I called up exactly at the suggested time. A male voice answered the phone. I introduced myself. Then he introduced himself as an Alum working for Microsoft and Manager(Admissions) introduced herself.

The following were the questions that were thrown at me:

1. Tell us about yourself which you haven’t mentioned in the application or which you want us to know. [I mentioned some characteristics]

2. Example of one of the characteristics mentioned for the above question.

3. Questions on the Ethical dilemma case that I wrote. [I stumbled a bit here in search of correct words..eventually I recovered]

4. What is De-risking methodology? [I mentioned the term in resume. So be prepared with all the ‘terms’ or ‘jargons’ you mention in your app/resume]

5. Questions about client/location/industry/domain/role etc., [It is good to prepare yourself with the domain you are working with. I was grilled here for almost 5 minutes.]

6. Issues on outsourcing. How it is perceived in Belgium and Europe? How you tackled the situation?

7. How do you do Project Estimations? How do you approach estimations for complex projects? How accurate were your estimations?

8. Questions on Post-ISB. [Grilled on each and every line! for almost 6-8 minutes]

9. Questions related to Belgium, location, Culture, main sources of income etc., [Was a cakewalk]

10. What you are passionate about. [I mentioned about blogging in between. So some questions were related to the blogging].

11. What cultural differences you faced in Belgium and how you tackled it?

12. How you won the offshore project from a Fortune 50 client ?[I mentioned about this as the proudest moment of career].

13. Did you learn any new languages while in Belgium?

14. Any questions for us? [Here i did the blunder. For a moment my mind was blank. I couldn’t think of any questions which I thought about beforehand. Somehow I managed the situation]. Finally they wished best of luck and said the results will be announced during Jan 15-20.

Total time: 30-35 minutes.

When I did a post-mortem on my performance, I feel that I could have done a lot better. Anyway, that’s the way interview goes..Now another wait of 15 days. I have done all I could do and hoping for the best. Wish all applicants good luck. Do well, remain calm and be honest.

Just completed my ISB interview.

Till now, I was pretty confident about making into ISB. But after attending the interview, I feel it’s going to be 50-50. I will update more on my interview experience soon..