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Marshall
MBA.PM
Final Decision:
Admitted
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
4 years ago May 8, 2022
4 years ago May 8, 2022 07:05
Interviewer - Kellee Scott, Director of MBA.PM Admissions
Duration - 25-30 minutes
Kellee had my resume in front of her. The interview was more conversational.
Interview questions:
-Tell me about yourself?
-How did you get into your field?
-What made you interested in your field?
-What is your greatest accomplishment at work that you are proud of?
-Short term and long term goals?
-What 3 words would you use to describe your leadership style?
-Tell me how you handled a difficult situation where you had to be direct to resolve the issue (based off my previous answer)
-Why an MBA and why now?
-Why Marshall?
-Do you have any hobbies? (She had a few follow-up questions about my hobbies and how I get into them)
-Do you have any questions for me? (I asked about 4)
Ran into some audio issues for about a minute. The interview lasted between 25-30 minutes.
She told me to expect a response before the end of the year. Got my acceptance call about 2 weeks later.
Hopefully this is of some help to someone. Best of luck to everyone!
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Rotman
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Interviewed
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
4 years ago May 8, 2022
4 years ago May 8, 2022 07:05
I had my interview today for R1 Full-Time MBA.
It was a generic conversational interview with most of the questions similar to the other interview debriefs -
1. Walk me through your resume
2. Brief description of day-to-day activities at job/stakeholders involved
3. Why Rotman for MBA. Are you applying to other B-schools.
4. Have you interacted with any alum from Rotman School.
5. Quote an example where -
a. you showcased your leadership skills
b. you set up a professional goal and how you achieved it
c. professional set-back and what did you learn from it
d. you had a conflict with a colleague
6. What are your short-term career goals after MBA and how will Rotman help.
7. What will be your plan B career
8. 3 questions you would ask the Dean if you met her at coffee.
There was only one interviewer (who joined about 5 min late) and interview lasted 30 min.
Good-luck everyone. Feel free to reach out for any questions.
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Judge Cambridge
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Matriculating
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
4 years ago May 8, 2022
4 years ago May 8, 2022 07:05
The interview was on Zoom and lasted for around 25 minutes. It was a fast-paced intellectual discussion and was very conversational.
The professor opened the interview with the most anticipated question: why Cambridge MBA, in which I answered by (i) giving a brief intro about myself; (ii) stating my short term and long term career objective; and (iii) explaining where Cambridge MBA fits in the picture.
Then he asked a few other questions:
1. Why don't you stay in your current company given your superior career progression
2. What was the most difficult decision you have made in your professional life
3. What are the biggest threats the current economy is facing today
4. Tell me about a business idea you have thought about in the last 5 years and how would you execute that (he emphasized that it doesn't need to be something you have done)
He also gave me an opportunity to ask questions during the last 5 minutes.
In general, it was enjoyable. He did challenge me when he felt he kind of disagreed with my argument, but I addressed his concern directly. That's why I felt it was much more like an intellectual discussion.
Hoping I'll get the good news in the next 1-2 weeks
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Johnson (Cornell)
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Interviewed
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
4 years ago May 8, 2022
4 years ago May 8, 2022 07:05
My interview started with the interview introducing himself, gave me the ground rules and informed me of the timing of the interview and we had a bit of ice-breaker conversation about thanksgiving and how my day at work has been. It was a good way to start and the interview was unconventional, not structured in a robotic way but quite conversational. Some questions I can remember:
1. Walk me through your resume
2. Asked a follow up question on specific career progressions and gap on my resume after school because I took a gap year before I started working and I talked about that.
3. Have I engaged anyone in specific company I intend to work post-MBA
4. What is my recruitment strategy
5. How do you prepare for the rigorous MBA curriculum
6. ST / LT Goals
7. What are my touchpoints within the Johnson community
8. What will I do if I fail to land my first choice(consulting), based on my Banking background at some point, why not IB?
9. Will you continue to work in US or go back to home country or others
10. What other club activities will I do apart from those I highlighted in my essay
11. What other schools are you applying to (Technically my Why Johnson)
12. What else do you want me to bring to the AdCom / let them know abt me
13. Do you have any questions for me
Interview time was about 45minutes.
Interviewed with a 2nd Year.
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Sloan MIT
Full Time MBA
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
4 years ago May 8, 2022
4 years ago May 8, 2022 07:05
Interview lasted approx. 35 mins.
1) Any significant change in your profile ever since you applied?
2) Questions regarding data visualization essay
3) Questions regarding Diversity essay
4) Share your recent professional achievement that you are proud of? What challenges did you face in that project?
5) Share a time when you had different views from your team members? How did you align on a common goal?
