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8 months ago Mar 19, 2025 07:03
My interview was taken by a second year student and it lasted about 1 hour.
1. Tell me about yourself.
2. Why Fuqua? Why MBA? How will you benefit the fuqua community by joining?
3. TMAT when you faced a failure situation.
4. Tell me about your leadership style?
5. LT & ST goals.
6. What all student led clubs and communities you are excited to join.
7.TMAT when you faced a challenging situation.
Ending with If you have any questions for me.
The interviewer was very friendly and enthusiastic.
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8 months ago Mar 19, 2025 07:03
My interview was with a career consultant. Overall experience was very pleasant.
- Why this is the right time for you to do an MBA?
- Why Imperial MBA?
- Which modules you plan to focus on?
- Short term goals
- What you plan to do between now and MBA?
- Do you have a back-up plan
- TMAT you dealt with a difficult behaviour in a team
- Key things you've learned about leadership
- TMAT you made a mistake and what you've learned from it
Followed by my questions.
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8 months ago Mar 19, 2025 07:03
Received an interview invite on Feb 14th (I was elated)
- I had an interview on February 18th. The interview was okay, it was with the admission committee - it was conversational and a tad-bit informational. It lasted about 25 minutes, more or less. If I remember correctly, I think after the 15th minute, they wrapped up asking you questions, and open the floor for me to ask them questions.
A bit about my background, if it helps: international student, gmat waiver, did my undergrad in the US & 3-4 years of WOE in R&D and business consulting.
And the wait begins.... Goodluck everyone
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8 months ago Mar 19, 2025 07:03
Had my interview a few days ago. I talked to Larry Faskowitz and a second year student. Interview felt like a conversation although they did asked questions one expects to hear during these interviews. Nothing out of the ordinary, they really want you to be comfortable during the call
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8 months ago Mar 19, 2025 07:03
I just completed an interview. It was with a member of admission committee. Except for the typical why mba, why Goizueta, I got asked a lot questions on my resume. So, make sure you are familiar what you put on your resume. Such as, Your duties, how many direct reports, challenges, promotions, ... etc. in addition, If there’s any employment gap, make sure you prepare and feel comfortable to explain. Good luck everyone
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8 months ago Mar 19, 2025 07:03
Just finished my interview with one of the adcom, had a great interview a good interactive session, common questions on
Why MBA, Why Now, Why UNC, Why now.. 2 different questions.
1 - how will you prepare yourself for quantitative part of the curriculum (I believe this has been asked because of my Arts Background, a heads-up to all Arts Background).
2 - how have you solved a conflict of a team member
All the best everyone.
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8 months ago Mar 19, 2025 07:03
Here is my interview debrief
lT and ST
-Why UNC
-what are you most looking forward to at UNC
-what is your leadership style
-how do you deliver negative feedback
-Questions about UNC
-how do you motivate your team
Lasted for about 28 minutes,
Interviewer was a third party , interview was very conversational
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8 months ago Mar 19, 2025 07:03
My experience was a bit different. The Adcom member joined the call 10 minutes late (probably the previous call overran) and wasted no time in getting to the point.
1. Explain your current role. How does your typical day look? (No tell me about yourself)
2. Why MBA?
3. Why not try for my short term goal without an MBA?
4. Plan B if my goals don't work out.
5. Leadership style.
6. Difficult situation.
7. What have | learnt new in the last couple of years?
8. 1 Strength and 1 Weakness.
Wrapped up in 30 minutes.
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8 months ago Mar 19, 2025 07:03
I had my interview with Margaret O'Neill, an external MBA admission consultant. She was very lovely and nice. The interview was very conversational and focused on my story/career progression. I would say it's a culture fit check rather than a knowledge check.
- Tell me about yourself (She told me she has read my CV only. She didn’t get my essay from the ad comm, so she will need to ask a lot of questions to understand more about me.)
- Why did you switch industries? (I switched industries twice)
- From what you mentioned, you get job opportunities from referral often. What is the quality that sets you apart and makes people constantly want to refer you to their company? (I mentioned that I got job offers from a referral from my ex-colleague and ex-clients.)
- Short-term career goal
- Which locations and why?
- Long-term career goal
- Why MBA?
- Why Now?
- Why Imperial?
