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Ross Michigan
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Matriculating
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
3 years ago Apr 21, 2023
3 years ago Apr 21, 2023 07:04
Interviewed with a Alumni. It lasted for about 35 minutes. It was scheduled for Google meet but due to some video issues there, we moved to Zoom.
Questions asked:
1. Tell me about yourself.
2. Why MBA?
3. Why Ross?
4. Tell me a time when you had a conflict at work place and how did you handle it?
5. Tell me a time when you had a knowledge gap and how did you mitigate it?
6. Tell me a time when you had to work with a diverse set of group? And what was the key learning from that experience?
7. Any questions for me?
After this she said that the interview is over. But then she went on to talk a bit about her consulting experience at Bain. She told me that they want people who have the technical know-how in the realm of climate change for ESG consulting (I wrote a research thesis on Climate change during my Masters and it was mentioned as such in my resume). She then casually asked me about my target locations for work post-MBA and gave me a few suggestions regarding the same. After that we discussed a bit about energy industry's pros and cons and then she ended the zoom interview saying, "You have done an awesome job. The final decision will be out on the 9th of Dec".
Overall, I am happy with the interview, but from my time at GmatClub, I know that good interviews do not always translate into an admit. Or an interview that you might construe as good may not really have gone that way. Or other candidates may have outperformed you. So you just can't say anything till the actual decision is in your hand. So, I am gonna stay grounded and leave the rest to the old gods and new.
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Ross Michigan
Full Time MBA
Status:
Off Campus with Alumni
Interviewed on:
3 years ago Apr 21, 2023
3 years ago Apr 21, 2023 07:04
I was interviewed by alumni.
1. Help me understand your story - I started by telling about myself, and he followed up wherever required.
2. Went into detail about my work to understand my role and how it's affecting the business of the company.
3. Why MBA? Why Ross? - covered my goals and how ross helps in achieving them
4. Any questions for the interviewer?
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Ross Michigan
Full Time MBA
Status:
Off Campus with Alumni
Interviewed on:
3 years ago Apr 21, 2023
3 years ago Apr 21, 2023 07:04
Ritesh Bawri was my interviewer. He was friendly and it felt like a casual conversation as if I was networking with some employee.
I am working as a software engineer for 3 years now and I plan to move into PM roles Post MBA.
1. Tell me about yourself
2. I mentioned about an application I work on. He asked me a couple questions on what is the purpose of the appland how I was able to achieve that purpose through my work. The app I work on is for improving collaboration among employees and the interviewer asked me "All interactions are meant to bring joy or happiness. How does your app do that"
3. Why MBA? What are my goals? Why Ross? - 3 standard questions
4. He asked me a follow up on Why Ross. "There are options like Harvard, Stanford and other schools in California if you are interested in tech. Why makes you choose Ross"
Questions I asked him
1. You may have had many wonderful experiences at Ross. If you can talk about one such experience what would it be
2. I went through your LinkedIn profile and I understand that you moved from an AI company to a lifestyle company. What were your thoughts when you did this industry change
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Ross Michigan
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Waitlisted with Interview
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
4 years ago Apr 21, 2022
4 years ago Apr 21, 2022 07:04
Interviewer: Alum (Full Time MBA; Class of 2019)
Duration: 45 min
5 mins for introduction
30 mins for interview questions
10 mins for my questions
Questions
- Tell me why are you here. - This covered my short-term and long-term goals and why MBA.
- Why Ross? - Here, I also answered how I would contribute to Ross.
- How do you see yourself in Ann Arbor?
- Tell me about a time when you faced a challenge while managing a team.
- Tell me about a time you failed and what were your learnings from it.
- Tell me about an experience working with a diverse team. What challenges did you face and how did you apply the learnings from that experience to future experiences?
- What would your current or previous manager tell me about your strengths and areas of improvement?
- What is your leadership style?
- What do you like to do outside of work? - There were 3-4 follow-up questions here as the interviewer and I had some common interests.
- Which leader do you admire and why?
- What is your pet peeve?
- Tell me a fun fact about yourself. - Again had a follow-up question owing to a common interest.
Experience: The interviewer was very friendly and kept the interview conversational. It was a great experience overall. Hope this helps!
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Ross Michigan
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Matriculating
Status:
Off Campus with Alumni
Interviewed on:
4 years ago Apr 21, 2022
4 years ago Apr 21, 2022 07:04
Total duration - 55 mins! Interview with alum!
2 min meet and greet and setting up agenda & 5 min introduction!