6) Questions regarding community work that i mentioned in the resume
7) Why MBA now?
8) Why MIT?
9) Anything else that you want to share
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ISB
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Interviewed
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
4 years ago May 8, 2022
4 years ago May 8, 2022 07:05
I had panel 2, with two alumni and 1 member from Ad-com. Pretty standard I guess.
The interview was extremely friendly and they were intent on listening to my ideas and motivations. I didn't feel they were trying to corner me or test me. They were just interested in understanding my motivation for taking different decisions. So when you prepare, make sure you can backup your career decisions with good reasoning.
My questions were more on the personal side, digging deep into my personality. I suppose being someone with a lesser work ex, they didn't have much to ask from work area.
The questions were as follows :
1) What are your long term goals and how do you see your MBA experience helping you in that?
2) Why ISB?
Only these were the general questions.
Rest revolved around my work, my responsibility, my learnings and my experience. Also had a bunch of personality questions - I love philosophy so they revolved around that. The question was - "So what do you think life is about?"
The entire interview lasted for about 45 mins.
One very different question I had, which I am sure not many people were asked was - Tell us about your family?
I was a little stumped and even excited at this question.
Overall, I don't know what will happen but I really had a lot of fun just interacting with alumni and could see myself totally fit in the culture of the school. The entire experience helped me appreciate and understand the school so much better.
To those preparing, the interview is not meant to put you under stress but a chance to share your story, which is a very valuable chance indeed. All the best!
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ISB
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Admitted
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
4 years ago May 8, 2022
4 years ago May 8, 2022 07:05
I had my interview at 1400 hours and it started sharp on time. The panel included a couple of alumni. One was a very senior guy who graduated back in 2004 and the other one graduated in 2017.
Both of them were well versed and had read my application and the essays thoroughly. They made me comfortable and did not put me under any stress whatsoever during the entire 40 min interview. The questions centralized on:
1. Why ISB || Why ISB over IIMs || Why ISB over foreign universities
2. About the ultimate long term goal
3. Struggles, learnings from the events organized in college
4. Deep diving on my work-life
5. Ethical and Moral questions by giving out a hypothetical situation
6. Whether I had decided on any clubs and chapters at the school
7. Ended with an opportunity to ask anything to the panel.
In nutshell, know about everything you have mentioned in your application. They counter-question on things you mention and with their experience, they know who's faking it in seconds.
The interview was not a monologue and was instead an open friendly conversation. There is no need to stress because they are looking for reasons to select you and not to reject you.
I took 3 mocks through Preppie and would 10/10 recommend it to anyone. They have a wide range of experienced and fresh ISB alumni. The preparation kit and the feedback after the mocks are remarkable. The panel provides extensive and brutal honest feedbacks to eventually extract the best out of one.
The first interview went terribly and was probably the reason why I got admitted eventually. The team makes sure to boost up the preparations in the background and also pairs you up with people from different industries and age groups to make sure you are exposed to multiple challenges before giving out your best in the actual interview.
I am extremely satisfied with their services and is probably the most economical resource out there. Would totally recommend to get in touch with their team.
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ISB
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Admitted
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
4 years ago May 8, 2022
4 years ago May 8, 2022 07:05
The interview panel consisted of two alums. They were very friendly and listened to the answers patiently
Duration- 45 Mins
Questions
1. Brief introduction
2. Explain parliamentary debate as that was a part of my achievements
3. Deep dive into an internship I had done with ORF and Facebook
4. Deep dive in my current role and my contribution to the team
5. Why MBA, Why ISB and what I add to the cohort
6. Was asked the goal question in the form of where are you headed in life. Then the follow-up question was Immediately after ISB what will be your goal and how confident are you in achieving the same.
7. Two values I live by
8. Behavioral question on handling a conflict in a team
9. Was asked to perform a minute of stand-up and some slam poetry as I had mentioned them in my hobbies. - Be careful while listing hobbies
10. Was asked about specific clubs I'm looking to join at ISB
I had used Expert's Global for the app and interview prep. Would recommend them to anyone looking for end to end consultant.
Also took Preppie's Pro package for a 2 hr exhaustive session. The alum from Preppie was well prepared with questions and tried to exhaust all possible scenarios I could encounter during my interview. Will fully recommend preppie for anyone looking for quick and thorough interview guidance.
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ISB
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Interviewed
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
4 years ago May 8, 2022
4 years ago May 8, 2022 07:05
The interviewer was extremely friendly. Had two interviewers and one adcom member who's video was off and was on mute. One of the interviewers had some internet issue so all of my questions were from one person. Questions revolved around why mba, why ISB, why my short term and long term goal, what I would contribute to ISB, got a few scenarios and was asked how I would work on improving them, conflicts I had while organizing an event.
