Complete: List of Questions Job Interview

See the most common and 200+ List of Questions Job Interview

S. No. questions
1 Tell Me About Yourself.
2 Are you a morning person?
3 Are you more of a leader or a follower?
4 Are you overqualified for this role?
5 Are You Planning on Having Children?
6 Are You Willing to Relocate?
7 Are you willing to relocate?  
8 Are you willing to travel?
9 Can you describe a time when your work was criticized? 
10 Can you discuss your salary history?
11 Can you explain these gaps in your resume?
12 Can You Explain Why You Changed Career Paths?
13 Can you walk us through your resume?
14 Describe a time when you disagreed with your boss.
15 Describe a time when you had to give a person difficult feedback.
16 Describe a time when your boss was wrong. How did you handle the situation?
17 Describe a time when your work was criticized?
18 Describe a time you chose to not help a teammate.
19 Describe a time you got angry at work.
20 Describe a time you went above and beyond at work.
21 Describe a time you went out of your way to help somebody.
22 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. 
23 Describe your perfect company.
24 Describe your top three technical skills?
25 Describe your work style.
26 Do You Consider Yourself Successful?
27 Do you ever take your work home with you?
28 Do you find it difficult to adapt to new situations?
29 Do you have a mentor?
30 Do you have a personal mission statement?
31 Do you have any questions for me?
32 Do You Have Any Questions for Us?
33 Do you prefer to work alone or on a team?
34 Do you prefer working alone or in a team environment?
35 Do you think a leader should be feared or liked?     
36 Do you think you could have done better in your last job?
37 Explain why you’ve had so many jobs?
38 Give examples of ideas you’ve had or implemented.
39 Give me an example of a time that you felt you went above and beyond the call of duty at work. 
40 Give me an example of a time you did something wrong. How did you handle it? 
41 Have you ever been on a team where someone was not pulling their own weight? How did you handle it? 
42 How Did You Hear About This Position?
43 How Do You Deal With Pressure or Stressful Situations?
44 How do you feel about taking no for an answer?  
45 How do you handle working with people who annoy you? 
46 How do you keep yourself organized?
47 How Do You Like to Be Managed?
48 How Do You Plan to Achieve Your Career Goals?
49 How Do You Prioritize Your Work?
50 How do you think I rate as an interviewer? 
51 How do you want to improve yourself in the next year?
52 How do you want to improve yourself in the upcoming year?
53 How long do you expect to work for this company?
54 How long will it take for you to make a significant contribution?
55 How many hours per week do you normally work?
56 How Many Tennis Balls Can You Fit Into a Limousine?
57 How many times do a clock’s hands overlap in a day?
58 How much do you expect to be earning in five years?
59 How would a good friend describe you?
60 How would you deal with an angry or irate customer?
61 How would you describe your work style? 
62 How would you feel about reporting to a person younger than you?
63 How would you feel about working for someone who knows less than you? 
64 How would you fire someone?
65 How would you go about establishing your credibility quickly with the team?
66 How would you weigh a plane without a scale?
67 How Would Your Boss and Coworkers Describe You?
68 If I were to ask your last supervisor to provide you additional training or exposure, what would she suggest?
69 If I were to give you this salary you requested but let you write your job description for the next year, what would it say?
70 If I were your supervisor and asked you to do something that you disagreed with, what would you do?
71 If selected for this position, can you describe your strategy for the first 90 days?
72 If you could choose one superhero power, what would it be and why? 
73 If you could get rid of any one of the US states, which one would you get rid of and why? 
74 If you found out your company was doing something against the law, like fraud, what would you do? 
75 If you had to choose one, would you consider yourself a big-picture person or a detail-oriented person?  
76 If You Were an Animal, Which One Would You Want to Be?
77 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? 
78 If you were interviewing someone for this position, what traits would you look for?  
79 If you won a $10 million lottery, would you still work?
80 Is There Anything Else You’d Like Us to Know?
81 List five words that describe your character.   
82 Sell Me This Pen.
83 Sell me this pencil.
84 Tell me 10 ways to use a pencil other than writing.
85 Tell Me About a Challenge or Conflict You’ve Faced at Work, and How You Dealt With It.
86 Tell me about a time when you had to give someone difficult feedback. How did you handle it? 
87 Tell me about a time where you had to deal with conflict on the job. 
88 Tell Me About a Time You Demonstrated Leadership Skills.
89 Tell Me About a Time You Failed.
90 Tell Me About a Time You Made a Mistake.
91 Tell me about how you dealt with a difficult challenge in the workplace.
92 Tell me about the last mistake you made.
93 Tell me about your proudest achievement.  
94 Tell me about yourself.
95 Tell me one thing about yourself you wouldn’t want me to know.  
96 Tell me the difference between good and exceptional.  
97 There’s no right or wrong answer, but if you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you be? 
98 Was there a person in your career who really made a difference? 
99 What are some positive things your last boss would say about you?
100 What are the qualities of a good leader? A bad leader?  
101 What are three positive character traits you don’t have?  
102 What are three positive things your last boss would say about you?  
103 What are three skills or traits you wish you had?
104 What Are You Looking for in a New Position?
105 What are you looking for in terms of career development? 
106 What are you most proud of? 
