Common Tough Interview Questions
There are some questions that tend to pop up during almost every job interview. The bad news is that these questions are difficult to answer since there is no standard way of answering and every interviewer expects an answer in his own style. The good news is that because these questions are so common, you can prepare for them well in advance and give a perfect answer without breaking a sweat.
1. Tell me something about yourself?
For Freshers:
If you are a fresher, you need to should consider talking about your achievements at school / college and professional courses undertaken. As a fresher you could talk about various college assignments and how you executed them and your role in those assignments or projects.
For people with experience:
When you have experience, the situation becomes a little more tricky. Employers here are not interested in your achievements at school or college. There will be more interested in projects/assignments at work and your execution style with previous company.
Always have this prepared and make sure that it does not sound rehearsed. Limit this to work related items unless instructed otherwise.
Reason why this question is asked?
Employers want a quick introduction from which they tend to understand what is it that you have to offer to the organization. A lot of them judge your communication skills through this question.
2. Why do you wish to leave your current job?
This is the most difficult question that you will have to answer.
Did you resign? Get laid off? Get fired? Storm out of the office in a huff, never to return? Chances are, you’ll have to explain it in an interview.
The most important point to remember when answering this question: STAY POSITIVE.
3. What are your career goals 3 - 5 years from now?
Again this is the question that gets on people’s nerves if they are really not sure of what they want to do. This is what the interviewer wants to understand. Many people just mention a designation that’s not enough. In the software industry it’s easy to say that you want to become a team or tech lead if you are being interviewed for a software engineer or a senior software engineer, but the designation rarely helps. What the employer is looking at from this question is the kind of roles and responsibility that you would want to handle.
4. How do you plan to achieve those goals?
This is usually a follow up question to the question mentioned above. Most of the people get stumped here. If you have prepared yourself for the question mentioned above, without really thinking about your career plan then this question would set you on fire.
5. What is your biggest weakness?
This question is the most popular with interviewers not because they want to torture you, but because they are interested in hearing how you tackle challenges.
The most important thing to do after you name your weakness, you MUST discuss what you have done or are doing to overcome it.
6. What has been your most challenging project/assignment/job?
If your job involves you to work on projects and assignments, then such questions are always asked.
Be careful to answer this question. It tells a lot about your experience. Mention in brief about the project, your role in the project, the team size, challenges faced and how you contributed towards helping the team resolve that challenge. The keyword here is challenge. A person matures throughout his life by meeting challenges and the interviewer would like to understand if you are capable to take on the challenges of the job he has to offer. Always be prepared for this question. Don’t fumble on this while answering as your confidence shows how much you have learnt from the project.
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