Common Job Interview Questions

No way can you foresee each and every question you might be asked in an interview but you can be smart by preparing sturdy, crisp responses to usually asked questions. Nearly all interviewers ask analogous questions to get acquainted with candidate's abilities & experience and evaluate his capability to do justice with the job.

Introduce yourself.
This is over and over again the first question in an interview. It's the most complicated one if you're not all set. Keep in mind, the interviewer does not want to hear about your hobbies. Its time for one-minute gist of your years of experience and skills in the context to the job you are looking forward to get. Sell your professional self.

Why should we hire you?
Most people answer generally, so you need something substantial to stand out. Give genuine examples that demonstrate you as the best-suited for the position. Highlight your achievements and undertakings that are relevant to get the job.

Why do you want this job?
Use this occasion to demonstrate how much you know about the company and, most prominently, how you fit best. Concentrate on challenges in the job and organization to show your comprehensive knowledge. Spot out things you have done in past job to take care of the similar issues.

What are your weaknesses?
Answer this question to your benefit. "I would turn my weaknesses into strengths," For example, if my weakness is lack of tolerance I would counter it by saying; I have learned particular measures to make sure I remain composed and considerate." Don't pretend that you do not have a weakness.

Why did you quit your previous job?
Never evaluate your previous company, the boss, or colleagues. You should have a fine perceptive of the job you're applying to twist this question. You may say that, you really enjoyed various aspects of your previous job and spotlight on how this new job will give you the chance to contribute meticulously on areas that are essential for the current position.

Where would you be five years from today?
Don't get swayed away by your five-year plan. You are expected to speak about goals related to the job. This will reveal that you know the industry, the organization and you are looking forward to grow here.

Remember the interviewer is trying to find if you can play a positive role in the organization!

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29 questions asked in Amazon interviews

• If your direct manager was instructing you to do something you disagreed with, how would you handle it?
• Describe what Human Resource means to you.
• What is the angle between the hour hand and minute hand in an analog clock?
• What is the worst mistake you ever made?
• Describe what Human Resource means to you.
• Do you know our CEO? How do you pronounce his name?
• Here's a string with numbers from 1-250 in random order, but it's missing one number. How will you find the missed number?
• What would you do if somehow you misdirected 10,000 units of something?
• Are you willing to work on your feet for ten hours, four days a week?
• Do you think you'll reach a point where you storm off the floor and never return?
• Would you tell on a employee for stealing?
• How would you solve problems if you were from Mars?
• How do you persuade people?
• Describe what happens in your browser as soon as you hit enter after writing a URL in the address bar.
• Tell the story of the last time you had to apologize to someone.
• Walk me through how Amazon Kindle books would be priced.
• What would you do if you saw someone being unsafe at work?
• How would you improve Amazon's website?
• You have 30 people working under you with 2 working indirect. Each employee can do 150 units/hour. Each work day has two 15 min breaks and one 30 min lunch. In a 5 day work week, how many total units can you complete?
• What is the most difficult situation you have ever faced in your life? How did you handle it?
• How would you tell a customer what Wi-Fi is?
• You are Amazon and Samsung offers you 10,000 Samsung Galaxy S3s at a 34% discount. Is that a good deal?Design an online payment system.
• Design an online payment system.
• Give me an example of a time when you were 75% of the way through a project, and you had to pivot strategy -- how were you able to make that into a success story?
• Should we sell private label cleaning products?
• What would you do if you found out that your closest friend at work was stealing?
• Which Amazon leadership principle do you resonate most with?

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11 hardest Google job interview questions

1. How many petrol stations are there in the US?
2. How much should you charge to wash all the windows in Seattle?
3. Design an evacuation plan for San Francisco.
4. How many times a day does a clock’s hands overlap?
5. How many vacuum’s are made per year in US?
6. Why are manhole covers round?'
7. Estimate the number of students who are college seniors, attend four-year schools, and graduate with a job in the United States every year.
8. How many degrees are there in the angle between the hour and minute hands of a clock when the time is a quarter past three?
9. You’re the captain of a pirate ship, and your crew gets to vote on how the gold is divided up. If fewer than half of the pirates agree with you, you die. How do you recommend apportioning the gold in such a way that you get a good share of the booty, but still survive?
10. How many piano tuners are there in the entire world?
11. How many golf balls could you fit into a classic American school bus?

23 tough interview questions heard at Facebook

Facebook is one of the most sought-after workplaces in the tech industry. Its interns make $25,000 more than the average US citizen. And famously, employees on job website Glassdoor voted Facebook as the No. 1 company to work for overall.

But in order to get a job there, one needs to answer some tricky questions first.

We've compiled some of the toughest Facebook interview questions shared by people on Glassdoor. Whether you're looking for a programming job or a marketing position, these interview questions will surely be of help.

