My interview was with an admissions officer and a student observer. The interview lasted 45 minutes. The interviewer really drilled down into almost every aspect of my resume including individual line items on my resume. It was not very conversational at all, more of an interrogation than an interview. I personally found it to be somewhat uncomfortable to be interviewing with the adcom while the student just sat there taking notes. Very formal compared to other interviews I’ve done.
The standard questions: Walk me through resume? Why MBA? Why Yale? Why now? She drilled into my resume including individual lines. I’m an entrepreneur. She asked me how many clients I had, she asked me about a line on my resume where I mentioned optimizing my organizational structure, she asked what the business would do while I was gone.
Only time student was involved was at the end of the interview when the adcom asked if I had any questions.
I came away disappointed that the adcom never took the time to chit-chat and make it a more comfortable, conversational interview.
