LBS MBA面经汇总2021-2022

myice

The interview was application-based, very conversational, and lasted for about 1.5 hours. It was conducted virtually via Zoom by an alumnus based in my country. The experience was enjoyable as the conversation felt natural and amicable. They emphasised that the interview is merely a part of the process and not a decisive factor in the final decision. They told me of past examples when applicants they enjoyed interviewing weren’t accepted, while applicants they thought were “mediocre at best” were admitted. They believe the interviews aren’t playing a unique role compared to other elements of the application.

The interviewer was intelligent, open, direct, friendly, and practical. There were some random questions that I neither expected nor experienced in other interviews, but I tried handling them well. They were very intrigued by my story and profile, primarily due to my non-traditional and versatile professional background, activism, interests, the international academic institutions I attended, and modest upbringing. They read my application very thoroughly and mentioned parts of it during the conversation.

The interviewer asked me the following questions in approximately this order:
1. Walk me through your resume – Follow up – now summarise your resume in one minute instead of three.
2. Questions about my professional experience – some specific questions such as “what does a typical day look like?”, “what do the projects you lead and manage entail?”, “how do you manage your reportees?”
3. Questions about my upbringing, international experiences, academic background.
4. Post-MBA plans.
5. Why, LBS? Given your background and goals, why are you applying to an MBA and not a different degree?
6. Academics & student-life at LBS
7. Some very typical and straight-forward behavioural questions about working in and leading teams and some random thought-provoking questions.
8. More fit questions.
9. A case question (which was very enjoyable) – 5 minutes to prepare (ended up being 7), 5 minutes to present.
10. Which other schools did you apply to? Why is LBS your top priority? They were impressed by the number of people I talked to, clubs I connected with, events I attended, and generally by my engagement with the school over the past few months.
11. Any questions for me (I had time to ask three questions) – this part was my favourite part.

I sent them a thank-you note following the interview, and they offered to connect.

I hope this is helpful, and I wish you all good luck with your coming interview!

beatme

many thanks!

benflower

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zcjason

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myice

1 月上旬交的 R2 申请，2 月 interview invite day 收到了邀请，然后 match 到了在我工作国家的当地校友，校友 MBA 之前在 Bulge Bracket IDB 做跨境并购业务，MBA 之后回本国做 PE 了。 因为 2 月刚从国内休假回去，按当地要求要隔离了 14 天，就约了 Skype 面试，全程大概 2 小时（为了保证质量开的 4G 热点，挂了之后发现流量包当时没订够，手机收到了 50 多条流量包自动续订短信……话费惊人），聊起来基本还是很愉快的，没有那么正襟危坐。

开头对方介绍了一下面试流程，然后表示已经完全看过了我完整的 application profile, 所以不需要再自我介绍了，直接进入问题。

Part A. Interview

Describe your daily work.
How did you manage to interact with your supervisors, peers and junior colleagues?
Success experience.
Failure experience.
Leadership experience.
Industry insights, 可以看出的确看过网申全部材料的，网申表里填的公司介绍和个人职责都已经了解了，直接开始问行业前景，公司发展未来，公司业务的挑战，etc. 这部分可能花了大概半小时吧，因为校友是投消费行业的，我是做基建融资的，聊到后来发现我俩都认同很多中国大规模基建激活了很多域内国家经济发展，电力、交通改善让很多农村人进入城市外资工厂转化为产业工人，以后应该会有很多机会云云
Why MBA, why now, why LBS?
Career goal, long-term and short term.
What preparations have you done to facilitate this career swtich?
What is your Plan B if the MBA path for career swtich didn't work out?
What are your thoughts for applying to both XXX and LBS, and which one would you choose if you get admitted to both?
Any questions for me 这块聊了大概 20 分钟吧，主要是问 LBS 的一些生活体验，伦敦好玩的地方，上学期间的奇闻轶事等等。
Part B 是一个比较独特的 case interview

这里涉及隐私我就不分享具体题目了，大概形式是 5 分钟读题 + 准备，5 分钟 presentation.这块事前还有一些担心，面完了发现其实很简单，就是给定一个商业环境下的假设场景，然后对某一个问题进行评价给出理由。更多类似于即兴演讲，不会像咨询公司那样有计算分析的过程，感觉只要逻辑清晰、框架严密即可。

Presentation 结束后校友还追问了 2 个问题，算是小小的 challenge 了一下其中一个点考虑不足的地方。然后简单交流了一下。

到此面试就结束了，结束以后又东拉西扯聊了一会儿，有职业发展的一些情况，还有一些上学期间去旅游的见闻，以及 LBS 校友资源的情况。

希望能对大家有所帮助！

myice

LBS- 90 min： Interview with Alumni （not blind）

面试官的背景和我在文书里面写的 career path 一样，并且竟然跟我有相似的 BG，也就是说 LBS 是根据我的背景给我找到了一个转型成功的 alumni 来面试我，整个 package 全看过，面试不是 standard，几乎是纯聊天的形式，只问了几个 standard 的问题，之后全是随机问题，因为我在 LBS career goal 里面是要转型 VC 的，所有问了很多有关行业相关的内容。

