I had an interview in March 2010 and it took 3 hours, out of which 30-40 minutes were devoted to my questions.
The questions I was asked are as follows (as far as I remember):
Related to school, career:
- Why LBS?
- Why MBA?
- Imagine world without an MBA. What would you do? (I understood as what I would do to achieve my professional goals?) If you can achieve your goals without an MBA why do you want to get an MBA?
- How would you contribute to your study group at LBS from professional point of view?
- What will be your personal development after arriving at LBS?
- Imagine that some people in your study group are not contributing enough and your talk to them didn’t help. What would you do next? How would you handle it? How would you feel?
- Walk me through your resume
- What would you do after an MBA? Location, company, industry, position.
- Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
Related to leadership, achievement, behavior:
- Are you a leader? Why so?
- What is the difference between a born leader and a manager? Who do you admire as a leader?
- What characteristics should a successful business leader have?
- Leadership experience. Resolving conflicting situation. 2 examples.
- What is your most significant achievement?
- What is the toughest decision you made in your life?
- What are your strong points?
- What are your weaknesses from the point of your friend? Do you agree with him/her? What other weaknesses do you have?
- What are the key things for success? Or what is success for you?
- What do you think are the development areas in your communication skills? How do you plan to improve them? (This was asked after a 5-minute presentation)
General questions:
- What would you do if you had $10 million?
- What would you do if you had unlimited money?
- What is going wrong in the world today? Why? What should be done about it?
- How financial crisis happened?