- What is your plan B, if your career doesn’t work out the way you want?
- Describe your leadership style
- If you have to work with or lead an inefficient team members, what would you do?
- Tell me about a time you fail
- Is there anything you really need to work on or still lacking coming in to the Imperial MBA? How would you develop these areas while studying in the program?
- Anything you want to ask. (She said she is an external consultant and couldn’t provide any specific details about the program since the beginning of the interview. So, I didn’t ask any questions but told her that I will contact the adcom directly.)
The interview lasted for exactly 30 minutes.
8 months ago Mar 19, 2025 07:03
I think my friendliest and warmest interview so far! My interviewer had a fixed set of questions that she had to go through and she mentioned the number of questions in the beginning of the interview itself and how many were left after every few questions - this was very helpful for my nerves. She didn't have too many follow up questions but asked for a few details here and there when she got fascinated with some of my patient case stories. The questions I can remember are -
1) Tell me about yourself
2) ST-LT Goals and how MBA fits into it?
3) Why Kellogg?
4) How would you describe your leadership style?
5) TMAT you had to work with a difficult team member
6) TMAT you had to make a pivot in a decision you made at work
7) TMA your greatest professional achievement
8) Anything else you wish we would have talked about.
Then I had 5-10 mins to ask her my questions.
8 months ago Mar 19, 2025 07:03
Interviewed by an AdComm member
Lasted ~40 mins
Mix of conversational and structured, I had sent my resume as a pre-read which he picked up a few instances from
- TMAY
- Why MBA
- Why now?
- Why CBS, and any program highlights for me?
- ST/LT goals
- TMAT a conflict in my team
- Anything else I might like to add
- Questions for interviewer
8 months ago Mar 19, 2025 07:03
The interview took place in the alum’s office. I turned up at the office 15 mins before: we started the interview early and finished 20 mins after the allotted hour.
I didn’t get the walk me through your resume/ tell me about yourself question. We just chit chatted about where in Italy I’m from since the alum is also Italian.
He told me about what to expect; he told me he’d interrupt me because he knows what he’s looking for so if I were going in the wrong direction or if he already got what he wanted he’d move to the next question.
Here are the questions he asked:
- Tell me about a time you spotted an opportunity/problem?
- Tell me about a time you had an obstacle/challenge and how you solved it
- Tell me about a time you had to got the support of others to get something done?
- Tell me about a time you helped someone grow, develop a skill?
- Why GSB?
For each question he asked a few follow up questions. The latter half of the interview was spent with him answering my questions about his career to date, his experience at the GSB etc.
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8 months ago Mar 19, 2025 07:03
I had my interview with Belinda Marklew. She is an external admission and career consultant Warwick hires to help conduct the interview. The interview was pretty standard following the list of common questions you would typically get during the MBA interview. The interview lasted for about 40 minutes with 5 minutes for me to ask questions in the end. The total interview lasted for exactly 45 minutes as per the schedule.
1. Could you tell me more about your role, especially in the recent companies?
Follow up question:
1.1. What is the size and structure of the company?
1.2. Tell me more about your team - are you a manager, project leader or a solo contributor?
1.3. Tell me more about your KPI - how your company measure your success?
2. Tell me about your success story
Follow up:
2.1. Also, a time when you fail
3. Tell me more about your passion about FinTech and addressing the problem of financial product accessibility
Follow up:
3.1. where does the passion come from?
3.2. Is there any step that you take to make your dream happen? I answered that I also did social media content on my personal accounts to publish about my passion at work and also sent the link of my contents to Belinda.
3.3. Could you please send me a link of the social media content?
4. Why MBA?
Follow Up:
4.1. Your immediate post MBA plan
4.2. What is the job title of your role post MBA, where do you want to work and in which location?
4.3. Did you do some research or talk to your prospect employer during the application process?
4.4. In long term, how do you see yourself? in which role, which location?
3. Why Now?
4. Why Warwick?
5. Anything more you want to tell me?
6. If you were given a scholarship, what would you give back to Warwick?
7. Any questions?
Since she is not an ad comm or a faculty member, she might not be able to provide any additional details about the program but she made sure to send the questions to the ad comm. I received a follow up e-mail from the ad com about the questions I asked.
