Latest ISB interview questions compilation

Latest ISB interview questions compilation

The following is an exhaustive list of questions asked to candidates with disparate profiles. It gives you an idea of what kind of questions can be asked. This list is collected from the latest interview debriefs.

Below list is from the interviews conducted for 2023 intake and 2022 intake, respectively.

Questions asked during interviews for 2023 Intake:

1. Profile walkthrough(Only work ex)
2. Choose one major project in your life and tell us about your learnings, outcomes etc. 2-3 follow-up questions on the same.
3. How will your peers benefit if you're admitted?
4. How did the themes in long term goal come into picture? Explain the disconnect between both themes.
5. How will your short term goal help the long term goal?

The interview started with the generic "Tell me about yourself"
Then asked about my work experience and a day at my job.
Why isb? Why now? Why product management?
Short term goal.
Business aspects of my job since I am from a purely technical background.
My dream company.
Situational questions like..what will you do if u r a PM of Google and u have xyz situation.
Calculate weekly revenue of an Indian airline which goes from Bombay to New York.
Challenge at work.

- Introduce yourself
- Why MBA? Why Product management?
- Which companies am I targeting Post MBA?
- Asked about my current role in the firm
- How do I resolve conflict and lead teams being the youngest in my current role.
- Why can't I get into my desired role without MBA
- Some grilling on why not consulting/ operations Post MBA - why only product management?
- As a re-applicant, how has your profile changed?
- Nitpicked a few of my extra curriculars and asked questions on the same
- Any questions for us?

Que 1. What have you done during and after graduation?
Que 2. What was your role at your organization? (I work in the family business)
Que 3. Why do you want to go for ISB?
Que 4. How will ISB Help You?
Que 5. What is the biggest challenge you faced and what did you do about it?
Que 6. What is your biggest achievement so far?
Que 7. You already are in business why do you want to spend 1 year at ISB and then a few years in a finance role? ( I had said so in my essay)
Que 8. What other things do you do apart from work?

1. Work experience: What does my work day look like? What are the meanings of some of the jargons used in the application? Which aspect of the project do I specifically handle?
2. P2P learning: Panel asked me about all the points I'd written in the first essay. Huge opportunity to highlight what you bring to the table.
3. Case Study: You're the CM of Delhi. How would you reduce the pollution in the city? (Expect a case study/guesstimate if you've written strategy consulting as your short term goal)
4. Hobbies/Interests: They asked me to talk about one of my hobbies. I'd read this while preparing so I was prepared for this line of questioning. Things like if your fav sport is basketball, you're expected to be able to have a conversation on the topic as well. Players, fouls, trivia etc.
5. Why MBA at this point in my career?
6. Any questions for the panel?

1. What do you do at your current org?
2. What project were you most excited about?
3. Why do you want to get into ISB ? (I mentioned about my goals too when answering this. I think that's why they didn't ask me separately about my Post-MBA goals)
4. How will your peers learn from you?
5. Tell me about your hobbies.
6. Any questions for us ?

1. What are the challenges you have faced during your job experience?
2. Tell me a time a client disagreed with you and how did you deal with it?
3. What leadership skills are important in your opinion?
4. Why ISB?
5. What do you bring to the table?"

1. Tell us the cultural differences between the first organisation where you worked and the current one and why did you leave in just 6 months. Cross questions on this.
2. Tell us what did you do in the first company. It was about MBA schools’ advertising so they wanted to know the process in detail. Had questions about this.
3. You want to work in FMCG, have you talked to ISB alumni about this? Who all? Anyone beyond ISB?
I talked about a project that I’ve been doing with one from IIMC & FMCG. Questions around that.
4. You’ve been involved in so many ad films during your college graduation. It’s a tough industry to go into. How did you enter and Why didn’t you continue there? You studied Advertising, do you want to work in that? Why not?
5. Why Marketing? If anything personal that you’d like to talk about or skip you can.
6. Questions about my hometown and the socio-economic status of that. One of them was from a nearby state.
7. Tell us about your current projects. Why did you move from CRM communications to Go-To-Market? How many people work with you?
8. Had a long discussion about one of my market research trips to Gujarat and how was the experience. They asked in detail about my process of mining insights through qualitative interviews, etc.

