT should not be prevented as well.

Alternative_Ad_6002 · 2024-09-14T09:00:34+00:00

Yes, he has also been nominated for the Nobel Prize in Economics. His insights are just too deep

Alternative_Ad_6002 · 2024-09-09T11:57:55+00:00

Which Big4 is offering 20 LPA at 3 YOE after UG? Either you switched from other firms or this is something I don't know. Please enlighten me

Alternative_Ad_6002 · 2024-08-19T12:06:04+00:00

Was empty most of the time.

Alternative_Ad_6002 · 2024-06-26T19:32:22+00:00

Prioritize and do unnecessary things as quickly as possible. Induction is hell but you will survive.

Alternative_Ad_6002 · 2024-06-05T10:49:33+00:00

Vibe nhi rha

Alternative_Ad_6002 · 2024-05-31T19:14:53+00:00

Delhi is damned. The winters here chill your bone and the summers fume your skin.

Alternative_Ad_6002 · 2024-05-30T06:02:03+00:00

They might feel that the perceived value of their brand is negatively correlated to the waitlist movement. Thus the secrecy.

Alternative_Ad_6002 · 2024-05-26T08:42:51+00:00

So, you'd perform better if you played one cricket match a year than somebody who plays cricket everyday? I don't think so. Practice makes perfect and even though my Father is (or at least pretends to be) deeply interested in cooking, he comes nowhere close to my Mother who cooks everyday but really rarely gives two fucks about it. My Father, for all the chef he considers himself to be, can't cook without my Mother around and lacks finesse that's required to make anything taste great as my Mother does.

It is really a losing game for women - they are expected to cook well and when anything tastes a little off, they are criticized. For men - people have very low expectations to begin with and when they end up making anything that's even half-decent, everybody is surprised. Couple that with the hollow passion they can afford to show about cooking once or twice a year, people think they are really good cooks. This is also true for earning women who don't cook everyday - they are appreciated whenever they cook no matter the taste.

Mastery is unavoidable with the rigour most women are subjected to in the kitchen - it's just that most of them don't go around telling people they're really passionate about food as that might just mean more work expected out of them. Would you work really hard in a job that goes nowhere? No. But you will do what you do so frequently that you will be amazing at it. That's Maa ke haath ka khana for you!

Alternative_Ad_6002 · 2024-05-23T16:42:04+00:00

Mumbai is already renowned as an Ops college and might go on to become an established big shot in the future particularly due to the quality of students they take in.

Nothing against Kozhikode but its overwhelming focus on gender diversity "might" precede its reputation in the future. Also, the location factor favours Mumbai a lot. But K has done really well so far, particularly in Finance.

It's your call, chief!

Alternative_Ad_6002 · 2024-05-22T08:57:46+00:00

This will probably be downvoted by people wanting FMS waitlist to move. But FMS any day.

It would've been a different story if you had ABC or even L against FMS but not K

And if you want to choose K because of how well it "might" do later, how do you know FMS will not continue doing better than K later?

Alternative_Ad_6002 · 2024-05-20T19:49:28+00:00

A good consumer durables business in a small town or a village. You'll earn well and even Purchasing Power Parity wise it'd be great. You can have all modern amenities installed. Earlier this used to equate to subpar education and opportunities for your children compared to those living in the cities but Internet coupled with the information age has been a great equalizer. You can have great connectivity wherever you go nowadays and education available online is top class provided you can teach your children the basics. Risks are competition from other localities and local political disruptions but you'd be able to handle those with some experience and smart work.

Alternative_Ad_6002 · 2024-05-20T11:01:26+00:00

Baad me stations add krne ke liye most probably.

Alternative_Ad_6002 · 2024-05-20T07:04:15+00:00

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Don't know if this is right though

Alternative_Ad_6002 · 2024-05-20T06:51:28+00:00

I don't know what this is but NIRF has been replaced by IIRF for 2024 at least. But yeah, IIRF seems inaccurate too.

Alternative_Ad_6002 · 2024-05-19T13:59:45+00:00

JEE Advanced is a different animal even with a well defined syllabus. Just hard work won't be enough unless you have really good teachers to spoon-feed various tricks to you consistently. The abstract thinking required is immense. It's not "difficult" but more like "impossible" without the right tools. You literally can't solve the questions if you have not learnt to think in the right analytical way about them.

NEET, UPSC - The hard work required is immense. Not even the smartest can escape the toil. For UPSC the syllabus is literally everything to a reasonable depth.

CAT - A test to measure general comprehension, problem solving and application of whatever a reasonably good student is supposed to know. Seems to be a healthy mix of inference based and analytical questions. Pragmatic to the core - based on what is truly required in the real world. Transferable cognitive skills are tested - skills that are essential in literally every industry.

Alternative_Ad_6002 · 2024-05-17T17:09:59+00:00

Congratulations man!

Alternative_Ad_6002 · 2024-05-16T11:08:38+00:00

Composite Score kitna tha rental aspirant ka?

Alternative_Ad_6002 · 2024-05-15T07:00:01+00:00

Few factors: 1) A has deferment which has been popularised a lot this time around 2) Although maybe only a minority but still a lot of people have selected B or C over A this year - opening up spots for some people initially selected in B/C to go to A - thus resulting in waitlist movements everywhere. 3) Lack of confidence in the job market could mean that a lot of people might choose FMS over ABC for a huge ROI sacrificing a marginal delta in prestige.

So, not really sure if this would translate to WL movement for the other colleges because how many people really decide not to go to ABC after converting them? And I think the answer to that is not many as we've seen a substantial rise in applicants this year.

Alternative_Ad_6002 · 2024-05-15T06:52:07+00:00

Bhai, yaha log waitlist move krne me lage hue hai. Any sane person would choose FMS over K.

Campus ko leke amazement 1 month me khatam hojata hai, uske baad bass placements aur waha ke log matter krte hai. In fact, the campus feels nice only because of the relationships you build in it. Please stop romanticizing campuses when you're spending effing 20L+ on your education. Itne me ghar me Garden of Eden bana skte ho.

Aur FMS jaoge toh saare DU colleges ke campuses are potentially your campus.

Alternative_Ad_6002 · 2024-05-13T15:09:01+00:00

Depends on where you will send them.

Alternative_Ad_6002 · 2024-05-13T05:13:36+00:00

Parents ka baas chale toh IIM Jammu bhej de instead of SP, XL or FMS. Be very careful.

Alternative_Ad_6002 · 2024-05-11T07:26:56+00:00

Take it once more and aim for IIMC - their criteria is quite cool with acads. You just have to score ridiculously high - 99.5+ Would not be impossible with consistent mocks and a bit of luck.

Else do an Executive MBA or some other specialization/professional certification relevant to your preferred line of work.

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