Questions ->
1. Tell me about yourself?
2. Why MBA? Why Ross?
3. Short-term goal?
4. Why did you join company X after mechanical engineering?
5. What are your strengths?
6. What is your leadership style and what are the qualities that a good leader should have?
7. Why US schools and why not Europe given my international work ex and network is in the EU region?
8. Anything I wish to cover apart from what has been asked?
9. Any questions for the interviewer?
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Ross Michigan
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Invited to Interview
Status:
Off Campus with Alumni
Interviewed on:
4 years ago Apr 21, 2022
4 years ago Apr 21, 2022 07:04
Total duration - 50-55 mins! Interview with alum!
2 min setting up the agenda & 5 min introduction!
Questions ->
1. Tell me about yourself?
2. Why MBA? Why Ross?
3. Short-term goal?
4. Why did you go to X company post-graduation & why switched to Y company afterward? (basically, why did I do career pivot)
5. Question around some extra-curricular activity from Resume
6. Biggest accomplishment professionally?
7. Anything I wish to cover apart from what has been asked?
8. Any questions for the interviewer?
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Ross Michigan
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Waitlisted with Interview
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
4 years ago Apr 21, 2022
4 years ago Apr 21, 2022 07:04
Interviewed with alumnus - Class of 2008 (Executive MBA). Was mostly conversational and friendly.
Duration: ~60 min
5 min for introduction and setting up agenda
45-50 min for interview questions
5-10 min for questions I had
Questions:
- Walk me through your resume
- Why MBA?
- ST and LT goal?
- Which schools I've chosen and why?
- Why Ross?
- How would you contribute to Ross?
- Time I led a team and scope of project changed quickly
- Time I had to make data-driven decision in a small amount of time
- Time I stopped a manager from going down a wrong path
- Time I worked with a diverse team
- Time I motivated a colleague/peer
- Time I worked with someone from entirely different culture and geography
- Time I faced failure or was given negative feedback
- Time I had to give someone negative feedback
- Time I worked with someone from an underprivileged background
- What would be the one thing I would change in the world
Was surprised by the sheer number of questions that came my way. But overall good experience. Hope this helps!
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Ross Michigan
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Interviewed
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
4 years ago Apr 21, 2022
4 years ago Apr 21, 2022 07:04
Interviewed with an Alumni, it was conversational and friendly.
-why MBA
-why Ross
- TMAT a project changed suddenly, what did you do?
- what would you have done differently?
-TMAT you motivated coworkers ?
-TMAT most constructive feedback?
-TMAT working with someone from different culture?
- now ask me any question
it took 30min +10min of questions
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Ross Michigan
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Waitlisted with Interview
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
4 years ago Apr 21, 2022
4 years ago Apr 21, 2022 07:04
Had my interview today with an alumni class of 2020.
Very similar to the other interview debriefs although she sounded like was in a bit of a rush (it was mid working day for her).
Questions:
1. She asked me to quickly introduce myself, to keep it short and focused on something that is not on my resume since she has read it already.
2. Why an MBA?
3. Why Ross?
4. How do you lead without authority and how do you influence peers on the same level as you?
5. Tell me about a time you showed resilience?
6. Short term/long term goals post MBA
7. Open floor to questions.
Overall it took about 30 minutes considering the questions I had for her. It was a good experience and direct on point from both sides.
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Ross Michigan
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Waitlisted with Interview
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
4 years ago Apr 21, 2022
4 years ago Apr 21, 2022 07:04
Completed my interview yesterday with an alum from the Class of 2019. It lasted ~40 minutes in total with ~30 minutes of formal interview and ~10 minutes for my questions at the end. Very conversational and friendly.
- Walk me through your resume (Follow-up question on my leadership style and how I would approach guiding a junior who I don't know much about and did not recruit)
- How does an MBA fit into your career goals and why now?
- Why Ross and not any other b-school?
- Tell me about a time when you adapted to a difficult situation?
- Describe how you work with people from different cultures with an example
- Tell me about a time when you influenced someone who was at your level
- What challenges do you think you will face at Ross?
After this, I spent ~10 minutes asking questions that I had for him. An amazing experience overall.
Hope this helps!