1) Tell us about this extra curricular activity you've mentioned (related to sports). Also what are some leadership lessons you've learnt from it.
2) Asked about my designation and my role.
3) My company pivoted recently, so they asked about the impact on the team and how would I analyze the pivot
4) They were interested in the projects I was working on and asked about it in detail
5) They asked about my recommender and asked me to evaluate him. Basically what I'd do differently if I was in his shoes
6) Why MBA was next and from there they probed a bit about my goals and the industry I was seeking.

1. Tell us a little about yourself something not mentioned already and one highlight of your career.
2. Why did you leave your job that paid so well? (I had left after gaining a promotion and was well paid.)
3. How did you start your business and find your first few clients?
4. Why did you leave your business? What was the conversation like?
5. Why do you want to do an MBA when you're working in a startup already with experienced founders?
6. Why MBA not any incubator program?
7. If you want to run your own business, you could still do it what would you do differently now?
8. What do you plan to do after ISB?
9. Question around my startup and a situation?
11. Any questions for us?

1. Tell us a little about yourself.
2. Why & how did you make that industry pivot? (I had pivoted from architecture to marketing 2 years ago.)
3. How did you start your business and find your first few clients?
4. How do you run your business today? What kind of projects do you work on?
5. So why do you want to do an MBA now?
6. Why ISB?
7. What other MBA colleges are you applying to?
8. What do you plan to do after ISB and why? (company, roles, etc.)
9. How do you plan to make the most of your time at ISB?
10. Any specific areas of study (electives) you plan to focus on?
11. Any questions for us?

1. They gave me the floor to tell them anything about myself that I want them to know and discuss during the interview
2. Describe your organization (I work for a boutique IB firm, this is probably why the question came up), it's journey, and your role along with daily responsibilities
- A complete deep dive into a few companies I've worked with that were mentioned in my application
- Expect questions based on even the minutest of details of your job. For eg. I am working on the acquisition of a hospital chain & I was asked questions about the many important hospital metrics
3. Why ISB and why now
4. Tell me about your long-term goals
- I mentioned I want to start a venture - we spent a good part of the interview breaking down the idea mentioned in my essay with a lot of cross questioning and stress testing
5. Why have you jumped so many jobs? If you, like me, have jumped jobs, expect this question and have very solid reasons why
6. Give me three reasons why we shouldn't select you
7. Tell me more about you being a pianist - I am classically trained so we spent a few minutes talking about my journey and passion for it
8. Do you have any questions for us?

1. Where are you from, have you visited the campus before and do you feel any difference now.
2. Tell me about your Undergrad subjects and College campus.
3. Tell me about your corporate journey, career progressions and Domain changes; your definition of success, do you think you have 'achieved it' or have that 'wow' moment till date.
4. Post MBA goal; Why is it niche specific and how did your current expertise help in choosing this. (Got roasted on this for straight 10 mins)
5. Is there anything that you want to change in your current job and how your targeted organisations would help in achieving this.
6. What's your typical day at office like, tell me about your job in-and-out.
7. Tell me about your Awards, ECs, Scholarships.
8. Tell me about your hobbies, how do you manage with work and other responsibilities aside.

1) tell me about yourself
2) why mba now
3) one stock idea you recommend
4) do you need mba with this much of experience
5) what will be your key differentiator for your wealth proposition
6)what is the client segment
7) what is the role post mba
8) tell me bout jazz music( hobby)
9) questions

1. Walk me through your resume
2. Why did you choose to join the energy sector after clearing CA?
3. If you like your current job so much, why do you want to do an MBA?
4. Please elaborate on your short term goals. What is your Plan B?
5. Why should we choose you over others? In what ways can you contribute to the ISB community?
6. What kind of personalities do you not like and how do you deal with them?
7. Do you have any questions for us?

1. What do you do on a daily basis at work, follow ups on metrics, asked me to describe the product, a few more follow ups on the product - in trying to understand the target customers and the evolution of online sales
2. LT Career goals: why Edtech and ISB has about 60% engineers, how do I plan to compete with them for recruiting. What do I bring to the table
3. Why product management? What in my view does a product manager do
4. If I were to build an Ed-tech product? What would it be? How would you pitch it.
5. Follow up on the product that I pitched
6. Why product management? Why not a business owner or a category owner

Questions asked during interviews for 2022 Intake:

