Fridays With Sandy: MBA Mock Interview [Episode One]

Fridays With Sandy: In this debut episode, introduced by Poets & Quants Editor-in-Chief John A. Byrne, HBSGuru Sandy Kreisberg does a live mock MBA interview with a soon-to-be MBA candidate for a top business school's MBA program. Watch as he rehearses MBA applicant Dennis Lee to prep him for an admissions interview that will get him into his preferred MBA program.
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[@swahareddy8822]

Appreciate you putting yourself out there Dennis. Not easy to be brave and do it live. Thanks for the candid feedback Sandy!

[@racheltam2083]

The brutality and honesty of this video makes it so helpful

[@olusegunadebumiti7298]

Great interview and very supportive. Sandy changed his perspective from self-marketing to intuitive responder.

[@danielalvarado77]

Watching this at 1am, and I don't regret at all LOL It was fantastic, thank you!

[@SaraAB98]

this interview is filled with quick yet effective tips,thank you!

[@phoneaccount45]

That was genuinely THE BEST resource that I found on prepping up for such interviews. Sandy was definitely a tough task master and I can't appreciate him enough and Dennis too, putting himself out there. Thank you to both. I gained from Sandy's knowledge and learned from Dennis' experience.

[@lukestephens7300]

This video was very helpful. Would love to see another one with additional questions

[@dinaseptiani4267]

Thankyou Sandy! You are the best!

[@58nayan]

This was really really helpful.It helped me to understand two things during the interview 1. Be brief while you explain simultaneously be honest 2. Attach name to the things that you describe

[@bingqinglou8451]

Thanks, the feedbacks are quite helpful

[@botchweypatrick276]

Hard feedback from Sandy! Overall great insights learnt for MBA interviews - Honesty and Straightforward!!!!

[@saadullah6142]

This is so helpful! Thank you for sharing it. Sandy you were amazing!

[@266Kausar]

It is really helpful for the students. I really appreciate it.

[@kub3738]

So helpful thank you so much

[@abhishekanand505]

Really Superb!! Guidence :)

[@phuongluu9485]

ommg, thanks so much for creating that. It is so helpful which will go with me during my career.

[@TheKanicak]

Very helpful video! Great feedback and thought-provoking answers

[@assassinator006]

Super helpful! Thank you.

[@khanhhuyenpham890]

This is soooo helpful with informative comments. Thanks to this video, I have nailed both of my master interview this week 🥰. Thank you so much

[@alexszymanski11gmail]

This is very helpful!

[@jeezradz]

this was so helpful !

[@0775377838]

Grate inputs

[@jacobdu1215]

very helpful. i am doing the interview of 2 MBA programs on Thursday. i will take the lesson with me. be concise, authentic, convincing; don't sell, don't show off. thank you so much

[@tsionsin536]

Hey how did it go can you please reply back I'll give you my Instagram I've some questions to ask please

[@mango-strawberry]

hi buddy, any update?

[@jermanmadonsela2679]

Is there a standard for measuring show-off?

[@PrecursorLegend]

Man, this kid really struggled on every single question. They weren’t that difficult either, nothing I hadn’t been asked in a job interview before. Helpful to hear the interviewer feedback as well though, hopefully Dennis listened carefully.

[@nikhilchadha1792]

Exactly what I was thinking! He's probably going to have a tough time passing through the B-School nerd filter.

[@mango-strawberry]

@@nikhilchadha1792 nerd filter? What do you mean?

[@zazaiowens1407]

He probably was nervous. It happens.

[@apierre6]

A big part of business school isn't just academics. It's also being personable. Most great business leaders aren't the smartest people, their people who have the ability to influence others.​@@mango-strawberry

[@mango-strawberry]

makes sense. thanks for explaining@@apierre6

[@mphokesitwetshoagong3552]

Hello I read your interview advice and I am ready for my interview , thank you.

[@Malek_22]

This is amazing! i’m actually preparing for my interview in the coming two weeks! and this has been super helpful! Do you by any chance still opened to mock another interview ? I would love to be part of it!

[@PoetsQuants]

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[@hikingtravelmemories]

Is this( advice) even applicable for job interviews?

[@hhaba1]

LOL full on roasting by Sandy

[@muskangupta9464]

He is being so critical of every comment, no interviewer asks these many details and explanations.

[@jermanmadonsela2679]

What is to mock again?

[@Tyler-ei2ec]

The interviewer was brutal lol but this was instructive

[@CPanhchakmoni]

I would appreciate if first, Sandy let the interview flow till the last question and came back clip by clip. Then each clip will be criticized and asked to re-answered one by one. I think this way will have less interference to the interviewee esteem. Plus, this video would be more interesting with comparison and clear sections and less with the unnecessary nerve. However, this is really an eye-opening tutorial. Sandy really striked each point professionally and somehow managed to make you feel like you were going to have the nightmare before the your own interview.

[@6233390]

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[@black.moon_tea]

wow this is so helpful! Do you guys still offer this? I'm preparing for a mock interview right now for next week.

