Hey paddypartidge,

I had my first one this week and will be having my second one next week. I guess it was alright. Basically they focus on why INSEAD MBA, career progress / current role etc., and future plans. So you need to show you have a plan and how INSEAD will help you achieve your goals etc.

Good luck with your interviews!

Thanks a lot gr8two. Hope it went well. Have both of mine next week. I'll post a review.

Hi All,

Hope everyone is doing well, the INSEAD forums have gone very quiet after the R2 intake.

Just curious if someone could give me an update on the numbers from the Middle East. Please.

Lebanon
Syria
Jordan
Iraq
Egypt

Thanks!

can someone post the latest MBA connect numbers for Indians and when is the deadline for depositing the initial deposit for people admitted in 2nd deadline?

Is anyone else experiencing challenges with filling in the electronic forms for the scholarship applications?
I keep getting a session timeout when I try to save my progress and I do so at rather short intervals..

Thanks Anarchy,

Can i bother you for number of Syrians?

Cheers,

Good luck!

Wooot!! For real!! >.<
Dang, you just upped the anticipation levels! :S

Good luck all!

Hey guys, finished off with my 2nd interview today and it was a disaster ! The interviewer came 1 hour late after postponing the interview 2 times and not showing up the first time and he clearly had not read my INSEAD application and CV. Luckily i was carrying a copy of my CV which i presented to him.

Well the interview lasted just over 2 hours. I am a guy who has worked as a navigator on merchant ship for most of my career and then switched to a shipping/logistics role last year with a trading company.

Well the interviewer went through my CV and then started asking question

1.) Give me your career progression till date.
2.) Tell me about yourself as in where you grew up and what environment.
3.) Achievements during sailing on merchant ships.
4.) Why INSEAD
5.) Why MBA
6.) Current Job description.

Then the game began :

He started giving me financial situations as in
1.) If i invest 5 million $ in your company then what is the ROI ?
2.) How do you think your company can increase its revenue ?
3.) Then he gave me a situation where in he gave me tons of numbers and asked to calculate the profit after taxes and utility charges. He asked me to take a pen and paper and actually calculate and show to him.( Now i have never been in any sort of a financial role but can ship any cargo from any where in the world or navigate any ship through pirate infested water but finance NO ! I told him this but he kept pushing for an answer. )
4.) Then he asked me my post MBA goals and then asked me the ROI in the industry that i want to work in post my MBA - Marine Chartering/Ship broking.

All in all it was a nightmare. For a guy who has difficulty reading his company's quarterly financial results this was quite a handful.

Well my hopes are now down the drain !!!

I am sure the adcom does not instruct any intrviewers to give this kind of interviews. Hopefully your first interview went a lot better. If I were you, I would share my concerns with my coordinator since your concerns are very valid and he was not supposed to do what he did. If you mention anything try to be as polite and descrite as possible but make sure they get a good idea of what happened.



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