Indian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad
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Filter interviews byIndian School of Business (ISB), Hyderabad Placement Interview Questions
Updated
22 Sep 2024
228 interviews found
I applied via Campus Placement
3 Interview Rounds
1
Case Study Round
Detailed case with four questions, required intensive number crunching and data analysis.
Suggestions: Stick to your basic understanding of the problem statement and state all your assumptions clearly.
2
Case Study Round
A real business case was presented in a group of 5-7 people. Each one of us was given a specific role and we were told to discuss the case as a group and come up with a detailed solution.
A brief description of your answers/approach: We discussed the problem in hand from different angles - considering each function in detail. In the end of the discussion, we presented the business model of our idea to the Apple representatives in the form of a presentation.
3
Technical Round (5 Questions)
- Q1. Tell me about yourself
- Q2. Tell me about a time when you had to deal with a difficult colleague
- Q3. Biggest achievement
- Q4. Resume based questions
- Q5. Next part of the interview was case presentation - the at-home case we submitted before the GD round. We were given 10 minutes to give a detailed PPT on the cas...read more
Interview Preparation Tips
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Round 3 - Interview Type: In-Person Interview with a panel consisting 7 Apple representatives This round lasted for 1 hour.
Suggestions: Just be yourself and explain your assumptions from the basics. The case was quite open ended with no definite right answer. They want to see how you performed based on the assumptions you took and the practicality of the solution you presented. State them clearly and make sure you know all the calculations you performed in detail.
Suggestions: Just be yourself and explain your assumptions from the basics. The case was quite open ended with no definite right answer. They want to see how you performed based on the assumptions you took and the practicality of the solution you presented. State them clearly and make sure you know all the calculations you performed in detail.
I applied via Campus Placement
2 Interview Rounds
1
Product Management Round (8 Questions)
- Q1. Case: Feature to increase revenue 5%
- Q2. Tell me about yourself
- Q3. Run me through the case solution
- Q4. You notice the revenues have been declining for FIFA over the past week. What would you do as a PM?
- Q5. What are the possible causes of DAU decreasing?
- Q6. What could be reasons for revenue/users decreasing?
- Q7. What would be the effect on metrics if you were to double the XP received per match?
- Q8. What are the ways by which you can increase the purchase/spend on the app?
2
Case Study Round
Graph based- level based games-users playing suddenly drop at level 6
For this round, try to show the breadth of thinking by coming up with multiple features and solutions. Also discuss the priority. Having some knowledge of mobile games could help understand some questions better but it is not a MUST. You canask for explanation or clarifications on what the flow of the game is and the interviewer would provide the same.
Puzzle-ant at every corner of an equilateral triangle. What is the probability that 2 ants clash if all the ants start moving simultaneously in either direction?
Design a scoring mechanism to decide winner of a game based on outfit design (creativity is the criterion)
Interview Preparation Tips
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Round 1 -Technical Interview based on the case given. The interview was conversational
in style and really interesting. We went from one question to another building up on
the answer given by me
Round 2- This round lasted for 1 hour
3-4 types of situations in games
in style and really interesting. We went from one question to another building up on
the answer given by me
Round 2- This round lasted for 1 hour
3-4 types of situations in games
I applied via Campus Placement
5 Interview Rounds
1
Case Study Round
This was the elimination round after the resume shortlist. A case is provided to the candidate and is expected to submit a 5-6 slide ppt in 24-48 hrs. With PM it’s important to get this round absolutely right and it’s important to remember that nearly every PM role will have a case submission. Nearly all of one's case submissions will happen close to the placement dates and being aware of this massive workload is important for all PM aspirants.
2
Product Management Round (1 Question)
- Q1. This was a short round (~30-45 minutes) and it focused on What is PM, Why PM, About oneself and then ended with a short Product breakdown.
3
Product Management Round (1 Question)
- Q1. This was a longer round and you can expect all the standard PM questions here. If you are from a tech background then expect tech questions too. Product tear do...read more
4
Other Round (1 Question)
- Q1. This round is all about why you and why Samsung. Be very clear about these answers and know a lot about your SWOTs
5
HR Round (1 Question)
- Q1. Based on resume and one's life experiences. It eventually is part of the HR's fitment round.
