2009-2010年 U Of Rochester Simon MBA Interview 面试精华汇总

myice

1/16 Rochester Simon MBA面经
面试时间：2009年1月16日

问了我一堆问题，大部分都是边说边根据刚刚说的内容问的，单提出来有点脱离语境的说。。。

Would you briefly introduceyourself?
What did you do for the sales plan? (自我介绍的过程中提到的事情)
What was its biggest risk? How did you control it?
What is your concentration ofMBA? What do you want to do as your first job? How will you compete with those MSs?
Why you chose MBA program at Simon but not similar programs in Asia? (刚刚说我以后要回来)
How do you think to build team spirit?
What can you bring toSimon?
What do you expect from Simon?
What risks have you had in your life?
What do you think is the most important in accounting?
What is your weak point?
So tell me something about yourinterests
Your questions?

tianya

支持支持！！！

myice

2004年11月11日，Simon面试的体会
11月11日Simon面试的体会俺11日9点赶到广州中国大酒店，参加了simon的面试，这也是俺的第一次面试。大致过程如下：

简单地寒喧了两句，马上进入正题。首先她说，由于后面还有好些人等着面试，因此时间很紧凑，每人只有半小时的时间。

问题一：谈谈工作经历中最重要的几个方面和收获
问题二：为什么是现在申请MBA
问题三：为什么选择simon
问题四：谈谈对teamwork的认识，并举例说明
问题五：谈谈international experience，以及今后在美国如何应对international enviroment.

最后是提问时间。

个人体会：

1、由于面试地点就在酒店大堂，而且面试官是一位非常友善的中年女士，因此气氛很好，无压迫感，俺一点都不紧张。

2、如果可能，尽可能排在前面面试。俺估计是第一个面试，对方的精神很好。如何之前她已面试了好几个人，等到俺的时候，估计她的精神和情绪肯定不会和开始一样好了。

3、不要太担心自己的口语。俺的口语也很烂，但俺想，只要把话一个字一个字地说清楚，对方肯定能听懂。俺在交流中，很多话都是临时组织的，但俺的语速较慢，尽量说清楚，并没有追求所谓的流利和地道。在整个过程中，面试官没有说一个“excuse me",这表明她基本理解俺的意思。

4、尽量用具体的例子表达你的思想。俺用很细节的例子表明了俺的目标，对teamwork,对international experience以及工作中独到的体会，对此她表示很赞赏。

5、由于时间很紧，俺感觉很多话题说得并不充分。以致于俺问了三个问题后，她就表示时间到了。但这时俺表示还有好几个问题很想问，于是她又回答了一个问题。俺想，当她发现俺非常想了解学校具体信息时，应该很高兴吧。

6、尽可能表示自己对面试的渴望和重视。当俺告诉她俺是早上六点起床，驾车2个小时赶来，并且俺的妻子为了support俺，也陪俺来广州时，面试官表示很欣赏。

myice

interviewed with Mr. Lewin yesterday

normal qustion:
1) tell something about yourself: working experience, motive to apply for MBA
2) Why Simon
3) What's your strength  针对回答做了一些展开
4）Have u done any volunteer work in the USA  
5) time to ask question

did not ask me how to finance my study, so I had to asked her

Mr. Lewin蛮年轻的，看上去很干练，说话语速很快，问问题的时候很有针对性，不小心说漏嘴就会被抓住把柄一直问到底的感觉，幸好谈到simon finance的排名的时候很开心的笑了起来，缓解了我的紧张情绪，然后就开始瞎扯，好象说错话了 ：（

Good luck to eveybody!

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myice

I had an interview a couple of weeks ago.

what kind of team working expereince do you have?
What traits can you bring to Simon? Name two of them.
what are your long term and short term goals?
what questions do you have for Simon?
Best of luck.

myice

I consulted my friend who interview in U.S. Typical MBA questions:

- Why MBA? Why Now? Why Simon?
- Describe your teamwork experience.
- What do you do for fun?

Good luck eveyone!  

myice

Simon MBA Interview Experience (2007-1-17)
just finish my interview with Simon, the interviewer is Jaime Hobba, quite nice man. He has just come to Simon.

The questions were pretty normal, like

why now,
go through resume from college,
perticular company after graduation,
and weakness that's all.
He didn't mention anything like teamwork, leadership, even why simon. And he wanna make the interview become two-side coversation rather than one-side Q&A.

Even though the question list is limited, we still have talked for more than half hour. We talked much other than my candidacy evaluation, instead, we talked much about WTO, my English learning, my international exposure via daily working, also placement for international students after Simon and weather in Rochester, sort of things, just like small talk. On the whole, quite relaxed interview.

I have a question to discuss with you guys. I'd like to say Simon is a good finance school but due to its location, overall strength, and career service, is it worth trying? Jaime said I was likely to get some scholarship but not too much, a pity.

myice

Simon MBA Interview Experience (admitted)
很传统的问题

why mba?
why simon?
why choose this time?
W/E？
L/E？(Leadership experience)

myice

Simon MBA Interview Experience (2007-1-26)
Had a very intense telephone interview with Simon this morning. Lasted about 36 minutes.

Why MBA?
my academic experience with an overseas university.
Why Simon.
Difficult situations under team work context. give an example.
ethical issues encountered before. give an example.
weaknesses you have when you study at Simon.
questions for the school.
Hope this is helpful.  

Interview is not scaring at all.  Just be yourself.  Tell them a true you.  You'll be fine.  

Wish all you guys good luck.

I had interview with Ross last week.  Too normal questions.  Not as challenging as Simon's.  Well, after interview with Ross, I just felt very lost coz I don't know if I did it good or bad.  

With Simon, it's differnt experience.  I have a feeling I can get the admission from this school.  Simon gave me the chance to demonstrate my strengths with the tough questions.  Well, normal questions gave me impression that they don't wanna know more about me.

So, guys, easy questions don't tell anything; tough questions do.... It's actually a good thing to be bombarded with tough questions.

myice

Simon MBA Phone Inverview (2007-3-8)
hi all,

Just finished Simon. It's my first time telephone-interview, quite different feeling from that of the face to face one. Anyway, it's not bad and my interviewer is a very nice lady with beautiful voice.

My questions:

Tell me about your academic and professional experience.
Follow up questions like why you think you are a good fit for the education cause and etc.
Career goal, why MBA and why Simon
Share me your overseas experience.
Questions to ask
How to finance your tuition?
Other schools you applied and how's the status?
Would you like to add more additional infomation for candidacy?
Actually, I am quite surprised with the last three questions for i always think "questions to ask" should be normally the last question, hehe

Hope it helps.