I finished my interview 30mins back and went really well in my opinion. My interviewer was Crystal, very nice lady. Questions asked were pretty much straight forward: - why MBA, - why Imperial, - What unique attribute do you bring to the class etc. No tricky questions

My interview was initially scheduled at 4.30AM but a very nice lady at MBS asked me if it was uncomfortable with the time, and upon my suggestion re-scheduled it to 9.30AM. The interview was with John Gurskey, Director of Career Mgmt Team at MBS. He made it clear the outset that it wouldn't be an interview but a two-way conversation, where we both can ask question as we go along. So his questions were: About you? Why MBA? Why MBS? Why consulting? (my ST goals were to move to consulting) What's your plan-B if you don't land up in consulting? (very important Qs, this I've been asked now in every B-school interview) Planning to settle in Australia after MBA? Then he proceeded to tell me very clearly about expected strengthening of immigration laws, and that I'll need to extend my MBA by over 6 months to be eligible for sponsorship, and which visas I can get. I asked: What should I do to strengthen my case? He told me to be resilient with job market, which can mean taking a job that offers sponsorship over your dream job. We need to network a lot in Australia. Tell me an occasion where you solved work related scenario where you demonstrated networking? I asked: what are other opportunities in Australia that I'm not aware of? He told me about working with provincial government on a 2-year bond, other companies who readily offer sponsorship etc. After a conversation around these subjects, he told me that adcom will contact you in next couple weeks with next steps. Bye Bye! Summary: A candid conversational interview/information exchange that lasted about 20-25 minutes.

The campus is an hour away from where I stay and I wanted to reach the location by 15:30 hrs. I started early to have lunch on my way and about 14:40 I get a call from the ISB team saying that the panel is running early and I was 10 mins away from the location and I rushed to the location. After my registration, I called the number from which I had a gotten a call and informed them about my arrival and 5 mins later I was called upstairs and I felt nostalgic and was thinking about the last time. Around 15:00 hrs I see a girl walking out of a room and a minute later I was called and I I have a legal name that is different from how I am called in real life and I told them to call me X in short and I went into the room and pleasantries were exchanged. Two panel members (P2). Let's call them A and B. B informed about my name and how I like to be referred to as X B: How are you feeling? Me: Hungry and nervous A and B: why so? (surprised look) Me: I started early to have lunch but I got a call saying that the panel was running early and I came B: but are you comfortable? Me- yes this is more important than a meal, please go ahead B: ok so you did engineering and did all these i.e walk me through your resume Me: gave them answer . made a mistake and the panel caught it and were like what.. I took my time to explain.. I was holding onto my passport and the panel told me you don't have to hold it and I replied I was nervous - Ok what work did you do at these companies - you have venture (family business) why don't you join there - Current role and what does your company do - oh so do you have a product that you sell? - is it like skype - oh if not like skype so it is like product M All in like 5-7 mins - okay what is your most ruthless business principle - repeated the question with an example - ok forget that so how are you trying to compete with Y - but still product M is from a million dollar company how are you going to do? It will buy your company etc . I don't care about 1,2,3 features of your product, I have a company of my own. - ok you are targeting country K - Do you know when the million dollar company started? any guess? - yes, so about 15+ years of brand and what are you going to do - okay now product M is launched there what will you do ( country K) - okay now you know product M is getting launched what will you do - okay let us say that product M is offering the same features then what you do - okay after 4 months the product is launched and now what do you do? - but again it is a million dollar company they can buy you out. what do you do. you are offering for 100 rupees but the other company is offering at 90 rupees - okay now you are hired by the million dollar company for double the salary how will you market product M and take over the market share of your company - now switch roles you know that someone in other company is trying to overtake your market share My face looked so sad and dejected. An apologized sorry X, I am putting you in a difficult situation, your work title is this and you need to make such decisions. I, in fact, thanked him for such questions. I took 30-45 seconds to prepare my answer whenever a cross-question was thrown at me. I had a pen and paper in front of me and noted down bullet points and expanded on that - (after a long time ) okay but wouldn't that take additional cost - so you are telling me that you will out-innovate a million dollar company - okay so now it's a million dollar company the best is to sell it - okay now the company wants to buy your product and how will you motivate the team to sell/not sell I asked for a minute and noted down points Me: answered on how to sell and motivate the team B: but you did not address the employees for the product what about me Me; Oh I forgot, answered A: so you know how to sell your product better? Me: yes both A and B: are you taking the learning to work Me: I was answering no to a question and there was a coincidence to this question above and I said no that's not what I meant and I explained myself B: you mentioned uplift in your resume for sales. How do you quantify that? Me: I look at previous quarter revenue and look at % growth B: you mentioned you're taking some courses ( mentioned in my re-app essay about taking some online courses) Me: Answered about the courses B: why ISB Me: gave a standard answer and also said need a network to expand my family biz as well ( not sure if that was a good point) B: ok so you want a network Me: yes I want to expand my venture so I need that B: you were mentioning that you need some skills from MBA.. can you mention what skills Me: yes I want to be an entrepreneur B; so by just joining will you become one? me: I may not but ISB will put me in the right direction both A and B looking at each other: any questions: Me; the interview was really wonderful I got to look at things blah blah .. I am sorry that I could not hold back my words. A: I understand it is okay Me: asked my question A and B: replied

