Interview Questions for MyGov Assam assignment

11:00 AM, 28th June 2017
Amtron Office, Bamunimaidan
Panel: IT-OSD to Chief Minister, 2 SeMT members, one Amtron man

Process: All the applicants (it was Walk-in-interview advertisement) for both the Project Manager and Social Media Analytics Expert were made to sit in a conference room and submit the resumes. There were super confident people; I was keeping very low profile.
The surprise came when they announced, there will two rounds (second in the subsequent day). I had to reschedule my flight that cost me quite a lot of money.

Questions:

1. Tell me about yourself- what have you done, where have you worked etc
2.   Since you are heading DigiSevak, how will you balance that post joining MyGov Assam? Will you keep promoting DigiSevak?
3.  What’s the necessity of DigiSevak when there was MyGov already?
4. How will you get the citizen responsive mechanism work? How will the ministries give more tasks to MyGov Assam- how to build the trust?
5. What will you do when one of your team member makes any mistake and things go in public domain, maybe out of hand? {Ans: MyGov is not social media}
6. Then more of a conversation on multiple issues of current MyGov Assam. Also, the information that staying for tomorrow's interview is must.

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11:00 AM, 29th June 2017
CM Block, Janata Bhawan, Dispur
Panel: Vishal Vasant Solanki (Secretary to CM), Mukunda Madhav Pujari (Head SeMT, Assam), Sanjib Sarmah (Amtron), two ladies, two gentlemen, IT-OSD to CM, change management consultant of SeMT

Process: 2 candidates for Project Manager and 3 candidates for Social Media were called for interview today. First, they grilled me for around 25 minutes. Then again they called me informing my name has been suggested and what would be my expected salary. I was told it was unanimous decision to recruit the boy from Agia.

Questions:

1. I wished wrong, then realised; there were around seven people to be wished. God-I puzzled.
2. Ok, first tell us, is it Good morning or Good afternoon? 
3. Tell us what’s about the Most-Read-Blogger title mentioned in CV?
4. What was/were the blogs you wrote? {I could have told about the movie here, but I just explained all the blogs in BSG}
5. Have you visited the site MyGov Assam? {Of course, I participated too}
6. Tell me specifically the names of the tasks that you submitted? {Now they realized I didn't lie}
7. In your paper on Social Media, what were the 3 case studies you analyzed and what were the outcomes?
8. What’s your vision for MyGov Assam three years down the lane?
9. You told about increasing the number of users. What number do you have in your mind {I told 50 K on first anniversary}
10. Whatsapp didn’t adopt any promotional mechanism, still the number of users sky rocketed. What should myGov Assam do to have such user inflow {I answered, but I should have brought the private app v/s govt app logic}
11. In case of service deliver, how do you see the CSCs performed {The Amtron guy didn't get convinced with my positive outlook on CSC, and dragged for around 5 minutes}
12. In case of e-district project, there was citizen charter type concept, but citizens were not informed xxx (I forgot exactly the question). Will MyGov Assam repeat the same ?
13. How will you ensure the usage increases among the registered users and also  get quality output from the users? {I suggested increasing offline outreach, having targeted groups etc}
14. You have written you were felicitated by BJP for suggestion in preparing election manifesto. What were the ideas you suggested?
15. What will be your three priority things that you would do after you join MyGov Assam ?
16. How will you ensure respective departments are on-boarded to MyGov and they also respond for the submissions received? 

Note: This is my third and last blogpost on the MyGov Assam recruitment. The latest news is that I got the offer letter on 14th June 5:24 PM and I sent resignation at 5: 32 PM. Appointment Letter, last date etc are not settled yet. I am ready for the new chapter in my life.