Interview Location: UPSC Bhavan, New Delhi
Interview Date: 4th Might 2016
Interview Board Chairman: Shri Vinay Mittal, Former Railway Board Chairman
Interview Board: 1 Chairman, 4 members
Interview Period: 40 minutes
Spherical 1:
CHAIRMAN: So xxx, you’ve a decade of expertise within the personal sector and you’re presently working with XXX. What’s that do you do precisely?
Me: Sir, I’m the product supervisor for the pharmacy software of XXX.
CHAIRMAN: What’s the product?
Me: Sir, we offer transparency options to the consumer sir. At any time when a consumer searches for a drug, we present the drug value, whether or not it’s a generic model, mail-order pharmacy, and many others.
CHAIRMAN: So, it is sort of a search software, I can go and seek for drug costs.
Me: No sir. An organization has to purchase our product sir. Then we take the claims of all workers beneath that
firm, run our algorithms, and generate costs based mostly on their insurance coverage supplier.
CHAIRMAN: OK. So, it’s extra restricted.
Me: Sure Sir.
CHAIRMAN: However how does this assist anyone?
Me: Sir, within the US healthcare system. An individual strikes by three phases, sir. Out of Pocket, Coinsured, and Coated. By permitting the customers to decide on cheaper choices, we be certain that the worker stays inside his out-of-pocket restrict. This helps the worker, in addition to the employer, to bear the price every time an worker crosses out of pocket restrict.
CHAIRMAN: OK. Now within the US, there was a change within the healthcare system. It was referred to as Obama Care. What’s it and what’s the criticism towards it?
Me: Sir, within the US, the well being care system is totally privately owned sir. The federal government doesn’t have any hospitals and the sufferers entry the well being care system by insurance coverage. It was noticed that lots of the poor weren’t in a position to entry the healthcare system as they might not afford insurance coverage. The Inexpensive Well being Care Act launched by President Obama states that no insurance coverage supplier can reject offering
insurance coverage whether or not resulting from previous well being issues or affordability. This has resulted within the well being care prices going up throughout the nation and that is the primary criticism towards the act.
CHAIRMAN: So, principally, it’s like a cross-subsidy the place the wealthy need to bear some prices as a result of poor.
Me: Sure sir.
CHAIRMAN: So, there has not been any pushback?
Me: Sir, a number of states filed instances with the US Supreme Court docket stating that the act infringed on the federal construction. However, the Supreme Court docket upheld the act, sir.
CHAIRMAN: Acha. So even now the federal government just isn’t paying something, it’s the wealthy which can be getting affected.
Me: Sure sir.
CHAIRMAN: What number of firms are there that do what your organization does?
Me: That is an rising sector, sir. We’re the leaders on this business.
CHAIRMAN: Inform me in your profession have you ever accomplished something progressive in your work:
Me: Instructed about one thing in my earlier firm.
CHAIRMAN: Nothing in your present group?
Me: Sir, I’ve been right here just for a yr and the product I’m engaged on is already available in the market. So, there’s not a lot scope for innovation.
CHAIRMAN: Oh, however there should be nonetheless some new issues.
Me: In fact sir and advised me a couple of advanced challenge I’m engaged on. Chairman appeared glad.
CHAIRMAN: Now inform me one thing. You might be in a really excessive place. You earn greater than I do. You appear to like your job. Why civil companies?
Me: Sir, really I utilized for civil companies once I handed out of school, however, I moved into the personal sector and overlooked my purpose.
CHAIRMAN: However, why so late? You’ll not even attain the best place by the point you retire?
Me: Sir it was my dream to enter civil companies.
CHAIRMAN: interrupts: Was na.
Me: Sure sir. However all by this time I had a remorse that I couldn’t pursue my dream, sir.
CHAIRMAN: However, you’ve stuffed all companies, not simply IAS, and IPS. You’ll work in any of the federal government departments?
Me: Sure sir.
CHAIRMAN: However, why? Why this curiosity in civil companies?
Me: Sir, I consider civil companies is likely one of the few avenues the place one can serve the nation whereas discharging official duties. I additionally serve the nation in my present job by paying taxes and serving to the IT business develop. However, civil companies is far nobler sir.
Spherical 2:
CHAIRMAN: When you’ve a lot ardour for civil companies, why did you go into the personal sector in any respect?
Me: I had household compulsions, sir. With this chairman indicated member 1 to ask questions.
MEMBER 1: You’ve simply now talked in regards to the healthcare sector. What’s the standing of well being care in our nation now?