107 What Are You Passionate About?
108 What are your coworker pet peeves?
109 What Are Your Greatest Strengths?
110 What are your lifelong dreams?  
111 What Are Your Pet Peeves?
112 What Are Your Salary Expectations?
113 What are your strengths?
114 What are your weaknesses?
115 What assignment was too difficult for you, and how did you resolve the issue? 
116 What attracted you to this company?
117 What Can You Bring to the Company?
118 What can you do for us that other candidates can’t? 
119 What causes are you passionate about?
120 What character traits would your friends use to describe you?
121 What commonly accepted view do you disagree with and why?
122 What did you like least about your last job?
123 What differentiates you from our other candidates?
124 What Do You Consider to Be Your Weaknesses?
125 What do you do in your spare time?
126 What do you do in your spare time? 
127 What do you know about our company?
128 What do you know about our company? 
129 What do you know about our industry?
130 What do you know about this industry?  
S. No. questions
131 What Do You Like Least About Your Job?
132 What do you like most about yourself?
133 What do you like to do for fun? 
134 What Do You Like to Do Outside of Work?
135 What do you like to do?  
136 What do you look for in terms of culture—structured or entrepreneurial? 
137 What do you really think about your previous boss?
138 What do you see yourself doing within the first 30 days of this job?
139 What do you think of your previous boss? 
140 What Do You Think We Could Do Better or Differently?
141 What do you ultimately want to become? 
142 What do you want to accomplish in the first 30 days of this job?
143 What do you want to accomplish in the first 90 days of this job?
144 What has been the most rewarding experience of your career thus far?
145 What is a book that everyone needs to read and why?
146 What is one negative thing your last boss say about you?
147 What is the best job you ever had?
148 What is the name of our CEO?
149 What is your biggest regret and why?
150 What is your biggest regret and why?   
151 What is your favorite memory from childhood?
152 What is your favorite memory from childhood? 
153 What is your favorite movie of all time and why?
154 What is your favorite website?
155 What is your greatest achievement outside of work?  
156 What is your greatest failure, and what did you learn from it? 
157 What is your greatest fear?
158 What is your greatest fear? 
159 What is your greatest personal achievement?
160 What Is Your Greatest Professional Achievement?
161 What is your ideal company size?
162 What is your ideal working environment?
163 What is your least favorite thing about yourself?
164 What is your management style?
165 What is your personal mission statement?   
166 What is your proudest achievement?
167 What kind of car do you drive? 
168 What kind of goals would you have in mind if you got this job? 
169 What kind of personality do you work best with and why?  
170 What magazines do you subscribe to? 
171 What makes you uncomfortable?
172 What Makes You Unique?
173 What Motivates You?
174 What negative thing would your last boss say about you? 
175 What Other Companies Are You Interviewing With?
176 What qualities make a good leader?
177 What questions haven’t I asked you?
178 What salary are you seeking?
179 What Should I Know That’s Not on Your Resume?
180 What techniques and tools do you use to keep yourself organized?   
181 What three character traits would your friends use to describe you? 
182 What three things are most important to you in your job?
183 What Type of Work Environment Do You Prefer?
184 What was the last project you led and what was the outcome?
185 What was the last project you led, and what was its outcome? 
186 What was the most difficult period in your life, and how did you deal with it? 
187 What was your greatest failure, and what did you learn from it?
188 What were the responsibilities of your last position?  
189 What will you miss about your present/last job?  
190 What will you miss about your previous job?
191 What would be your ideal working environment? 
192 What would you do if you won the lottery? 
193 What Would Your First 30, 60, or 90 Days Look Like in This Role?
194 What’s a Time You Disagreed With a Decision That Was Made at Work?
195 What’s the biggest lesson you’ve learned from a mistake you’ve made?
196 What’s the last book you read?
197 What’s Your Current Salary?
198 What’s Your Dream Job?
199 What’s Your Management Style?
200 What’s Your Work Style?
201 What’s the best movie you’ve seen in the last year?  
202 What’s the last book you read?  
203 What’s the most difficult decision you’ve made in the last two years and how did you come to that decision?
204 What’s the most important thing you learned in school? 
205 What’s your ideal company?
206 What’s your salary history?
207 When Can You Start?
208 When were you most satisfied in a previous job?
209 When were you most satisfied in your job?
210 Where do you see yourself in 10 years?
211 Where Do You See Yourself in Five Years?
212 Where would you like to be in your career five years from now?
213 Who are our competitors?
214 Who are your heroes?
215 Who has impacted you most in your career and how? 
216 Who has impacted you most in your career?
217 Who was your favorite manager and why?
218 Who was your favorite manager and why?  
219 Why are you changing careers?
220 Why Are You Leaving Your Current Job?
221 Why are you leaving your present job?
222 Why are you the right person for this job?
223 Why did you choose your major?
224 Why did you choose your major?  
225 Why Do You Want This Job?
226 Why Do You Want to Work at This Company?
227 Why is our company interesting to you?
228 Why is there fuzz on a tennis ball?
229 Why Should We Hire You?
230 Why Was There a Gap in Your Employment?
231 Why Were You Fired?
232 With your eyes closed, tell me step-by-step how to tie my shoes.
233 Would you be willing to work nights and weekends?
234 Would you ever lie for a company?

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