Overall It lasted for around 35 mins, Used preppie for mock interview prep and they were very helpful
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IIM (All Schools)
IIM Calcutta PGPEX
Final Decision:
Admitted
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
4 years ago May 8, 2022
4 years ago May 8, 2022 07:05
1. Tell me about yourself, what do you do, and what brings you to MBAEx? (All in one question :P)
2. What is the difference between sales and marketing? (Since I stated that my post-MBA goal was in marketing space in the previous question)
3. What marketing tools have you used in your work?
4. How have you used online research in your work? (Since I mentioned that my work in analytics and data science involves a lot of research about algorithms, tech, and business context)
5. What are the actions that your company is taking to be more environment friendly? (Since I work in an energy company).
6. One question about five lions and a sheep in a field. If a lion eats the sheep, it transforms into a sheep. What might be the outcome? You can make any assumption that comes to your mind. (I think they wanted to test my thought process)
7. Why do loss making startups have high valuation? (Question came since I worked in an analytics startup before)
8. Questions on farm laws that were the trending news in India. Was asked about my perspective on how I would have reacted as a policy maker.
9. Any questions for the panel?
Interview went on for 25-30 mins.
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IIM (All Schools)
IIM Ahmedabad PGPX
Final Decision:
Admitted
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
4 years ago May 8, 2022
4 years ago May 8, 2022 07:05
Extempore topic - Should usage of cannabis be legalized in India? - Took my stand. But as usual, they had counter points for the same. Went on for 3-4 mins. Honestly, I couldn't judge whether they were good with the response.
1. What do you do?
2. Specific questions on the numbers mentioned in my resume - I was asked multiple follow-up questions on the analytics approach I used for solving a pricing problem
3. Why MBA and why PGPX?
4. What is your dream industry and company?
5. Any questions for us?
Interview was over in 25 mins.
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IIM (All Schools)
IIM Bangalore EPGP
Final Decision:
Denied with Interview
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
4 years ago May 8, 2022
4 years ago May 8, 2022 07:05
WAT topic - How can citizens contribute to solid waste management? (Not the exact words - something on these lines)
1. What do you do? Tell me exactly. (I'm a data scientist)
2. What data do you use?
3. Do you work with a team? - stakeholders and business
4. One question on the intriguing opening I wrote in my SoP.
5. How does MBA fit in your plans?
6. Few perspective and opinion based questions on my current company.
7. What role you want to get into?
8. What is your dream company?
9. Any questions for us?
Interview was wrapped up within 15 mins.
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Kenan-Flagler
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Denied with Interview
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
4 years ago May 8, 2022
4 years ago May 8, 2022 07:05
Debrief
1. Why do you want to join business school?
2. Why now?
3. Why UNC chapel hill ?
4. What is the industry you want to join right after mba ?
5. How are teamwork and leadership skills highlighted in your proudest achievement ?
6. What soft skills would you want to enhance?
7. Tell me three things about you that your coworkers would say?
8. We also have community in the core value and how will you share your experiences on community?
9. Share anything that you think we might have missed ?
10. Any questions that you would like to ask me, the floor is yours.
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ISB
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Admitted
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
4 years ago May 8, 2022
4 years ago May 8, 2022 07:05
Duration 45 mins. 2 Alums and 1 Adcom
The interview started as scheduled and I was asked to introduce myself.
Questions -
1- The interviewers dug into my current work experience. As I work in a cosmetics startup they went deep into my KPI's, knowledge of the industry, and also knowledge of the pricing and procuring.
2- I was asked about my future goals, which I had mentioned in the application (Automotive). I was asked to talk about that and give an example of how I can add value to it.
3- I was asked to provide a case on what I would change about a specific company wrt their marketing and strategy. A few follow-up questions thereafter.
4- Further, I was asked about my plan B at ISB.
5- Then I was asked about my leadership style. Previous examples of where I showcased this quality while leading a team.
6- Then we spoke a little bit about hobbies and which ones I would like to pursue at ISB.
7- I was asked if I have any questions for the panel.
Overall, it wasn't a very easy interview, but the tone was conversational and very professional.
I chose @Preppie for my Interview prep and chose @Strategy4Gmat for my application!
I highly recommend both and thank them for their help in the process.
Please feel free to reach out to me in case more information is needed
Good luck :)
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Johnson (Cornell)
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Interviewed
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
4 years ago May 8, 2022
4 years ago May 8, 2022 07:05
Make sure to turn your Skype on couple of mins before the schedule, they will Call you when it started. My interview was very conversational with an AdCom and went for 33 mins. He hasn't seen my application before but he said there are already some notes on my documents.
