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General Interview Questions
Most of the candidates wonder that what will be the types of questions, interviewers would be asking. Jobzing.com has compiled some interview questions usually asked in general to the candidates to check their communication skills, their suitability, their job behaviours, etc.
Q: Describe yourself.
Q: How do you take challenges?
Q: How do you define failure?
Q: What do you know about the organization?
Q: How do you justify the job?
Q: Why do you want this job?
Q: What does success mean to you?
Q: What are your strengths?
Q: What are your weaknesses?
Q: What do you do in leisure time?
Q: Do you want to ask anything from us?
Q: What are your hobbies?
Q: What kind of person are you?
Q: How do you pursue your hobbies?
Q: What has been your greatest achievement?
Q: What has been your greatest failure?
Q:How did you prepare for this interview?
Q:What are your professional goals for the next 3-5 years?
Q: What do you want to work with this organization?
Q: Where do you see yourself five years down the line?
Q:Tell me about something you did recently that was not part of your job?
Q: Tell me about your educational background?
Q:How have you grown in your current job?
Q:What kinds of skills did you use in your past job?
Q:What are you seeking in your next job?
Q:What type of compliments do you receive from your peers or supervisors?
Q:What happens when two priorities compete for your time?
Q:Can you describe a recent situation in which you accomplished an important objective in a brief period of time?
Q: Are you willing to work in shifts?
Q: What is the thing you like the most in the world? Why?
Q: What is the thing you dislike the most in the world? Why?
Q: What are your salary expectations for this job?
Q: What are the projects you have ever undertaken?
Q: How do you define arrogance? Are you arrogant?
Q: What role are you ready to take in a group?
Q: Who has been an inspiration for you?
Q: What is more important to you money or success?
Q: Rate yourself on a scale of 10.
Q:How do you handle repetitive tasks?
Q:Tell me about the last time you missed a goal or deadline.
Q:How do you keep others informed on work issues?
Q:When was the last time something upset you at work? What did you do?
Q:How do you ensure all of your work gets accomplished in a productive manner?
Q:What was the biggest professional risk you have taken and what was the outcome?
Q:Tell me about the last time you had to work with someone inside or outside of your department to accomplish a goal.
Q:Describe a situation where you were successful in directing the work of others.
Q:Describe a situation when you dealt with a difficult person and how you resolved it.
Q:If your supervisor criticized you unfairly, how did/would you handle it?
Q:What do you expect from this job?
Q: Do you know anyone working with this organization?
Q:What do you like best about what you have learned about this job?
Q:What concerns do you have about this job?
Q:What do you see as your primary qualifications for this job?
Q: Why did you choose _________ as your major/subjects?
Q: Are you willing to travel?
Q: Why are you leaving the organization you work for?
Q: How much time do you need to join the organization?
Q: Are you aggressive?
Q: What makes you a good manager?
Q: What motivates you the most?
Q: What skills and abilities do you have?
Q: Is there anything you want to ask?
Q:If you were hired for this job, what areas would you make an immediate impact?
Q:In what areas do you think you will need guidance?
Q:How will you approach learning this "new" job?
Q:How will you approach acquiring new skill sets?
Q:Describe the most difficult situation you have faced in your career and how you managed it.
Q:Describe some problems you encountered in your most recent position and how you resolved them.
Q:What specific steps do you utilize in solving workplace problems?
Q:What are some of the things that you and your supervisor disagree upon and how do you resolve them?
Q:What do you do when you are pressed for a decision?
Q:In your last job what kinds of pressure did you encounter and how did you react?
Q:What kind of work interests you the most?
Q:What kind of work interests you the least?
Q:How would your references describe you?
Q:Name five characteristics that describe you.
Q:Are you a self-starter? Please provide specific examples.
Q:How does your present position differ from past ones?
Q:What would you like to avoid completely in your next job?
Q:What have you done to prepare yourself to be a supervisor?
Q:How do you motivate employees?
Q:What aspect of supervision do you find the most difficult?
Q:What is the most important quality a supervisor should have?
Q:How do you decide what to delegate and to whom?
Q:Why do you feel we should hire someone with your background?
Q:What two accomplishments have given you the most satisfaction?
Q:Why should I hire you?