Me: Madam, we’ve got a blended mannequin the place each the personal sector and authorities healthcare amenities run collectively. All healthcare amenities are supplied freed from price in authorities hospitals whereas sufferers need to pay within the personal sector.
Member 1: So, what’s the drawback ailing this sector if the federal government offers all the pieces free of charge?
Me: Madam, the federal government hospitals are in a dilapidated situation and plenty of of them don’t even have correct amenities. There is no such thing as a gear obtainable and there’s power absenteeism.
Member 1: What is going to you do to alter this?
Me: Madam, the spending on well being care is only one% of our GDP, much more must be invested to extend the amenities.
Member 1: No, however what would you do as an officer to alter this?
Me: Madam, I’ll attempt to make sure that hospitals are maintained cleanly so sufferers can entry the identical. I can even cut back absenteeism among the many docs.
Member 1: What else?
Me: Madam, I’ll attempt to purchase the required gear so hospitals have all of the amenities. I can even attempt to get the folks in my district insured so that they don’t need to pay out of their pocket.
Member 1: In your profession, have you ever ever confronted a state of affairs the place a mistake was dedicated by you or there was a disaster:
Me: Sure Madam. Talked about some examples from one among my initiatives.
Member 1: So how did you inspire the group to recover from the disaster?
Me: Blah blah blah.
Member 1: What was the takeaway from the expertise?
Me: To all the time talk within the clearest method so there aren’t any ambiguities. (Everybody nods in settlement)
Member 1: OK. Inform me 5 methods you should use a pencil apart from for writing.
Me: Completely Shocked. Tried to suppose.
Madam, the pencil can be utilized as a scale to attract one thing. It may be used to dig one thing from the bottom. Can be utilized as a paperweight (chairman laughing, not an efficient paperweight). Me too laughing.
Member 1: That’s advantageous. Thanks.
The chairman factors to member 2 to ask questions.
Member 2: So xxx. You defined the Obama care act fantastically. You talked about know-how and your work. I’ll ask one thing else.
Me: OK Sir.
Member 2: What’s BRICS?
Me: Sir BRICS is a time period coined by a Goldman Sachs analyst.
Member 2: interrupts: Was it referred to as BRICS?
Me: No sir, it was referred to as BRIC referring to the nations Brazil, Russia, India, and China. South Africa was added later.
Member 2: OK
Me: These had been the growing economies at the moment and it was stated that these economies would develop into financial giants within the many years forward.
Member 2: China is a growing financial system.
Me: It was a growing financial system when the phrase was coined sir.
Member 2: When was the phrase BRICS coined?
Me: Sir, late 90s or early 2000s sir.
Member 2:OK go on.
Me: Sir after that these economies fashioned into a corporation and had summits and many others. and now we even have a
BRICS Financial institution is named the New Growth Financial institution.
Spherical 3:
Member 2: What’s the objective of this financial institution?
Me: Sir it’s estimated that greater than a trillion {dollars} are required to cater to the infrastructure wants of those nations. However, such funding just isn’t coming from the prevailing establishments just like the ADB or the World Financial institution. Therefore, this financial institution is required, sir.
Member2:How are they funded?
Me: They’re funded by contributions from the member nations sir.
Member 2: Are the contributions equal?
Me: Sure Sir.
Member 2: Are you certain?
Me: Sorry sir I’m not utterly certain in regards to the stage of contributions.
Member 2: The key contributor is China proper?
Me: Sure sir.
Member 2: So, are you snug with India taking cash from China
Me: Sir, China has surplus capital which it desires to take a position, we want cash for our infrastructure wants. So long as our sovereignty just isn’t compromised, I don’t see something incorrect in taking the cash.
Member 2:So, when you develop into a diplomat and you’re posted there, you’ll attempt to make India extra authority over the financial institution.
Me: Sure sir.
Member 2: As an IAS officer, you’ll be posted in rural areas. How will you reside there? You gained’t have AC and all these amenities?
Me: Sir, I’m a small-town boy. I’ve spent the vast majority of my life in small cities like Chittoor, and Anantapur. So, I’ve no drawback serving in small cities.
Member 2: However, it was greater than a decade in the past proper? Not up to now few years.
Me: No sir.
Member 2: Stored on prodding on challenges I might face in rural areas.
Me: Answered how that’s not the case and the way I’ll handle.
Member 2: OK. Aside from your job, how have you ever diversified up to now few years?
Me: Sir, apart from my job, I’ve discovered rather a lot about my nation in the middle of UPSC preparation sir. Earlier I used to be a typical IT man who complained about site visitors jams and a scarcity of amenities. However, over the previous few years, I’ve discovered the structure of our nation, I’ve discovered what unemployment means, and what poverty means, I’ve studied the historical past of our fantastic nation proper from historic occasions to the current day, and that has enabled me to study a lot. Chairman pointed to the subsequent member to ask questions. This member was very very critical. The one man who didn’t smile.
