MIT MBA Round 1 / Off-Campus (Europe) / Adcom (20 January 2009)
I met with a member of the adcom. He was perfectly friendly, and actually did not dig in to my answers as much as I was expecting. The questions I was asked were:
1. Tell me about yourself, what have you been doing in the last two years.
2. Tell me about something at work you have been proud of in the last year.
3. When were your expectation not met?
4. What do you do outside work?
5. Why do you want an MBA, why Sloan?
6. What do you wish I'd asked?
7. I'm meeting a lot of people today, what is going to make me remember you?
8. Any questions for me?
I would definitely recommend following some of the other advice on here of not just filling the silences. There were plenty as he was writing, but it didn't feel too awkward. I also agree with some of the comments on here that there is almost an air of disinterest from the interviewer, and he was VERY difficult to read to assess how it was going.
To prepare, I went through eight projects / stories I had, and matched each of them to a number of different categories of questions. I felt I had an answer for most of the stuff he asked. The "what do you wish I asked" one is tricky to decide what to talk about on the spot, but not too bad.
The interview was less than 45 minutes, probably about 35. |
