How was your IIM Bangalore interview experience for the batch 2021-23 (overseas candidate)?

My brother is currently studying MBA at IIM Bangalore and he is also an overseas candidate. He cleared the interview this year itself, this answer is based on his fresh memories of his interview.

Here are some profile details of my brother that you might relate.

The interview started around 5:30 PM and the interview panel consisted of 3 professors. After the exchange of pleasantries and ID verification the important questions are summarized below:

• Asked the reason behind pursuing his graduation from London. They also wanted to clarify if there were other reasons to go to the UK.
• Reasons behind the Ease of Doing business or if there are concrete implications of these rankings in terms of foreign investments.
• If a higher ranking implies more investment or how do rankings affect the investor’s perspective.
• Questions related to the major criterion that a foreign investor will consider before investing in India
• Various investors turning towards China and its government policies.
• The interviewers also emphasized that China is very corrupt as well but it doesn’t affect the business as much as it does in India. So, should India also use corruption to nurture business?

After these long questions, his interview was followed by questions on his job experience too. For example:

• Is Standard Chartered an investment bank or a commercial bank?
• Difference between investment banks and commercial banks?
• What is a hostile takeover?
• Are hostile takeovers common in India?
• Why do you think Hostile takeovers are not common in India?

Now, as my brother is an overseas candidate, they also asked questions about his motive of coming back to India, the reason for not pursuing MBA abroad, cross-border M&A Deals, brief about SPACs and their presence in India, and so on.