Regarding the decision, the result was exactly 1 week after the interview. Warwick doesn't have a separate scholarship application/interview. So, you should expect to get the offer with the scholarship decision all at once.
8 months ago Mar 19, 2025 07:03
My application was submitted on the 17th, and I was invited for an interview on the 25th.
The Associate Dean conducted the 25-minute interview, reserving the last 5 minutes for my questions.
The interview began with a self-introduction and progressed to questions about my motivations for pursuing an MBA and choosing HKUST. Behavioral questions included scenarios regarding team dynamics and leadership.
But I was asked a question about selling, which was interesting given my operations experience. I think it went okay, but I'm waiting for the decision (supposed to come in 2 weeks)
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8 months ago Mar 19, 2025 07:03
I was interviewed by a male student, he was very nice. The whole interview lasted 45 minutes. At the beginning it was very conversational.
Questions:
1. Tell me about yourself
2. Goals
3. Why MBA
4. Why Tuck
5. A situation when you’ve had to take initiative
6. Biggest work achievement
7. A situation when you’ve received feedback
8. A situation when you’ve had to help a teammate
9. Questions for him
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8 months ago Mar 19, 2025 07:03
The interview was fun, interacting in person gives you more freedom to get to know your interviewer.
Questions:
1. Tell me about yourself
2. Goals
3. Why Mba
4. Why Booth
5. Situation of making possible something nobody wanted to do
6. Situation of receiving negative feedback
7. Situation of making your team accept your position
8. Situation of a problem with a colleague
9. Something you want to start, finish, and keep doing
10. Questions for the interviewer
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8 months ago Mar 19, 2025 07:03
I was interviewed by a female student. She was very nice and the interview only lasted 30 minutes, with my questions it was extended to 45 minutes.
Questions:
1. Tell me about yourself
2. Why Mba and Fuqua
3. Tell me more about your leadership style and when you’ve had to lead a group
4. Tell me about a time when you’ve had to work with different kinds of people
5. Tell me about a situation when you’ve had a dilemma with your values
6. What is your plan if you don't get into Fuqua
7. Questions for her
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8 months ago Mar 19, 2025 07:03
I had an interview with an econ professor. The interview was conversational and relaxed. Nothing technical or difficult was asked. All questions are pretty standard as expected.
1. Tell me about yourself
1.1. Why did you make a switch in your career at this point?
2. What is your short-term goal?
3. What is your long-term goal?
3.1. Do you want to continue working in the same industry after work?
3.2. Where do you want to work post MBA?
4. Why MBA?
5. Why now?
6. Why Cambridge?
7. What is the most innovative things/projects you have done?
8. What is your most favourite business book?
8.1. (I told him I don't love reading, but prefer listening to podcast in my native language) what is the podcast about?
8.2. Who is the speaker?
8.3. What is your most favourite episode about? What did you learn?
The whole meeting lasted for 15 mins only. I was a bit worried that the interview was so short, so I came up with 3 more questions from my side which could prolong the interview for about 5 more minutes😹
I tried to be optimistic that even the interview was short, the interviewer had some follow up questions and he seemed so interested in my story.
Got the good news about a week after the interview.
Good Luck ✌🏻
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8 months ago Mar 19, 2025 07:03
The interview was pretty conversational and relaxed. She didn't go too deep into any of my answers but kept following up with an agreement to my statement or a short anecdote of her own. The questions I can remember are
1)Why MBA
2) Why now?
3) Why Booth?
4) How will you contribute to Booth?
5) TMAT when you had to deal with a challenge at work in a team
6) TMAT when you had to oppose someone at work
This lasted about 30 mins and then we had 5-10 minutes for me to ask her questions. She answered my questions enthusiastically and frankly. Overall good experience and nothing to be intimidated about. One should just have their own story and motivations very straight and then I don't think it should be a problem.
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8 months ago Mar 19, 2025 07:03
Interviewer: 2nd year MBA student. Lasted about 45 mins.
Intro/Walk me through resume
What is the one thing you are very passionate about? (apart from the things I had already mentioned in the intro)
TMAT you resolved a conflict
TMAT you had to give negative feedback to a senior person
What will your co-workers define as your top three strengths
What will your co-workers say are your three weaknesses
Why MBA? Why now?
Why Booth?
How will you contribute to Booth?
Questions for interviewer for the last 10 mins