1. Tell me about yourself / background
2. What is your current role / doing in current position
3. Why now
4. Why Cornell
5. How do you prepare for the rigorous MBA curriculum
6. ST / LT Goals
7. Do you familiar with the recruitment process / the people, or any connection
8. What other companies you will pursue as a back up plan
9. Will you continue to work in US or go back to home country or others
10. Tell me abt your leadership experience
11. How will you make impact in Cornell
12. What else do you want me to bring to the AdCom / let them know abt me
13. Do you have any questions for me
Good luck for us!
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IIM (All Schools)
IIM Ahmedabad PGPX
Final Decision:
Admitted
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
4 years ago May 8, 2022
4 years ago May 8, 2022 07:05
Extempore Topic:
Startup valuations are too high to justify their potential. VCs need to take a hard look at their investments.
- Spoke for the topic & was able to give alternate pespectives on the topic. If you are able to bring some fresh ideas, I feel you can score some brownie points.
Supplementary Qns:
1. Why Commercial Bank's not coming to fund Startups
Interview Qns:
1. Introduction to my background, how I came to BFSI sector.
2. Why PGPX
3. Current Role
4. Micro and Macro level challenges at the Bank and solutions.
5. How do you see fintech change the shape of banking in India
6. Challenges for PSU's to convert to a neo bank
7. Post MBA plans
8. How you'll fund the course fees
9. Any questions for the panel ?
Interview time: 25 minutes
- Be confident & give them the confidence to select you.
- Treat it as a conversation with people who wish to know you better.
- Try to use the craft of story telling, combined with facts, figures and insights. Keep it crisp and interesting.
- Think of all the questions they can ask you. Refer previous debriefs. Prepare a structural response and practice your answers.
- If possible, try to prepare early for the interview. Dont wait till shortlists are out.
- Reach out to current batch students or alums to understand more about the college, teaching methods and their insights on the admission & interview process.
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Johnson (Cornell)
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Admitted
Status:
Off Campus with Adcom
Interviewed on:
4 years ago May 8, 2022
4 years ago May 8, 2022 07:05
1. Tell me about your background - both professional and anything else you want to highlight.
2. What skills are you looking to gain from MBA?
3. How are you with your team member. Leadership style and experience
4. One example from work where things did not work out
5. Why Cornell for a career pivot.
6. Short-term goal and why? What is your target company, and why? Target geographies.
7. What other schools did you apply to, and how would you choose.
8. Any questions for her?
Interview time: 30 mins
The interviewer was an Adcom. She was very friendly, and the experience was smooth.
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Johnson (Cornell)
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Interviewed
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
4 years ago May 8, 2022
4 years ago May 8, 2022 07:05
1. Tell me about yourself
2. What do you do? What do u do daily at work?
3. Why MBA now? What skills do u need?
4. I know you u mentioned XXX. What are your other motivations for your goals?
5. Whom have you spoken to at Cornell?
6. Why Cornell?
7. What if u get accepted to all the programs that you applied to? What will be deciding criteria?
8. Any questions
9. Is there anything you want to tell me that I haven't asked you
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Johnson (Cornell)
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Admitted
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
4 years ago May 8, 2022
4 years ago May 8, 2022 07:05
I had my session for 25 mins with an Adcom and it was very conversational I even forgot it was a formal interview. She was so friendly and laid some ground rules before the interview started
1. Tell me your background /WMTYR
2. Why MBA
3. Why Cornell
4. ST LT goals
5. Some follow up questions related to my intership plan based on my long term goals
6. What can you give back to Cornell Community
7. If I asked your supervisor three things about you, what would it be?
8. Does Cornell has the resources you need for your future goal?
9. Is there anything you want to tell me that I haven't asked you
10. Do you want to ask me anything?
Hoping for the best, it was a very pleasant interview
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Haas
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Admitted
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
4 years ago May 8, 2022
4 years ago May 8, 2022 07:05
Interview was with a recent alum, and lasted about 45 minutes - 30 with her questions, 15 with mine. Was pleasant but not too conversational. Questions were pretty standard, and some she even read verbatim off of a prompt. Questions 1, 2, and 5 were standard, while questions 3 and 4 come from a question bank and are asked at the discretion of the interviewer.
1. Tell me about why you want an MBA and why an MBA from Haas in particular - had to cover my background, my goals, why MBA, and why Haas in this single answer
2. How will you support DEI in the Berkeley Haas community?
3. Tell me about a time you were in a heated situation at work in which you were ultimately proven wrong?
4. Tell me about a time when you convinced colleagues to do something which was not in their job description?
5. is their anything else you want me to tell the admissions committee? - here I spoke about how I would contribute to the Berkeley Haas community
Good luck!
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