myice

Onsite interview with Smith, Maryland

Thanks for this website, I couldn't prepare myself better without it. So here I am, sharing me experience and I hope it could help others at needs.

There is no small talks in the beginning either, the first question: what do you like and dislike about your job? ( I was prepared for some small talk first, I guess I was too relaxed about things. )

Standard questions:

Why Smith?

What do you see yourself in 10 years?

If you has to pick one strength that makes Smith accept you, what is going to be?


Almost 90% of the question are team or leadership based. I ran out of examples after two questions, so I recommendated everyone try to prepare teamwork questions as many as possble.

How do you solve conflict in teams?  

Example about how you influence a team?

What is your leadership style?

what do you consider your biggest accomplishment?

Tough questions: an example when you ask feedback from someone

If you have to fire someone, would you do it? How would you make that decision?


Overall, I think I did a 6 of out 10. I showed him that I did a lot of research about the school, but I felt that I did pretty aweful in some of the team questions because running out of examples. There is really no suprised question, so my advice to everyone is: know your story and practise, practise, practise!

Eventually I got the offer from the school and one year scholarship just a couple of days ago.

myice

U of Maryland (UMD) Smith MBA SKype面试

这应该是我2010申请的最后一个面试了，今天早上3点钟。
面试官是一个mm,大概是华人，挺pp的。
问题很多，我觉得我很多答得不好的。基本无互动，就是我不停地说，她不停地记。一共大概不到50分钟，我口干舌燥的，也不敢喝水（她一直在喝）。好累啊！
中间连接很不好，大概重连了两三次，不过一直不清楚。后来我还特意放慢速度，而且加大音量（更累了）。我面之前还想呢，半夜3点，应该网速很好。没想到很差，比上次跟Pitt U晚上10点还差。真奇怪，不知道是不是很多人在下载。

大概一共问了我10多个问题吧。
1. short-term & long-term goal
2. why mba, why now, why Smith
3. what you can contribute to smith school
4. give an example about how you dealt with a difficult person
5. give an example of getting feedbacks from others...why did you choose that person
6. how do you encourage your team
7. what would you do if you have a team member who is not contributing (就是有人偷懒啊什么的不干活怎么办)
8. give an example when you persist on sth, when you had failures/setback at first and finally succeeded
9. give an example when you did not have resources to achieve your goal
10. how do you handle conflicts
11. what resources you want to use in Smith school, such as clubs
轮到我问问题的时候我已经没有力气了。就随便问了一两个。
然后她就很nice地说不早了，你也该睡会儿了。然后留了个email,还说keep in touch.
不过我后来就睡不着了，失眠了，一直躺到天亮。

之前看面经说Smith的面试官面之前是看过资料的。不过关于我的，几乎就是blind.完全没有问简历或者essay上的任何问题。大概是在没什么值得问的了吧

myice

U of maryland MBA面经(3/28)

1.why mba
2.why smith
3.job responsibility
4.leadership style
5.goal
6.scale of my company
7.criteria of chosing different MBA programs and which other programs...
8.deal with difficult person
9.what can U contribute to the community
10. pinnade of career (biggest achievement)
11.Q

时间45分钟。悲剧了4次以后，最近终于开始收获。所以胜利总在坚持之后。祝所有大家都能如愿以偿。

myice

迟来的Maryland Smith MBA面经 (3/11) + Skype面试一点体会

3月11号晚上11点skype面的，面试人是Suzanne Ashour，associate director。
问题比较多。我回答的时候，她一直在记笔记，但时不时会看看我的表情。

以下是面试的问题：

why smith（没问why mba）
short- and long-term goal（这里还特别问我毕业后如果在美国找不到工作，是不是愿意回国。我当然说愿意啦，她听完感觉很满意的样子。。。）
what can you contribute to smith?
how do you handle conflicts
give an example that how you dealt with a tough person in your team?
give an example that how you got feedback from others, why chose that person?
leadership experience
how did you learn from a failure?
give an example when you did not have enough resources to achieve your goal?
is there anything else you want to share with me?
Q&A
个人经验：

经历了3次skype面试，我基本上都是看着电脑屏幕回答问题的。尽量保持一个轻松，自信的状态，即使面试官和我没有什么互动，我也会尽力把自己的故事讲的生动一些，并且辅助一些面部表情的变化，呵呵。

祝后面的申请人都能拿到满意的offer！