Anyone feel like their GSB interview was really stressful? For me: No intros, no GSB discussion, straight into probing behavioral Qs.

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Mine was the same

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Mine was very casual - felt more like a chat with a mentor than an interview. But at the same time I think I therefore felt chill and didn’t actually present myself as very impressive in my stories

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For me there was a bit of small talk before we proceeded to the behavioral questions. It was a bit stressful but also a pleasant experience overall. In the end we talked about the GSB experience.

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Well at least you had a GSB interview - it’s 50/50 from there

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I was just messing around - but yeah what you described runs contrary to what I’ve generally heard about GSB. I’m guessing it just depends on the alum’s personality

Mine was also like that - I was flustered throughout.

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Extremely casual, chatted about life in general, goals, asked if GSB was my top choice. Loved the interview!

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Last year I felt the same, so this year I made sure to introduce myself. Interviewer went over the interviewer instructions and then said “ ok anything else before we start?l And I was like yep I’ll just introduce myself super quick for some background. And honestly, it totally changed the vibe. The questions then came from my intro and it made it feel much more conversational / human through out. Not everyone interviewer is the same but I felt that was a good move for mine at least

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When you say probing behavioral questions, what do you mean? Have mine on Wednesday

Good luck!
It’s hard to say. For context, we only talked about two stories, 20 min each. And 10 min of questions at the end. My interviewer wanted to go extremely deep to understand not only all my thoughts and decisions but my teams’ too.
My head was spinning. But it sounds like thats just the style of my interviewer

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