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Stern
NYU Tech MBA
Final Decision:
Admitted
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
4 years ago May 8, 2022
4 years ago May 8, 2022 02:05
It was a short and quick interview. Interviewer already knew about my application, and profile. She was very empathetic and lively.
Questions asked.
1. Current Job
2. Which courses in MBA I will chose.
3. Post MBA Targated companies.
4. What will I do in new york and which companies I will work with.
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Foster
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Admitted
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
4 years ago May 8, 2022
4 years ago May 8, 2022 02:05
AdCom Zoom Interview - Round 1
Conversational tone although format was more like a regular behavioral interview. My interview lasted about 45 minutes including 10 minutes where I had two of my questions answered.
My reviewer (AdCom member) was familiar with my entire application and confirmed that they had read my application front to back before starting our call.
Retrospectively it looks like a lot of questions asked but the interviewer made it not too intimidating. I was also trying hard to keep answers concise to keep from rambling.
1. Can you describe your current company to me?
2. What's an example of a project you've worked on recently?
3. What is your career Plan B?
4. How would you be able to uniquely contribute to your class?
5. What leadership opportunities would you seek out on campus?
6. Why Foster?
7. What do you expect will be the most challenging part of the MBA?
8. What is a leadership trait you admire in others?
9. What type of leader are you?
10. Tell me about a time when you felt overwhelmed. How did you react?
11. What is the biggest risk you've ever taken?
12. Tell me about a time when you disagreed with your boss. How did you reconcile differences?
13. Is there anything we have not covered that you'd like to mention?
14. What questions do you have for me?
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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 02:05
Duration of Interview: 35 minutes.
2 panelists and one Adcom member who had their video off and was on mute throughout the process.
The interview was entirely conversational and I was interrupted 2-3 times while answering. Both the panelists were extremely nice.
My interview was kind of decent. It started with my graduation and then questions mostly revolved around my work experience. They grilled me hard on why MBA and why ISB. Then they asked me about my family background and at last they enquired if I had any questions for them. I asked them what's the one thing they regret not doing at ISB and want to go back and do it, if they're given a Time Machine. Their answers were interesting ;)
Took the help of Career Edge for application process. And coming to interview preparation, Career Edge & Preppie were my choices. They are affordable and would help you along with minute details. Highly recommended.
Happy to help @[email protected]
Good luck guys :)
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Kelley
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Denied with Interview
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
4 years ago May 8, 2022
4 years ago May 8, 2022 02:05
I interviewed with Gale Nichols on 8th Nov.
She was a calm, cool-minded woman. She introduced herself initially and made me comfortable. The interview was more like a conversation and revolved around my resume.
1. Tell me about yourself - Follow-ups on my responses
2. About a time I lead a team and Learnings from it.
3. Things I would've done better from previous situations.
4. Short term and Long-term goals
5. Why MBA?
6. Why Kelley?
7. Anything, you would like to mention on top of this.
8. My questions for the interviewer.
It was a good experience overall.
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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 02:05
Panel:
2 Alumns: One from 2004 & One from 2008. One moderator who was on mute the entire time
Please note that I have mentioned my level of preparedness against each question set for later reference.
1. Started with introductions- Prepared.
2. Questions around why ISB. - Prepared.
3. Questions around my current role in the family business and would it be something I would continue with post ISB- Prepared.
4. Questions on short-term career goals. And how ISB fits into the plan. Also, some cross-questioning that required detailed explanations- Prepared.
5. Questions around Business analytics and justifications around this change in career trajectory.- Semi prepared. Parts around why business analytics were prepared but parts around justification were mixes of spontaneous examples.
6. Questions around my role in the previous startups, learnings, and what would I do differently- Prepared.
7. SWOT analysis of myself: Semi prepared, strengths & weaknesses were prepared, opportunities & threats were thought of.
8. Questions around interests: Prepared.
9. Questions around class contributions: Prepared.
10. An open-ended question around cohesiveness of the entire “story”: Unprepared: thought of an analogy as an example and explained.
Overall Assessment: The atmosphere was friendly. The questions seemed more enquiring in nature. There was a connection drop once, where I almost puked my heart out. They also encouraged me with positive responses to keep my confidence going. As I mentioned above, because I was able to prepare some basic questions around and areas of interest in my profile, I was not wholly thrown off. This has got a lot to do with a couple of extremely supportive friends on my end and Preppie team on the other. The prepping team were ISB alumni themselves and had extensive experience with preparing aspirants. They gave their insights into multiple improvements areas and most importantly helped me structure the responses I had prepared in a consolidated manner. Overall, I felt good coming out of the interview. Fingers crossed!
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Tepper
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 02:05
The interview started off with an introduction by the interviewer and she mentioned that she only has my resume with her. The overall tone of the interview was conversational and was ended in 20 minutes. The last 10 minutes were set aside for me to ask questions.
Almost all my questions were situational questions.