自我介绍。
Follow up question 根据自我介绍问了很多转型的原因。
Short-term long-term goal and Why?
直接说 VC 这个行业特殊性，问在中国有没有人脉？
然后问了一些国内目目前主流 LP 都是谁，对中国很感兴趣，我也介绍了一些现在国内比较火的创业内容形式，之后都是随意聊天了。

Case - 题目就不能透漏了，但是主要是考察你解决问题的思路和逻辑，回答的时候合理即可。

myice

刚面完LBS 的alumni面试，一直以来都在看大家的面经，觉得自己也要回馈一下，攒人品。

面试前我问了很多LBS毕业的人的面试经验，有些人说不用准备，有些人说最好准备好7-8个cases。当时我还想要不要找中介mock一下。

最后因为正好这段时间工作巨无敌忙，mock也没有，cases也是整理一下没用的LoR里的例子就准备面试了。因为Alumni是zoom面，给我邮件以后立马就约几天后面试。

Alumni是个02年毕业当了面试官好多年的nice老头，去过世界很多地方，问的问题也非常随意，大概面试时长在1个小时左右。

问题包括：
1. introduce yourself
2. why MBA
3. why LBS compare to CBS and other MBA program?
4. can you describe a poor leadership example? (dig more when i answered)
5. tell me a funny movie that you like (coz my cv mentioned i like watching comedy)
6. one presentation (我抽到的是传统银行要不要join一个fintech program）
7. ask me any question if you want

结果准备的case一个都没用上，因为alumni已经看过我的application package对我挺了解了，所有其实他也没有问啥我个人的问题不过正好我也没怎么准备，真的就是聊聊天的感觉。

如果大家也正在面or已经面完，wish we all good luck！！

补充：presentation面试官好像有个list然后他挑一个让你present。2min准备，2-5分钟present，可以预先准备好纸笔。不过我感觉我的面试官没有在计时，我讲完就完了。

myice

My interview was at the alumnus’ office. It started by breaking the ice and talking about the current situation in our city, and then the interview started with a classical tell me about yourself. After, the alumnus had a list of questions she started asking and checking after responded. The questions were quite typical of a job interview and what you can find in online forums, but some interesting ones were to tell her about a challenging time while working on a team, what do I think is an issue in business that is not being addressed, and what would my friends say to describe me.

Then came the candidate presentation regarding a topic, where the interviewer gave me 5 minutes to prepare and then 5 minutes to present my ideas, it is not a difficult case.

In the end, there was time for me to ask all the questions I had. I would say the interview was always really empathic and quite an enjoyable experience, so don’t come with fear and just relax and be yourself. Now I have to wait for the admissions team’s decision, but overall my experience applying to LBS was very positive.

myice

Background: The LBS adcom spends a lot of time (sometimes upto two weeks) to match you to an alumnus in your preferred location and usually s/he is in a field similar to yours. My interviewer was a recent graduate (2018) and was back in India to head her family business. I was requested to meet at her home office. She had already gone through my entire application and had certain portions highlighted to delve deeper into.

Introductory questions:
Walk me through your resume.
Why LBS?
Why MBA?
Why MBA now?
If not MBA, then what?
Why UK instead of US?
Where else have you applied and why?
What are your short term and long term goals? Why?

Behavioral questions:
Tell me about a time you failed at being a leader. What would you have done differently? What did you learn?
Tell me about a time you had the opportunity to work with people of diverse nationalities/cultures. What did you learn and how will it be useful in your future career?
Who do you admire the most and why?
What are your biggest weaknesses? What steps have you taken to address them?

About my job:
What does a typical day look like?
What will you like to change about your job?
What do you like the most about your job?
How would your colleagues describe you?

About LBS:
Which clubs will you join?
What is something special you will bring to your study group?
What perspective will you bring to discussions in class?
Which classes are you looking forward to?

Case study:
She read out a case study and had a timer on for 5mins for me to work on this (she headed out of the room during this time). I was given another 5mins to present my solution to the case. The case was around challenges faced by a major bank.

Endnote:
She asked if I had any questions for her.

The entire interview lasted for one and a half hours. It was moderately relaxed but she did cross-question a lot. Hoping for the best!

myice

My LBS interview took place at Starbucks with an alumnus. He is working in the VC/PE space and
I have worked in startups, so I think that was a common link. Interview was very casual and conversational.

It started with introduction:
– Schooling & family
– College activities, internships
– Work experiences

After introduction he asked the below questions:
– Goals
– Why MBA?
– Why LBS? Why not U.S. or Indian schools?
– Geography preferences post-MBA

The above 2 parts were completed in 30 minutes. Surprisingly, he didn’t ask any behavioural questions such as “tell me a time when you lead a team” etc.

The next part was case study. He provided the case question and gave me 5 minutes to prepare. After that, I verbally presented my thoughts on the same. There were no follow up questions. In the end, I asked a few questions about his experience. The entire interview went for 1 hour.