Interview Questions

RoleThemeQuestion (EN)Question
HRGeneral
Management d'équipe

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

General
Comportement & personnalité

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

General
Comportement & personnalité

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

General
Comportement & personnalitéEsprit entrepreneurial

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

General
Comportement & personnalité

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

General
Comportement & personnalité

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

General
Comportement & personnalitéCompany Culture & Fit

How do you imagine a typical week with us?

General
Comportement & personnalité

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

General
Comportement & personnalitéOutils & Process

How did you prepare for this interview?

General
Comportement & personnalité

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?

General
Comportement & personnalitéVision stratégique

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

General
Comportement & personnalité

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?

General
Comportement & personnalité

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?

General
Comportement & personnalitéHumility

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

General
Comportement & personnalitéHumility

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

General
Comportement & personnalitéOutils & ProcessManagement d'équipe

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?

General
Motivation du candidat

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

General
Motivation du candidat

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

General
Motivation du candidat

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

General
Motivation du candidat

What motivates you to work?

General
Motivation du candidat

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?

General
Motivation du candidat

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

General
Esprit entrepreneurial

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

General
Esprit entrepreneurial

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

General
Esprit entrepreneurial

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

General
Esprit entrepreneurial
General
Compétences techniques

How do you motivate your team in stressful situations?

General
Management d'équipe

Do you have experience in team management?

General
Management d'équipe

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

General
Management d'équipe

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

General
Management d'équipeObjectives & Key Results

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

General
Business orientedManagement d'équipe

How do you monitor the performance of individual team members?

GeneralHR
Management d'équipeEmployee Care & Evolution

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

General
Management d'équipeCompany Culture & Fit

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

General
Management d'équipe

How do you distinguish between Leadership and Management?

General
Outils & Process

Which monitoring tools do you prefer and why?

General
Post-interview

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

General
Post-interview

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

General
Vision stratégique

What questions do you ask yourself when planning strategy?

General
Vision stratégique

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

General
Objectives & Key Results

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

General
Business Culture & Monitoring

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

General
Company Culture & Fit

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

GeneralHRSales
Talent Acquisition

What criteria do you use to evaluate sales skills?

General
Business Unit Management

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