Q- Tell us about yourself
Q- Why MBA after working in a Manager Role
Q- Leadership Style / Challenge Faced
Q- Practical vs Theoretical learning in Management (Specific to my experience)
Q- Key Challenges for the growth of an Organization (Specific to my experience)
Q- Why ISB
Q- Advice for those joining the workforce (Specific to my experience)
Q- Challenges that will be face by me during the transition of Industries
Q- Why change of Industries
Q- MBA now or tried or thought of it before
Q- Prefer working in large organization vs small organization
4-5 Questions related to Hobby to judge my assessment of a Business Case.
Q- Questions for the alums

1. Why an MBA right now and why from ISB?
2. Tell us something about your job and day to day responsibilities?
3. Tell us reasons with example why you moved up the ladder faster than your peers in your job?(I had back to back promotions)
4. How has your job evolved since you joined the firm initially and what challenges have you faced due to it?
5. If you have to write a template for a new hire to follow, so that he can have a similar trajectory to yours, What will you mention in it?
6. How will ISB help you achieve your goals?
Shifted to Hobbies (Football)
7. Why should one support Manchester United over Real Madrid and Barcelona?
8. Why do you think are they struggling recently?
9. Assume that you are the CEO of Manchester United, First state reasons why you should not sign Ronaldo, then state reasons why you should sign him and why did you eventually sign him?
10. Try being the devil in the room, Tell us reasons why you should not join ISB.
11. Any Plan B if ISB does not work out?
12. If you had a chance, What is that one thing you would change in your past?
13. Any questions for Alums?"

Q- Tell us about yourself
Q- What you do at your workplace
Q- How has been your experience working from home
Q- Biggest challenge at workplace and how did you resolve
Q- Why consulting (my short term goal)
Q- What do you think are some key skills to be successful as a cons
Q- Have you ever lied at your workplace, share context
Q- If you don't make it to ISB this year, what would be the 2 main reasons
Q- What do you gain the most out of 1 year at ISB
Rest were the questions about my hobbies.

Q- Please tell us about all your Entrepreneurship Ventures and their timeline
Q- Entrepreneurship is challenging, and results aren't visible in a short duration; while your friends might be earning more during this phase of your career, How does that make you feel?
Q- Explain to us what made you start so many Entrepreneurship ventures and be a Serial Entrepreneur; how did your family take it?
Q- Describe what will you do if there were no constraints in scaling up your Business?
Q- How do you find your clients?
Q- How do you handle conflict at Work
Q- How will your employees describe you?
Q- Tell us about an Interesting campaign which you did?
Q- What do you plan to do for the remainder of this year before you join ISB(EEO Candidate), and what will you do at ISB?
Q- Is It common for Students to now Intern at International Institutes like Georgia tech?
Q- Tell us your learnings and Experience at Georgia Tech?
Q- How will your friends describe you?
Q- Tell us more about your fragrance collection hobby?
Q- Questions for the Alum

1. You're in the space of marketing etc. Tell me about your journey so far.
2. Why marketing?
3. Tell me about an interesting marketing campaign / brand whose marketing you like?
4. Tell me about XYZ competition you took part in during your undergrad? (context: in my application I had mentioned that I was a finalist at a national level competition, so the question was about this)
5. Say there was no barrier in terms of age or qualification, what role would you choose to work in and why?
6. What does customer experience mean to you?
7. Name two companies that you would like to work for
8. Have you applied to any other B schools?
9. Question about a conflict with my manager. What would i do in that situation.
10. Your career is going well at your current organisation. Why MBA now?
11. Any questions for us?

1. Tell us about your work experience
2. What are some of the responsibilities that you have shouldered?
3. How do you resolve technical challenges for your team?
4. Why do you think communication is the most important leadership quality? (This question stemmed from my essay)
5. My goals and the skillset I would require to attain those goals.
6. Why ISB?
7. What kind of consulting have you done in your role? (I am a tech consultant)
8. Do you want to talk about something that you do other than your work? Something that stands out in your profile? Anything other than “call of duty”?
9. Any questions for us?

1. Tell us about yourself
2. Why MBA?
3. Why ISB? Why not other B-schools?
4. Questions about my job in immense detail
5. What do you hate the most about your job?
6. What do you do in a day to day basis?
7. What development goals have you set?
8. Asked about my social startup and how i plan to scale it.
9. Asked about another start up and how we plan to make money out of it.
10. Product case question. Improve it and how will you make more revenue from it?
11. What's a good product that has a bad business.
12. Goals just post ISB?
13. What do you bring to the cohort?
14. Any questions for us?