Q:What makes you better than the other people I'm seeing today?
Q:Give me an example of how you exercised leadership in a recent situation.
Q:Tell me about a time when you were held accountable for a problem that you hadn't caused.
Q:Think about the changes you have seen and tell me how you handle change.
Q:Tell me about a decision you made recently and how you reached it.
Q:What do you think makes a good manager?
Q:Why did you leave your past jobs?
Q:How did you become interested in this field/industry?
Q:Why did you select the University _______?
Q:If you could do it all over again, how would you plan your academic studies differently?
Q:Assuming that you could do anything you wanted, what would you really like to do in life?
Q:How do you determine or evaluate success?
Q:Who is your hero? Why?
Interview Questions-Marketing & Sales
The candidates interested in marketing jobs need to have marketing skills, interpersonal skills and more. They must be able to convince people. Here are some of the questions asked by the interviewers to analyze the marketing capabilities of a candidate.
Q: Describe yourself.
Q: Tell me about your educational background?
Q: What do you know about the organization?
Q: How do you justify the job?
Q: Why do you want this job?
Q: What do you want to work with this organization?
Q: Where do you see yourself five years down the line?
Q: What are your strengths?
Q: What are your weaknesses?
Q: What is marketing?
Q: What is marketing according to you?
Q: Why marketing?
Q: Sell the product ________ to me.
Q: Describe niche market.
Q: How would you brand yourself?
Q: What are the different stages of a product lifecycle? Give examples of 3 products at different stages. What is will be their next stage?
Q: What competitive skills do you have?
Q: How will you sell a refrigerator to an Eskimo?
Q: What is the difference between marketing and sales?
Q: What is online marketing?
Q: How would you rate yourself as a salesperson on a scale from 1 to 10?
Q: Develop a marketing plan?
Q: Which of our products/services most appeals to you and why?
Q: Describe a marketing plan you developed. What was the result of implementing that plan?
Q: Explain in brief the situations when you would be using
Integrative growth strategy
Intensive growth
Diversification growth strategy
Q: Which environmental variables impact a marketing plan?
Q: Which was the most difficult sale you made?
Q: Which was the largest sale that you have lost?
Q: Do you want to ask anything from us?
Q: What are your hobbies?
Q: How do you pursue your hobbies?
Q: What has been your greatest achievement?
Q: What has been your greatest failure?
Q: How do you take challenges?
Q: How would you tackle a customer complaining about a product you sell?
Q: What do you like most about sales?
Q: What are your salary expectations for this job?
Q: What are the projects you have ever undertaken?
Q: What do you do in leisure time?
Q: Are you willing to work in shifts?
Q: What is the thing you like the most in the world? Why?
Q: What is the thing you dislike the most in the world? Why?
Q: What does success mean to you?
Q: How do you define failure?
Q: How do you define arrogance? Are you arrogant?
Q: What role are you ready to take in a group?
Q: Who has been an inspiration for you?
Q: What is more important to you money or success?
Q: What kind of person are you?
Q: Rate yourself on a scale of 10.
Q: Why did you choose _________ as your major/subjects?
Q: Are you willing to travel?
Q: Why are you leaving the organization you work for?
Q: How much time do you need to join the organization?
Q: Are you aggressive?
Q: What makes you a good manager?
Q: What motivates you the most?
Q: What skills and abilities do you have?
Q: Is there anything you want to ask?
Q: How can marketing lead the way toward customer centricity?
Q:What experience do you have to support your answer?
Q:If your company markets through both B2B and B2C channels, describe any channel differences in approaching customer-centricity.
Q:What are your top three predictions about how integrated, multichannel marketing in your industry will evolve in 2008? Why?
Q: How could your firm change its organization, processes, and culture to compete more effectively?
Q: How can you effectively integrate traditional, maturing, and new media, channels, and tactics?
Q:With whom should you partner to help support this shift to customer-centricity?
Q:How can you leverage new channels, tactics, and media to drive customer engagement and intimacy?
Q:What steps have you taken to link these divers to your team's compensation?
Q:What did you do to prepare yourself for this interview?
Q:whether adverstising through tv,radio is direct marketing?
Q:When was the last time you created a marketing innovation, which energized you, and why did it do so?
