Kellogg 2012 - Calling All Applicants

Could someone from the Delhi round of interviews post their interview questions and thoughts/suggestions ?
thanks

+1 to that. cheers.

Do we know if Kellogg admits some applicants without an interview? I remember reading that this is not the case, which means that we need to hear about interviews in a week or two or it's a sure ding.

Is this correct?

As far as I know, Kellogg rarely admits applicants w/o interview (at least phone interview). As Kellogg values the interpersonal skills of the applicant so it makes no sense for them to admit ppl w/o knowing his/her communication skills. If you receive a waiver, no worry, just wait, they will hook you into the loop once they have interests after reading your package.

I concur with your understanding. Purpose of the interview can be a combination of a few or all factors of the following:

1. Seek greater understanding: The leadership essay is supplemented by kellogg interview question " what is your leadership style"
2. Comunication Skills, and also ascertain whether you wrote your essays. for example if you talk in very long sentences and have an average command over english, it'd be weird if your essays are sublimely crisp and the vocab shakespearean.
3. Your motivation & enthusiasm levels, how you carry yourself in a one-on-one conversation. If they find something very interesting and unique in your app which is surfaceal, they might wanto dig deep in the interview.
4. Similar marketing message as your essays convey.
5. Fit.
6. Some Alums may ask you other schools you're looking at. And try and evaluate how you think. For example if your essays mention you're looking at PE and you have strong quantitative skills, it'd be perhaps questionable to say, "besides Kellogg, I've applied to Cornell UCLA and Ross"

Seems everyone from India has been matched with an alum for an interview.. Am I the only one left out

I agree with all your points except no. 2.
Not to nitpick, but Kellogg interviews are blind. Ad com members, students or alums who interview applicants have access only to your resume. While the interviewer is obviously asked to assess communication & interpersonal skills, nobody really goes back to check if the interviewer said that you spoke in long sentences while your sentences in the essays were crisp. Everyone knows that essays go through several revisions to make them as compelling as possible, hence equating the two is meaningless.

Maybe, it possibly applies to other schools more than to Kellogg's blind interview and interview everyone policy.

Anyhow, How was your interview?

You are not the only one. I am in the same boat with my fingers tightly crossed.

+1

So I had my interview with an alum earlier today. He had called me to his workplace. I reached 15 minutes early and the interview started bang on time. Lasted around 40-45 minutes. About 35-40 minutes for the interviewer's questions and about 5 minutes for my questions..

None of the "walk me through your resume" or "tell me about yourself" stuff. He had gone through my resume and already had his questions ready on his shiny iPad..

1. Why MBA? You seem to be doing really well in your job and earning bucket loads of money so why spend two years without work?
2. Why Kellogg?
3. Why Consulting? (that's my STG)
4. Why technology post MBA, why not something else like manufacturing, finance?
5. What have you learnt from your leadership experiences about yourself that you did not know earlier?
6. What do you think are the critical attributes required to ensure that a team runs like a well oiled machine? What should a good leader ensure?
7. What are the biggest risks you have taken personally & professionally?
8. What are your top work-related achievements?
9. A few questions related to my family, hometown and why I don't work at my hometown (where my parents are)
10. Questions for the interviewer. I had 4-5 questions ready so that helped.

That was pretty much it..It was quite conversational. He did not touch upon my college life at all. Very few passing references here & there. All questions were almost exclusively directed towards my professional life. He did not give away anything by way of his expressions, so can't say how it went.

At the end of the interview he briefly explained what the process going forward would be like. I did not grasp something here entirely. He said something to the effect that interviewers are given an optional questionnaire to fill up which he would be doing so for me. I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad!! We said our courteous goodbyes and I was out!

Now the painful wait till December 19 begins...I have precisely 32 days now to over-analyze my interview and replay it in my head a thousand times!!

R2 applicant here. Any tips that R1 applicants can share?

Thanks!

I'd take all advice from R1 applicants with a grain of salt until you figure out who actually gets accepted.

I am pretty sure they will start issuing admits well before December 19.

Ohhhhh...How I hate this wait

Seriously, it's high time they communicated something to the "waived" applicants. Just a month to go for decisions.

It would be better if I had got an invite to interview.