Having been in pittsburgh for over 5 months, I decided to intiate my interivew after submitting the app. I had visited the school before and found the place to be pretty exciting with a lot of talented students. My interview was at 12:00 PM and I drove straight after an office meeting. I was scheduled to interview with Devin Bownes. After meeting her, I realized that I had met her during my previous visit and conveyed the same. I also met Mr. Linwood Harris, who recognized me and wished me luck.
So the interview started in a casual manner and Devin asked me to walk her through my resume and said she would be taking notes and I shouldn’t feel uncomfortable with it.
I started with my college experiences and spoke about the lead roles I played at couple of clubs. Then I spoke about my career and she wanted to know about Leadership experiences in my job. She was rapidly taking a lot of notes. After a couple of mins, she wanted to know if I had handled a tough situation at work and how I solved the problem. After an example, she wanted to if I failed as a team member and what are my learnings from it and how I contributed towards helping the team regroup. She was appreciative of how I realized that communication was the problem and worked towards establishing a proper communication channel.
Then we started talking about my career goals and what brought me to Tepper. I spoke about the community, the pro bono consulting projects, the information sessions I attended on campus, their teaching methodology emphasizing on a mathematical approach to an MBA and how it would help me in a conuslting career. I also spoke about the strong community, city of pittsburgh and how I can see myself staying there in the near future.
Finally, she wanted to know about my community leadership (present on my resume) and what is my role.
we later talked a little about her association with Tepper. we also spoke about steelers and penguins and how I am unable to get a ticket to one of those games. She told me that my interview was completed and she has a lot of information which she would use to prepare a report.
After I reached office, I sent her a mail thanking her for her time and highlighting a few points we discussed. She replied a couple of days later. I hope it is a +ve sign.
Hope this helps.