Q:What steps to you take to promote a business idea to your manager?
Q:What is your psychology of selling?
Q:Apart from financial considerations, what is challenging about marketing?
Q:Why is marketing research important?
Q:What have been your most striking findings? What data have really shocked you?
Q:Describe your sales experience.
Q:Do you have any supervisory skills?
Q:List your key accomplishments.
Q:Have you ever been charged with training and coaching other sales professionals?
Q:What success did you experience?
Q:Describe a typical day for you.
Q:What has been your biggest disappointment with a prospect or client?
Q:How much of your current client base consists of repeats and referrals?
Q:What major clients have you closed over the last 6 months?
Q:What sales challenge have you experienced recently?
Q:How do you describe your salesmanship style?
Q:How would you go about persuading a customer that our product was better than any other?
Q:What experience do you have of setting and meeting sales targets, both personally and as a sales team?
Q:How would you go about identifying consumer / customer needs and wants?
Q:We are looking for a truly inspiring Marketing and PR Executive, someone who can create a culture of open communication, trust and respect. What strategies would you implement to achieve this?
Q:Tell us about your experience with focus groups.
What steps would you take to nurture commercial awareness and a sales focus in this customer service team?
Q:What criteria are you using to evaluate the organizations for which you hope to work.
Q:What two or three things are important to you in your job?
Q:Why should I hire you?
Q:What makes you better than the other people I'm seeing today?
Q:Have you applied to any other areas apart from marketing?
Q:Give me an example of how you convinced someone to do something that they were not too keen on doing.
Q:What do you realistically believe to be your earning potential?
Q:Tell me about how you persuade people to accept your point-of-view.
Interview Questions Investment Banking
The candidates interested in finance operations or finance sector jobs need to have numeric ability, interpreting skills, sound knowledge of share market, capital investment, growth ratios, etc. Candidates are also provided with case studies to measure their knowledge level of financial concepts. Given below are some of the most important interview questions investment banking asked by the interviewers:
Q: How would you choose to buy a particular stock?
Q: Why might a company choose debt over equity financing?
Q: Where is the market going?
Q: What major factors drive mergers and acquisitions?
Q: What is goodwill? How does it affect net income?
Q: What is working capital?
Q: What are deferred taxes?
Q:Can you describe a recent situation in which you accomplished an important objective in a brief period of time?
Q: How do you take challenges?
Q: Are you willing to work in shifts?
Q: What is the thing you like the most in the world? Why?
Q: What is the thing you dislike the most in the world? Why?
Q: What does success mean to you?
Q: How do you define failure?
Q: What is contingency liability?
Q: How do you value a company?
Q: You've been asked to reduce the budget by 8%. What criteria will you use in identifying the budget reductions?
Q: Who is a more senior creditor, a stockholder or a bondholder?
Q: What is the difference between accounts and finance?
Q: Explain fixed cost, variable cost and marginal cost?
Q: What is Break Even Point? What does it signify?
Q: What is the purpose of chargeback?
Q: What is MIS report and do you prepare it?
Q: Why are you leaving the organization you work for?
Q: How much time do you need to join the organization?
Q: Are you aggressive?
Q: What makes you a good manager?
Q: What motivates you the most?
Q: What skills and abilities do you have?
Q: Is there anything you want to ask?
Q:If you were hired for this job, what areas would you make an immediate impact?
Q:In what areas do you think you will need guidance?
Q:How will you approach learning this "new" job?
Q:How will you approach acquiring new skill sets?
Q:Describe the most difficult situation you have faced in your career and how you managed it.
Q:Describe some problems you encountered in your most recent position and ow you resolved them.
Q:What specific steps do you utilize in solving workplace problems?
Q: What experience have you had in fixed assets accounting?
Q: How can you create Budgets for daily pods?
Q: How to use special and pair value sets?
Q: What is consolidation ?
Q: Why depreciation is not charged on land?
Q: Can u explain me the flow in General ledger?
Q: What is meant by group chart of accounts in sap fico ?
Q: Describe yourself.
Q: Tell me about your educational background?
Q: What do you know about the organization?
Q: How do you justify the job?
Q: Why do you want this job?
Q: What do you want to work with this organization?
