ISB Actual Interview Debrief: There were two alums, one who had switched his camera off and another who had her camera on. Both of them were very friendly and started with the below questions - Tell us about yourself - Tell us about your role? How many people do you manage? - What is your most significant achievement? - What are your future goals? - Why MBA? Why ISB to achieve your future goals? (A lot of time was spent here) - What would be your dream companies? - What is Your Plan B if you do not get into your dream job? - There are few placement opportunities at ISB for People & Analytics Strategy roles how will you get placed? - What type of work would you do in P&A Strategy roles? Elaborate? - Asked about my biggest takeaway from my international experience - What would I do if I don't get into ISB? - Any questions for us? Overall the interview went well and I think I only stumbled on the section around 'What type of work would you do in P&A Strategy roles? Ellaborate?' Aside from this thanks to Preppie I was mentally prepared for all the different ranges of questions and most importantly if I did not know about something I confidently answered that I would learn this in ISB. I was confident and smiling throughout the interview which showed a positive vibe and i think helped me ace the interview. Please see below for how Preppie helped in the preparation for interview: I was jumping with excitement when I received the notification from ISB for an interview call, but what worried me the most was that I had only those 4 days to prepare for my interview. ISB was my dream college and having cleared the essay round, acing the interview was a very significant step which would bring me closer to living my dream. I scouted through the GMATClub website to see if I could get a Mock Interview within the 4 days to see where I stand in my current interview preparation and stumbled upon great review about a team called Preppie. I contacted them and immediately obtained a response - please see below for the experience: Interview Preparation and experience with Preppie: a. The Preppie team were so well versed with the state of mind of the applicant and comforted me at first go that its possible to prepare for the interview within the 4 days. b. I was contacted by a member of the Preppie team, Nishchay who guided me through the whole process. Nishchay was a thorough professional, whose candid and friendly guidance made me believe that Preppie is the right choice for practice interview. c. The Preppie team without further ado immediately fixed the time slot, provided a consolidated ISB mock interview packet (included 60-70 common questions that are asked in the interview) and provided a link to join the call for the Mock interview. Note: I wanted to highlight that due to some personal reasons I had to reschedule the mock interview 3 times. The team was extremely accommodating of my requests and immediately worked another solution and time slot for me. ISB Mock Interview Debrief: a. I had a small chat with the Alumni who would be taking my interview. She was a previous batch pass out. She immediately put me at ease and spoke were gently to calm my nerves. b. The Mock interview began with the below set of questions which were very helpful: - Tell me a little bit about yourself? - I am from Engineering background so she focused a considerable amount of time to understand why engineering and why MBA after engineering? - Future goals? and why MBA now? - What do I do in my current role - How is my experience going to be relevant in my future goal? - Lots of behavioral situation based questions. e.g. What kind of a leader am I? If ISB was to select me why would they do so - give me three reasons? How would you convince your cohort to include your proposition instead of her/his for an ISB project submission? What is your biggest weakness I did stumble upon two of the behavioral questions and the interviewer ensured that she poked me a little more there to give me an actual interview experience. This ensured that I was prepared for the myriad of questions thrown at my way and how I should make my answers crisp and short. Feedback from Preppie: - The interviewer was most detailed and spent 30-35 mins providing feedback and helping me clarify a few questions. She asked me where I felt I did well and where I felt I could improve on. She focused on 3-4 areas I need improvement on and how I can tackle the answers better. She was appreciative when it came to the good points. It was definitely helpful that she was a recent ISB alum which ensured that she was upto date with all the recent trends of the ISB interview, having gone through one on her own a couple of years ago. Overall it was a great and well rounded feedback session. Thank you Team Preppie for the wonderful guidance which definitely contributed to getting an admit from ISB.

Yes, I was asked to submit a video presentation as well- I think almost everyone gets a request for the video. Stick to the guidelines they've provided- keep it light and interesting and showcase something that hasn't been covered in your application or maybe not in as much detail as you would have liked to. In terms of the remaining interview experience (I think there is a debrief somewhere else on this forum and my experience was similar)- I submitted the application at the end of November and received the request for the video almost immediately. I submitted the video by the first week of November and post that received confirmation for the first interview with the admissions manager- right before Christmas. The interview was straightforward- going over the resume, experience, background- testing for leadership experience, international exposure- long term and short term goals, program fit, the why MBA question, etc. It lasted about 40-45 minutes and was quite conversational. Post this, I heard back from the admissions team only Jan 2nd week, due to vacations, etc, and the second interview was scheduled for about 8 days later. For this one, you are emailed a case study in advance. Instructions are provided in the email- they do not want you to prepare any material to present. The expectation is for you to get familiar with the case and be prepared to answer questions regarding what you have read/researched. The second interview is with someone from Career Development. The interview lasted about 45 minutes again. We spent the first half going over my background, career goals and the second half discussed the case- which was honestly, straightforward. Again, the interaction and experience was positive. I received confirmation of the selection in less than a week after the interview. Overall the process was smooth and the team was professional, very responsive, and friendly. I hope this helps!

