My interview was with a local alum at her Deloitte Office.
Our 40 min session turned into an almost 2 hr session as we talked about work-life balance, MBTI personality types, INSEAD alums we both knew and life in Montego Bay
She was way prettier and easygoing than she sounded on the phone and I liked her instantly.
Pretty much her ONLY real two questions were:
1. What made you differentiate yourself from others at your undergrad school (I was recipient of a scholarship from India to study in Singapore - that SM178611 and mst and perhaps some others on this forum are also part of... so yes, we had kick ass competition).
2. Walk me through your resume. So we started in reverse order and I had my 30 secs prepared per job, but then she quizzed me on specific projects, trying to assess whether I could think about them from a different, more business strategy perspective (like, what do you think the business case might be for that productivity/ Six Sigma project you were involved in). So very interesting overall. Challenging - she was looking for thought processes throughout but not in an unhelpful way.
Also talked about McK a bit, and my plans post INSEAD but only somewhat. She had worked with McK as a BA and her brother was an engagement mgr, so she had some inside words of advice.
One critical area she complained about: Indians!!! Too many Indians, with an IT background, in Engg, want to go to Bschool, Want to join consulting for a couple years, then go back and start their own business (in India!), she said she was quite sick of the story, it was so repetitive. So she told me that while she could differentiate my app and really liked me (global work ex, development masters etc), but I should be aware that EVERYone in my "pod" seemed to run with the same story these days
I guess a warning in case I get a ding.
Wrote her a thank you note when I got back.