INTERVIEW QUESTIONS 2021

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1. Tell me about yourself.

2. What are your greatest strengths?
3. What are your weaknesses?
4. Tell me something about yourself that is not on your resume.
5. Tell me about an achievement you’re really proud of.
6. Why are you leaving your current job?
7. What do you know about this industry?
8. What do you know about our Company?
9. What brought you to [Company]?
10. Tell me about a time when a co-worker or colleague disagreed with you. What did
you do?
11. What would your boss and colleagues say about you?
12. Where do you see yourself in five years?
13. Why should we hire you?
14. Can you tell me about a time where you were in a challenging situation? How did
you overcome it?
15. How did you learn about the opening?"
16. Why do you want this job?
17. What do you consider to be your biggest professional achievement?
18. Tell me about the last time a co-worker or colleague got angry with you. What
happened?
19. Describe your dream job
20. What kind of work environment do you like best?
21. Tell me about the toughest decision you had to make in the last six months.
22. What is your leadership style?
23. Tell me about a time you disagreed with a decision. What did you do?
24. Tell me how you think other people would describe you.
25. What can we expect from you in your first three months?
26. What do you like to do outside of work?
27. What makes you unique?
28. What interests you about this role?
29. What motivates you?
30. What interests you about this role?
31. What are your goals for the future?
32. Can you tell me about a difficult work situation and how you overcame it?
33. What did you like most about your last position?
34. What did you like least about your last position?
35. How do you handle stress?
36. What is your greatest accomplishment?
37. Tell me about your work experience
38. How do you define success?
39. How do you work under pressure?
40. What can you bring to the company?

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41. How can you handle work conflict?
42. Tell me about a time you had to collaborate with a coworker who was difficult to
work with.
43. Tell me about a time you went above and beyond for work.
44. Tell me about a time you had to choose something else over doing a good job.
45. Describe a situation where you weren’t satisfied with your job. What could have
made it better?
46. Tell me about a time you reached a big goal at work. How did you reach it?
47. Describe a situation where you saw a problem and took steps to fix it.
48. Tell me about a time you had to collaborate with a coworker who was tough to
please.
49. Describe a time when you had too many to do items on your list. How did you solve
the problem?
50. Describe your biggest work failure. How did you handle it?
51. Describe your work ethic.
52. What can you do for us those other candidates can't?
53. Tell me about a time you had to complete something on a tight deadline. What was
the project? Who were you working with? What was the end goal, and how did you
approach this challenge?
54. Describe how you've worked to achieve a specific goal in the past. What was the
goal? What steps did you take to achieve it? How did you benchmark success?
55. Give me an example of a situation where you disagreed with a coworker or peer.
What was the cause of the disagreement? What was your approach to resolving it?
What was the outcome?
56. What was the last project you led, and what was its outcome?
57. Give me an example of a time that you felt you went above and beyond the call of
duty at work.
58. Can you describe a time when your work was criticized?
59. Have you ever been on a team where someone was not pulling their own weight?
How did you handle it?
60. Tell me about a time when you had to give someone difficult feedback. How did you
handle it?
61. What is your greatest failure, and what did you learn from it?
62. How do you handle working with people who annoy you?
63. If I were your supervisor and asked you to do something that you disagreed with,
what would you do?
64. What was the most difficult period in your life, and how did you deal with it?
65. Give me an example of a time you did something wrong. How did you handle it?
66. Tell me about a time where you had to deal with conflict on the job.
67. If you were at a business lunch and you ordered a rare steak and they brought it to
you well done, what would you do?
68. If you found out your company was doing something against the law, like fraud,
what would you do?
69. What assignment was too difficult for you, and how did you resolve the issue?
70. What's the most difficult decision you've made in the last two years and how did you
come to that decision?

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71. Describe how you would handle a situation if you were required to finish multiple
tasks by the end of the day, and there was no conceivable way that you could finish
them.
72. What are you looking for in terms of career development?
73. How do you want to improve yourself in the next year?
74. What kind of goals would you have in mind if you got this job?
75. If I were to ask your last supervisor to provide you additional training or exposure,
what would she suggest?
76. How long will it take for you to make a significant contribution?
77. What do you see yourself doing within the first 30 days of this job?
78. If selected for this position, can you describe your strategy for the first 90 days?
79. How would you describe your work style?
80. What would be your ideal working environment?
81. What do you look for in terms of culture—structured or entrepreneurial?
82. Give examples of ideas you've had or implemented.
83. What techniques and tools do you use to keep yourself organized?
84. If you had to choose one, would you consider yourself a big-picture person or a
detail-oriented person?
85. Tell me about your proudest achievement.
86. Who was your favorite manager and why?
87. What do you think of your previous boss?
88. Was there a person in your career who really made a difference?
89. What kind of personality do you work best with and why?
90. What are you most proud of?
91. What do you like to do?
92. What are your lifelong dreams?
93. What do you ultimately want to become?
94. What is your personal mission statement?
95. What are three positive things your last boss would say about you?
96. What negative thing would your last boss say about you?
97. What three character traits would your friends use to describe you?
98. What are three positive character traits you don't have?
99. If you were interviewing someone for this position, what traits would you look for?
100. List five words that describe your character.
101. Who has impacted you most in your career and how?
102. What is your greatest fear?
103. What is your biggest regret and why?
104. What's the most important thing you learned in school?
105. Why did you choose your major?
106. What will you miss about your present/last job?
107. What is your greatest achievement outside of work?
108. What are the qualities of a good leader? A bad leader?
109. Do you think a leader should be feared or liked?
110. How do you feel about taking no for an answer?
111. How would you feel about working for someone who knows less than you?
112. How do you think I rate as an interviewer?
113. Tell me one thing about yourself you wouldn't want me to know.

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114. Tell me the difference between good and exceptional.
115. What kind of car do you drive?
116. There's no right or wrong answer, but if you could be anywhere in the world
right now, where would you be?
117. What's the last book you read?
118. What magazines do you subscribe to?
119. What's the best movie you've seen in the last year?
120. What would you do if you won the lottery?
121. Who are your heroes?
122. What do you like to do for fun?
123. What do you do in your spare time?

BRAINTEASERS:
 How many times do a clock's hands overlap in a day?
 How would you weigh a plane without a scale?
 Tell me 10 ways to use a pencil other than writing.
 Sell me this pencil.
 If you were an animal, which one would you want to be?
 Why is there fuzz on a tennis ball?
 If you could choose one superhero power, what would it be and why?
 If you could get rid of any one of the US states, which one would you get rid of and
why?
 With your eyes closed, tell me step-by-step how to tie my shoes.

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