I received an interview invite two weeks ago and had my interview the following week. Here are the questions paraphrased (might be missing one or two): TMA = Tell me about 1. Why MBA? 2. Post-MBA plans/career goals. 3. Plan B if Post-MBA plans don’t work out. 4. Why Tepper? 5. TMA a time when you had to compromise for the team to succeed. 6. TMA a time when you did something that others in the team did not want to do. 7. TMA a time when you learned from people more senior than you? 8. TMA your experience working with a diverse team with different backgrounds from you. It was a video chat interview. I could see her, but, unfortunately, my webcam didn't work with CMU's online software, despite it working on Facetime/Photo Booth. So basically, to my interviewer, I was a black talking screen. Interview seemed ok overall, but it's hard to gauge.

Just interviewed via Skype with AdCom. Questions were: Introduce Yourself Why MBA Career Goals- I had two different companies listed so I had to explain how they were similar. Why Oxford + Why one-year international vs a two-year US Setbacks in career? Failure? What would you find challenging at Oxford? How will you succeed in the quantitive curriculum? What will you contribute to your classmates? What other schools did you apply to and what was the result? + ALOT of questions about my essays and my motivations behind those so be sure to review those. Overall, challenging. Yet, still a good conversation.

I just got done with my interview. Almost all the questions were similar to the ones asked in the application: Why MBA Why Oxford Career progress so far What motivated you to pursue your intended goal Have you started preparing for your career transition Behavioural questions - an example where you had to convince someone of an idea, a setback Questions for me

My interview was through Webex and it was mainly a conversation that lasted for about 1h20m. There were some of the usual questions, like: -Tell me about yourself -Why an MBA and why now -Why IESE -Which schools I applied and why -Why the career change -What's the rationale behind your choice -Further detail about work experience -Three important moments in your life -Further information on hobbies -How do you plan to finance the MBA -What are the chances you go back to do what you are doing now after the MBA but they weren't put with that text above, all of them filled the context during the conversation, it wasn't like the interviewer was reading the questions from a paper or form. That made the whole thing go very naturally! This kind of interview has two sides for me, the good one is that you probably won't feel nervous as it's very natural and you can reach answers in a "non-robotic" way, the bad one is that you may think you forgot to tell something that may be important, as the questions are made during the conversation they all depend on were the conversation is going and sometimes you won't reach, or even remember, an answer that you feel is important in your application. It will always depend on the path of the conversation, as most who have been interviewed will say, just be yourself as there aren't wrong answers.

Hi all, I had my interview yesterday and it was a blind interview (interviewer only saw my resume and not the rest of my apps). It had 2 parts: goals/why MBA and behavioral questions. Part 1 - 1. Can you tell me more about your current role? 2. Why do you want an MBA now? 3. Post-MBA goal 4. Plan B if Plan A doesn't work out Part 2 - 1. Talk about a time where you had to compromise for the team's success 2. Talk about a time where your team was utilized by another team (or another team asked for your help) 3. Was there a time where you had to use your non-work skills at work for a project to be successful? 4. Talk about a time where you had less success as a team leader 5. As Tepper is a diverse, tight-knit community, was there a time where you actively reached out to know more about other people's culture? 6. Based on your research, why do you think Tepper is the school for you? Then around 5 mins for Qs to the interviewer

I had my interview recently on campus. It was mostly focused on the following: - Initial explanation of my positions. Since I am a nonstandard applicant they wanted details and explanation of selectivity for each position. - Why an MBA - Short and long term goals - How co-workers describe you, good and bad - Extra cirriculars They then switched to ask more leadership questions - How leadership style has changed throughout career - Explain a time where you were resilent as a leader - Anything else we should know. Be prepared for questions on your leadership and have some solid examples of each. Should be easy since you have your whole application to pull from so reinforcing those examples probably would help as it strengthens them with a fresh perspective. The interviewer will not be reviewing your application before or after so keep that in mind as you prepare. Of course who is interviewing you matters too. As long as you practice the questions available from the debriefs from various sites and the ones above you should do great. Best of luck to everyone going for the interview!

My interview was pretty straight forward 1)Walk us through your cv 2)Why MBA, why now and why isb (10 mins ) 3)How will you contribute 4)Asked me to elaborate on the initiative I led for an ngo 5) Ahobby 6)Any questions for us My interview lasted for 40 mins, of which 10-12 mins them answering the question I asked them

I was interviewed in Hyatt Regency, New Delhi. It was pretty much on time and only a delay of half an hour or so. The interview, contrary to what was being discussed outside, was more conversational than grilling. Panel of two (not sure adcom or alumni, seemed young enough to be an alumni only). Q: Introduce your career progression, a few queries relating to current role. Q: What are three things you're looking forward to at ISB? Q: Your job going quite well, why take a break? I intend to develop a career in business consulting, so rest of it was on those lines Q: What's your Plan B if consulting doesn't work out? Q: Why consulting? Q: What are those qualities in you that make you ideal for consulting? Q: Okay you're good at problem solving, then let's do a problem: Estimate the number of commuters in Delhi Metro? Walk us through your approach. Had a bit of discussion and exchange while problem solving. Seemed satisfied after a strategy was formulated. Q: Okay tell us more about your family? General conversation. Q: Okay anything else you wish to ask us or anything you wish to tell us about your profile? Asked about Global Management and expected diversity. They explained in good detail. Total Duration: About half hour. 1 month to go! Key takeaway: Prepare well framed answers about: Your career. What are your looking for in ISB? Why MBA? Why now? Your future goals, your qualities that make you ideal for it. and thats it! Good Luck!