I interviewed with Carrie. She kept it very professional and ran through her list of question without ceremony, at the beginning she was upfront that it would be like that and that she'd be taking notes so pardon if she wasn't looking at me. She didn't really respond to anything I was saying, not sure if my answers were not landing or that is just her interview style. Questions were same as below. I did somehow get tripped up on the question "what is professionalism to you?" so be prepared for that.

Hi!! I just did mine for R2 Class of 2023 - 5 questions. 45 sec prep + 3 mins answer 1) What do you wanna get out of your MBA & Why Haas 2) A DEI example that will enhance your contribution to Haas 3) A time when you lead a cross-functional team, what you did, how that made you feel 4) A time when you get a team to align 5) Anything else to add Everyone gets #1,#2 and #3 are random. Please note you will have 3 mins to answer so don't sweat too much - I read previous posts and spent so much time trying to fit all my answers to 1.5 mins.

I finished my video interview today and wanted to share my experience in case anyone is yet to complete the video interview. There were 5 questions - The first question was 3 min and then all 4 ques were timed at 1.5 min. The prep time for each question was 45 sec. I was taken by surprise because I prepared close to 3 min answers for each questions, but most of them turned out to be 1.5 min.

there were five questions, of which one question had a 1 minute prep time and 3 minutes response time, and the rest of the four questions followed a '45 sec prep - 90 sec response time' format. The questions were as below: - Tell us about your experiences with diversity. (This was the question with a 3 minute response time) - Why MBA and why Haas? - Tell me about a time when you worked in a team where people had strong opinions and how did you overcome that. - Tell me about a time when you forged trust and collaboration with the people you were working with. How did it make you feel and what did you learn? - Is there anything else you'd like to tell us that we haven't covered today. Hope this helps, and best of luck to everyone!

I recently gave the video interview. The whole process completes in around 10mins. Firstly the software does your system testing. Once everything completes, you can answer some sample questions. After that, you will be asked 2 questions. For each question, you get around 45 sec of prep time and then 1.5-2min of recording your answer. The prep time is not recorded. Once the interview starts, it completes very quickly. So make sure you do enough preparation before the interview. There will be one question about Why MBA/Haas and the second question about your style of leadership.

Mode: Zoom Scheduled Time: 12 PM Start Time: 12:15 PM Duration: 30 mins Panel - 01 Female Alums (Co 2003) and 02 Males (Co 2018), another person who was on mute with video off throughout. The Alums were very friendly and made me feel comfortable. Q: What does the company do? What was your role? What did you do? Q: Work related questions and follow-up questions. Q: A challenge you faced at work and how did you resolve it? What was your learning? Q: Why did you move from the corporate sector to the development sector? Q: How have you grown in this job? What have you learned? Q: What are your short-term goals and how will ISB help you achieve it? Q: What is your Plan B? Q: There are few placement opportunities at ISB for development sector how will you get placed? Q: What about ROI because you will move to the development sector post ISB? Q: Any questions for us? The interview was not stressful, revolved majorly around my work. They were keen to know about projects undertaken and my role. It was conversational. For preparation had reached out to alums and current year students. Understanding about their interview experience was very helpful. Also questions posted on this forum were helpful. Took a 2-on-1 mock from Preppie and they gave me detailed feedback. Would highly recommend it. I had prepared for some work-related examples, basic questions about why MBA, why ISB, short-term goals, long-term goals, challenges faced, leadership displayed, teamwork displayed, initiative taken.

It was a 1 hour interview with an alum. She had 20 years of experience and was very friendly. It started with 2.5 mins of presentation, whose topic was provided a week prior to the interview. Based on the presentation, she asked me several general questions. This lasted for 15 minutes. Then she asked the basic questions: 1. Why MBA 2. Why Cranfield 3. Why You 4. How will you contribute 5. What do you expect to learn from this place 6. Short Term/Long term goals 7. Which industry and company you'd like to work. This lasted for 30 minutes. IN the last 15 minutes, she explained me everything about Cranfield, and offered to answer any of my queries.

