The following Stanford GSB interview questions and report were submitted to Clear Admit by a Round 2 applicant. Good luck to them!
Interviewer was a really nice guy. He started by giving a lot of details around his history, experience, education, and activities (basically a blow-out of his LinkedIn). Overall the structure was broader question with drill-down questions. He really emphasized that he was looking for very specific examples.
Questions he asked me:
- Talk about a time you identified an opportunity no one else had recognized yet? (Standard GSB question, I talked about a specific org I started)
- Follow-up: How did you grow the organization that you built?
- When is a time you stepped beyond your immediate responsibilities?
- Follow-up: What would have happened if you didn’t do anything about it?
- Follow-up: What were some blocking issues you ran into when dealing with this issue? How did you resolve them?
- Follow-up: What was your immediate role?
- Talk about a time you didn’t get along with someone
- Follow-up: What did you do to remedy the situation?
Questions I asked him:
- What were your highlights from GSB (1) around classes (2) people (3) others?
- Follow-up: Specifics about classes
- Follow-up: Specifics around regrets/other highlights
- Asked about a specific hobby he is currently really involved in that I was interested in as well
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