1. You recently got promoted. Tell me about your recent project.
2. What do you want to do post MBA?
3. TMAT when you had to compromise on a project.
4. TMAT when your team was against you and you hand to convince them.
5. TMAT when the client had some expectations and you couldn't meet them.
6. TMAT when you worked with a diverse set of people and learned something.
7. How do you fill the gaps when you are given a project?
8. Questions
Hope this helps.
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Kenan-Flagler
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Admitted
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
4 years ago May 8, 2022
4 years ago May 8, 2022 02:05
My interview was with an Adcom member. It was a fun and short interview. She had my resume and set the context of the interview.
1. Why are you doing an MBA now?
2. Short term and long term goals
3. An accomplishment you're most proud of
4. What are the values most important to you?
5. tell me about a time when you disagreed with someone. how did you feel and react?
Any questions for me.
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ISB
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Waitlisted with Interview
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
4 years ago May 8, 2022
4 years ago May 8, 2022 02:05
I had my interview today morning!
Walk us through your profile!
Why do you want to do MBA now?
Given most of my experience was US/ EU Healthcare, I was asked questions as to what are the reasons that Healthcare/ HealthTech in India is not as big compared to EduTech/ FinTech?
What would be your recommendations/ business plan if you were to advise a startup focussed on healthcare that wishes to scale up its presence in India?
Further, I was asked what do you think is driving the investor sentiment for investing in EduTech/ FinTech in India?
Also, why don’t we see similar kinds of investments in similar products (PayTM, BYJU) in the US vs India?
On top of it, I was asked what is your take on the valuation of PayTM IPO? Is it undervalued or overvalued and why?
What will be your biggest takeaway from ISB?
What were the biggest challenges that you faced while you were setting up the office for your organisation in Gurgaon? How did you do overcome them?
Profile: Chemical Engineer, NIT Bhopal, 9.5 years WorkEx! GMAT 690
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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 02:05
My interview lasted for around 50 minutes with 40 minutes for the questions put to me by the panel and the last 10 minutes for my queries.
The panel consisted of 2 ISB alums and there was one AdCom member who had their video off and was on mute throughout the process.
The interview was entirely conversational and I was not interrupted while answering. Both the panelists were extremely nice.
The questions asked were:
1. Walk me through your journey till now?
2. Since you work in FinTech what are the emerging trends you are seeing in your industry?
3. How do you think the more established firms maintain their advantage in a world where information is more democratised?
4. Since you are a painter what do you think about NFTs and their popularity?
5. What according to you is strategy (is it a process or an end to itself)? And what are the factors that should go into deciding corporate strategy? (this was based on my short term goal of wanting to move to corporate strategy)
6. How do you think ISB can help you achieve your goals?
7. What is your leadership style?
8. How will you communicate a difficult message to a colleague?
9. Tell us a bit about your social work projects, they seem very interesting and different from the rest of your work and ECs.
10. Tell us about your proudest moment from college.
The questions kept flowing from where we left the conversation during the previous questions making it a flowing and natural conversation.
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Jones Rice
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Interviewed
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
4 years ago May 8, 2022
4 years ago May 8, 2022 02:05
Interviewer was a 2Y FTMBA and was quite personable and made me at ease right off the bat.
1. Tell me about yourself
2. Why MBA, Why Rice?
3. Tell me about a time you helped a person feel included
4. How do you plan to "give back" at Rice
Then I was given an opportunity to ask questions.
Interview lasted 41 minutes.
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Kenan-Flagler
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Admitted
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
4 years ago May 8, 2022
4 years ago May 8, 2022 02:05
My interview was for 30 mins with a third-party interviewer.
1)Tell me about yourself and why you are here today?
2) Why MBA?
3)Short term and Long term goals
4)Biggest accomplishments of all the projects you have worked on.
5)Where are you in your leadership journey right now?
6)What is your idea of leadership? What kind of leader are you? And want to become.
7)What skills are you missing and what skills do you want to develop as a leader. (soft and hard skills)
8)What would your team say about you- What you should do more and what less?
9)What skills did you bring from your last company to your current company
10)What do you want to do in the long term and why specifically this.
11)How do you like to receive feedback? Give an example of a time when you gave feedback to a team member
12) Do you want to share anything else which you prepared for and couldn't share during this interview?
13) Any questions for me.
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ISB
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Interviewed
Status:
Off Campus with Alumni
Interviewed on:
4 years ago May 8, 2022
4 years ago May 8, 2022 02:05
Interview: 2 alums, one Adcom member
Date: 6th November
The very first question they asked me was to walk them through my career progression. Some more questions I remember from my interview:
- Deep-dive into the solar industry, the business model, customer acquisition etc.
- Since I was a reapplicant, they asked me what went wrong and how I improved since the last time?
- Post MBA goals, what kind of companies are you looking out for, what if you don't get into the companies you mentioned?
- What kind of courses are you interested in at ISB?
- Why ISB in particular and not any other MBA college?
- Challenges you faced at the workplace?
- Difference between sales and marketing? (profile specific to me)
- Do you have any questions for the panel?
The interview went on for 45 minutes and was genuinely interested to know my profile specifically the Solar Industry! The panel was very welcoming and conversational in nature. Would like to mention Preppie - Nishchay and Tadasmi sir in particular were extremely helpful in shaping my up my mindset and my preparation throughout.
