Here’s a list of the most frequent 100 questions:
A) Elementary Interview Questions:
1. Say something about yourself.
2. Any particular strength you will bring to the job?
3. Do you have anyweaknesses? What are they?
4. Any particular reason or reasons why you want this job?
5. Have you set yourself any short-term or long-term target? Where do you see yourself five years from now?
6. What in your opinion would be amodel company?
7. What attracted you to this company?
8. Why should we hire you?
9. What did you like least about your last job?
10. When did your last job provide you the most satisfaction?
11. What do you think differentiates you from other candidates?
12. What were the responsibilities of your last position?
13. Why are you leaving your present job?
14. What do you know about this industry?
15. What do you know about our company?
16. If you were asked to work in other branches of the company, would you relocate?
17. Would you like to ask me anything?
B) Behavioral Interview Questions:
18. What was the last project you were put in charge of and what was its result?
19. Was there ever a time when an emergency made you work above and beyond the call of duty?
20. Describe a time when your work was not found to be up to expectations? How did you react?
21. Have you ever been on a team where someone was underperforming? What was your response?
22. Tell me about a time when you had to give someone critical feedback. What was the type of language you used?
23. What is your greatest failure, and what did you learn from it?
24. What do you find irksome about other people, and how do you deal with it?
25. If I were your supervisor and asked you to do something that youdon’t really like doing or something beyond your designated duties, would you do it?
26. What was the most difficult period in your life, and how did you deal with it?
27. Give me an example of a time you did something that caused the company monetary loss. How did you handle it?
28. How did you face up to a boss who you found to be domineering and unsympatheticto your problems?
29. In times of conflict at the job, what is your immediate reaction?
30. If you were at a business lunch and you ordered a meal and they brought one that you had not ordered, what would you do?
31. Ifyou found out that your company was involved in illegal activities, what would you do?
32. Have you found any assignment very hard or not possible for you to do? Did you not do it or did you find a way to do it?
33. What's the hardest decision you've had to make in the last two years? Explain the decision and why did you have to make it?
34. Describe how you would handle a situation where you are given virtually unachievable deadlines and you had multiple tasks that also needed urgent attention? What would you do?
C) Salary Questions:
35. What salary are you seeking?
36. What's the highest salary you have received?
37. Why do you think that you merit this salary?
D) Career Development Questions:
38. How do you think this job will help you in terms of career development?
39. Have you set yourself any career goals for the following year?
40. What kind of goals would you have in mind if you got this job?
41. If I were to ask your last employer, what are your weak areas that need strengthening, what would he suggest?
E) Getting Started Questions:
42. How would you go about establishing your standingand worth with your co-workers?
43. How long will it take you to understand the existing work culture of the company?
44. Is there any significant contribution you can make within the first month of your job?
45. Have you pre-planned a strategic plan for the first quarter, second-quarteror yearly for the company?
F) Additional Information:
46. How would you describe your work style?
47. What in your view is the ideal working environment?
48. What do you look for in terms of culture –traditional or innovative?
49. Give examples of ideas you've implemented at your earlier workplace?
50. What methods and tools do you use to keep yourself structured?
51. Are you a big-picture person or a detail-oriented person?
52. Tell me about what accomplishment made you feel really proud.
53. Who was your favorite employer and why?
54. What do you think of your formersuperior?
55. Was there a person in your career from whom you learnt a lot?
56. What kind of disposition and temperament do you seek in a co-worker?Why?
57. What are things that make you really proud?
58. What are your leisure time hobbies?
59. What are your enduringvisions?
60. What do you ultimately want to become?
61. What is your personal mission statement?
62. If your boss had nice things to say about you, name three positive thingshe would say about you?
63. What undesirable things would your last boss say about you?
64. How would your friends describe you?
65. Are there any character straits that you wish you had, but don’t have?
66. If you were the interviewer, what would you ask yourself?
67. Mention five words that define your personality.
68. Who has impacted you most in your career and how?
69. What is your greatest anxiety?
70. What is your biggest guilt and why?
71. What's the most important thing you learned in school?
72. Why did you choose your major?
73. What will you miss about the job you will leave, if we employ you?
74. What is your greatest accomplishment outside of work?
75. What are the characteristics of a good leader? A bad leader?
76. Do you think you should be afraid of your boss?
77. How do you take to refusal for any request or want?
78. How would you feel about working under someone who is less knowledgeable or qualified than you?
79. How do you think I rate as an interviewer?
80. Is there anything about yourself that you’d much rather not tell me.
81. Tell me the difference between satisfactory and extraordinary.
82. What kind of car do you drive? Which one would you rather drive?
83. If you could relocate to any other country, which one would it be?
84. What's the last book you read? Who is its author?
85. What magazines do you subscribe to?
86. How often do you watch movies? What's the best movie you've seen in the last year?
87. Suppose you won a lottery, what would you do?
88. Who are your idols?
89. What do you like to do for pleasure and relaxation?
90. What do you do in your spare time?
91. What are your childhood memories?
G) Mystifying Questions:
92. A rooster lays an egg at the very top of a slanted roof. Which side is the egg going to roll off on?
93. In a small cabin in the woods, two men lay dead. The cabin itself is not burned, but the forest all around is burned to cinders. How did the men die?
94. Beulah died in the Appalachians while Craig died at sea. Everyone was much happier with Craig's death. Why?
95. What seven-letter word has hundreds of letters in it?
96. Tom's mother has three children. One is named April, one is named May. What is the third one named?
97. Two women apply for a job. They are identical and have the same mother, father and birthday. The interviewer asks, "Are you twins?" to which they honestly reply, "No".How is this possible?
98. If a bottle and a cork cost a dollar and a nickel, and the bottle costs a dollar more than the cork, how much does the cork cost?
99. A prisoner is told "If you tell a lie we will hang you; if you tell the truth we will shoot you." What can he say to save himself?
100. A plane crashed on the border or US and Canada. Where do they bury the survivors?
It is surprising how ill prepared most candidates are for the interview. Although it may take you some time to write down the answers and then read and rehearse them, they will be invaluable and well worth the time and effort you spend on them. It is very unlikely that any interviewer will have any questions, beyond the 100 questions posted above.