*Essays before the interview :*
1. Your team members are suggesting to inflate data to get better grades during an MBA project, what will you do?
2. One of your reliable team members is underperforming and is in stress. Team members are also frustrated regarding the underperformance. How will you approach the situation and ensure help to the concerned member?
**Interview Panel - **
1. A Lawyer turned Management Consultant (Co’10)
2. A Strategy Management Consultant (Co’18)
Interview lasted for ~65-70 minutes. Pretty conversational and heavily Work-ex domain + goals oriented.
*Interview Questions*
1. Tell us something about yourself.
2. Explain your team structure and hierarchy.
3. Tell about a project and your role in it.
4. Multiple follow ups from work ex
5. You said you consult pharma companies to reach doctors for promoting drugs. Do you think its an ethical process to do so?
6. A question pertaining to pharma industry and my POV on that process and ethics related to it. Felt like a mini case tbh, considering immense back and forth.
7. Why is Pharma advertising restricted?
8. You said you work with US counterparts as well, how are they different from your Indian team mates
9. Give few pointers on tasks you’d leverage US team members for v/s Indian team members
10. Tell us about a challenge you faced at workplace
11. We see you’re a reapplicant, what incremental things you have done?
12. These are really good progressions but choose one of them to highlight.
13. McKinsey Forward program - What is the acceptance rate?
14. Doing what you do, why do you want an MBA for that? You can learn a lot anyways.
15. Apply MECE framework and chart out a plan for your next 10 years including short term as well as long term goal.
16. What if ISB doesn’t happen this year.
17. Tell about a conflict at work
18. Why do you want to need a long route to get into Strategic consulting first and then pivoting to Entrepreneurship. You can go to Blr, spend some time with seasoned leaders there and start a venture right away. Have you thought about that?
19. Any questions for us?