Hi guys, sharing my experience:
On spot essay 1: one particular team member is slacking and others are showing discontent. what would you do?
on spot essay 2: Came across competitor’s confidential business plan. Team wants to use it, what would you do?
both of these topics were something I had practiced already since it had been asked to quite a few people last year and this year. Also probably pretty basic imo.
Interview was a mixed bag. 3 panelists. 2M 1F, one graduated ~11 years ago and the other two are from Co’22. Started off normally, cracked a joke or two (something very interesting happened with me before my interview, so I used that to lighten the mood).
Q1a. How are you today? Q1b. Tell us about yourself like you would in a street play (I had mentioned street play in my resume).
Q2. Tell me more about this internal project you had taken on
Q3. Why did you even initiate it?
Q4. You are doing really well for yourself, what challenges have you faced along the way?
Q5. How do you face disagreements with your seniors?
Q6. You work a lot with partners & directors in your firm directly, is it not intimidating? (a lot of follow up questions on Q5 & 6)
Q7. Personal challenges
Q8. Personal interests, where does your free time go?
Q9. What would you like to change about yourself?
Q10. Any questions for us?
There were a lot more questions in between that I don’t remember / follow ups on my work / too specific to a particular thing I had mentioned in my essay/resume. Got grilled quite a lot too. Looks like today’s panel was in the mood to grill based on other folks who have shared their experience above.