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Profile of the Candidate
Academic : B.Tech – Production and Industrial Engineering
Work Ex : 5 years in Quality in MedTech Industry
Post MBA Goal : Marketing
Date of Interview : 30th October 2022
Location : Delhi
Questions asked:
- Tell me more about your current role at Stryker.
- A number of follow up questions on understanding the role in depth especially complaints, project management, my role in it.
- Asked about one instance mentioned in peer learning about cadaver workshop and how did i fill the knowledge gap I had mentioned.
- Why ISB?
- Why healthcare?
- Asked about stand up if still pursuing and if yes to perform my favourite gig. Favorite stand up comedian.
- Any questions for us?
Profile of the Candidate
Academic : BDS (Dentist)
Work Ex : 5 years in Clinical Dentistry
Post MBA Goal : Marketing
Interview : November 2022
Location : Kolkata
Questions asked
1 – Tell me something else apart from your SOP.
2 – Why you chose Dentistry?
3 – Why Mba?
4 – what are your short term goals?
5 – What about long term goal?
4 – Why ISB?
5 – Why not pursuing other healthcare management courses?
6 – How will you pay back the fees of college?
7 – What if not got placement from college?
8 – How will you manage the family, clinic etc
9 – Elaborate long term goal and discussed on that.
Profile of the Candidate
Academic : B.Tech
Work Ex : 7 years in Sales in Top Startups
Post MBA Goal : Marketing
Interview : December 2023
Location : Kolkata
Questions asked
- Tell us about your yourself and your motivation to be here today.
- Why do you think MBA will be beneficial to you? What are you trying to achieve?
- Walk us through your role in your organization.
- Tell us more about how you designed the GTM strategy for the NA market?
- What does your company do?
- How does your organization ensure competitive advantage?
- Who are your biggest threats? How will you ensure they don’t eat into the company’s business in the near future?
- What are the metrics on which you measure your team’s success?
- Why do you put so much efforts into social service? What’s the motivation?
- Give 3 reasons why you shouldn’t do MBA from ISB?
- Any questions for us?
Profile of the Candidate
Academic : B.Tech
Work Ex : 2 years Operations in Oil & Gas + Market Research
Post MBA Goal : Consulting
Interview : January 2023
Location : Delhi
- Why ISB
- Tell me in about your work at jindal steel and how u managed team of 5 ?
- What is this official Humans of Queer tell me in detail?
- Which activies you are planning to do at spectrum club and how official humans of queer come in picture?
- How u establish contact with queer leaders ?
- What u have learned from trekking ?
- Why mba and how will u contribute to ISB ?
- Why u changed job from manager to single contributor ?
- What is your 5 yrs plan for official humans of queer ?
Profile of the Candidate
Academic : B.Tech
Work Ex : 3 years Software Engineering in Amazon
Post MBA Goal : Product Management
Interview : January 2023
Location : Bangalore
Questions asked:
1> introduce
2>why amazon music is not doing well
3>competition for amazon music
4>how do you think amazon can convert its retail customers to music ( more depth questions)
5>any product feature you like apart from Amazon (replied normal app features to which they said its not a product feature)
6>long term goal(solid reply they were convinced)
7>hobbies
8>non professional achievements
Profile of the Candidate
Academic : B.Tech in Civil Engineering
Work Ex : 5 years in HPCL
Post MBA Goal : Consulting
Interview : 7 January 2023
Location : Bangalore
Questions asked:
We have gone through your essays , can you tell us the highlights that you want to convey?
You’ve written that you’ve organized various sports events at college and at hpcl. Were they ongoing events or did you introduce them. Did you face any friction in organising these events?
How do you evaluate the development in real estate sector in urban cities
(answered, didnt look convinced)
I asked about the residential aspect of it.
Do you think it varies from city to city. Why?
You told about the PhII project. What is the biggest challenge that you faced in the project.
I see you’ve written about strategy consulting. Suppose you’re asked that the user engagement for instagram is declining. How would you go about it?
answered, didn’t look convinced
You talked about identifying the cause and algorithms, consumer preferences,reels. Lets say everything is same and we keep it the same. How would you go about it?
(talked about looking at the market overall and trends with the competitor platforms to gain some insights, would also think in lines of collaborating with new smaller platforms which are gaining a lot of engagement, etc.)
No, lets just say there’s no new competitor. Basically everything is same. Lets say engagement is declining for all the platforms. But you have to 2x it still.
(talked about market research and taking on overall perspective on trend and end consumer preferences, etc.)
What kind of market research would you do?
(answered)
Tell me what are the possible reasons for decrease in the engagement.
(answered. also talked about policy reforms etc.)
Thanks Aditya! Do you have any questions for us?
Profile of the Candidate
Academic : B.Tech
Work Ex : 8+ years in Public Sector Banking
Post MBA Goal : Public Policy Consulting
Interview : January 2023
Location : Mumbai
Questions asked:
- What are your present responsibilities on current role?
- Why do you want to do PGP?
- Why consulting? Why public policy consulting?