Hi all, I did my interview yesterday with Emily. Questions asked were: 1. Why MBA? 2. Long-term and short-term goal 3. Alternative plan 4. Why Tepper 5. A time when I worked on some projects and learnt something unexpected/ non-intended 6. How my Operations experiences help my goal 7. A time when I had a disagreement/conflict within team 8. A time when I didn't have the information I needed. What did I do. 9. Experiences working with people from different cultures 10. Since I mentioned that I live in Singapore, a culturally diverse country - what are the differences I notice. Elaborate on my bosses who are from different countries 11. Any achievement that I am proud of outside of work (I shared about my learning a third language recently) 12. Any question to her I realized that I got asked an awful lot of questions in 35 min. Not sure whether it's because I talked too fast... Maybe next time I will talk real slow to eat away the time...

Thing to note - The interviews for Early Applicants at Darden are blind, please check if it is the same for other rounds as well. The interview was very straightforward. As it was a blind interview, the interviewer did not have idea or knowledge about my profile. He asked me to explain my story from the beginning. After that, it was general questions about why I want to pursue an MBA, why Darden and what attracted me to Darden.

Started off with my current work. Spent around 15 mins on this. They asked my core responsibilities and came up with counter-questions to check whether I really accomplished the achievements. The next 45 mins were spent on my start-up. Everything from how I came up with the idea, funding, feasibility, competitors, research undertaken in the field, marketing strategies used etc. They asked a few application questions as well. Spent 5 to 10 mins on Why MBA, Why ISB, Is MBA necessary, Any other college, post-MBA goals, and their sync and feasibility, how I wish to accomplish them. Spent 2mins on one of my extra-curricular activities. Advise: Try to bring in your extra-curricular activities yourself by mentioning them somewhere. Reach out to me for any further queries.

I had two interviews with IESE Adcom and I scheduled both of them on the same day with a gap of 5 hours between each. Both were Skype. 1st Interview: The first one went on for almost 1h15m and she said we are over the scheduled time so had to wrap up with a couple of questions I had. I wouldn't call this a conversational interview at all except the first 3-4 questions and the questions were scattered criss cross with no particular order. Below are the questions I was asked in the order mentioned (at least of what I remember) Tell me about yourself Didn't you want to stay back in the US? (I moved from US to India after 7 years) Tell me more about the app (I had founded a US based non-profit mobile app taking inspiration from Ellen Degeneres) Why not make this app for India? Tell me about the size of your current company When is your current company founded? How did you get this role and what is the best thing about your job? What do you like and what do you not like about managing people? In the few months you moved from US to India, what are some of the culture shocks you experienced? Did you travel outside of India in the last few months? What things do you want to improve upon when you come to IESE? Why do we want you in our team at IESE? Tell me about a difficult time you had in life. What other careers did you research about for a career change? How did you know it is Consulting? How do you plan to finance IESE? How did you research your schools and how did you end up with IESE? How will you choose if you have multiple admits? What if you do not break into Consulting at IESE? What other options have you thought about? Tell me about a difficult member you had to manage. What kind of a leader do you want to become? How do you plan to prepare for moving to Spain? What will you do from now until start of program? 2nd interview: This was more relaxed and I was actually at ease and confidence. The questions below in the order asked: Walk me through your CV like you're talking to your grandmother Why IESE? Why Consulting? Tell me about the XYZ detail about your start up. What if Consulting does not happen? What does your day to day job look like? Tell me about a time when you faced resistance. Tell me about a time when you worked in teams. How would your friends describe you? Tell me about your biggest accomplishment. How do you plan to finance? What if you have to come back to India after your MBA? Any questions for me?

So i had my Darden interview yesterday. It went exactly like all the other interview debriefs. Started off with tell me something about your family. Then childhood and college (more specifically extracurricular). I was also asked why engineering, this is primarily because my background is in biotechnology so she asked why not become a doctor etc. Then we talked about professional life. She asked how you managed teams from different cultures and background The Why MBA and Why Darden? Then we talked about life outside work - we even talked about Harry Potter because i said that i am reading that currently. In summary, the interviewer is looking for a conversation and gives you ample opportunity to tell her who you are in person outside of your essays. What is it that makes you special - i have consulting experience and team management experience so i made sure i drove those points really well. My interview lasted for about 32 mins and that includes the questions i had for her. It was an amazing conversation and i couldn't get enough of it. It wasn't like i was speaking to the person for the first time. My suggestion would be to say whatever you love and if the interviewer loves that too then there comes out a personal connection - in my case that was Harry Potter (never thought that reading it will help me in an interview) And most importantly, i believe because i was calm the conversation happened naturally and i told her more things (on a personal front) than i had imagined. All the best!

