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I gave an interview in Accenture and the manager wants me to move to Hyderabad,but I'm comfortable with the Kolkata location. I've cleared two rounds and now the Hyd manager is telling me that if I move to Hyd otherwise they will not proceed with my application any further. Can anyone suggest to me what can be done here?
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In business school mock interviews we were always asked to show a slight sense of innocent and sometimes fake dumbness. You don’t want to appear under confident but also not extremely well prepared. It was a balance that came through practice from mock interviews. I am probably not making much sense but I think I know exactly what the partner had a problem with because we had a session on something like this.
Mm that makes sense, it's funny in a way. Practicing skills to look not practiced.. at some point you have to laugh at some of the things we put ourselves through in this industry haha
What a bizarre comment.
Did you get the same case?
I've had that happen to me before, and I just told the interviewer "I know this case" he was glad I told him, and we did it anyway. Win!
I'm sorry to hear about the outcome though... I've been in a similar spot at MBB, when you get to the final interview you really feel like "you basically got this!" and to have it slip through fingers, really burns.
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Shame on you for doing too good of a job... Maybe they need better questions than where you see yourself in 10 years and sell me a pen. I hate interviews.
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This is normally more about not connecting with the interviewer and not showing any personality. I do consulting interviews and we regularly give feedback afterwards that certain ppl sound like robots. Consulting is a relationship based job, so if you can’t connect with ppl you will not be successful. No one wants to be friends or work with a robot
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Did they tell your where you were rehearsed? More often than not that comment comes during the fit interview.
My wife tried interviewing for my firm while she was in b-school. Had the same problem. You need to leave room to be extemporaneous. Have 3 bullet points for your story, make up the rest on the spot.
Saying you sound rehearsed usually means something like:
- For fit: It sounded like you memorized answers to certain questions which either led you to be boring/not actively engaging with the interviewer or you didn’t tailor your response to the actual question asked (extreme example: “what did you do during your internship at X?” Then responding with your whole resume walk through)
- For cases: This usually means you were giving a very generic answer that wasn’t very creative or were trying to force a certain framework (e.g. if you’re told the company is looking to increase revenue, don’t leap into a laundry list of potential cost improvements like you would if it was a profitability case)
To improve focus on active listening and rehearsing bullets of information / case formats that can be tailored vs trying to memorize entire answers
All makes alot of sense, and could have been the case. It's hard to think back and pinpoint these areas but appreciate the insight! It's great have to a sounding board like this.
Back to building my knowledge base and getting ready to try third time after lockout .. really want to work for this specific firm
I get it. I've led tons of interviews and it means that the person was using a very generic structure that worked well with that case. Often we pick up on that and throw curve balls in and people can't handle the deviation from the framework they studied for months. Or they blast through the case math to an answer and it seems robotic and with the time left, I'll ask the "so what" and they can't think freely.
In short it comes across as though they've trained themselves to do the case but are not naturally wired for thinking through that case or any case thrown at them.
Interesting, it's obviously hard to self critique as I felt I hit all that, the so what after the case answer, adapting to the situation of the case and not sticking to a generic framework, but maybe I wasn't clear enough or succinct enough or just not up to par/benchmark. Great points to take away though, thank you.
Ah sorry it wasn't the case that was the same it was the some of the fit questions, but they didn't say where I was rehearsed.
Fit or case. Got very high level and useless feedback from HR to be honest