- What kind of public policy implementation you have done? Any examples?
- What if you don’t get the role you are looking for?
- Any other interests apart from professional interests?
- Recite a poem that you have written
- Apart from the placements, where will ISB help you?
- You have told what ISB will do for you, how will you contribute to the ISB apart from your learnings from professional experience?
- Which sectors do you track? How do you keep track of developments in the banking sector?
- How is Indian financial doing and what’s the outlook for the future?
- Any questions for us- Asked if you get a chance to relive 1 year at ISB, how will you do it differently?
Profile of the Candidate
Academic : BDS (Dentist)
Work Ex : 4+ years as SBI PO
Post MBA Goal : Venture Capital
Interview : 7 January 2023
Location : Hyderabad
Questions Asked
1. Your profile is very diverse and different. Tell us more about your career.
2. What exactly is your role?
3. How did the revised MSME classification affect your role?
4. What are the challenges start-ups face with banks?
5. What kind of skills do you have to fit in as a VC?
6. How do you identify companies that you want to invest in? What are your criteria?
7. Why VC and why particularly healthcare?
8. Why are banks unable to help entrepreneurs? What deficiencies have you identified in terms of regular banking finance?
9. If you identified a company for funding and your team members are against it, what do you do in such cases?
10. Tell us about a significant event in your life, something that you are proud of. What did you learn from that experience?
11. Let’s assume that you can’t get into VC. What will you do?
12. There are not many investment firms that hire from ISB. What is your plan B?
13. What do you do besides your work/academics?
14. Tell us about one great travel experience.
15. You mentioned you have done some community service doing COVID. Can you tell us about it?
16. What will you bring to the table at ISB?
17. Do you have any questions for us?
Profile of the Candidate
Academic : B.Tech
Work Ex :- 3+ years in Software Development
Post MBA Goal : Product Management
Interview : January 2023
Location : Bangalore
Questions Asked
- Tell me about yourself
- Asked me about an award.
- Asked me about why I had not applied some other way I didn’t know about to achieve the efficiency gain in the project I had applied in the application.
- Why product management?
- Which industry are you interested in?
- Asked me to solve a case study on coursera on paper –
3 pain points, solutions, market who would be impacted, financial aspect
Asked lots of follow up questions - Why do you write blogs and podcast?
- Why did you move from blogging to podcasting?
- 1 time when you made some mistake/challenge at your current job
- How do you handle prioritization since prod management is all about prioritization?
- Which parameters do you look at to decide prioritization?
- Any questions for us
Profile of the Candidate
Academic : B.Tech
Work Ex :- 2+ years in Boutique Energy Consulting
Post MBA Goal : Management Consulting
Interview : January 2023
Location : Bangalore
Questions Asked:
- You have written in your essay ” keep ethos of stakeholder capitalism in check” what do you have against capitalism?
- Give us a brief background about yourself
- You have written asset optimization, tell us how did you perform asset optimization
- Tell us about the hackathon you participated, give brief background what the hackathon was about, your contribution etc
- Coming from a niche background, what do you want to gain at isb?
- How will you add value to the peer group?
- Why consulting? Do you have a time frame till what point consulting, till what point corporate strategy?
- What clubs of isb are you interested in?
- How do you deal with clients from different backgrounds? What is your approach?
- And a few more deep dive into work questions + some questions on future plans, like which consulting firm are you aiming for at isb
- Best piece of appreciation you have gotten from your manager/friends
- How do you handle clients coming from different backgrounds and work cultures at the same time, how do you make that switch?
- Given you come from a very niche background, how will you transfer the knowledge you have to your peers? Do you have a plan in mind? Would you take sessions/ start a new club
Profile of the Candidate
Academic : Bachelors in Statistics
Work Ex :- 6+ years in Aviation and Transport Consulting
Post MBA Goal : Management Consulting
Interview : January 2023
Location : Delhi
Questions Asked
1.) Tell me about yourself
2.) What went wrong last time
3.) Why mba, when already into consulting
4.) Enoug of professional stuff, tell me how will you add to the ISB cohort
5.) 5 years what do you see yourself doing.
Told about plans , little cross questioning
6.) Anything else which will help evaluate your profile better
7.) Any questions for us
Profile of the Candidate
Academic : CA, CFA
Work Ex :- 2+ years in Equity Research
Post MBA Goal : Investment Banking
Interview : January 2023
Location : Mumbai
ell us about yourself
How transaction of players in MBA is different from transactions in IPL
Tell us about any recent trade that happened in NBA
Why ISB how ISB will help you in your aim to become investment banker
Three strengthens
Three personal weakness .
How ISB will helping overcoming those weaknesses
Challenging situation faced in whether personal life or professional life
Your president of finance club you have an activity in mind tell me how will you go about conducting it explain all steps which you would do and also how will you react if any of the other club members disagree with you
There are 4members and three have went on a leave and you are the only one and you have to complete a report and you have a deadline also how will you go about doing that
Will you complain about them
Will you see can you external help
Tell me what you have mentioned in the first essay
One essay story related question
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