Interview Questions

50 Most Common Interview Questions
 

1.  What are your strengths?

2.  What are your weaknesses?

3.  Why are you interested in working for [insert company name here]?

4.  Where do you see yourself in 5 years? 10 years?

5.  Why do you want to leave your current company?

6.  Why was there a gap in your employment between [insert date] and [insert date]?

7.  What can you offer us that someone else can not?

8.  What are three things your former manager would like you to improve on?

9.  Are you willing to relocate?

10.  Are you willing to travel?

11.  Tell me about an accomplishment you are most proud of.

12.  Tell me about a time you made a mistake.

13.  What is your dream job?

14.  How did you hear about this position?

15.  What would you look to accomplish in the first 30 days/60 days/90 days on the job?

16.  Discuss your resume.

17.  Discuss your educational background.

18.  Describe yourself.

19.  Tell me how you handled a difficult situation.

20.  Why should we hire you?

21.  Why are you looking for a new job?

22.  Would you work holidays/weekends?

23.  How would you deal with an angry or irate customer?

24.  What are your salary requirements?

25.  Give a time when you went above and beyond the requirements for a project.

26.  Who are our competitors?

27.  What was your biggest failure?

28.  What motivates you?

29.  What’s your availability?

30.  Who’s your mentor?

31.  Tell me about a time when you disagreed with your boss.

32.  How do you handle pressure?

33.  What is the name of our CEO?

34.  What are your career goals?

35.  What gets you up in the morning?

36.  What would your direct reports say about you?

37.  What were your bosses’ strengths/weaknesses?

38.  If I called your boss right now and asked him what is an area that you could improve

       on, what would he/she say?

39.  Are you a leader or a follower?

40.  What was the last book you’ve read for fun?

41.  What are your co-worker pet peeves?

42.  What are your hobbies?

43.  What is your favorite website?

44.  What makes you uncomfortable?

45.  What are some of your leadership experiences?

46.  How would you fire someone?

47.  What do you like the most and least about working in this industry?

48.  Would you work 40+ hours a week?

49.  What questions haven’t I asked you?

50.  What questions do you have for me?

 Behavioral Interview Questions

1.  What was the last project you headed up, and what was its outcome?

2.  Give me an example of a time that you felt you went above and beyond the call of duty at work.

3.  Can you describe a time when your work was criticized?

4.  Have you ever been on a team where someone was not pulling their own weight? How did you

     handle it?

5.  Tell me about a time when you had to give someone difficult feedback. How did you handle it?

6.  What is your greatest failure, and what did you learn from it?

7.  What irritates you about other people, and how do you deal with it?

8.  If I were your supervisor and asked you to do something that you disagreed with, what would you

     do?

9.  What was the most difficult period in your life, and how did you deal with it?

10.  Give me an example of a time you did something wrong. How did you handle it?

11.  What irritates you about other people, and how do you deal with it?

12.  Tell me about a time where you had to deal with conflict on the job.

13.  If you found out your company was doing something against the law, like fraud, what would you

       do?

14.  What assignment was too difficult for you, and how did you resolve the issue?

15.  What's the most difficult decision you've made in the last two years and how did you come to that

       decision?

16.  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.

 
“About You” Interview Questions
 

1.  Tell me about your proudest achievement. 

2.  Who was your favorite manager and why? 

3.  What do you think of your previous boss?

4.  Was there a person in your career who really made a difference?

5.  What kind of personality do you work best with and why? 

6.  What are you most proud of?

7.  What do you like to do? 

8.  What are your lifelong dreams? 

9.  What do you ultimately want to become?

10.  What is your personal mission statement?   

11.  What are three positive things your last boss would say about you? 

12.  What negative thing would your last boss say about you?

13.  What three character traits would your friends use to describe you?

14.  What are three positive character traits you don't have? 

15.  If you were interviewing someone for this position, what traits would you look for? 

16.  List five words that describe your character.  

17.  Who has impacted you most in your career and how?

18.  What is your greatest fear?

19.  What is your biggest regret and why?  

20.  What's the most important thing you learned in school?

21.  Why did you choose your major? 

22.  What will you miss about your present/last job? 

23.  What is your greatest achievement outside of work?

24.  What are the qualities of a good leader? A bad leader? 

25.  Do you think a leader should be feared or liked?    

26.  How do you feel about taking no for an answer? 

27.  How would you feel about working for someone who knows less than you?

28.  How do you think I rate as an interviewer?

29.  Tell me one thing about yourself you wouldn't want me to know. 

30.  Tell me the difference between good and exceptional. 

31.  What kind of car do you drive?

32.  There's no right or wrong answer, but if you could be anywhere in the world right now, where

       would you be?

33.  What's the last book you read? 

34.  What magazines do you subscribe to?

35.  What's the best movie you've seen in the last year? 

36.  What would you do if you won the lottery?

37.  Who are your heroes?

38.  What do you like to do for fun?

39.  What do you do in your spare time?

40.  What is your favorite memory from childhood?

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