1) Tell us something about you, which is not mentioned in the application
2) Introduce yourself
3) What does daily work look like?
4) You mention supply chain issues - elaborate on it - few more qs on it for 5-7 mins
5) Any project that you showed VP or CEO
6) Asked specifics on marketing activations done on the brands.
6) Why ISB
7) What are your goals after ISB
8) General knowledge qs - govt thinks amazon/flipkart are destroying brick & mortar stores sector in India - what are your views?
9) Qs on the Non profit work mentioned in my application - kind of work - what is my motivation?
10) What do the senior managers at my organization do
11) Any questions for us

1. Who is your favorite co-worker
2. What do you feel about Teamwork
3. How would you use ISB to the best
4. What challenges do you face in working with Japanese stakeholders
5. How would you proceed if your clients say no to your approach
6. Tell us about your extracurricular activities
7. What is your favorite book and your learnings from it
8. What challenges did you face in setting up a committee in your workplace (mentioned in extracurricular)
9. Tell us about this project and your contributions and learnings from the same (the project was mentioned in my job achievements)
10. What would you do if one of the members from your study group didn't complete their task and tomorrow is the deadline
11. Why do you want to pursue this career"

1. Tell us about yourself and your favourite place(and why?).
2. Asked about learnings from my previous job and how I tacked a difficult situation there.
3. Asked about the whereabouts of the Start-up I am currently working on.
4. Career goals, why MBA? why ISB? (Suggestion: Pls personalise your answers)
5. Difficulties faced in my current industry and how I would tackle if I become the CEO.
6. As my profile was sales-related, I got several situational based questions based on product pricing and how placements of SKU's should be done in a said future, how I would compete with a big competition.
7. What specific courses at ISB will help you achieve your goals
8. My answers were oriented based on 'how ISB would be the perfect fit for me'. On the contrary, they asked what's your plan, If ISB does not happen.
9. They didn't ask if I had any questions.

1. Tell me about yourself
2. Tell me about a time when your inputs improved an existing process ( follow up questions on the thinking behind your inputs, impact , lessons for next time)
3. How did you balance ECs and acads in UG? Motivation behind ECs
4. Career goals, why MBA for them, why ISB?
5. How can you contribute to ISB Co’2023
6. Tell me about a situation when you had to learn something new
7. What specific courses at ISB will help you achieve your goals
8. Other than acads, ECs what plans at ISB?
9. Questions for the panel

1. What's your role?
2. Break it down, what have you done in the last two years.
3. Few grilling on two points I had mentioned wrt work.
4. Naturally flowed to how I overcome a difficult situation in my job.
5. Why ISB? Why MBA?
6. "We hear that from everyone". Give a deeper answer on why ISB.
7. Question around a point I mentioned on how I expected to contribute to ISB using an experience at work.
8. Question around that experience. Another question on how you overcame that.
9. What two things you expect to take away from ISB?
10. You mentioned a lot about X in your essay. How does this help you ok your job.
11. Few questions I have forgotten.
12. Another question I had mentioned that I am pursuing a specific course on upskilling.

1) Tell me about yourself
2) Can you explain the thought process of moving from Co 1 to Co 2 to Co 3 (present) , why did you switch etc
3)What skills have you developed in the last 2-3 years that you feel you are better at now compared to earlier
4)What did you not like about Co 1/ why did you leave ( further grilling)
5)How is your experience at Present co
6)Why do you want to leave it then and do an MBA now if happy with the learning there?
7)Any problem you faced at any of your work experiences, and what was your learning
8) Asked about a marketing course I had done ( different from my overall CV)

1. Tell me about yourself.
2. Why there were multiple job switches in span of 4 years?
3. Why MBA and ISB?
4. If we put you in a group of 4 ISB students , what unique would you bring to the table?
5. If we put you in a new industry and a sector, how would you go about exploring ?
6. If there were no MBA in India, How will you achieve your short term goal?
7. What new strategy will you implement in your current organisation?
8. Considering you have experience in US and SEA-ME market, why don't you apply to a B-school outside india?

• Tell me about yourself and why MBA
• What are the three things that your work experience taught you
• Why consulting if your long-term goal is to go into retail and lifestyle fashion brands
• What do consultants do and why do businesses hire consultants
• Why did Paytm IPO fail
• What is the average PE ratio of NASDAQ and the highest it might have gone?
• What was the reason behind the financial crisis 2008
• What have you done for your family jewelry retail business (I mentioned it in my essay)
• Why don’t you take your family business to an online channel?