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Ross Michigan
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Interviewed
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
4 years ago Apr 21, 2022
4 years ago Apr 21, 2022 07:04
Hi Guys,
Got done with my interview today. It was with alum, Class of 2020 (Veteran). Total 60 minutes of interview (35 mins of interview questions) Interview experience is as follows:
My interviewer was really welcoming and set up the expectations straight up. Introduced himself, told me he will start by asking me to introduce myself, ask some more questions, then will ask some behavioral questions that he has here with him and will open up the forum for me to ask anything about Ross, his experience etc. as it needs to be a 2 way street and I need to be fairly convinced with the school I am interviewing for. Questions were as follows:
1) Tell me about yourself (followed by a casual chat about a common hobby that we both had)
2) Why MBA (again a follow up chat on something I forgot now, spoke here about my goals too, both ST and LT)
3) Why Ross (he paused my answer to discuss his MAP project and then we continued from there)
4) TMAT when you started something new or unknown
5) TMAT when you motivated a colleague you are on same level with
6) TMAT you failed
7) TMAT you ensured inclusivity in your team (there were two more stems to this question so it was a slightly longer answer from my end)
Not sure if he had only 4 behavioral questions planned or ran out of time. Next 25 mins we discussed 4-5 questions I had for him.
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Ross Michigan
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Admitted
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
4 years ago Apr 21, 2022
4 years ago Apr 21, 2022 07:04
Interview with alumn, conversational and relaxed. Duration: 40 mins
Questions:
-situation where your indirect reports didn't listen to your suggestions/recommendations. How did you handle that situation
-Tell me more about your job function
-Situation where you had to learn very quickly in a short period of time
-Why mba/why now/ career goals
-what is the ideal leadership for you, what type of leader do you want to become
-tell me a situation may be in your personal/ professional where you had to work with a diverse set of people
-question on my hobby
-why Ross/ how will you contribute to ross,
-any questions (10 mins)
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Ross Michigan
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Denied with Interview
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
4 years ago Apr 21, 2022
4 years ago Apr 21, 2022 07:04
Interview lasted 41 minutes with an alum. He was very calm.
Started by asking about my most recent work experience (talked about my career transitions here and how they relate to my MBA plans).
Why MBA, Why Ross.
Tell me about a time you helped someone feel included.
Tell me about a time you convinced someone to your point of view.
Questioning lasted about 30 minutes and I asked questions for about 11 minutes (asked about how he manged his time at Ross and the type and extent of career support available to alum).
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Ross Michigan
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Admitted
Status:
Off Campus with Alumni
Interviewed on:
4 years ago Apr 21, 2022
4 years ago Apr 21, 2022 07:04
Just completed my interview with recent Alum. It lasted ~50 minutes in total with ~35 minutes of formal interview and ~10-15 minutes for my questions at the end. Very conversational and friendly. She had a set of questions prepared, mostly behavioral.
- Tell me about yourself and Why MBA (covered LT goals in brief during this)
- discussion naturally flowed to how Ross fits into my "Why MBA?" plan
Behavioral questions
- About a time when project scope changed suddenly?
- About a time when I stopped a manager from going down a wrong path?
- About a time when I had a unpopular opinion?
- About a time when I worked with diverse group of people (flowed from a project I mentioned in my introduction)? How did I manage it and what did I learn?
After this spend 10-15 minutes talking for my questions mostly around MAP experience, questions about Sanger Leadership Center and life in Ann Arbor in general
Hope this helps!
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Ross Michigan
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Admitted
Status:
Off Campus with Alumni
Interviewed on:
4 years ago Apr 21, 2022
4 years ago Apr 21, 2022 07:04
Interviewed with an alumnus via Zoom, and wanted to share what was quite a unique experience. It was very conversational, the interviewer was very easy going, and just an all-round nice person to talk to. Even if he was from a completely different location, we shared a management consulting background and some personal interests that really kept the conversation flowing.
I also want to add that this was very much similar to a HBS/MIT type of interview style, in that rather than asking behavioural questions, my interviewer asked why I made the decisions I made, which was a distinct tone shift from all the other interview experiences here. So the questions asked were particular to me:
1. Tell me a bit about yourself - the usual 3-4 minute intro, going through my resume
(-) Not a question but we chatted about a shared interest in Formula 1 for a few minutes
2. Why did I choose to study where I did, what was I looking for, and did I get it?
3. What do I think binds my decisions and choices made in my career (I mentioned I was very deliberate with my decisions in the intro)
4. How do I lead without authority
5. (Follow up to the previous question) How do you get people on your side?
6. What was your biggest shortcoming, and most importantly what did you learn from it (the interview prefaced this question a lot, saying that the learnings are what mattered most. Also, the interviewer resonated with my answer a lot, as they also had a similar experience in their consulting career)
Can't quite remember the rest, but the interview lasted a full hour with my own questions. What was conspicuously missing were the traditional 'why an MBA', 'why now', 'why Ross', 'what are your goals' which took me by surprise a bit.
Nevertheless, this was my favourite interview by far of those I've done and gives me a lot to think about. Hope this helps!
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Ross Michigan
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Interviewed
Status:
Online
Interviewed on:
4 years ago Apr 21, 2022
4 years ago Apr 21, 2022 07:04
I had my interview yesterday with an alum from the class of 2013. It was a good interaction and lasted for about 40 minutes, give or take a minute.
