Top 20 Interview Questions

A. Personal Motivation

1. What motivates you in your job? What do you like and dislike about your current job?  

2. Please share a situation where you’ve really gone to use up all your ability and energy to accomplish your task.

3. What was the biggest mistake you have done in your career; what you did afterwards to remedy it? Was the result positive?

4. What is your most important contribution in your current company?

5. Describe a situation where your motivation level is at a very low point. What was the situation? Why?

B. Analytical

6. From your point of view, what are the current challenges and issues in the industry that you’re currently in?

7. What is the biggest challenge in your current employment?

8. What can you contribute (short term & long term) if you join our organization?

9. Who do you see yourself 5 years down the road? How do you plan to achieve that?

10. What you’ve learnt in your current employment?

C. Project Management

11. Explain about the recent project that you have been involved recently. What were your roles and responsibilities in this project? What was the biggest challenge during the completion of this project? Is the project successful?

12. What is the most challenging aspect working in a team? Why?

13. What are you key strengths and weaknesses? What do you do in order to overcome your weakness? How effective is your action?

14. How do you describe your working style?

15. How would your boss describe you?

D. Leadership and Conflict Resolution

16. Describe a situation where you were in the middle of a conflict and what were your actions to resolve the conflict? Indicate the results of your actions.

17. What do you think the most important quality that a leader needs to have and how you would measure the effectiveness of this trait?

18. Given an authority, what would you change in your current organization?

19. How would you approach your superior that has made a decision where you strongly believe is not the right one? Give a specific example of the situation you have encountered.

20. What is your biggest non-academic achievement that you’re mostly proud of?