Interview Questions

What recruitment process do you use to recruit [POSITION]? Describe it to us

What are your key strategic initiatives? Describe your most important contribution to your current/previous company.

What inspires you ? Do you love challenges ? What are your drivers?

Describe a suggestion you made to senior management in the past that benefited the organization eventually

Tell us about a professional situation that went wrong. What was it about? How would you do it today?

How do you react to criticism? Tell us how it went the last time your boss disagreed with you.

How do you imagine a typical week with us?

What are you really good at, but never want to do anymore?

How did you prepare for this interview?

Tell me about your ideal next role. What characteristics does it have from a responsibility, team, and company culture perspective? What characteristics does it not have?

It's been 1 year you're with us. What impact on the business have you made in the year since you’ve joined?

Tell me about a time you strongly disagreed with your manager. What did you do to convince him or her that you were right? What ultimately happened?

What's one part of your previous company's culture that you hope to bring to your next one? What one part do you hope to not find?

When was the last time you changed your mind about something important?

Tell me about a time you really screwed something up. How did you handle it and how did you address the mistake?

Describe a time when you worked on a cross-team project. How did you prioritize tasks and what did you do to ensure everyone delivered on time?

What are, in your opinion, the most important characteristics of [ROLE]?

Among the people you've worked with, who do you admire and why?

What’s something great about your current or previous job? Why?

What motivates you to work?

Looking back on the last five years of your career, what’s the highlight? For the last few companies you've been at, take me through: (i) When you left, why did you leave? (ii) When you joined the next one, why did you choose it?

What do you believe you can achieve with us personally or professionally that you can't anywhere else in the world?

What do you think was key to your current/previous company’s success?

Tell me how you contributed to the company’s success in your previous position

If you were to start your own business, what would it be? Why would you do that?

How do you motivate your team in stressful situations?

Do you have experience in team management?

Were you able to achieve/exceed the team's goals?

If there was a sudden decrease in the performance of a team member, how and when would you approach the individual?

How and when do you inform your team about the results of your activities?

How do you monitor the performance of individual team members?

What's your take on management? How do you make the people you manage grow?

What types of people do you like to work with? What types of people are difficult for you to work with?

How do you distinguish between Leadership and Management?

Which monitoring tools do you prefer and why?

What can he/she bring to this role that you’re certain other applicants can’t?

Would he/she fight against adversity, and make the right decisions?

What questions do you ask yourself when planning strategy?

What are the three most important characteristics of this function? How would you stack rank yourself from strongest to least developed among these traits?

What metrics do you regularly follow? What do they tell you about the health of the business?

How do you keep up to date with developments in your topics? Who are your peers?

Imagine yourself in three years. What do you hope will be different about you then compared to now?

What criteria do you use to evaluate sales skills?

What do you take into account when preparing your department’s budget?