Potential Interview Questions (no particular order)

General Questions

1. Tell me about yourself. / Walk me through your resume

2. Why should we hire you over the other 100 candidates we are going to interview
this year?
3. How would a friend describe you? How would you boss describe you?
4. What kind of manager do you like?
5. How do you work in teams?
6. Describe a time when you worked successfully in a team.
7. Describe a time when you worked successfully as a leader.
8. Name 3 traits to describe yourself.
9. Name 3 strengths.
10. Name 2 weaknesses.
11. What is the biggest risk you've ever taken?
12. What's your biggest failure?
13. What's the most important thing to you?
14. How has b school changed your life?
15. What motivates you?
16. What is your least favorite class?
17. What's your biggest accomplishment?
18. Why wouldn't we hire you?
19. What are your short/long term goals?
20. Have you ever dealt with an ethically ambiguous situation? What did you do?
21. Why Simon?
22. Why B-School now?
23. Why did you change jobs from abc to xyz?
24. What's your favorite sport?
25. What interests you outside of work?

Marketing

1. Name a time when you've sold something.

2. What's your favorite class? Teach me something from that class. What was your
grade in that class?
3. Name the best party you've ever been to.
4. Name a product that is marketed well – name one that is not.
5. If you had a day to do anything you like, what would you do?
6. If you could have dinner with anyone dead or alive, who would it be?
7. Name the most creative thing you have done
8. Do you feel you would be a good entrepreneur?

Finance

1. Give me an example of something quantitative you've done in the past.

2. Name 3 things you read in the paper today and tell me why they are important to
the markets.
3. Give me 3 stocks you are long (You recommend).
4. Give me 2 stocks you are short.
 5. How do you stay up to date with the markets?
6. Draw today's yield curve: 3m, 6m, 2yr, 3yr, 5yr, 10yr, 30yr.
7. If I gave you 1 million dollars, how would you invest it?
8. What's the safest possible investment in today's markets?
9. Where is the economy going? Why?
10. How do you value a company?
11. What ratios do you use when valuing a company?
12. When you look at a company's financials, what do you look at first, second, third
and why?
13. Outside of classes, what is your favorite thing at school?
14. A customer gives you a buy order which you complete. Afterwards, she/he claims
it was a sell order what do you do?

Consulting/Operations

1. Name a time you worked to reduce expense or increase revenue

2. What is Consulting?
3. What type of consulting interests you?
4. Why would you be a good consultant?
5. Prove to me that travel would be ok for you.
6. Give me an example of a time you were in a new situation and where you had to
produce results very quickly.
7. Give me an example of a time when you were on a team that was off focus and
what you did to bring it back on course.
8. Tell me about a time you managed a process
9. Tell me about your ability to multi-task
10. My company is increasing revenue, but is losing money – tell me how you would
arrive at a solution for this client.
11. Why Operations?
12. Give me an example of your ability to work with different departments or groups
on a coordinated project
13. What is a Black Belt?
14. Define project management and give me an example of a time you have
managed a project.
15. You have a misunderstanding with the client, what do you do?