Consulting Becomes A Sales Job After A Few Years, Ft. Abhishek A, IIT B, IIM C Alum

In today’s episode of Konversations Cafe, we have IIT Bombay and IIM Calcutta alum Abhishek Asawa, who chose to opt for consulting from his B-school even with a CFA degree at hand. He talks in detail about his journey of getting through with IIT Bombay, how it opened up his understanding of the world of corporates, why he got interested in finance, and what brought him back to an institute like IIM Calcutta.
Abhishek stresses his learning journey at IIM C and emphasizes the soft skills that he picked up during his time there. He also talks about how he decided to pick consulting over a finance role on day zero of placements on campus and why you should be clear while making that choice.
Continuing his conversation, he dives into the life of a consultant, some of the interesting projects he has been a part of, why he lost interest in consulting, and a lot more. He further talks about the lessons he has learned from Mukesh Bansal as his Chief of Staff and what he is building currently with him at Meraki Labs. This, and a lot more, are packed into this learning-filled conversation.
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00:00 Coming up
00:57 Abhishek’s time at IIT Bombay
4:23 Facilities at IIT Bombay
5:51 Why did Abhishek want to switch from coding?
8:13 Abhishek role at JP Morgan
10:57 Why Abhishek did an MBA?
12:21 Abhishek CAT Prep journey
16:06 Abhishek IIM calls, WATPI Prep
19:16 Abhishek’s life at IIM Calcutta
21:53 Internship at IIM Calcutta
30:35 Abhishek’s memorable moments at McKinsey
35:36 Why Abhishek left McKinsey
42:39 Abhishek’s take on Startup
48:29 AI could replace coding jobs
54:54 How can Tier 2 or Tier 3 students get into top companies like McKinsey?
56:44 What are freshers expected to do as a consultant?
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[@hifzanadil5956]

What a diversified background, IIT Bombay, then JP Morgan finance rather any core coding profile then write CAT and went to IIM and choose consulting then. Later Start Up, Why the smartest people of the country become so chaotic towards their career

[@Hannibal_Lcter]

Pehli bar kisi interview mai guest ko continuously itna bolte dekha, learnt a lot tbh!

[@InsideIIMKonversations]

Glad you like it.

[@adityapattanayakvlogs]

One of the best interviews I have ever gone through by a Management Consultant(my dream role) & he actually deserves to be at the best place given his hard work & dedication. Glad to have gone through this episode of Konversation Kafe. Thank you once again to the team behind all these, Team InsideIIM. I want to give you guys a round of applause . 👏👏👏

[@InsideIIMKonversations]

Thanks yaar, we exists for the comment like these. You can explore more such interviews under our Konversation Cafe Playlist, they will be super fun for you. Thanks for watching.

[@adityapattanayakvlogs]

@@InsideIIMKonversations Sure team, i have already started watching 1 more interview/episode like this. I will let you guys know how I felt about that video in that comment section as & when I am done with that video(which I am sure will be very good) 😊👍.

[@saurabhnimbarte9041]

Why the interviewer seems to be in attitude

[@chinmayanand6822]

He is just nervous cause he has to look like he is not dumb sitting in front of someone who has achieved so much. U might have done the same

[@adityapattanayakvlogs]

He is not exactly in attitude. Ankit's talking style & asking style is like that only, you can check other videos on the channel where Ankit is the interviewer(if you haven't checked them yet), he would have been asking questions almost exactly in the same fashion 👍. Hopefully you will get some clarity on that after watching few more videos on the channel 👍.

[@aagamshah2005]

I hope u will add chapters asap

[@InsideIIMKonversations]

We will surely add the timestamps ASAP!

[@salmanhaidr]

One of the perks of getting into gud college is the amount of help u get from seniors at all faces of ur career.

[@InsideIIMKonversations]

100% true!

[@pankajrajpurohit4600]

Got to learn alot..

[@InsideIIMKonversations]

Thank you for watching. Stay tuned for more such content🙌