Round-1 2008-09 Chennai Interview Experience - 1

Hai Friends, I have come back after a long time.

Best of luck to all those who are preparing for applying in Round-1 for the academic year 2009-10 for doing PGPM in ISB (Class of 2010). The admission process will start most probably from July 01, 2008. This year, many more candidates will be interested in ISB. Why so? Because now ISB is rated as No. 20 in the Financial Times' Global Fulltime MBA Rankings 2008. So, start early, prepare well and get it.

In this regard, I am again giving a series of actual interview experiences of candidates appeared in Round-1 last year i.e. 2007-08. Here is the first one. The names are not given to protect the privacy of the candidates.

Profile :-

Sex: Male

Age: 31

Educational Background: Finance( Banking),

GMAT- 710,

Work Exp- 13 yrs.

Place of Interview: Chennai.

The panel consisted of 3 men. His short essay (100 words this time) was on `progress'. Some questions asked were :-

1. what did you learn at company x and company y

2. tell us one event which u recollect a lot when you think about your job at company x

3. similar question about company y

4. questions bout my team and work at company y (discussions about this went on for about 10 mins)

5. How did you come to know about the ISB

6. Why MBA? Why ISB?

7. tell us three things that you expect from the ISB?

8. where do you portray yourself after 1 year at ISB?

9. how do you feel about surviving 360 days sleeping less than 4 hrs per day?

10. One case study - regarding financing an existing client company whose promoter dies and the legal heirs struggle to run the company profitably

11. Tell us about your family

12. Do you have a network which you can look up to incase the campus placements do not offer you the renumeration that you deserve for a senior profile (its seems people with work exp above 8 years are called 'senior profiles')

13. Do you have anything to ask from us? (i had a few things in mind, but strangely i said no).