Question 1: Tell me about yourself.

Question 2: TWhat are your strengths?

Question 3: What are your weaknesses?

Question 4: Why do you want this job?

Question 5: Where would you like to be in your career five years from now?

Question 6: What’s your ideal company?

Question 7: What attracted you to this company?

Question 8: Why should we hire you?

Question 9: What did you like least about your last job?

Question 10: When were you most satisfied in your job?

Question 11: What can you do for us that other candidates can’t? 

Question 12: What were the responsibilities of your last position?  

Question 13: Why are you leaving your present job?   

Question 14: What do you know about this industry?  

Question 15: What do you know about our company? 

Question 16: Are you willing to relocate?  

Question 17: Do you have any questions for me?

Question 18: Behavioral Interview Questions:

Question 19: What was the last project you headed up, and what was its outcome? 

Question 20: Give me an example of a time that you felt you went above and beyond the call of duty at work. 

Question 21: Can you describe a time when your work was criticized?

Question 22: Have you ever been on a team where someone was not pulling their own weight? How did you handle it? 

Question 23: Have you ever been on a team where Tell me about a time when you had to give someone difficult feedback. How did you handle it? 

Question 24: What is your greatest failure, and what did you learn from it? 

Question 25: What irritates you about other people, and how do you deal with it? 

Question 26: If I were your supervisor and asked you to do something that you disagreed with, what would you do?

Question 27: What was the most difficult period in your life, and how did you deal with it? 

Question 28: Give me an example of a time you did something wrong. How did you handle it? 

Question 29: What irritates you about other people, and how do you deal with it? 

Question 30: Tell me about a time where you had to deal with conflict on the job. 

Question 31: If you were at a business lunch and you ordered a rare steak and they brought it to you well done, what would you do?

Question 32: If you found out your company was doing something against the law, like fraud, what would you do? 

Question 33: What assignment was too difficult for you, and how did you resolve the issue?

Question 34: What’s the most difficult decision you’ve made in the last two years and how did you come to that decision?

Question 35: Describe how you would handle a situation if you were required to finish multiple tasks by the end of the day, and there was no conceivable way that you could finish them. 

Salary Questions:

Question 36: What salary are you seeking?

Question 37: What’s your salary history?

Question 38: If I were to give you this salary you requested but let you write your job description for the next year, what would it say?

Question 39: What assignment was too difficult for you, and how did you resolve the issue? 

Career Development Questions:

Question 40: What are you looking for in terms of career development? 

Question 41: How do you want to improve yourself in the next year?

Question 42: What kind of goals would you have in mind if you got this job?

Question 43: If I were to ask your last supervisor to provide you additional training or exposure, what would she suggest?

Getting Started Questions:

Question 44: How would you go about establishing your credibility quickly with the team?

Question 45: How long will it take for you to make a significant contribution?

Question 46: What do you see yourself doing within the first 30 days of this job?

Question 47: If selected for this position, can you describe your strategy for the first 90 days?

More About You:

Question 48: How would you describe your work style?

Question 49: What would be your ideal working situation? 

Question 50: What do you look for in terms of culture — structured or entrepreneurial? 

Question 51: Give examples of ideas you’ve had or implemented.

Question 52: What techniques and tools do you use to keep yourself organized?

Question 53: If you had to choose one, would you consider yourself a big-picture person or a detail-oriented person?  

Question 54: Tell me about your proudest achievement.  

Question 55: Who was your favorite manager and why?  

Question 56: What do you think of your previous boss?   

Question 57: Was there a person in your career who really made a difference? 

Question 58: What kind of personality do you work best with and why?

Question 59: What are you most proud of?

Question 60: What do you like to do?  

Question 61: What are your lifelong dreams?

Question 62: What do you ultimately want to become?

Question 63: What is your personal mission statement?

Question 64: What are three positive things your last boss would say about you?

Question 65: What negative thing would your last boss say about you? 

Question 66: What three character traits would your friends use to describe you?

Question 67: What are three positive character traits you don’t have?

Question 68: If you were interviewing someone for this position, what traits would you look for?

Question 69: List five words that describe your character.

Question 70: Who has impacted you most in your career and how?

Question 71: What is your greatest fear?

Question 72: What is your biggest regret and why?

Question 73: What’s the most important thing you learned in school?

Question 74: Why did you choose your major?

Question 75: What will you miss about your present/last job?

Question 76: What is your greatest achievement outside of work?

Question 77: What are the qualities of a good leader? A bad leader?

Question 78: Do you think a leader should be feared or liked?

Question 79: How do you feel about taking no for an answer?

Question 80: How would you feel about working for someone who knows less than you?

Question 81: How do you think I rate as an interviewer?

Question 82: Tell me one thing about yourself you wouldn’t want me to know.

Question 83: Who has impacted you most in your career and how?

Question 84: Tell me the difference between good and exceptional.

Question 85: Who has impacted you most in your career and how?

Question 86: What kind of car do you drive?

Question 87: There’s no right or wrong answer, but if you could be anywhere in the world right now, where would you be?

Question 88: What’s the last book you read?

Question 89: What magazines do you subscribe to?

Question 90: What’s the best movie you’ve seen in the last year?

Question 91: What would you do if you won the lottery?

Question 92: Who are your heroes?

Question 93: What do you like to do for fun?

Question 94: What do you do in your spare time?

Question 95: What is your favorite memory from childhood?

Brainteaser Questions:

Question 96: How many times do a clock’s hands overlap in a day?

Question 97: How would you weigh a plane without scales?

Question 96: Tell me 10 ways to use a pencil other than writing.

Question 97: Sell me this pencil.

Question 98: If you were an animal, which one would you want to be?

Question 99: Why is there fuzz on a tennis ball?

Question 100: If you could choose one superhero power, what would it be and why?