1. What did you learn in your current role?
2. Why did you choose that undergraduate degree and why did you make the career shift?
3. Long term goals and details about those.
4. Situtational question - What would you do if you are made CEO?
5. What you don't like about ISB?
6. What did you learn in your undergraduate degree that you are applying in your current role?

1. Tell us about yourself - a few follow-up questions about my hobbies
2. Asked me a few questions about my work experience
3. Behavioral questions around leadership experience from my professional and personal life
4. Motivation behind pursuing an MBA at this point
5. How will you add value to the batch at ISB
6. Detailed line of questioning about an internship I pursued with UNDP - panelists were genuinely interested to know the impact that I drove
7. Detailed discussion around my hobbies - Coffee (asked to make a sales pitch for specialty coffee) & Wildlife Photography (asked me questions about national parks, equipment and also asked me to show some of my photography collection)
8. Checked coherence of my thoughts around Post-MBA career goals
9. Any questions for us?

1. Can you walk us through your journey so far and why you want to pursue an MBA from ISB.
2. Question about a work initiative I mentioned in my essays
3. Cross questions on work experience and any team management issues I faced. Some more questions on the specifics since one of the interviewer was from the same domain
4. Question on why I feel that ISB can help me achieve my goals.
5. Question on how my involvement in extra curricular's will help me achieve my goals
6. Question on long term goals and some cross questions on that.
7. Any questions for us?"

1. Can you walk us through your journey so far and why you want to pursue an MBA from ISB.
2. Question about a work initiative I mentioned in my essay
3. Cross questions on work and any team management issues I faced. Some more questions on the specifics since one of the interviewer was from the same domain
4. Question on whether I feel ISB is the only path that can help me achieve my goals.
5. Question on how my involvement in extra curricular activities will help me achieve my goals
6. Question on long term goals and some cross questions on that.
7. Any questions for us?

1. Walk us through your work ex, why did you change jobs?
2. More details about previous work ex - my job responsibilities
3. Details about long term goals - how I plan on achieving them
4. Details about my contribution to clubs during UG which I had mentioned
5. Why ISB? Why not an Indian B school?
6. Plan B? If you don't get into ISB or any MBA school?
7. What impact did your contribution to the club make? Slight cross-questions to have a structured answer.
8. Any questions for us?

a) I was asked to elaborate on one of the instances I had mentioned in the leadership essay. They asked what was my contribution in that scenario.
b) Initiatives I have taken at the workplace or any processes that I have put in place at the workplace and the impact of the same. They also asked me to talk about new age ideas/concepts in the investing world (I work in the asset management industry).
c) Branching off from the above question, they asked what space do I think would be most attractive/exciting for today's (millennial) investors?
d) What is my Plan B (post MBA) if I don't get opportunities in the industry which I had mentioned as my medium term goal (consulting - which is quite competitive)
e) An interesting question - If I had to give a speech to my cohort on day1 at the campus, introducing myself, what would the core theme be / what would the title be?
f) They said peer learning is immense in those course, with 800-900 people in the class all from very different backgrounds. So the asked what others could learn from me / what do I bring to the table?
g) They asked if I had any questions - I asked about duration of internship and outbound exchange opportunities, the course being a 1 year course.

1) What has your 4 years of work experience been like?
2) Specific challenges you faced at work
3) Hobbies
4) I mentioned CSR so - what have I done and contributions.
5) Long term and short term goals
6) Do you read any business books?
7) Any questions for us.

1. Introduction
2. Why MBA?
3. What will you do if not selected?
4. One question about activities that I had mentioned in the application
5. Questions for the panelist

1. Explain leadership opportunities at work.
2. Have you had some leadership opportunities outside of work?
(Explained about a experience and sneaked in my hobbies)
3. Have you faced conflict in any of your experiences?
4. Conflict at the workplace?
5. How would you drive consensus when say 30% are disagreeing?
I told something like, we should understand their perspectives and
try to negotiate and come to a middle ground.
6. What to do if still there are disagreements and some people are
still holding out ?
7. (I had mentioned about working with stakeholders across multiple
countries, in my essay) How was the interaction? What kind of
tasks were being done across the countries I mentioned ?
8. Any questions for the interview panel ?
One of the panelists shared a candid experience from his campus
life

1. Lots n lots of questions around my extracurriculars/hobbies. Lots of cross questioning around it.
2. Questions around teamwork, conflict. These were behavioral questions.
3. Short term and long term goal. and why those goals?
4. Why ISB
5. Again a question around my hobby
6. Any questions for the interview panel ?

