Interview Questions

Categories:

 Academic

 Extra-curricular

 General Knowledge

 Career

 Personal

 Behavioral/Case Studies

 Strengths and weaknesses

Academic

1. How was your aptitude test? Were you comfortable solving it?
2. What was your topic in the Group Discussion? What was your conclusion?
3. Did you prepare for the aptitude test? How did you find it?
4. Your percentage graph shows a rise. What did you do differently to increase your
percentage?
5. How do you go about / plan your studies?
6. Do you refer to only books while preparing for an exam?
7. How has Semester 7 been so far? Do you expect to do better than Semester 6?
8. What are you doing in your final year project? What’s the scope? Give examples of its
practical application.
9. How was your 7th Semester?
10. What expectations do you have from VII semester results?
11. Elaborate on your final year project.
12. What is new about your project? How did you get the idea of working on this project?
13. Are you sure your project will work?
14. How many people are there in your project group?
15. What is your role in your project?
16. What difficulties did you face while working on your project?
17. Tell me about your mini projects. What was special about each one?
18. Explain in detail any other project you have worked on, other than the final year project.
19. Which is your favorite subject in engineering and why? Elaborate on the applications of that
subject.
20. What subjects related to IT or software did you study in your curriculum and what is your
favorite subject?
21. Why did you opt for engineering?
22. Why did your percentage go down after the third semester?
23. Why are your marks so low?
24. Why did you score just in the range of 60-65 and not beyond 70?
25. Tell me the reason for your poor score in logic.
 26. Why did you take IT when you had taken electronics in the 12th standard?
27. Why is there is a drop in your percentages in semester 6? What lesson have you learnt from
that?
28. What is included in your CCNA course?
29. What were your subjects in the last semester?
30. Why did you do an English course at The Trinity College of London?
31. Are you planning to do any certificate course?
32. Have you given your GRE?
33. What is your academic score?
34. How much did you score in mechanics?
35. What are the reasons for your poor aggregate?
36. Say something about the in-plant training that you underwent (mentioned in your resume).
37. How do you prepare for your exams?
38. What is the reason for the gap in your studies?
39. What were your achievements in school?
40. Would you like to plan for an MBA in the near future?
41. Which programming languages do you know?
42. Do you know soldering? How did you learn it?
43. Do you have any achievement s during B.E.?
44. Tell me something about your knowledge of IT.
45. Are you aware of any software used in the medical field?
46. Your resume says that you have presented a technical paper at a conference. Elaborate.
How did you start writing the paper?
Extra-curricular
1. Your resume mentions that you were the event coordinator at a fest. What did you learnt
from that experience?
2. Tell me about the good experiences and the bad experiences during the event you
managed as an event coordinator.
3. What were your responsibilities as an event coordinator? What were the challenges you
faced?
4. Tell me about an event that you organized during your college festival.
5. Have you participated in any extra/co-curricular activities at college?
6. What did you do/learn in the Dale Carnegie training program?
7. Have you participated in any major technical fests? What were your experiences there?
8. Why do you like football?
9. Which games do you play?
10. How many dance forms do you know?
11. Have you organized any event in college?
12. Have you participated in any event in college?
13. You’ve worked as the publicity head of a committee. Elaborate on your responsibilities.
14. Have you have achieved something at the state or country level?
General Knowledge
1. What do you know about the Infosys CEO and Chairperson?
2. Can you elaborate on any Infosys projects?
3. What is a word in the English language which can be read in both ways?
4. What are your views on the current education system?
5. Why are manholes covers round?
6. How can you justify whatever you have written in the sheet provided?
7. What was the headline of yesterday’s newspaper?
8. What is business writing?
9. What are the various scams that happened last year?
10. Who is the telecom minister of India?
11. What do you know about wiki leaks?
12. What do you know about cricket?
13. What is the future scope of the IT sector?
14. Which technologies are you familiar with?
15. What makes Patni different from Infosys?
16. How you wish ‘good day’ in French?
17. What qualities should a good leader possess?
18. How will a spider travel from one corner of a solid cube to the other corner? Find out and
demonstrate the shortest path available.
19. How will you measure the distance between the ceiling and the ground, if there is a lamp hanging
from the ceiling in such a manner that the lamp is touching your head when you are standing on
the ground? The only object available is your watch. State the formula by which you arrived at the
answer.
20. Which newspaper do you read? What is the name of its publisher?
21. Can you elaborate on the details of the Adarsh, CWG and 2G spectrum scams?