1.Post mba goals. -20 minutes 2.Walk me through resume 3.Why foster 4.why mba and why now 5.how do you contribute to foster 6.Failure and learning from that 7.Appreciation at work place and situation 8.what do you expect from career services ?

1. My slot was later in the day and might have been the last. The Zoom call opened 8 mins before the scheduled time with two 2nd year students and whoever else had joined by then. The 2nd year students announced they were the moderators and went on mute. 2. At the scheduled time for the TBD to start, the 2nd year students unmuted and introduced themselves. They asked everyone to state their name, and the intended major at Wharton, which has been mentioned previously on other debriefs. After, they told us the rules. They also told us they will give us a visual indication that we have 10 mins and 5 mins remaining by holding a paper on the screen. They asked if anyone has any questions before they start the timer. 3. Once the timer is started, there was silence for about 15 seconds before someone piped up and began. Our TBD went well, we came up with a solid campaign and used the last five minutes to brief it. I didn't feel my individual performance was that great. I felt like I didn't add as much as the other participants and had a hard time getting in my comments. 4. After the TBD we go into the breakout room, the 2nd year sets a time on his/her end and asks only 1 combined question: “Why MBA? and Why Wharton?” If you have time left over, he/she will ask you to ask him/her any questions. Once the time is up, you are released into the main room. I felt nervous and rushed during the interview for my one-on-one because of my performance in the TBD. It would have been helpful to have had some quiet time between the TBD and the interview to regroup but we all talked to each other while waiting.

3 Alumnis (2003 (super-entho and asked alot of questions), 2012 (asked alot questions in the start) & 2015 (not much from her, asked only her prepared questions, i'm assuming)). All of them were product/marketing managers. The sequence of questions wasn't that surprising. - They started with asking about a project I'm most proud of and one project that was a failure. I had this prepared so went well. - Then they followup with leadership and learning related questions on projects mentioned explained earlier. - They dug further into my leadership style through behavioral questions. - Then they moved on to more behavioral questions about project management/event management/ my industry/ how covid has impacted it. - Then the why MBA, Goals and what am i looking to get out of ISB. - After this they were mainly digging into why I want to move industries/roles. They thought the role and industry/role I'm in is quite exciting and hand-on but my goals are more strategy/backend/thinking work. - At the end they asked me if I had any questions. The interview went on for 35 mins. The 2003 and 2012 Alumni were the ones asking most of the questions after the prepared questions were done. They had definitely decided amongst themselves as to who will ask what, barring the followups. Interview was super conversational and wasn't as stressful as I had built up in my head. Till the time your story from now, to MBA, to goals is making sense you should be able to handle the interview. For me I think it went well. I has answers to all their questions and they were asking quite a few followups, which I think is generally good. That said, the panel was putting quite a poker face and I didn't get a clear sentiment from them. Fingers crossed

Just gave my interview today. The interview was for about 60 mins. We started with a casual conversation and then went over my resume. I was asked the following : 1. Walk me through the highlights of your resume. 2. Why did you choose Rotman? 3. What are the other programs you've applied to? 4. What is your biggest achievement and what was its impact? 5. Out of all the extracurricular activities you've engaged in, which was the most meaningful/ which impacted you the most? 6. How will a foreign environment help you succeed? 7. Tell me about a time wherein a new employee was introduced to your team in the middle of the project. How did you help him integrate with the team? 8. Imagine yourself having coffee with the Dean of Rotman. What are the 3 questions you would ask him? 9. What are your post-MBA goals? 10. What is your biggest failure? 11. Do you have any questions for me? All in all, it was a good interview. I was also asked a few follow-up questions based on the answers I gave to the previous questions. I was told that the decision would be made within 4 weeks. Having your narratives in place is beneficial. It helps you organize your flow of thoughts and ideas. Make sure you prepare a couple of questions for the admission committee. All the best!