Interview Preparation Tips
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - When applying to this role, be clear on what you should expect as CTC and what the components of the package really mean. Knowing and understanding their offer package is essential and crucial to your decision making. Be very clear about these answers and know a lot about your SWOTs
I applied via Campus Placement
4 Interview Rounds
1
Case Study Round
Facebook’s DAU(Daily Active Users) has been decreasing w-o-w for last 3 weeks. As a growth manager for Facebook, how will you identify and resolve the problem.
2
Product Management Round (2 Questions)
- Q1. Describe 1 project from your past experience that you like and implemented from end-to-end.
- Q2. Design a movie-booking app for elder people (someone who is not very tech-savvy and just started using smartphones).
3
Product Management Round (1 Question)
- Q1. There is a Product Category on Flipkart which has seasonal demand such as ACs. What stress does this unpredictable seasonal demand have on Flipkart’s supply cha...read more
4
Technical Round (6 Questions)
- Q1. Explain the technology architecture from your previous company on product.
- Q2. What was the technology stack used in this product?
- Q3. Explain in detail how a particular project from the CV was executed.
- Q4. What parameters will you use to decide the priorities in a feature backlog.
- Q5. What are the major challenges you think you’ll face when working with different stakeholders such as technology, marketing etc. when working as a product manage...read more
- Q6. If I asked your best friend, what will he say are your 2 biggest strengths and 2 biggest weaknesses?
I applied via Campus Placement
4 Interview Rounds
1
Product Management Round (1 Question)
- Q1. Design a News App for younger generation.
2
Product Management Round (3 Questions)
- Q1. Resume Walkthrough in depth
- Q2. One big feature I don’t like in Ola and Why?
- Q3. One big feature I’d like to add to Ola?
3
Product Management Round (4 Questions)
- Q1. Design Bing for Kids and follow up questions.
- Q2. Product strategy discussion for Bing and competitor google search
- Q3. One product I like – reasons for liking it, what feature would I add to it?
- Q4. Product strategy discussion between Paytm and Google Pay
4
Product Management Round (4 Questions)
- Q1. Designing related products recommendations in Bing Shopping.
- Q2. Why Microsoft? Follow up question: Most used/ favorite product of Microsoft.
- Q3. Difference between good team and bad team. Personal experiences around it.
- Q4. What else should Microsoft do?
Interview Preparation Tips
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Round 1 -
Group Round- 12 students were given the same question in an LT. But discussion was one-to-one. 2 discussions of around 10 min each.
The duration of the interview was 75 mins.
Round 2 -
1-to-1 interview.
The duration of the interview was 90 mins.
Round 3 -
1-to-1 interview.
The duration of the interview was 60 mins.
Round 4 -
The duration of the interview was 50 mins.
Group Round- 12 students were given the same question in an LT. But discussion was one-to-one. 2 discussions of around 10 min each.
The duration of the interview was 75 mins.
Round 2 -
1-to-1 interview.
The duration of the interview was 90 mins.
Round 3 -
1-to-1 interview.
The duration of the interview was 60 mins.
Round 4 -
The duration of the interview was 50 mins.
I applied via Campus Placement
2 Interview Rounds
1
HR Round (4 Questions)
- Q1. Introduction- Things about me which are not on my resume
- Q2. Walk me through your resume
- Q3. Questions about my work in the companies I have worked
- Q4. Questions on Agile (since I mentioned agile expertise and scrum master role in my resume, but anyways since its a big practice now, its good to learn about it b...read more
2
Case Study Round
Basic introduction, things which makes me unique
After this, there was a case given to me on Mergers and acquisitions
Situation: You work at PE firm and you want to acquire a vet clinic chain which works in a franchise model with 20 clinics currently operating. Questions asked were:
Q1: Before acquisitions what kind of information you would want from them?
Answer could range from their business model, capex, opex, IT systems maturity, data governance model and many more things (I was asked to keep it limited to tech side only
Q2: What would be your acquisition strategy? Things you would consider while acquisition
Again keep it related to tech only
Q3: Cost modelling pillars
Q4: If you need to scale up, from 20 franchise clinics to 40, what things you will look at?
Q5: Vendor selection criteria
Q6: Few questions on fixed and variable costs (Along the lines of cost modelling only)
I applied via Campus Placement
3 Interview Rounds
1
Technical Round (4 Questions)
- Q1. Tell me about yourself.
- Q2. Tell me about your work. Explain some technical architecture of any project on your resume.
- Q3. How would you go about building a crowd-sourced knowledge management portal.