[@PoetsQuants]

Hi Dana, we do! We have a weekly schedule. If you are interested, please submit your profile here: www.jotform.com/PandQEvents/handicapping-with-benefits

[@Thinker2293]

Great set of questions....cant say that for the way DENIS answers cos he mumbles stuff...cant believe he lived in LA ...

[@GloFiction]

Sam Awasthi he’s not from Los Angeles. He’s from an affluent suburb.

[@Thinker2293]

@@GloFiction - Oh your right. But my Reaction is still the same!!!!

[@GloFiction]

Sam Awasthi I thought he performed very poorly. I’m glad B Schools filter against good test takers that are bad in the social domain.

[@SomeRandomHobo44]

@@Thinker2293 sounds like you've never been to SoCal. There are people like Dennis, there are super outgoing people, there are assholes... we've got everyone lol.

[@johndeng6681]

A real answer at 5:52

[@Alex-un1th]

I searched for "old&young", but I guess on a wrong website.

[@JALAJ74]

He is getting beaten at pretty much every question.

[@shreymehra99]

Sandy, can you interview me ? i would like to be up for a mock interview, for real

[@PoetsQuants]

Hello Shrey, go ahead and send us your profile for consideration at www.jotform.com/PandQEvents/handicapping-with-benefits

[@user-ru6gi7qd1h]

How's Dennis life now?

[@user-ls9hj4wm3i]

❤❤❤

[@MM14JR]

Dennis is currently attending UCLA

[@luckyconnection3477]

That's downgrading -- from the prestigious UC Berkeley down to UCLA. Having a Berkeley undergrad degree will get him into a Top 10 MBA program. UCLA is so-so.

[@Zhengwenbo11]

I can tell Dennis is very bright young man and achieved many things in his career. It’s just a lot of Chinese don’t express themselves in American way. It’s just different.With your MBA, come back to China.

[@obughan2266]

I guess he is too young

[@ca510]

Hello Sandy, I have been following you for years and I would love to get your help on my case: 3-years European-style BSc from Bocconi University, Finance major GPA= 110 summa cum laude, i.e. highest possible grade: 3.7-4 730 GMAT 3 years work experience in M&A advisory investment bank (Lazard/Rothschilds/Evercore) in London. 24 years old Italian White male Target schools= HBS, Wharton, NYU, Columbia, LBS, INSEAD (or any other school that would help me to break into PE) Career goals= Leveraging my IB experience to break into a private equity firm Additional question (very important)= Having a 3-years bachelor (which is the norm in Europe), I only have 15 years of education, would that be a problem?

[@prithakshrestha]

Did you get in?

[@ca510]

@@prithakshrestha Yes. HBS

[@prithakshrestha]

Can we connect!? Link me your LinkedIn please? And where are you from?

[@obughan2266]

I am having 770 Gmat , 2nd Upper Hons , ACCA , Chartered Accountant- Singapore 🇸🇬. Facing MIT MBA interview tonight in 6hrs time .

[@mango-strawberry]

@@obughan2266 any update?

[@NutHouseProductionz]

Dennis is...Sweating

[@58nayan]

Hello Interview team, Can you interview me?

[@PoetsQuants]

Hello, if you are interested in a handicapping or mock interview session, please submit your profile for review here: www.jotform.com/PandQEvents/handicapping-with-benefits

[@Vanilla07903]

Why was the diversity answer wrong

[@oneandonlyflow]

its boring

[@jessicaglenn7722]

Everyone knows that Berkeley is diverse. If you’re surprised by that as a student, it indicates you didn’t do your homework before attending that school.

[@yomomomama3964]

@@jessicaglenn7722 stfu. now go do your homeowrk

[@thehotsungA]

Sandy made me fall asleep.

[@hkremit4308]

Interviewer Professor is like Cillian Murphy when get old... Sigma male

[@yomomomama3964]

this shit was pretty painful to watch. the story needs to be super eloquent. have a few one liner that works in these story answers

[@gimhortons5274]

The problem with many 'alien" Asian students at IVY leagues or Oxbridge universities is that they are good on Paper or what we called Paper General but on the real job front, majority of them lack the creativity mindset when dealing with out of book scenarios.

[@yimingsun5234]

这孩子不是本科国内的？

[@pehf1717]

berkeley

[@yimingsun5234]

@@pehf1717 英语可能没什么天赋

[@yomomomama3964]

he has a 3.6 and only got part-time UCLA? he must have not improved on interview

[@GloFiction]

How do you he got into UCLA FEMBA?

[@SomeRandomHobo44]

@@GloFiction you can do a quick Google search on his name and his background for his linkedin

[@tecbropplayz9321]

Hi, I am Dennis Lee not Bruce Lee

[@subhasankarbhattacharya3454]

this uncle is too citicial

[@mango-strawberry]

It's difficult to get in. So he's very realistic about this. No need for mocking.

[@cham2888]

Stumble to much