Fingers crossed now.
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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 02:05
Interview: 2 Alums(2016, 2017) + 1 AdCom(mute)
Time: 40 min
Date: 6th November
Questions:
Questions majorly asked around work experience. Got a lot of counter questions. They interrupted me as well few times.
Was asked about my community and volunteering experience.
Questioned how my long-term vision is related to my passion.
Was grilled a lot on my long-term vision.
Was asked 3 questions from the experiences I had mentioned in my essays.
No behavioral questions were asked.
Finally, was asked if I had any questions for them.
Overall, it was a very interesting conversation, both interviews were really friendly. They did grill me with a lot of counter questions!
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Kelley
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Denied with Interview
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
4 years ago May 8, 2022
4 years ago May 8, 2022 02:05
My interview was with a very friendly second year MBA student. At the start itself she mentioned that it would go on for around 25-30 mins, after which she would take my questions.
Here are the questions-
1. Tell me something about yourself
2. How will Kelley help achieve your goals?
3. Greatest professional achievement?
4. Explain the same in more detail
5. Constructive feedback?
6. How do you handle multiple assignments at the same time?
7. Failure?
After which she asked for my questions
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Simon
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Interviewed
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
4 years ago May 8, 2022
4 years ago May 8, 2022 02:05
I had my interview with a member of the Admissions team.
1. Walk me through your background?
2. What is your short-term goal?
3. What's your alternative short-term goal?
4. Why MBA and why now?
5. What do you like about Simon?
6. Tell me about a cross-cultural experience you've had?
7. What do you do when your schedule is interrupted? Give an example of how you handle it. This was the final major question and I was given 5 minutes to type my answer in the chat box.
8. Do you have questions for me?
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LBS
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Admitted
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
4 years ago May 8, 2022
4 years ago May 8, 2022 02:05
Just finished my interview for LBS. It was very conversational. I knew she would have my application but I didn’t realize she would have the admissions committee notes. Because of this the interview was much more focus on areas where the admissions had clear concerns or questions. I did not have a chance to cohesively walk through my resume which I was a bit disappointed by.
Questions I remember:
Why LBS?
How do you use analytics in your work?
What are your short term goals and how they fit with my long term goals?
How do you deal with bad employees who don’t try?
What’s your management/leadership style?
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Foster
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 02:05
Interviewed with Kathleen Glazier from Adcom via Zoom. The interview went on for around 50 minutes (45 minutes for me to answer and 5 minutes for the interviewer to answer my questions) - The interviewer had my resume with her.
Questions asked were:
1. Walk me through your resume.
2. Why MBA and why now?
3. What is your Backup plan?
4. Why Foster?
5. Tell me about a time you received negative feedback, and how did you respond to it?
6. How do you work in a team?
7. Describe your leadership style.
8. Anything you would like to share?
9. Any questions for me?
Hope this helps! All the best!
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Kenan-Flagler
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Admitted
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
4 years ago May 8, 2022
4 years ago May 8, 2022 02:05
The interview is with a Third-party person.
The experience was very standard, more of a question-and-answer scenario.
1)Talk about your profile for 2-3 minutes.2
2) Why MBA?
3)Short term and Long term goals
4)Ideal leadership style and Ideal team
5)What will you do in case of disagreement, specific example not a generic solution.
6)What is the one superpower you wish for? and what is your current superpower?
7)Describe yourself using 3 words
8)What is one thing your teammates doesn't know about you
9)Greatest achievement
10)How will you contribute to your class at KF
11)Any questions for me
About 30 min, some technical issues created delay at start.
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Ross Michigan
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Waitlisted with Interview
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
4 years ago May 8, 2022
4 years ago May 8, 2022 02:05
Completed my interview yesterday with an alum from the Class of 2019. It lasted ~40 minutes in total with ~30 minutes of formal interview and ~10 minutes for my questions at the end. Very conversational and friendly.
- Walk me through your resume (Follow-up question on my leadership style and how I would approach guiding a junior who I don't know much about and did not recruit)
- How does an MBA fit into your career goals and why now?
- Why Ross and not any other b-school?
- Tell me about a time when you adapted to a difficult situation?
- Describe how you work with people from different cultures with an example
- Tell me about a time when you influenced someone who was at your level
- What challenges do you think you will face at Ross?
After this, I spent ~10 minutes asking questions that I had for him. An amazing experience overall.
Hope this helps!
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Kelley
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Interviewed
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
4 years ago May 8, 2022
4 years ago May 8, 2022 02:05
1. Tell me about yourself.
(Follow up questions about my background)
2. Walk me through your resume.
3. Discussed 4 projects from my resume.
4. Why MBA
5. Why Kelley
6. My international work exposure and what will I bring to the Kelley community.
7. My experience working in a Team.
8. She asked me thrice - "Anything else would you like to tell me about yourself"
9. Any questions for me
The interview was supposed to be 30 mins but lasted for 55 mins.
Lot of questions were about my background and resume.
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