Round-1 2008-09 Delhi Interview Experience - 4

The following is the experience of a male candidate whose interview was held on Novemer 02, 2007 at Delhi.

It was not ususal 'why mba' or 'why ISB' stuff. there were only two members in my panel. one was ISB Alumni and other i think (a lady) from the admission comm.

1. they mostly stressed on the job i had done.
2. they wanted to know all abt what i had written in my application. spl. my achievements as to them my achievements seem quite 'wonderful'. so nearly 15 min. were spend on this only.
3. they also asked me abt my short term career plan and how will i use the things i learnt from my present job.
4. they also inquired whether i have done something 'inspirational' ... and this was a bouncer for me. anyway i somehow responded (how well i don't know !!).
5. they asked me abt my failures but contrary to my expectations they didn't ask me 'what i learnt from them'.
6. then finally they asked me abt anything that i would like them to ask from me. to which i showed them something on my extra-curricular (trekking). as they never asked me anything except my job so i wanted to show them something on my extra-curriculars also. i don't know whether it was right or wrong?
7. finally they asked me if i have any questions for them. i asked them abt the things they are looking in an individual for this prog. spl. regarding long term career goal. whether one shld have concrete plan. but i also mentioned that i think over a period of one year (if one is selected) there will be tremendous change in personality, perspective etc. etc. hence after that one will be in a better position to have some concrete plan to which they responded in affirmative. it was more like a discussion. they explained me this in detail. this was what i can recall (hopefull 90 %).

i don't know whether this can be termed as good or bad but i came out satisfied.

Round-1 2008-09 Delhi Interview Experience - 3

The following is the extarct of interview experience of male candidate.

Location: Delhi; Date: 1-Nov-07 ;

Panel# 2 (3 people, don't remember the names)

Profile:

GMAT 700,

Experience: 4+ years in IT

Questions

1. Explain your current role. >> I told abt the same.

2. Are you happy in ur current job?>> I said "Yes"

3. Then Why ISB?

4. Something abt Table Tennis (was in my application)

5. 2 Incidents where I handled a difficult situationand came out successfully and one where I messed upthings.

6. A question on the million dollar essay.

Then my turn to ask questions. All in all, a not bad type of interview, where one cannot make out anything.

Round-1 2008-09 Delhi Interview Experience - 2

The following is the experience of a lady candidate on 30th October, 2007

Profile:

GMAT-770,

Experience: 2.5 years IT with 1.5 years as a developer and 1 year in Business Development

Extra curricular – Good

Essay topic - Doctor

The Panel consisted of a lady and a Gentleman The first question was why I had shifted to a different profile (from Software Development to Business development) and how the nature of work is different.

How have I contributed to the business development initiatives given my software development background?

Discussion about my extra curriculars, how I contribute to the in-house newsletter), name of the newsletter, what I am writing for the current issue (I am on the editorial team). Here I talked about the company initiative I am a part of wherein we go and teach in a Govt. school twice a week. (Article that I will be including in the next issue)

Something about my Toastmasters experience that I had mentioned in my application.

Something about the award I had received in my Company.

My fav cuisine (mentioned food in my app)

Fav author – Salman Rushdie – What I like about him (from app)

Post MBA plans?

What other profession would I have been involved in, no strings attached – Answered that I would have liked to be a writer ;-)I guess by this time they had run out of questions…..

so they asked me whether there was anything that I had prepared for and would want them to ask about - Replied No- The lesser the questions the better, and also something about how I would not like to sound clichéd and prepared to the regular questions.Then I got to ask them a couple of questions.All in all I'd say a very maneuverable interview. The kinds that makes you feel you did O.K. because it's all about stuff you know, however this would be the case with everybody….Just keeping my fingers crossed.

Round-1 2008-09 Delhi Interview Experience - 1

The following is the experience of a candidate whose interview was on October 30, 2007 at Delhi

Profile:

Sex: Female

Age: 24

GAMT: 730/5.0

Experience: 2.5 yrs Consulting experience

The interview panel consisted of 2 ppl...ISB dean and one other professor whose name she does not remember now

My interview went nothing like i expected or i had prepared for...no "why MBA" or "Why ISB" stuffthey kept discussing about my job...i have an experience of working with the Govt. of India...so they kept asking me about how do I handle them and how do I convince them etc. etc...it was a short 20 mins affair...they asked a little bit about my hobbies and dts iti believe its pretty different from the experiences what ppl have posted...but whtever i gathered from the scene was that the dean was interviewing ppl only about their jobs....n no general stuff so i wud suggest that be really confident of ur job stuff and everything related to that wtever u've written in the application or ur experiences etc...

Delhi Interview Experience - 2

This is the interview experience of an R-1 applicant who was admitted into ISB for Class of 2008. His interview was scheduled on 19th nov in Delhi.

His profile:

GMAT 710,
Work Exp: 3.5 in Semiconductor and Embedded Design Industry
Extra curriculars: Theatre, Press club, NGO experience.

Here it goes

"I was asked to write an essay on "Socialism", just before the interview.
Interview started right on time. There were three people in the panel,including one lady. Interview started with general introduction. Overall the panel was very courteous and the interview was like a casual interaction.

Here are the questions I got in my interview.

- How did you manage to get a good score in 12th and admission into BITS pilani.
- Tell us about your family
- Next question came from lady, regarding my extracurriculars (I had mentioned about theatre in BITS)
- what kind of plays you did?
- Names and authers of the plays.
- What kind of roles did you play? (I told them that I mainly played negative roles,)
- A favourite dilogue from any play (This was my strong point. I actually
got up from my seat and performed a five minute solo sequence from one of the plays. I played a negative role of a nazi officer torturing a victim!
I actually couldnt believe that I was doing it right in front of intv panel ;-) )
- So, why didnt you join movies after BITS?
- After this started the work related questions.
- Tell us what kind of role do you play at work?
- Tell us what factors do you take into consideration while planning a project.
- They asked me abt a project, which I had mentioned among the achievements in my resume.
- CEO of ST, my present company, On which stock exchanges is it listed, How
many fabs it has etc.
- Why do you want to join Google after your MBA? (I had written Google as my
dream job)
- The way Google is growing, some people think it will eventually kill Microsoft. What is your stand on this?
- Then they asked me if I had any questions. I asked them about any courses or initiatives at ISB focussing on technology management, I aslo asked them a question regarding the 'centre for IT and Network economy'.

Overall the interview was good. I think, you should be thorough about what
you write in your resume and essays.
Just be confident and yourself and you will be through!!"

He hopes that his interview experience will be of some use to the people targeting ISB.

All the best to R-2 Applicants