Q: Where do you see yourself five years down the line?
Q: What are your strengths?
Q: What is our company’s stock price? How would you forecast the future stock price for next year?
Q: How important does Accounts receivable for small business and why?
Q: What are the goals of Accounts receivable?
Q: What are the powerful softwares that could be used for doing efficient Accounts receivable?
Q: What are the strategies to be followed for preparing Accounts receivable?
Q: How debtors play its role in Accounts receivable?
Q: Who is responsible for maintaining the Accounts receivable in an organization?
Q: How important is Accounts receivable to business?
Q: What do you mean by Accounts payable cycle?
Q: What is Trial Balance?
Q: What is difference between account payable and bills payable?
Q: How to account freight cost, handling charges,purchase tax at the time of raising a Purchase Order?
Q: What is Reconciliation Statement ?
Q: How do you answer this question "what is company code".
Q: Is it necessary to create Sundry creditors?
Q: What is the meaning of TDS? How it is charged?
Q: What is interest on Capital?
Q: What is Pool rate?
Q: What the procedures or process involved in the preparation for the audit?
Q: What is Web Audit?
Q: What are the different types of internal audit?
Q: What is the difference between an internal audit and the annual external audit?
Q: What is Internal Audit?
Q: What is meant by Single Audit process?
Q: Where is Audit Data Stored?
Q: What is meant by computer auditing?
Q: What are the reasons for getting audited?
Q: What do 'income assessed' and 'non-income assessed' mean?
Q: What is authorized share capital?
Q: What is paid up share capital?
Q: How much depreciation to be calculated for fixed assets older than 5 years?
Q: What is accumulated depreciation?
Q: What are the journal entries which get passed from asset purchasing to asset retirement?
Q: What is fictitious assets?
Q: What is the difference between the different depreciation methods?
Q: What are the activities present in payroll task?
Q: What is Payroll Disbursements Journal?
Q: What are the steps in Payroll Management?
Q: What is the software efficient for carrying out payroll tasks?
Q: What is the difference between paycheck and Payslip?
Q: How advantage is payroll for small business?
Q: What is Payroll Journal?
INTERVIEW QUESTIONS– HUMAN RESOURCE
The candidate interested in joining organizations as HR personnel must have good interpersonal skills. The candidate should be aware of all the HR principles. Jobzing.com compiles some of the interview questions that are asked by the interviewers for the HR positions.
Q: Describe yourself.
Q: Tell me about your educational background?
Q: What do you know about the organization?
Q: How do you justify the job?
Q: Why do you want this job?
Q: What do you want to work with this organization?
Q: Where do you see yourself five years down the line?
Q: What are your strengths?
Q: What are your weaknesses?
Q: What is human resource management?
Q: What do you prefer recruitment or selection?
Q: How do you motivate your employees?
Q: What is more important to you money or position?
Q: How does you define empowerment?
Q: How do you define arrogance? Are you arrogant?
Q: What role are you ready to take in a group?
Q: Who has been an inspiration for you?
Q: What is more important to you money or success?
Q: What kind of person are you?
Q: Rate yourself on a scale of 10.
Q: How do you handle repetitive tasks?
Q: How can you make use of IT in HRM?
Q: Suggest a training program/workshop for feedback skills?
Q: Why do you think HRM is important?
Q: Have you ever dealt with difficult people?
Q: What does trust mean to you?
Q: What are retention strategies?
Q: What do you mean by 360? feedback?
Q: Which one is more better mentoring or coaching?
Q: How would you terminate an employee who is not performing?
Q: What is the difference between personnel management and human resource management?
Q: What do you expect from this job?
Q: Do you know anyone working with this organization?
Q: What do you like best about what you have learned about this job?
Q: What concerns do you have about this job?
Q: What do you see as your primary qualifications for this job?
Q: Why did you choose _________ as your major/subjects?
Q: Are you willing to travel?
Q: What kind of work interests you the most?
Q: What kind of work interests you the least?
Q: How would your references describe you?
Q: Name five characteristics that describe you.
Q: Are you a self-starter? Please provide specific examples.
Q: How does your present position differ from past ones?
Q: What would you like to avoid completely in your next job?
Q: What have you done to prepare yourself to be a supervisor?
