Top questions:
1) Introduction/ Tell me about yourself/ Tell me something that’s not on the resume
2) Strengths & weaknesses (area of improvement) with 2 examples each
3) Short & long term goals - personal & professional (where do you see yourself 3 / 5/ 10
years from now)?
4) Why should we hire you and not someone else?/ Why do you think you deserve this job?
5) Why do you want to join us?
6) What is your biggest achievement/ failure in life & why do you believe it is the biggest?
What did you learn from it?
7) What is unique about you?
8) Role model in work/ role model in life and why
9) One instance where you messed up/ embarrassing incident & what did you learn?
10) Any instance where you have had a conflict at work or in a project/ work group & how did
you resolve it?/ Any instance where you disagreed with something, but had to still do the
task?
11) Describe yourself in one word/ 4 words - examples as to why those words fit you/ How
would your colleagues describe you?
12) What are you proud of & what do you regret and why? Learning from it?
13) What is the biggest challenge you've faced, how did you overcome it & what did you
learn?
14) What is most important to you in life?
15) What are your personal values?
16) What kind of people do you love working with & what kind of people do you hate working
with?
17) What motivates you & what irritates/ disappoints you most? (at work/ in life)
18) Any situation where you have faced a moral/ ethical dilemma and what did you do?
19) If you could go back in time, what would you change about you? What would you do
differently?
20) What are your most important learnings from B-school/ B-school life?
21) What are the most important learnings from your last job/ summer internship?
22) On a scale from 1 to 10, how would you rate yourself and why?
23) What do you want to know from us?
24) What do you know about our company?
25) Describe any instance where you had to work under pressure
26) Hobbies and interests
27) What is your biggest fear?
28) Are you a team player; give examples?/ Do you prefer to work alone or with others?
29) Are you a risk taker? What is the biggest risk you have taken?
30) What is the most valuable feedback you have received? (or biggest criticism you
received)