Hi, from what I still remembered, the following are what they touched on my interview: 1. Self-Introduce (2-3 mins recommend) 2. They start asking about your education and work - Especially when I am not studying in a local school (hence why) 3. They touch on diversification 4. Teamwork and leadership 5. Achievement My interview duration is 1 hour as we spoke throughout the whole interview. Some touch that you might like to touch on: 1. The ability to contribute inside and outside of class; not just a student focusing on grades 2. Every year CUHK student-led organized Asia’s largest CSR forum. The Chinese University of Hong Kong was ranked No.1 in Asia and No. 5 in the world in CSR by the Financial Times. I will strongly suggest that try to bring and lead the interviewers so they ask questions that they will ask you questions that you hope they ask instead of letting them to lead you so you have no idea what they will be asking you. There are several websites that teach you how to do it. Is good to check out your interviewers as well via LinkedIn, school profile, google, etc... I did for my interview and we strike some interesting conversations too.

I was interviewed on the 13th, awaiting final decision now. The discussion usually goes on for at least an hour, but mine was the last of the day, and one of the panellists had to catch a flight, so my interview took place for only 40 mins. Still, a lot of questions were asked. Why MBA? Why CUHK? Why now? Some of the questions were specific to my professional career: Why so many job changes? Kind of roles that I have taken? Methodologies followed while working? etc. Some questions were regarding my personal life: Discussion on why I am currently a stay at home dad? How will I finance my MBA? How have I planned for the time when I would be away from my family? etc. Overall, be prepared for a discussion rather than an interview lasting an hour. Be thoroughly aware of what you have written in your application and your future aspirations. The panel gives you the opportunity to express yourself and drive the interview by way of your answers. Hope this helps.

Just had the alumni interview. It lasted about 70 minutes. Some structured questions were asked first. It seemed that in every interview, they will ask these questions. 1. What're your challenges/difficulties at work? 2. What's your weakness? How did you cope with that weakness? 3. How do you resonate with "beyond yourself"? 4. What's your career goal. How do you think can Haas help with your goal? Then some unstructured conversation regarding the industry you want to work, and it was pretty conversational and freestyle. Good luck!

As my alumni interviewer was not available, I ended up scheduling a Skype interview with the adcom since we were running out of time. I was a little nervous about an adcom interview, since per my understanding - most CBS interviews are in-person alumni interviews. But, it was nothing to stress over - I had a very smooth experience, and the adcom was very quick and accommodating in scheduling my interview. It started with my interviewer sharing his background, and explaining the structure and time of the interview (i.e., 30 mins). He mentioned that he had gone through my application and may ask some related questions. The questions were fairly straightforward such as tell me about yourself, why MBA, Why Columbia, and example of a time I failed. He also left 10 mins to answer my questions. I received my admit 2 days after the interview via phone.

I had an interview today with Kevin Ly. Here are some questions he asked. - What do you think your strengths are? - What are things that other people do not know about you and you wish to share with admission board?? - What are you going to do with the MBA degree? Give specific professional goals - If there is a book about your life, what the main lesson that you wish to learn from the book? And what is the name of the book you want it to be? - What do you wish to learn/get from this program?

I was interviewed by Andrew Brayda who is associate director of admissions. He also mentioned that director of admissions, the name is Julie or Judy, was supposed to take the interview but could not due to some exigency. It was a blind interview. The interviewer had access to only my resume. I guess it’s a double scrutiny process. The questions were like - introduce yourself, - why MBA, - why Simon, - what would you contribute to Simon community etc. They ask you only one behavioral question at the end of the interview to which you’ve to respond in writing in a chat box. Overall I felt as if they were trying to confirm if I’m the same guy who wrote the essays.

I received a proposal to join 2020 class 2 weeks after the interview. The interview had 3 parts not in order. I am just trying to tell you broad topics covered in the interview 1. Discussion about the interviewer expirience in LBS and his career. 2. My track record and personal achievements, also chat about why LBS and why London, why MFin and not the MBA. I mean you have to show that you really want this. 3. Kind of think he checked some stuff about me LBS asked him to. Finally we chat a little bit, he was super cool. Expect to meet you all next year!