The panel consisted of two alumni and one person from ISB's admission committee. Panelist 1 introduced both him and the other panelist and asked me not to be nervous, as this would be a discussion and they just wanted to know me better. This set the tone of the interview and helped me a lot. They started with my most recent job and asked about my role there. I talked about it briefly. However, they insisted that I further deep-dive into my role as this would help them understand better. I explained about one of the projects that I completed, being as granular as I could. Few more questions about the project, challenges, etc. What could I have done better? Learnings for the future? They seemed to agree with me. They then asked me to take them through my career journey as I had 8+ years of experience. why I choose each role, what factors did I consider while choosing these roles? I explained in detail. Here I also aligned this with my short-term career goals and how MBA is gonna help me achieve that. As I had worked with multiple startups, they asked me about what works well with startups and what doesn't work well? What are the major mistakes that companies make? I shared some of my observations from my tenure at different companies. They were convinced. I had mentioned a challenge faced during one of my jobs in the essay, they wanted to know more. What I did to resolve that challenge. Further questions on my profile and a suggestion around an alternate role. I justified why I wanted to pursue the role of my choice. Finally, they asked if I had any questions for them? They ended the interview by saying that it was a good conversation and that I was a strong candidate for ISB.

My interview was with Vijender Trivedi. The interview lasted for around 25 minutes and following were the question : 1. Why MBA? Why now? 2. Why Schulich? 3. What challenges do you think you would face in the MBA program? 4. What is your leadership style? 5. How do you contribute to the society? 6. What is one thing that we wouldn’t know about you from your profile? 7. Are you interested in MBA India program or should we only evaluate you for MBA in Toronto campus? (I wanted to join Toronto campus, so I mentioned the same) 8. Any questions for me (the interviewer)? The interview was pretty chill. Just be yourself. :)

3 Alumns - 2004, 2013, 2016 batch 1 good boy, 1 bad boy and 1 neutral (who was supposed to be just the tech guy but ended up asking the most questions) Grilling, Kind of stress. On top of it they were really short on time. We started with me explaining my career progression with my current entrepreneurial experience as a focus. Few cross questions here and there. Grilled me a lot on Entrepreneurship. Why MBA suddenly after just a year of entrepreneurship. What did you learn through this journey. What conflicts did you go through. How would you handle conflicts with your peers during your MBA course. -- "Bad boy" wasn't convinced with my answers. What is the one thing you would take from PGP at ISB - I mentioned Credibility - They respected this honest answer What Else? I said Networking - What kind of people would you look to network with - Entrepreneurs, Mfg/Operations guys, those interested in Adventure sport activities. What is that one thing looking at which one would never say this task has been taken up by me. - Inventory Management Are you a loner? What would you say you are - introvert or extrovert? I said - Extrovert of all the introverts - which they liked :) What kind of legacy would you leave behind - Friendships A lot of cross questioning on my long-term goal of Electric Vehicles. We literally finished on an agreement that the interview was intentionally made stressful and that I handled it well. :) My experience wasn't as similar as to other guys but could be because I have more years of experience but you never know. Not practicing does help I guess.

It was with an Adcom member and someone from career services. Duration ~ 30 minutes. 1. What are your unique strengths (this was asked 3/4 times in different ways - If I were to ask your boss, what unique he will say about you?, how do you standout? and bit of cross questioning around these things to get sharp examples) 2. If at the end of your MBA, I ask your classmates how did she make an impact, what will they say? 3. How will you plan your MBA financially? 4. Why MBA 5. I name dropped couple of students and alumni so they asked me about it what did you research about us, what they tell you etc. Hope this helps

My interview was with an Adcom member Benjamin. It was for about 40 minutes. Tell me about yourself Tell me about your undergrad. How involved you were there? Why Johnson? Any major project at work which affected you a lot What if consulting doesn't happen? What if US doesn't happen post MBA?

My interview was with John Ivy. It went for about 25 minutes. Key questions asked were: 1. What does a typical week looks like for you? 2. How you work with limited information? 3. When others came to take help from you on something you are good at or non-work skill? 4. Helped a poorly performing employee? 5. Goals - Plan A & Plan B 6. Why Tepper? Hope this helps

They Introduced themselves. Panel consisted of three alumnis and one Faculty (Camera off, No participation). Asked me to tell me something about myself and why MBA in a single question. Asked about my exact role as they were all in consulting and unrelated to my job profile (manufacturing) Challenging project I've worked on and why was it challenging. How did I work around it One work situation where I showed leadership Questions about my part time start up, my learnings and things i would do differently Took inteview preperation Expert Global, where they took multiple interviews. But i felt they were very generic interviews with universal questions, which did help me gain confidence but did not feel specific to my profile. So, took a couple of mocks from preppie which were really exhaustive. They questioned on my work area and most of the questions were based on my profile. So, if you are confused i will suggest everyone to go for preppie.