Met with the Kellogg alumni at his company in the bay area. He had booked a meeting room where we sat and he grilled me for an entire hour.
We started w/ why the MBA and why Kellogg.
Then he focused on my resume, and asked a lot of teamwork based questions.
- Who was involved on this project? (senior to you? junior to you?)
- How did you interact with them?
- What specific skills did other engineers bring to project X that you did not have? How did you select these engineers to join your team?
- Why was guy X hard to deal with? What did you do in the situation?
He also focused a lot on alumni involvement.
- How did you carry [your college] brand through college and beyond?
- Tie this in with how you’d do the same at Kellogg.
Goals/Career
- You seem to have a lot going for you now. Why do you want to give it all up?
- What other schools are you applying to? What would you do if you didn’t get into any of these schools? Would you give up?
- What would you gain from Kellogg and what would Kellogg gain from you?
He primarily focused on:
- Teamwork experience and how I deal with different types of people.
- The Kellogg alumni network. My interviewer was a Kellogg graduate of ’02.
- The mutual gain and contributions between me and Kellogg.
When I asked for feedback, he flat-out said, “Sorry, but I’m not allowed to give that information. Kellogg has a strict policy that this is a blind interview, and I was explicitly told not to give any feedback. I’m supposed to not care about your GMAT, gpa, or anything you put on the rest of your app. My role is to give Kellogg a candid view.”
