I saved this so I could at least give a definitive answer as to whether I got in or not. I was fortunate enough to be admitted today (ahh!!) and promised to update this. I interviewed back in mid-November, on-campus. I did a student lunch prior, which was pretty fun. My interview was definitely of the “stress-free” variety and I actually enjoyed talking to my interviewer; she was really sweet and pretty conversational, which I found interesting. I left wanting to grab coffee or dinner with her. The 30 minutes goes by really fast so just be aware. I didn’t feel flustered at all — the interviewers are actually really nice and know it’s a stressful situation, regardless. In any case, here are the questions that I received:
- Pretend i haven’t read your resume, tell me about yourself.
- Why X college? What was your most memorable experience there?
- Pretend I’m from TFA and I sit next to you in class. Tell me about what your firm does. (3 or 4 follow up questions)
- Tell me about your role as an associate – what do you do everyday?
- What’s a good day?
- What’s a bad day?
- What is your biggest strength? Biggest weakness?
- Talked about my volunteer about. She actually commented that she saw a lot of people from my volunteer org so it was interesting. Why did you join X volunteer org? How do you get people to join? How do you vet them? What do you do with volunteers who are not performing?
- Small talk about some alumni stuff I’m involved in. What is your favorite question to ask as an alumni interviewer?
- You mentioned that you had some really great mentors. Tell me about one.
- What do you do for fun? (i mentioned yoga and tv). What tv shows are you currently watching? Can you recommend one?
- HBS orchestra question – if you were an instrument, what would you be?
- How do you think you have you changed?
- anything you would’ve liked me to ask you? (I went with the ol’ Why Case Study route. I had a pretty compelling answer because I sat in a great class earlier that day but I think it was too standard.)