• There is a building with 100 floors. You are given 2 identical eggs. How do you use 2 eggs to find the threshold floor, where the egg will definitely break from any floor above floor N, including floor N itself.
• Position: Data scientist
• Question: If you were going to redesign an ATM machine, how would you do it
• Position: Product designer
• How many birthday posts occur on Facebook on a given day?
• Position: Data scientist
• How much do you charge to wash every window in Seattle?
• Position: Online sales operations
• What would you do on day 1 here?
• Position: Technology partner
• Describe how the website works. (That's the whole question, with no context.)
• Position: Technical project manager
• You have two lightbulbs and a 100-story building. You want to find the floor at which the bulbs will break when dropped. Find the floor using the least number of drops.
• Position: Software engineer
• How many vacuums are there in the USA?
• Position: Risk analyst
• What options do you have, nefarious or otherwise, to stop people on a wireless network you are also on (but have no admin rights to) from hogging bandwidth by streaming videos?
• Position: Production engineer
• Tell me your plan of action if you saw that photo uploads suddenly dropped by 50%.
• Position: Operations associate user intelligence
• A Russian gangster kidnaps you. He puts two bullets in consecutive order in an empty six-round revolver, spins it, points it at your head and shoots. *click* You're still alive. He then asks you, do you want me to spin it again and fire or pull the trigger again. For each option, what is the probability that you'll be shot?
• Position: Internet marketing
• Should Facebook continue to add features or rely on 3rd party apps?
• Position: Product designer
• What are you least proud of in your resume?
• Position: Media solutions specialist
• Given access to all the data Facebook collects, what would you do with it?
• Position: Product analytics
• Write a paper on the valuation of Facebook (this question was asked before Facebook went public). What are the greatest technological advancement of the past 20 years.
• Position: Software engineer
• If you have 100 credit card numbers (and all info) how would you make as much $ possible in 24 hours using only online transactions? (Many follow up questions of how to get around certain fraud deterrents.)
• Position: Ads risk associate
• You are trying to rob houses on a street. Each house has some amount of cash. Your goal is to rob houses such that you maximize the total robbed amount. The constraint is once you rob a house you cannot rob a house adjacent to that house.
• Position: Software engineer
• 25 racehorses, no stopwatch. 5 tracks. Figure out the top three fastest horses in the fewest number of races.
• Position: Software engineering summer intern
• What is the process you would go about in spotting a fake profile?
• Position: User operations analyst
• Do you think that Facebook should be available in China?
• Position: User operations analyst
• ou're about to get on a plane to Seattle. You want to know if you should bring an umbrella. You call 3 random friends of yours who live there and ask each independently if it's raining. Each of your friends has a 2/3 chance of telling you the truth and a 1/3 chance of messing with you by lying. All 3 friends tell you that 'Yes' it is raining. What is the probability that it's actually raining in Seattle?
• Position: Data scientist
• How much money is spent on the internet?
• Position: Account manager
• If you were an animal what kind would you be and why?
• Position: User operations analyst

Business Insider / June 03, 2015

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25 tough questions asked in Apple interviews


Apple is known for being one of the most challenging places to work at, so it's not surprising to learn that getting a job there is no easy task.

Like Google and other big tech companies, Apple asks both technical questions based on your past work experience and some mind-boggling puzzles. We combed through recent posts on Glassdoor to find some of the toughest interview questions candidates have been asked. Some require solving tricky math problems, while others are simple but vague enough to keep you on your toes.


"Who is your best friend?"
Asked to: Family room specialist candidate

"Explain to an 8-year-old what a modem/router is and its functions."
Asked to: At-home advisor candidate

"If you have 2 eggs and you want to figure out what's the highest floor from which you can drop the egg without breaking it, how would you do it?
What's the optimal solution?"
Asked to: Software engineer candidate

"Who is your best friend?"
Asked to: Family room specialist candidate

"Explain to an 8-year-old what a modem/router is and its functions."
Asked to: At-home advisor candidate

"How many children are born every day?"
Asked to: Global supply manager candidate

"You have a 100 coins laying flat on a table, each with a head side and a tail side. 10 of them are heads up, 90 are tails up. You can't feel, see or in any other way find out which side is up. Split the coins into two piles such that there are the same number of heads in each pile."
Asked to: Software engineer candidate

"There are three boxes, one contains only apples, one contains only oranges, and one contains both apples and oranges. The boxes have been incorrectly labelled such that no label identifies the actual contents of the box it labels. Opening just one box and without looking in the box, you take out one piece of fruit. By looking at the fruit, how can you immediately label all of the boxes correctly?"
Asked to: Software QA engineer candidate

"Scenario: You're dealing with an angry customer who was waiting for help for the past 20 minutes and is causing a commotion. She claims that she'll just walk over to Best Buy or the Microsoft Store to get the computer she wants. Resolve this issue."
Asked to: Specialist candidate

How would you breakdown the cost of this pen?"
Asked to: Global supply manager candidate

"A man calls in and has an older computer that is essentially a brick. What do you do?"
Asked to:Apple Care at-home consultant candidate

"Are you smart?"
Asked to: Build engineer candidate

"Have you ever disagreed with a manager's decision, and how did you approach the disagreement? Give a specific example and explain how you rectified this disagreement, what the final outcome was, and how that individual would describe you today."
Asked to: Software engineer candidate

"You put a glass of water on a record turntable and begin slowly increasing the speed. What happens first -- does the glass slide off, tip over, or does the water splash out?"
Asked to: Mechanical engineer candidate

"Tell me something that you have done in your life which you are particularly proud of."
Asked to: Software engineering manager candidate

"Are you creative? What's something creative that you can think of?"
Asked to: Software engineer candidate

"Describe a humbling experience."
Asked to: Apple retail specialist candidate

"What's more important, fixing the customer's problem or creating a good customer experience?"
Asked to: Apple at-home advisor candidate

"Why did Apple change its name from Apple Computers Incorporated to Apple Inc?"
Asked to: Specialist candidate

"You seem pretty positive, what types of things bring you down?"
Asked to: Family room specialist candidate

"Show me (role play) how you would show a customer you're willing to help them by only using your voice."
Asked to: College at-home advisor candidate

"What was your best day in the last 4 years? What was your worst?"
Asked to: Engineering project manager candidate

"Why do you want to join Apple and what will you miss at your current work if Apple hired you?"
Asked to: Software engineer candidate

"How would you test your favourite app?"
Asked to: Software QA Engineer candidate

"How would you test a toaster?"
Asked to: Software QA engineer candidate