Personal
1. Tell me about yourself/ introduce yourself.
2. Say something about your family background.
3. Tell me something about your parents.
4. Where does your father work?
5. Tell me something special about yourself.
6. Will you relocate to another state/city if necessary?
7. Are your parents willing to send you to any location?
8. What are your hobbies? How do you manage time for pursuing your hobbies?
9. Your resume says travelling is a hobby. Where have you travelled to?
10. Where do you stay? Do you enjoy travelling/commuting?
11. You live quite far, how do you manage your time?
12. What other interests do you have?
13. What is your most memorable time in the fourth year of engineering?
14. Do you have any siblings? What does he/she do?
15. Are you ready to work after office hours?
16. Tell me about the recent things you have done to diversify your interests.
17. Why don’t you consider joining your father’s business instead of applying here?
18. Your resume says that both of your parents are Chartered Accountants. So why did you take up
engineering?
19. What have you learnt from your school?
20. How did you reach here?
21. How is your day going?
22. How are you feeling right now?
23. At which club do you play football?
24. Why do you prefer football over cricket?
25. What kind of books do you read? What did you learn from those books?
26. Are you willing to work anywhere in India?
27. From when you can join our company?
28. Where is Sholapur? Why did you shift to Mumbai?
29. Describe the other side to yourself.
30. Your resume mentions that you are a ‘Black belt’ in karate. What is the meaning of the word
“Karate”?
31. How do you manage your studies, projects and extra- curricular activities?
32. Is there anything else you would like to share with us?
33. On a final note would you like to tell me something?
34. What makes wildlife photography interesting to you?
35. Who/What has been your source of inspiration for your academic achievements?
36. Who is your favorite tennis player? What is the reason behind him/her being your favorite player?
37. What are you planning to do in future?
38. Do you take the help of your friends and teachers?
39. What do you do in your free time?
40. What do you think you have learnt in the last few years?
Career
1. Why should we give you a programming job when you are studying to be an Electronics
Engineer?
2. What are your future plans?
3. What are your goals?
4. You are pursuing Biomedical Engineering. Why do you wish to change your field and work in
an IT company?
5. You are an EXTC student. Why are you applying for an IT job?
6. Why did you choose computer engineering?
7. Where do you find yourself other than working in an IT company?
8. Why do you want to change your branch?
9. How will you link Biomedical and I.T.?
10. Would you like to work as an outside member?
11. Why do you want to work for Patni?
12. What do you know about Patni/our company?
13. Why do you want to work for Bayer?
14. Why do you want to work for Infosys?
15. What are you expecting from Infosys?
16. Where would you like to see yourself in the next two/three/five years?
17. Why have you opted for I.T.? What are the strengths of the IT industry? Give examples.
18. Why are you shifting to the IT field?
19. Which is the area of interest?
20. What will you do if your long term goal clashes with the organization’s needs? Give an example
to demonstrate your answer.
21. Why did you choose to be an engineer as your interests are different?
22. Do you have any plans for pursuing an MBA?
23. Why do you want to join a software company?
24. Which department would you prefer working in?
25. What kind of job would you prefer?
26. Why did you opt for computer engineering? Why not any other field?
27. Why do you want to switch from hardware to software?
28. Why were you not selected by Infosys?
29. What if you are not selected by Patni?
30. What are your future plans in case if you are recruited here?
31. Do you know about our contract? You will have to sign a two-year contract will us. Will that be
OK?
32. Are you interested in pursuing higher studies abroad?
33. Which factors will you look for while selecting a company?
34. Why didn’t you plan to be a doctor?
35. Why did you choose the telecom sector?
36. Would you like to work as a programmer or a recession analyzer?

Strengths and Weaknesses

1. Do you think you have good organizing abilities? Give examples.
2. How do you manage you time for sports/extracurricular activities along with your studies?
3. What do your teachers think/say about you?
4. What are your strengths? Give practical examples.
5. What are your weaknesses? Give practical examples. How are you trying to overcome them?
6. Would you define yourself as a trustworthy person? Why?
7. Can you say that you are good at team work? Give practical examples.
8. Have you always been punctual?
9. How do think leadership is needed in a project group?
 10. Have you ever faced any difficulties? How did you overcome them?
11. For which achievement have you strived a lot?
12. Tell me something about yourself which is not there in your C.V.
13. Give me a situation when you were through stress and tension.
14. How did you tackle with any accident in life?
15. How were you able to cope with any setback in your life?
16. How do you tackle with your mistakes?
17. What are your achievements? Elaborate on them.
18. Do you do multitasking? Elaborate and give practical examples.
19. What are your major strengths and weaknesses?
20. Do you repeat your mistakes? How do you avoid repeating the same mistakes?
21. What ‘out-of-the-box’ things did you do?
22. Have you worked under pressure? Give an example.
23. How do you analyze the data you have?
24. Do you aim high? Do you have big dreams?
25. How would rate yourself in self-analysis on a scale of 1 to 10?
26. Will you promise to improve your logical reasoning skills?
27. Do you multitask? Give examples.
Behavioral / Case Studies
1. If you fall in a situation where you fail, would you be stuck with that failure or would you continue?
2. You have been allotted a work which is to be finished on the same day. But it is impossible to do
so. What will you do?
3. If there is conflict between you and your partner during a project how will you resolve the conflict?
4. Imagine a scenario in which you are a team leader and an employee is not ready to implement the
project which you have delegated. How would you deal with him? Consider him to be very efficient.
What you will do?
5. How will you meet crisis deadlines?
6. If you are the project manager of a group where three are working together but one is not
cooperating, how will you resolve the problem?
7. What will you do when you find that your goal does not match with the company?
8. What is the reason your friends cooperate with you?
9. Do you have any questions for me?
10. What will you do if one of your team members points out negative aspects about you?
11. Were you depressed when you got KTs? What did you do to improve that?
12. How will you convince your co-workers if their views don’t match with yours?
13. Imagine that you have been given a project of JAVA but you are a specialist at C++ and you don’t
know JAVA. What will you do?
14. What would you do if you face strong opposition?
15. If you are the leader of a group and your group members don’t want to work with you, what will you
do?
16. What would you do if things go wrong?
17. Do you think being an imaginative person helps in the technical field?
18. Describe an event/incident which you could term as ‘one of the harmonious memories in college’?
19. If you were in a situation wherein you cannot keep up with your work, how will you explain this to
your leader?
20. What would you do if you face strong opposition from your team members?
21. If you are given project base on new language what would you do?
22. Would you quit L&T if you were offered another job with a better pay?
23. If something is going wrong, then how will you overcome it?
24. How is your equation with the team members in your project? Have you ever faced any problems
while working with them?