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02 Aug 21 CSE Interview transcript, PSIR Optional, A S Bhonsle

UPSC CSE INTERVIEW transcript

PSIR Optional

Board- A.S. Bhonsle 

02 August 2021 

Order : 4th in sequence



Soumith Raju Kanchanapalli 

Academics : B Tech in Computer Science from IIT Hyderabad

Work Experience : Worked for 2 years as Software Engineer at Flipkart


Chairman

- Read my DAF out loud - IIT, Flipkart, Hobbies, etc

- "You must be very popular in college"

- Who was your best friend in college?

- If we call and ask him to tell good things about you, what would he say?

- What are bad things about your friend?

- What is the most important thing in communication?


Member 1

- How has India's journey been in EODB? What are our challenges?

- Mention few factors of EODB

- Have you invested your money anywhere? How did you invest and where? [Along with other things, I mentioned cryptocurrency here]

- Differences between shares and mutual funds


Member 2 [Lady]

- You worked at Flipkart, how did e-commerce revolutionise the marketplace?

- Aren't these big companies a threat to retail stores?

- You mentioned investing in cryptocurrencies, what is RBI/Govt doing in regulating cryptocurrencies?

- What are the pros and cons of investing in cryptocurrencies?


Member 3 [Lady]

- *She Corrected my answer on regulation of cryptocurrencies*

- How did covid 2nd wave affect us?

- You are from Warangal, why was Warangal in news recently?

- How does a site get recognised as UNESCO World Heritage Site?

- What is the other site that got this status along with Ramappa?

- Who are "Covidiots"?


Member 4

- You studied Computer Science, what is Quantum Computing?

- How does Quantum computing affect encryption technology?

- What is the difference between Gandhi and Marx? (one more follow up question on this topic)

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