My interview was over Skype. Scott took the interview. - In the beginning, he asked about my concentration of interest and sub-concentration. - Then standard MBA questions were asked such as * Why MBA, * companies * proud moment * describe roles Hope that helps.

- Very conversational. - majority about background - post mba goals - no behaviour questions all to the point and lasted around 30 minutes through skype. Also contrast to previous threads no mention of writing an answer to question in zoom chat box. So I was a little surprised by this. Overall its all about - why simon - why mba - why now - clarification about previous background

Amanda was my interviewer. The interview was very comfortable with conventional questions like: talk about your education, current work. I suggest you should know your resume well. We also talk about Vietnamese culture since Amanda has been to my country twice. Just that. Very easy. You shoud prepare well and then enjoy it :) good luck every one. Btw, Amanda said the result would be sent out before X-mas.

Hi guys, I received the interview invite today. Since on campus interview will be preferred, I guess I will use my last vacation day and have the interview on campus on the 22nd (confirming with the Adcom if they are open on that day even though the scheduling system shows yes). I have a question regarding the interview process though; in the email it said "We will conduct two-part interviews during your campus visit - one with Admissions and a second interview with Career Services. Each interview should take approximately 30 minutes." However, I don't see people emphasis the difference between these two parts and what to expect from these two parts. Can anyone finished the interview clarify this for me? Below is the interview information I found from the threads from the past two years: "The only questions he asked me directly were, 1. Tell me about your professional experience 2. What is your leadership style? 3. Other schools that I am applying to If I have to list down the topics we talked about, the list is below 1. Strengths 2. What will I bring to the Illinois community 3. How do I stand out 4. Activities I do during free time" - why illinois mba? - why mba now? - what can you contribute to the illinois mba? - what is your weakness as a leader? - tell me about a challenge you faced and how you overcame it? - what other schools are you applying to? - where do you see yourself in 10 years? 1)Goals 2)why UIUC 3)What I am doing right now. How my skills align to that position 4)Weakness - Strengths 5)roles taken in the team 6) How do I motivate my team 7)Hobbies 8) Anything not covered in resume/application that I would like to highlight. 9)Questions to Adcom

I had my interview last evening with Mark Lockwood. It was a very brief discussion. Lasted for only 19 mins! :o Not sure if Illinois keeps the interview short and concise. As far as I can recall the whole discussion went smooth and don't think I screwed up the interview either. The questions were the standard ones. - Little introduction about me - Was asked to emphasize on professional aspect. - The motivation behind doing MBA? - Questions on career goals. - Greatest Strength. - Why UIUC? The discussion ended with me asking a few questions.

The interview was fairly conversational. - It started off with questions specific to my industry (healthcare) and touched upon points I discussed in my essays. - It then went into behavioural questions - my strengths, weaknesses, how I work in teams, etc. - The final question was whether I had any hesitations about studying at Ivey. I had a few takeaways from the interview: 1) Know as much about your industry as possible, 2) Be prepared to thoroughly explain points from your essays and resume, 3) The interview is just one data point. Do your best, but it probably won't be perfect. I didn't feel all that great about my interview, but everything still worked out okay.

All the same ones you see online for mccombs really. - Introduce yourself, - run through work history, - what are your goals, - why MBA, - why McCombs, - couple of competency based questions, and - then some chit-chat

I was invited for interview by September 5 and had the interview on September 12. Interview questions were mostly related to my - work experience, - Why IE, - walk me through a typical day, - what are your long term goals, - which program do you prefer IE or IE-SMU, - What do I like to do for fun.

It was quite a comprehensive interview. Basically they will ask anything and everything that is mentioned in your essays, resume, and whatever your recommenders might have stated in their LOR's. I was interviewed by Josh who has a charming and calming personality. He starts off by introducing himself nicely which really settles the nerves. Don't hurry while giving the answers. Keep the flow maintained. Keep it like a conversation. Speak slowly, clearly and constructively. Be sure to include real life examples, whatever be the question. They really like answers backed up with real events. Apart from this, they also ask about other colleges where you applied and why. At last, they give you a chance to ask any query which you may be having.

It was a pretty comprehensive interview. The skype call came in sharp at the decided time. Apart from the basic questions like Why mba, why smith, you could expect some out of the box questions as well. They stress a lot on Plan-B question and what options do you have in mind once you graduate. Which companies have you figured out where you could work and what will you do in order to get in touch with them. They also ask you about other schools where you have applied and what made you apply there if you were already applying at Smith. Apart from this, some behavioural and case study based questions. Keep your calm, speak slowly and clearly, and keep the conversation alive. Don't make it like a Q&A session.