This document contains 55 common interview questions that assess a candidate's self-awareness, leadership experience, problem-solving skills, ability to learn new skills, work experience, motivation, and preparation for the role. The questions range from telling about oneself and one's strengths/weaknesses to giving examples of goals achieved, mistakes made, leadership demonstrated, and challenges overcome at previous jobs.
This document contains 55 common interview questions that assess a candidate's self-awareness, leadership experience, problem-solving skills, ability to learn new skills, work experience, motivation, and preparation for the role. The questions range from telling about oneself and one's strengths/weaknesses to giving examples of goals achieved, mistakes made, leadership demonstrated, and challenges overcome at previous jobs.
This document contains 55 common interview questions that assess a candidate's self-awareness, leadership experience, problem-solving skills, ability to learn new skills, work experience, motivation, and preparation for the role. The questions range from telling about oneself and one's strengths/weaknesses to giving examples of goals achieved, mistakes made, leadership demonstrated, and challenges overcome at previous jobs.
3. Can you tell us about your weaknesses? 4. Why should we hire you? 5. Where do you see yourself in 5 years? 6. Why would you quit your job? 7. How would your last boss describe you? 8. Why Are You Interested in This Internship/Company/Industry, and What Skills or Experiences Do You Hope to Gain? 9. What is the Best Team You’ve Ever Been a Part of, and why? /What’s Your Ideal Team? 10. Tell Us About a Situation Where You Took Initiative or Took on a Leadership Role. 11. Tell Us About an Assignment or Project from Start to Finish—What Went Well, and What Would You Have Done Differently? 12. What’s One Challenge You Have Faced, and How Did You Overcome It? 13. Tell Us About a Time You Had to Learn Something Completely New. 14. Can You Tell Us About a Project or Accomplishment You are Proud of, and why? 15. Give me an example of an important goal which you had set in the past and tell me about your success in reaching it 16. Describe sometimes when you were not very satisfied or pleased with your performance. 17. Tell me about a time when you worked under close supervision or extremely loose supervision. (How did you handle that?) 18. Tell me about a time when you went above your duty to do a job. 19. Tell me about a time you disagreed with a decision that was made 20. Give me an example of an important goal which you had set in the past and tell me about your success in reaching it 21. Can you an example of a time that you were pleased with your work (what happened, what was your reaction) 22. Can you give an example of a time that you solved a problem 23. Can you give an example of a time when you had trouble at work/school 24. Can you tell me about a time that you disagreed with your supervisor/teacher 25. What would you do if you had a bad boss? 26. What kind of supervisor would you like to work with? 27. How can you describe a good work environment? 28. What do you describe as a satisfying job? 29. What does motivation mean to you? 30. How can you describe success in your job? 31. How do you describe your dream company? 32. What is your definition of failure? 33. How do you set your job goals? 34. How do you deal deadlines on multiple tasks? 35. Tell me about a time you led or worked in a team 36. Describe a situation where you solved a problem 37. Describe a situation where you showed leadership 38. Give an example of a time when you spearheaded a project 39. Describe a time when you made a mistake 40. How do you minimize the risk of errors in your work 41. How do you deal with stress? 42. How do you plan to ensure you complete several tasks effectively? 43. What was the biggest change you had to deal with? How did you handle it? 44. How do you build relationships with other members of your team? 45. Describe the internet to someone that is just waking up from 30 years coma 46. There are three boxes, one contains only apples, one contains only oranges, and one contains both apples and oranges. The boxes have been incorrectly labeled such that no label identifies the actual contents of its box. Opening just one box, and without looking in the box, you take out one piece of fruit. By looking at the fruit, how can you immediately label all of the boxes correctly? 47. Is It Better to Be Perfect and Late, Or Good and On Time? 48. "Who Is the Smartest Person You Know Personally? Why?" 49. Why Are Manhole Covers Round and Not Square? 50. “Tracy’s mother had 4 children. The first child was named April, the second was named May, the third was named June. What was the fourth child called?” 51. How many times a day does a clock's hands overlap? 52. How do you test a simple calculator? 53. You are in a room with three light switches, each of which controls one of three light bulbs in the next room. You need to determine which switch controls which bulb. All lights are off to begin, and you can’t see into one room from the other. You can inspect the other room only once. How can you find out which switches are connected to which bulbs? 54. Tell us about what you have done to prepare for this job? 55. What was your most significant accomplishment in your previous job?