I'm a reapplicant: last time I interviewed it was just answering a bunch of questions, but this time it was completely different: - it was a much more conversational setting. - I was welcomed in the seating area and we exchanged some small talk about the trip and the weather as we walked to the office we'd be in. - he stressed several times I shouldn't be nervous, that this is just a conversation (I wasn't, I'm the person that gets nervous prior to something but not during) - It started with him giving me his business card, and me returning mine (handed over with both hands, as is customary in Asian culture). - My interviewer started asking about the company I work for, what we do, to explain the workings of the technology behind it, basically, it felt like we were talking for 20 minutes about the company and pretty much anything except for me. - after about 5 minutes I started working in some personal things that I knew I wanted to mention during my interview. which I continued doing throughout the rest of the interview. - I was further asked about different aspects of my applications: --why my MBA, why now, especially since I have a lot of years of experience -- asked about me: a short overview of my hobbies, my career -- questioned if I would consider going into the consulting, and if I'm 100% set on Spain, just to see my reasoning and whether it's solid -- talked about an example I gave in my essay -- talked about various point in my essays. -- asked questions which I guess came from points raised in my letters of recommendations, talked about my recommenders and why they are not my current bosses. etc etc. overall a very positive experience. in the end, after I asked whether I was to expect any news between now and my Assessment Day, he was surprised I had an Assessment Day. (I do because I'm a reapplicant) He told me he would check, and let me know, and invited me to connect on LinkedIn. He stated he thought it was a great interview (which I thought also) total interview time was 1h20 minutes, and we would probably have kept talking if he did not have another interview scheduled

I had my interview this morning with a second year student and overall it was an enjoyable and conversational experience. Question included: -Walk me through your resume -Describe your leadership style -Talk about a time you were on a team that had conflict -Talk about a time you received feedback ...and other very behaviorally based questions. After the interview I got to sit in on a class, take a tour and sit for a Q&A session with an admissions officer. Overall, it was an enjoyable day adn I had a positive reaction to the whole thing.

Just had interview on skype with adcom member. It was more of a conversation than an interview. It went for 45 minutes and the interviewer was really sweet and calm. Question are as below. 1. Lets talk about your early life. How you grew, you college decision and degree, activities in college etc. 2. Tell me about the transition from college to work and everything related to your work. 3. Why MBA? Why Darden? 4. Tell me about when you worked on teams and led teams. 5. Questions for me. It was overall really smooth. After a long time I was able to talk heart out about my passion and what I want to do with my life.

Doing any research, you'll see that Darden is known for asking one question: "tell me about yourself." This still holds true and is what my interview centered on. They're not there to grill you on bullet points in your resume, they want to hear from you what's been important professionally and personally in your life. As you tell them about what you have been up to and your story, the interviewer will stop you and ask questions. This went on for about 25-30 minutes and then it was my turn to ask questions, which they will give you until the 45 minute mark to do so. Getting to campus is pretty straight forward (just map it), and I would recommend staying at the Inn at Darden if you are nervous about running late since it's on campus. Parking is very easy. The deck, which they'll instruct you to park at, is right by the admissions office. Traffic isn't bad in Charlottesville, so as long as you know how long it'll take to get to campus and aim to arrive at Darden 20-30 minutes before your interview, you'll be fine.

I was lucky to be accepted into the program. I would like to share my interview experience. It was 50 minutes in Madrid. - Tell me about your academic and professional background, in general. - Why an MBA and why now? - Your immediate goals after the program and the long term ones? - If you are to choose 10 people to live with you in an isolated island, what professions would you pick? - what is inflation? - who is adam smith? - what is the GDP of your country? - what is 12*12-10? - who is the president of China? - What languages do you speak? - what is 279/6? - If you have the chance to meet famous person, dead or alive, who would be that person? and why? - How will you be financing your study? I was just myself and straightforward. It turned to be good interview, and have received the offer on Monday.

I had my interview with an IE alumni over Skype. The interview was very conversational and took about 30 minutes. We mainly went over my resume. Some of the questions asked: 1) Walk me through your resume 2) Why MBA? Why IE? 3) You've already been promoted a lot of times. Would you join IE if you get promoted again this year? 4) Do you have any international experience? How will cope up with the class since the student body is very diverse? 5) What are your short term & long term plans? 6) More about my essays( which focused highly on AI, machine learning etc.) : How much do you think we depend on AI and robots now? Do you think this will change? What will be the impacts? 7) Do you have any questions for me? ( I asked a few regarding the labs and career prospects as a foreigner in Spain ) We ended up chatting about his experience at IE and how it had impacted him. Overall, it was very friendly and not much of a psych interview. I was told there might be a second round of interview with the admissions people from Spain. But, got admitted nearly a week after the interview.

So I had my interview this morning. Questions were: - I see you already have a solid educational background why do you want to do an MBA? - Please describe you professional background - What kind of leader are you? - I see from your CV that you work with the COO of your client's company. What do you do with him? - I see from your CV you have been involved in the hiring process of your company. What qualities are you looking for when hiring? - Questions for us Very relaxed enviornment. I liked the interview process a lot. Good luck!