What Will the Interviewer Ask?

General questions

1. Tell me (us) about yourself

2. Why do you want to work for our company?

3. What is your Understanding about the nature of the job under consideration?

4. What jobs have you held? How were they obtained and why did you leave?

5. What courses did you like best? Least? Why?

6. What do you know about our company?

7. What do you think determines a person’s progress in a good company?

8. Do you prefer working with others or by yourself? Why?

9. What kind of boss do you prefer? What kind of work environment?

10. What have you learned from some of the jobs you have held?

11. Can you get recommendations from previous employers?

12. What interests you about out product or service?

13. What are your special abilities and strong points?

14. Do you consider your education valuable?

15. Do you believe that your GPA is a good indication of your potential?

16. What areas/skills do you need to improve?

17. What are your short and long range goals, and how are you preparing yourself to achieve them?

18. What skills or abilities have you gained from your past employment?

19. What qualifications do you have that make you think you will be successful in this position?

20. What accomplishment has given you the greatest satisfaction?

21. What motivates you?

22. How well do you work under pressure? Give an example.

Technical questions

1. Name 5 characteristics of successful e-commerce sites?

2. What experience have you had with help desk operations?

3. What skills would you look for in staffing a help desk position?

4. Tell me about your experience in developing or maintaining an internet site

5. What is an Intranet?

6. What are the benefits of an Intranet?

7. Explain what a local area network and wide area network are? What experience do you have in implementing and supporting email applications?

8. What is a router?

9. Define bandwidth.

10. In what ways have you used personal computers in your previous work?

11. What has been your experience in developing applications?

12. Tell me about a complex programming assignment you have completed.

13. What is the system development life cycle?

14. What are the physical and electronic security considerations in supporting the information technology requirements if an organization?

15. You have been asked to justify the purchase of a new automated system. What considerations will you include?

16. You have been asked to evaluate a new automated system. What steps will you take?

17. What are the advantages and disadvantages of a client server application versus a mainframe based application?

18. What are some of the reasons for automating a process or procedure?

19. How would you go about determining the user requirements for a new information system?

20. Under what circumstances would an organization consider migrating from an older version of software to an updated version?

21. What are the benefits of establishing hardware and software standards?

22. Your assignment is to automate a clerical process. What steps will you take?

23. Tell me about your experience working on a team of technical and non-technical employees.

Behavioral Based Questions

1. Tell me about a politically complex work situation in which you were involved and how you dealt with it?

2. Tell me about a situation when you had to convince someone or get someone to see your point of view.

3. Tell me about a situation where you took the initiative and did something productive with an otherwise unfruitful situation.

4. Give me an example when you had to sell an idea to somebody.

5. Give me an example when your productivity helped your company in solving a problem.

6. Tell me about a time when you had a major disagreement with your boss and how you handled the situation.

7. Tell me about the time when you had to persuade others to follow your plan of action.

8. Describe a team project in which you demonstrated your ability to interact with team members and your contribution to the project.

9. What would you do if you were in a situation that your supervisor gives you an urgent task while you are working at another project with an approaching deadline.

10. Describe a high-pressure situation that you had to handle at work.

11. There are occasions when we have to deal with an internal/external client who has an unreasonable request. What do you do?

12. Describe for me a time when your ability to listen helped you to communicate more effectively.

13. Describe a time when you made an error in judgment and your decision-making skills were not effective.

14. Tell me about a time when you had to analyze information and make a recommendation. What was your reasoning? What kind of thought process did you go through?

15. What, in your opinion, are the key ingredients in building and maintaining successful business relationships? Give me examples of how you have made this work for you.