Member 3: You gained an essay competitors in class. What was the subject about?
Me: Sir it was in class, I don’t bear in mind the subject.
Member 3: Okay no drawback. When you write an essay now, what could be the subject you’d select?
Me: Sir, worldwide relations.
Member 2:OK. Would you be snug with inside safety subjects?
Me: Positive sir.
Spherical 4:
Member 3: There was a latest assault on Pathankot. What was it?
Me: Sir, insurgents from Pakistan moved into Pathankot. They kidnapped an SP, his pal, and his servant. They made calls to Pakistan utilizing the SP’s cellphone. Then they moved into the Pathankot air base.
Member 3: What’s the takeaway from this incident?
Me: Sir, the insurgents made calls to their handlers in Pakistan. The intelligence companies should be monitoring calls produced from India to Pakistan, but the data was not handed rapidly sufficient. The terrorists making the most of the expansion of shrubs and timber had been in a position to cover within the air base and we had been in a position to flush them out solely after an prolonged operation.
Member 3: What can we study from this incident about actionable intelligence?
Me: Sir although the SP knowledgeable the authorities that terrorists had kidnapped them after which allow them to go, no person took any motion. We needed to name within the NSG from Delhi after we had armed forces obtainable close by, this led to a delay within the mission.
Member 3: There was a military within the air base?
Me: No sir. They had been close by they usually may have been referred to as in faster than the NSG.
Member 3: Me: Sir the Maoists have been virtually utterly eradicated from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana. They’re
now restricted to Member 3 interrupts: Uttarakhand?
Me: Sorry sir, Jharkhand. They’ve been restricted to Chattisgarh, Jharkhand, and sure elements of Maharashtra. As acknowledged by their senior management, they aren’t in a position to entice anybody from the city areas and at the moment are restricted to tribal belts. The federal government has been in a position to efficiently limit their actions and their affect has been diminished.
Member 3: How is their affect diminished?
Me: Sir, I’ll clarify by taking the instance of Andhra Pradesh.
Member 3: Sure, go forward.
Me: Sir, in Andhra Pradesh, a particular power referred to as greyhounds was raised by DGP Vyas (M3 nodding in settlement). The cops becoming a member of the greyhounds got larger incentives and larger pay, and within the case of lack of life, their households had been supported as properly. Additionally, the police moved into the villages and recommended folks on the risks of becoming a member of the Maoists. This additionally had a fantastic impact. As well as, sir, when the late chief minister Shri Y.S. Raja Shekhar Reddy invited the Maoists for talks, the police recognized the route taken by the Maoists to return out of the jungle. When the talks failed, they went by the identical route and had been in a position to shrink the realm of Maoists’ affect. Throughout the peace talks, the Maoists additionally organized enormous sabhas and went on a recruitment drive. The police had been in a position to insert loads of info and had been in a position to eradicate loads of their high-ranking leaders. Chairman pointed to the final member to ask questions.
Spherical 5
Member 4: Does India have Commerce Secret Regulation?
Me: I’m sorry sir. I have no idea.
Member 4:So, you’ve labored on so many initiatives, how did you handle the mental property-related gadgets?
Me: Sir, I by no means encountered mental property-related work.
Member 4: However absolutely there should be some form of IPR the merchandise you constructed had.
Me: In fact sir. I’m certain my firm has patents on the merchandise we developed. However, I used to be by no means
personally concerned in it.
Member 4: How have you ever empowered ladies workers?
Me: Blah blah blah
Member 4: However, that’s managing their work effectively, how have you ever empowered them?
Me: Sir, the IT business itself has ladies empowerment, sir. There is no such thing as a discrimination towards ladies workers. I’ve solely ensured that I allocate work based mostly on their skills and capabilities and never based mostly on their gender.
Member 4: How do you handle sexual harassment towards ladies within the office?
Me: Talked about firm insurance policies. Safety towards sexual harassment and many others. and many others.
Member 4: However how did you handle sexual harassment instances?
Me: Sir, fortunately there has by no means been any sexual harassment case in my groups. So, I didn’t need to deal with it until now.
Member 4: The federal government has handed sure guidelines relating to sexual harassment, what are these?
Me: Instructed them.
Chairman: Thank You. Your interview is over.
Me: Thanks, sir. Thanks, madam. Thanks, sir, Thanks, sir, and Thank You sir to every member.