Q: What aspect of supervision do you find the most difficult?
Q: How do you motivate employees?
Q: What are the competitive challenges in Human Resource Management?
Q: Explain managing changes in HRM?
Q: Tell me about a suggestion you have made?
Q: Have you ever been asked to leave a position?
Q: What is your philosophy towards work?
Q: What have you done to improve your knowledge in the last year?
Q: What do co-workers say about you?
Q: What experience do you have in this field?
Q: Tell me about the most fun you have had on the job?
Q: What has been your biggest professional disappointment?
Q: Describe your work ethic?
Q: Tell me about a time when you helped resolve a dispute between others?
Q: How do you propose to compensate for your lack of experience?
Q: If you were hiring a person for this job, what would you look for?
Q: What has disappointed you about a job?
Q: Why do you want to work in HR and why is confidentiality so important?
Q: Our agency has employees whose workweek is Tuesday through Saturday. This year Veteran’s Day falls on a Saturday. Are these employees entitled to holiday time off?
Q: May a deceased employee remain on the payroll to exhaust her annual leave accrual?
Q: Does an agency have to provide an employee with time off if the employee is donating blood?
Q: Do I have to use accrued leave if I serve as a bone marrow or organ donor?
Q: What have you done to prepare yourself to be a supervisor?
Q: How do you motivate employees?
Q: What aspect of supervision do you find the most difficult?
Q: What is the most important quality a supervisor should have?
Q: How do you decide what to delegate and to whom?
Q: Tell me about a time when you had to go above and beyond the call of duty to get a job done.
Q: Describe a situation in which you were able to use persuasion to successfully convince someone to see things your way.
Q: Tell me about your worst "nightmare" project. What went wrong and what did you do? What did you learn from this situation?
Q: Assume you are a supervisor and one of your employees consistently arrives late to work. What action would you take?
Q: It is 5:00pm on a Friday. You're working on a tight deadline for your Manager, but the Director suddenly asks you to drop everything and deal with a customer complaint. What do you do?
Q: A co-worker tells you in confidence that he suspects another colleague of stealing. What would your actions be?
Q: While working at the front desk, please describe a situation where a client has reacted in a negative or threatening manner. How did you deal with the situation?
Q: If you could change one (managerial) decision you made during the past two years, what would that be?
Q: What would you do if someone asked you to do something unethical?
Q: Have you ever had to resolve a conflict with a co-worker or client? How did you resolve it?
Q: How do you feel about your accomplishments to date?
Q: What are you satisfied with?
Q: If you had a chance to make a change, what would you do differently?
Q: What are some of the frustrations that you want to avoid in a new job?
Q: How are you organizational skills?
Q: What type of training program helps new employees understand a variety of jobs and their interrelationships?
Q: What are simulations, computer-based or non-computer-based, that attempt to duplicate selected factors in a particular business situation, which the participants then manipulate called?
Q: What are effective training approaches that utilize devices or programs replicating tasks away from the job site?
Q: What helps ensure that a firm improves its ability to perform by identifying needed capabilities and the type of people needed to perform in an ever-evolving business environment?
Q: Do you prefer to work alone, or do you work better in groups?
Q: What is the Career Scope for the person working in HR.
Q: What is the basic concept of Team Buildind? How it can be useful for the Development of the company?
Q: If a person who is physically Disable and is working in HR Wants to migrate to some foreign country. Is he capable of doing so?
Q: What kind of supervision of other workers have you been responsible for?
Q: What experience do you have in coaching and mentoring employees?
Q: Of all the jobs you ve had, which did you like the least? Why?
Q: How would you rate your ability to prioritize work and set goals?
Top Interview Questions- Engineering
The candidates looking for jobs in engineering sector have to have a thorough understanding of their field. Interviewers ask questions based on the specific trades pursued by the candidate. Here are some of the general questions asked by the interviewers in the respective engineering fields. General Questions for All Engineers
Q: Describe yourself.
Q: Tell me about your educational background?
Q: What do you know about the organization?
Q: How would you do justice to the job?
Q: What are your weaknesses?
Q: What are your salary expectations for this job?
Q: What are the projects you have ever undertaken?
Q: What do you do in leisure?
Q: Do you want to ask anything from us?