1) Where all I have travelled and which place I liked the most (Mentioned in the application about Travelling)
2) Why consulting post ISB and how would you work towards getting into one while at ISB?
3) If not consulting, what is plan B? How will you work towards it?
4) Most challenging situation at workplace and how did you overcome/navigate through it?
5) Challenges pertaining to consulting field
6) Having core engg background, what made you inclined towards consulting post undergrad? Any experiences related to that
7)How will you add value to the cohort?
8) What all are you planning to pursue at ISB apart from core acads?
9) Any questions?

1. Tell us what you've been working on in the past few years
2. Follow up questions about work experience - what are your responsibilities? How many people are there in your team? What does a typical workday look like?
3. Tell us about a time you failed at work. What's the hardest part of the job?
4. Why ISB, why MBA now? Why do you want to switch? (my goals included switching from IT change management to marketing)
5. Have you done any activities to upskill yourself to make the switch?
6. What drew you to marketing?
7. Tell us about one brand's marketing campaign which you absolutely hated and one which you loved.
8. Questions about background, hobbies
9. Why did you choose to do engineering when you were clearly good at writing even in school?
10. Why do you like writing and performing poetry? Who influenced you to start writing?
11. Any questions for us?

1) Tell me about yourself,
2) Why MBA and ISB
3) Why marketing, when did you decide ( I mentioned this as my short term goal ) slight grilling was done.
4) What i was doing to pursue this goal
5) Conflict at work you faced
6) Leadership initiative and learnings
7) Deep diving into my work experience, projects and achievements, mild grilling on that.

1. Brief introduction
2. Explain parliamentary debate as that was a part of my achievements
3. Deep dive into an internship I had done with ORF and Facebook
4. Deep dive in my current role and my contribution to the team
5. Why MBA, Why ISB and what I add to the cohort
6. Was asked the goal question in the form of where are you headed in life. Then the follow-up question was Immediately after ISB what will be your goal and how confident are you in achieving the same.
7. Two values I live by
8. Behavioral question on handling a conflict in a team
9. Was asked to perform a minute of stand-up and some slam poetry as I had mentioned them in my hobbies. - Be careful while listing hobbies
10. Was asked about specific clubs I'm looking to join at ISB

1- The interviewers dug into my current work experience. As I work in a cosmetics startup they went deep into my KPI's, knowledge of the industry, and also knowledge of the pricing and procuring.
2- I was asked about my future goals, which I had mentioned in the application (Automotive). I was asked to talk about that and give an example of how I can add value to it.
3- I was asked to provide a case on what I would change about a specific company wrt their marketing and strategy. A few follow-up questions thereafter.
4- Further, I was asked about my plan B at ISB.
5- Then I was asked about my leadership style. Previous examples of where I showcased this quality while leading a team.
6- Then we spoke a little bit about hobbies and which ones I would like to pursue at ISB.
7- I was asked if I have any questions for the panel.

1. Why ISB || Why ISB over IIMs || Why ISB over foreign universities
2. About the ultimate long term goal
3. Struggles, learnings from the events organized in college
4. Deep diving on my work-life
5. Ethical and Moral questions by giving out a hypothetical situation
6. Whether I had decided on any clubs and chapters at the school
7. Ended with an opportunity to ask anything to the panel.

Q1. Walk us through your profile?
Q2. Tell us the reason for the goals mentioned?
Q3. Tell me about an instance where your team made a mistake and how did you handle it? Who took the blame? What changed in your leadership skills after that?
Q4. Why do you want to become a Product Manager in an e-commerce industry?
Q5. Tell me about an instance where you goofed up and how did you handle it?
Q6. I see you are from an analytics background and have quite an experience here. So could you "Estimate the total cost of petrol utilized in petrol bunks of your city?" (Didn't expect this coming but I answered it decent enough)
Q7. Anything that you want to ask the panel

1.Walk me through your resume
2.Why MBA?
3.Why ISB?
4.Goals post MBA and why product management questions?
5.Difficult challenge you faced at work?
6.Question on my hobby and what did it teach me?
7.Any questions for the Panel?

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.

1. Introduce yourself
2. Questions on my work (15 mins)
(What do you do, some specific questions on my essay, conflict at work, and so on)
3. WHY MBA and why ISB
4. What if you don't make it into ISB
5. Hobbies related question
6. Any questions for the Panel.

Hope this helps.