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  • 2018  Enrolled Jooowang has a tracker for this program.
  • 2018  Enrolled Abhinay has a tracker for this program.
Hey Guys, I just got an interview invite. Completely unaware of the interview timing. I have very less time to prepare. The interview is on 26th April. Any resources on how the questions would be like would be very very helpful !
 
  • 2018  Enrolled RKG has a tracker for this program.
Abhinay said:
Hey Guys, I just got an interview invite. Completely unaware of the interview timing. I have very less time to prepare. The interview is on 26th April. Any resources on how the questions would be like would be very very helpful !
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Hi,
Congrats on the interview. First interview is a mix of technical and resume based. The technical part is kind of customized to your background, so basically be prepared to talk about whats on your resume and important subjects you studied through your major and etc. For example, I majored in statistics and finance, I got asked quite a bit of Stats/R and finance questions.

That is a guess, but that is what I found from others prior to interviewing. Good luck!
 
  • 2018  Enrolled Abhinay has a tracker for this program.
RKG said:
Hi,
Congrats on the interview. First interview is a mix of technical and resume based. The technical part is kind of customized to your background, so basically be prepared to talk about whats on your resume and important subjects you studied through your major and etc. For example, I majored in statistics and finance, I got asked quite a bit of Stats/R and finance questions.

That is a guess, but that is what I found from others prior to interviewing. Good luck!
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Thanks, Could you discuss some of your questions that were asked ? Were they tough ? I am from chemical engineering background and currently working in Risk Management.
 
  • 2018  Enrolled Jooowang has a tracker for this program.
Abhinay said:
Thanks, Could you discuss some of your questions that were asked ? Were they tough ? I am from chemical engineering background and currently working in Risk Management.
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Hey congrats! I think the technical questions were generally based on your resume. They are mostly interested in data and programming skills. I wrote Java and C++ in resume, so the interviewer asked about my proficiency and then proceeded with questions about inheritance in Java and components of hash tables in C++. I would say it really depends on your background. You should make sure you know the things that are listed on your resume and you will be fine! I actually missed one question because I didn't expect these many data questions but I still passed.

Good luck!!
 
  • 2018  Enrolled Abhinay has a tracker for this program.
Jooowang said:
Hey congrats! I think the technical questions were generally based on your resume. They are mostly interested in data and programming skills. I wrote Java and C++ in resume, so the interviewer asked about my proficiency and then proceeded with questions about inheritance in Java and components of hash tables in C++. I would say it really depends on your background. You should make sure you know the things that are listed on your resume and you will be fine! I actually missed one question because I didn't expect these many data questions but I still passed.

Good luck!!
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Thanks for the tip! It was really helpful. Did they tell you when you could expect a reply ?
 
  • 2018  Enrolled Jooowang has a tracker for this program.
Abhinay said:
Thanks for the tip! It was really helpful. Did they tell you when you could expect a reply ?
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At the end of the interview, the interviewer said he will recommend me to the mfe office. I don't know if all interviewers do that though. I waited for three weeks until Linda directly called me without any prior notice.
 
  • 2018  Enrolled Abhinay has a tracker for this program.
Are the admits for Round-2 out? I saw two people who got the admit on the tracker. Could you tell us what would second interview be like ?
 
  • 2018  Enrolled Jooowang has a tracker for this program.
  • 2018  Enrolled Abhinay has a tracker for this program.
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  • 2018  Enrolled vaibhavpednekar has a tracker for this program.
  • 2018  Enrolled Abhinay has a tracker for this program.
  • 2018  Enrolled mangokoala has a tracker for this program.
Anyone applied for UCB MFE during Round 4? The application processing timeline for R4 tends to be so weird, let's share our progress here.
 
  • 2018  Rejected Rohit Kaul has a tracker for this program.
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  • 2018  Enrolled Mlsw has a tracker for this program.
Hi, was it an alumni interview? What questions did they ask you?
 
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