Q: What are your hobbies?
Q: Why do you want to go into this field?
QQ: Describe one of the technical problems you had to solve.
Q: How would you develop yourself in this type of Structural Engineer role?
Q: Do you have any experience in developing technical specifications?
Q: What are the differences between vector and array?
Q: What experience have you had in writing technical materials?
Q: What is the thing you dislike the most in the world? Why?
Q: What does success mean to you?
Q: How do you define failure?
Q: How do you define arrogance? Are you arrogant?
Q: What role are you ready to take in a group?
Q: Who has been an inspiration for you?
Q: What is more important to you, money or success?
Q: What were some of your most important engineering achievements?
Q: Can you name some engineers that you knew or worked with?
Q: Can you describe how engineering generally has changed during your lifetime?
Q: Why do you want this job?
Q: Why do you want to work with this organization?
Q: Where do you see yourself five years down the line?
Q: What are your strengths?
Q: How do you pursue your hobbies?
Q: What has been your greatest achievement?
Q: What has been your greatest failure?
Q: How do you take challenges?
Q: Are you willing to work in shifts?
Q: What is the thing you like the most in the world? Why?
Q: What kind of person are you?
Q: Rate yourself on a scale of 10.
Q: Why did you choose _________ as your major/subjects?
Q: Are you willing to travel?
Q: Why are you leaving the organization you work for?
Q: How much time do you need to join the organization?
Q: Are you aggressive?
Q: What makes you a good manager?
Q: What motivates you the most?
Q: What skills and abilities do you have?
Q: Is there anything you want to ask?
Q: Design a four-input NAND gate using only two-input NAND gates.
Q: What experience have you had in working with field forces?
Q: Tell us about your experience with computer-aided design software.
Q: Where were your early contributions in your engineering work — planning, design, construction, operation, writing, teaching, and research?
General Questions for Civil Engineers
Q: According to you, what is the best design for building bridges?
Q: What are all the new civil construction materials and concepts?
Q: What is softsoil?
Q: Explain your project management?
Q: What are the CAD software versions you have used?
Q: What are some of the different ways to lay a foundation?
Q: Why is a manhole round?
Q: What is earth?
General Questions for Mechanical Engineers
Q: Explain about power technology?
Q: How is SAP useful for mechanical engineers?
Q: What are the different types of bearings? What are different types of rivets?
Q: What is the applicability of mechanical engineering in the industry?
Q: Explain Newton’s Laws.
Q: How is a factor of safety used in design?
Q: Interpret a Stress vs. Strain Curve.
Q: What types of equations or theories would be used in Static Failure?
Q: What types of equations would be used in Fatigue Failure?
Q: Which one is more efficient– a four stroke engine or a two stroke? Why?
General Questions for Electrical Engineers
Q: Why electrical engineering?
Q: What is the difference between earthing and grounding?
Q: Why transistors are not used as switching devices?
Q: Define watt.
Q: How are analog signals converted to digital signals?
Q: Explain the differences between a transistor and capacitor.
Q: Describe the functions of a diode.
Q: Describe the basic elements of an integrated circuit.
Q: What is a UPS?
Q: Describe how energy is stored in an inductor on electronic level.
Q: What is the difference between a Verilog task and a Verilog function?
Q: What is the difference between a Vera task and a Verilog task?
General Questions for Chemical Engineers
Q: How do you go about mixing two unknown chemicals?
Q: How would you separate water and benzene?
Q: How do you calculate the sonic velocity of a gas stream?
Q: What is unit operation?
Q: What are the effects of oils on the properties of Polyolefins?
General Questions for Computer Science Engineers
Q: Write a function that returns the factorial of a number.
Q: What are data structures?
Q: What are condition statements?
Q: Define exception handling with example.
Q: Name the operating systems you are familiar with.
Q: What is the difference between a bug and a virus?
Q: What is hyper threading (HT technology)?
Q: Which programming language would you choose to make accounting software and why?
Q: What is a database? How does it differ from data marts and data warehouses?
Q: Explain the projects undertaken by you.
Q: Write the code to sort an array of integers.
Q: What is the difference between recursion and iteration?
Q: What are the similarities between recursion and iteration?
Q: What are constructors?