- Q4. Technical architecture for the same knowledge management portal.
2
Product Management Round (3 Questions)
- Q1. Walk me through your resume.
- Q2. There are a ton of applications targeting music industry. I think there is still some gap in the industry that is not yet fulfilled. Can you create something in...read more
- Q3. How would you build a text editor kind of application, which had to read a 3 TB file, how much of the file would you display(classic scrolling/pre-fetch problem...read more
3
Product Management Round (3 Questions)
- Q1. Why PM? Why Microsoft?
- Q2. Build a web-scrapper for a search engine
- Q3. I(interviewer) am an engineer. Tell me what I need to do. Where do I start?
Interview Preparation Tips
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Play to your strengths, drive the interview to the areas you want to talk about. It is also important to be very context aware(e.g. priorities of a startup = priorities of Google) and continuously think of edge cases or 2nd or 3rd angles other than the most obvious solutions.
I applied via Campus Placement
4 Interview Rounds
1
Product Management Round (3 Questions)
- Q1. Introductory questions about me and my work in Paytm. (just 5-7 mins)
- Q2. How will you design a solution for Bangalore traffic?
- Q3. How will you measure the success of Google Photos?
2
Product Management Round (3 Questions)
- Q1. How will launch the Air conditioner category on Flipkart?
- Q2. Customers are not convinced about buying ACs online. How will you change the online experience so that it is at par/better with offline?
- Q3. Customers are going to take time to get habituated to buying ACs online, uou are considering Offline Stores. How will decided the go/no go?
3
Product Management Round (3 Questions)
- Q1. How will you handle PM/Developer conflict?
- Q2. How do you measure product quality?
- Q3. What do you do if engineering lead refuses to build a particular feature?
4
Product Management Round (4 Questions)
- Q1. Introductory questions (Tell me about yourself, etc.)
- Q2. Why are you interviewing at Flipkart?
- Q3. If you had offers from Amazon and Flipkart which would you join? Why?
- Q4. How will you launch a grocery service for Flipkart?
Interview Preparation Tips
Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Round 3 - Technical interview with engineering manager
I applied via Campus Placement
4 Interview Rounds
1
Product Management Round (5 Questions)
- Q1. Tell me something about yourself
- Q2. Why Product Management? Why Magicpin?
- Q3. Favorite Product? Why? Likes/ Dislikes?
- Q4. Favorite product? Why? Likes/dislikes?
- Q5. What do you know about Magicpin?
2
Product Management Round (3 Questions)
- Q1. What is the reason behind large number of MAUs of Whatsapp? How is it different from Facebook Messenger?
- Q2. Which is your favorite app? Likes/dislikes? How would you improve it? What is its competitive advantage?
- Q3. How would you increase DAUs of Google Maps?
3
Product Management Round (2 Questions)
- Q1. How would you convince the retailers to be a part of Magicpin? How do you think they would be benefited by the platform? How much cost savings do you expect fro...read more
- Q2. How would you improve the platform of Magicpin?
4
HR Round (4 Questions)
- Q1. Why have you not mentioned your GPA?
- Q2. Why did you choose ISB? Why not IIMs?
- Q3. Why product management? Why not consulting?
- Q4. Rest of the questions were resume specific.
I applied via Campus Placement
3 Interview Rounds
1
HR Round (2 Questions)
- Q1. This was with the founder who is also the CPO at Innovaccer. It was mostly resume based and why PM. I had relevant previous workex, so a lot of questions around...read more
- Q2. Why Innovaccer and what excites you about them? Why a startup?
2
Product Management Round (5 Questions)
- Q1. This was with VP of engineering at Innovaccer. - Favorite project in the resume
- Q2. Favorite product/ app, improvements in that, metrics to track the improvements
- Q3. - What impact would introduction of self-driving cars will have?
- Q4. Situational questions around - conflict management, leading by influence, team management
- Q5. - Asked situational questions around - conflict management, leading by influence, team management
3
HR Round (6 Questions)
- Q1. Why Innovaccer?
- Q2. Why PM?
- Q3. PM or PMM? Why and why not?
- Q4. What do you think you need to learn for the role of a PM?
- Q5. Discussion around soft skills and situational questions i had answered in round . For instance, do you think "leading by influence is even a skill?" aren't hard...read more
- Q6. How do you plan on utilizing rest of your time at ISB? How has it been so far?
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