Calling all ISB PGP Applicants - (2022 Intake) Class of 2023

Just to let you guys know. My portal says Interview Status: Shortlisted [ My interview was on 9th] Overall I do not see any new or unexpected things in my portal.

I received my application verification confirmation mail on 25th Oct

But yet to receive any update for interview

If you have the mail then portal changes don’t matter. It behaves strangely sometimes.

I had my interview today morning!

Walk us through your profile!

Why do you want to do MBA now?

Given most of my experience was US/ EU Healthcare, I was asked questions as to what are the reasons that Healthcare/ HealthTech in India is not as big compared to EduTech/ FinTech?

What would be your recommendations/ business plan if you were to advise a startup focussed on healthcare that wishes to scale up its presence in India?

Further, I was asked what do you think is driving the investor sentiment for investing in EduTech/ FinTech in India?

Also, why don’t we see similar kind of investments in similar products (PayTM, BYJU) in the US vs India?

On top of it, I was asked what is your take on the valuation of PayTM IPO? Is it undervalued or overvalued and why?

What will be your biggest takeaway from ISB?

What were the biggest challenges that you faced while you were setting up the office for your organisation in Gurgaon? How did you do overcome them?

Profile: Chemical Engineer, NIT Bhopal, 9.5 years WorkEx! GMAT 690

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Any interview tips for reapplicants?

Hi "LavanyaPant",

You should prepare responses to the following questions:

1. Focus on what has changed – be it in terms of goals, career growth, voluntary initiatives, interest areas etc.
2. Be ready to answer why you waited again for ISB and not join some other program in the meantime.
3. Did you analyze why you were rejected last time?
4. Tell us a situation where you failed (apart from not getting into ISB last time) and what did you learn from the failure?
5. What would you do if you get rejected this time as well?
6. How has the industry you have been working changed over the last 2-4 years?

+++ <questions that can be asked to any applicant - reapplicant or not>

Our team of consultants (alums from ISB) would be happy to support you with mock interviews to prepare for your d-day interview.

Cheers and Best of Luck!

Interviews are face to face or online (considering COVID).

Online - Zoom

People are interview invites for round01 still rolling or are they over?

Many people have already told in the group that interviews are expected till November end

Preppie is back with the three interesting interview experiences of the week:

1) A candidate had experience in Virtual Reality (VR) and was grilled extensively on the new “Meta” launch and what Facebook has done previously with oculus.

2) In a panel of two interviewers, one interviewer was travelling and he took the interview in his car. The interviewers dug deep into the stock markets trading and specifically IRCTC. But the candidate was a PM aspirant who happened to have mentioned “stock investments” in their essay.

Our alums have been suggesting that ISB is facing an interviewer shortage and though there is no guarantee, our sources feel like interviews are going to spill over to December as well.

3) Another PM candidate didn’t have any PMs in their panel, the candidate felt it a tad bit difficult to explain the technicalities of their job in laymen terms as the panel was keen on knowing the work profile.

4) A candidate with 10+ years of work experience was interviewed for 78 minutes, but remember that correlation isn’t causation!

Unfortunately, we can’t disclose more details so please feel free to DMs if you need any help with mock interviews, training Practice makes perfect!

Were any new invites rolled out during 4th Nov to 7th Nov ?

Hi all, my interview is next sunday and I have specified my career goal as product management. I wanted to know if any product cases have being asked so far?

Many. I guess it was the most in terms of numbers.

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People who have received your interview invites for 13th and 14th November, on what date did you receive your mail of application verified and completed?

I have my interview scheduled on 14th of November. I got verified and completed on October 26th or so. I had first submitted on 12th September and I got an additional document mail and I submitted my ITR then.

there is no correlation to verification mail and interview invite.