Top 100 Questions for IT Interview

General Guidelines for answering the interview questions

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?
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