The interviewer began with a brief introduction about himself before diving right into the questions he had for me.The sequence was as follows.
1. Tell me about your journey so far, and why you think an MBA fits into the picture.
2. A follow-up question about my previous work experience.It was along the lines of, how did you do what you said you did?
3. What are my short-term and long-term goals?
4. Why Ross and how would you contribute to Ross?
5. How did I motivate a team?
6. What was your biggest failure?
This took exactly 35 minutes and then I asked the question I prepared for him for about 5 minutes.
I hope this helps. All the best to everyone for their interview.
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Ross Michigan
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Admitted
Status:
Off Campus with Alumni
Interviewed on:
4 years ago Apr 21, 2022
4 years ago Apr 21, 2022 07:04
I got my interview Round 1 invitation on 10.20 and scheduled the interview with an alum from a different nationality / similar background. And I finished my interview today on 10.28. It lasted for 45 minutes with 10 minutes of Q&A at the end.
My interview was friendly and conversational, not too much casual as an interview with current students. From her in-depth questions on behavioral questions, I got an impression that she was organizing my answers in a well-structured way, especially about the behavioral questions.
- Walk me through you resume.
- Some following questions about resume
- Considering your ST goal that you mentioned, how is Ross MBA gonna help you?
- What is your LT goal and what is your plan ?
- What has been your biggest accomplishment?
- What is your strength and weakness? (I related the answers with my accomplishments and failures)
- Tell me about your experience with a challenging person or any other challenging situations. How did you impact them?
- Tell me about your experience of working with people from very different or diverse background.
- You've learned different foreign languages and seems like you have experienced diverse culture. Tell me about the experiences with learning those languages.
- Tell me more about your experience as an exchange student.
- What are the 3 words that your peers would use to describe you?
During the Q&A session, I asked her about post-MBA opportunities for international students and her answer was very inspiring. I feel that it was a really great opportunity to have such a conversations with an alum from a similar background.
Good luck for everyone!
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Ross Michigan
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Waitlisted with Interview
Status:
Off Campus with Alumni
Interviewed on:
4 years ago Apr 21, 2022
4 years ago Apr 21, 2022 07:04
My interview lasted for an hour, and it was not as conversational as I hoped it would be. My interviewer really dug deep into every answer, with multiple follow ups on each.
Tell me about why you want to do an MBA
Let's go back to college, tell me about your journey till here
Why did you shift from your UG major to current company?
What does your company do?
What did you do in your first role at current company? What did you like and dislike about it?
Why did you shift teams? Did you like it more, and if yes, why?
Why are you interested in your goals?
Why Ross?
Are you planning to move back to India after your MBA?
Tell me about a time when you had to make a critical decision in a short period of time. What was different in your approach to this? Why did your approach work in this situation?
Tell me about a time when you had to stop your manager from going down a wrong path. How did you convince him? How did your solution work?
When have you worked with people different from you? How was your approach to this?
When have you had to take an unpopular role and have people not be happy with you? How did that uncomfortable conversation go?
What questions do you have for me?
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Ross Michigan
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Denied with Interview
Status:
Off Campus with Alumni
Interviewed on:
4 years ago Apr 21, 2022
4 years ago Apr 21, 2022 07:04
The interview lasted only 25 mins. The Alumni probably had a long day ahead of her. She asked me the minimum set of questions she was required to ask and left the floor open for any questions at the end
Tell me about yourself.
Give me an example of a time when you showed great resilience
Tell me about a time when you adapted to different situations
Tell me about a time when you had to convince someone
Why Ross
Why MBA
The interviewer was very chilled and didn't counter-question any of my responses.
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Ross Michigan
Full Time MBA
Final Decision:
Admitted
Status:
Off Campus with Alumni
Interviewed on:
4 years ago Apr 21, 2022
4 years ago Apr 21, 2022 07:04
The interview lasted for 70 minutes. The first 10 min was for the introduction. 45 min of behavioral questions and 15 min of time for me to ask questions where we discussed purpose-driven leadership
General Questions
1) Tell me about yourself
2) Why Mba
3) Why ross
Behavioral Questions (Tell me about a time)
1) Received negative feedback
2) Stopped manager from taking an unethical decision
3) lead a team older than you
4) worked with someone from an underprivileged background
5) greatest failure
6) greatest achievement
7) Motivated a non-performing colleague
8) Questioned status-quo
9) encountered a situation with limited or no knowledge
The last question was - what is one thing you want to change in the world?
The interview was fairly conversational.
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