Interview Questions - Online Test

Q1. How would you be an asset to our organization?
Answer : Option A
Explaination / Solution:

Highlight and let them know about your strengths. This is the exact question where you can win their heart and with confidence.

Q2. Do you have any questions for me?
Answer : Option A
Explaination / Solution:

Always have some questions prepared for the interviewer. How soon will I be able to be join?

Q3. Has there been a time when you went beyond your job role? How did you take up the challenge?
Answer : Option A
Explaination / Solution:

This question aims to see, if you are happy to extend yourself beyond your regular job or do you like to perform only a given set of activities. This is also a test of your flexibility.

Explain about how you went about doing that “extra” thing focussing on its effect on the organization.

For e.g. “I have been working in my current company for last 4 years, so I know the business pretty well. Whenever there’s a new initiative required to be taken in the business, I am one of the very first choices of the top management. Some time back the company decided to start a new department whose responsibility will be to attract new customers. Initially it was to be done on the trial basis and I was given the responsibility to perform this trial. I could do it successfully, without much assistance from the seniors. Today, this department has 5 employees working in it and the business has grown up by 40%.”  


Q4. Describe your work life as a “news headline”. Why would it be so?
Answer : Option A
Explaination / Solution:

Prima facie this may look like a question testing your creative skills but don’t go by the looks of it. This is the twisted form of our traditional question – Tell us something about yourself. So, define your work life and provide it a good heading. Sum up the factors that make you choose the heading.

Q5. Have you ever been in a situation where significant change was made to your team, department or organisation? How did you adjust?
Answer : Option A
Explaination / Solution:

The purpose of this question is to check your adaptability and flexibility. Did you feel victimized?

Answer this question by mentioning the change that was made but the main focus should be on how you adjusted in that situation and the results you achieved afterwards.

For example you can say something like, “Being an early joiner in the marketing team, I opened a lot of new customer accounts. Over the time the team grew and we had more people in the team opening more accounts. At one point of time, we had to re-distribute the accounts area wise so that a particular territory can be allotted to each one of us. This re-distribution meant loss of my high performing accounts and a requirement to develop new accounts in the assigned territory. Initially, it looked difficult but I could understand the need for this re-distribution and saw more opportunities for the company and myself. I introduced my colleagues to the old accounts I held and started strategizing for better ways to tap the new territory. Within 6 months, I could develop 50 new accounts with the help of new strategy. Usually we would achieve this result in 9 months to a year.”


Q6. What makes you angry?
Answer : Option A
Explaination / Solution:

Avoid giving any specific reason for you getting angry. Say that it's a general tendency of a human being and you are no exception. You do get angry but you don't go out of control.

Q7. Why aren’t you earning more money at this stage of your career?
Answer : Option A
Explaination / Solution:

You can say that you have this concern and you yourself have asked this question to you. But reassure that you are not bogged down as you have vivid experience and you can cash it on any time.

Q8. Have you ever given a feedback on anyone’s poor performance?
Answer : Option A
Explaination / Solution:

It may look like the interviewer is trying to judge your back-biting habit but the real purpose of the question is to see if you take proactive measures in things which you think may harm the company and inform the stakeholders.

Q9. Has there been any chance when your boss was not very happy with your performance?
Answer : Option A
Explaination / Solution:

Not being able to perform well on certain things is not a problem. The purpose here is to see what did you do about your poor performance? Were you able to analyse the reasons for your poor performance? How did you deal with them?

A person who can assess his own performance is a great asset for a manager. Discuss about how you analysed your performance and took corrective actions – to answer this question.


Q10. May I contact your present employer for a reference?
Answer : Option A
Explaination / Solution:

You can say that you have no objection for this but express your concern that it would be better if you could do it after arriving some sort of agreement.

You can even be honest in stating that your present employer is not aware of you hunting and you would appreciate to have any contact with them after having arrived some sort of agreement.