29 January, 2012

General Interview Questions



Here are some of the general questions asked by the interviewers in the respective engineering fields.
General Questions for All Engineers
Q: Describe yourself.
Q: Tell me about your educational background?
Q: What do you know about the organization?
Q: How would you do justice to the job?
Q: What are your weaknesses?
Q: What are your salary expectations for this job?
Q: What are the projects you have ever undertaken?
Q: What do you do in leisure?
Q: Do you want to ask anything from us?
Q: What are your hobbies?
Q: Why do you want to go into this field?
Q: Describe one of the technical problems you had to solve.
Q: How would you develop yourself in this type of Structural Engineer role?
Q: Do you have any experience in developing technical specifications?
Q: What are the differences between vector and array?
Q: What experience have you had in writing technical materials?
Q: What is the thing you dislike the most in the world? Why?
Q: What does success mean to you?
Q: How do you define failure?
Q: How do you define arrogance? Are you arrogant?
Q: What role are you ready to take in a group?
Q: Who has been an inspiration for you?
Q: What is more important to you, money or success?
Q: What were some of your most important engineering achievements?
Q: Can you name some engineers that you knew or worked with?
Q: Can you describe how engineering generally has changed during your lifetime?
Q: Why do you want this job?
Q: Why do you want to work with this organization?
Q: Where do you see yourself five years down the line?
Q: What are your strengths?
Q: How do you pursue your hobbies?
Q: What has been your greatest achievement?
Q: What has been your greatest failure?
Q: How do you take challenges?
Q: Are you willing to work in shifts?
Q: What is the thing you like the most in the world? Why?
Q: What kind of person are you?
Q: Rate yourself on a scale of 10.
Q: Why did you choose _________ as your major/subjects?
Q: Are you willing to travel?
Q: Why are you leaving the organization you work for?
Q: How much time do you need to join the organization?
Q: Are you aggressive?
Q: What makes you a good manager?
Q: What motivates you the most?
Q: What skills and abilities do you have?
Q: Is there anything you want to ask?
Q: Design a four-input NAND gate using only two-input NAND gates.
Q: What experience have you had in working with field forces?
Q: Tell us about your experience with computer-aided design software.
Q: Where were your early contributions in your engineering work — planning, design, construction, operation, writing, teaching, and research?
General Questions for Civil Engineers
Q: According to you, what is the best design for building bridges?
Q: What are all the new civil construction materials and concepts?
Q: What is softsoil?
Q: Explain your project management?
Q: What are the CAD software versions you have used?
Q: What are some of the different ways to lay a foundation?
Q: Why is a manhole round?
Q: What is earth?
General Questions for Mechanical Engineers
Q: Explain about power technology?
Q: How is SAP useful for mechanical engineers?
Q: What are the different types of bearings? What are different types of rivets?
Q: What is the applicability of mechanical engineering in the industry?
Q: Explain Newton’s Laws.
Q: How is a factor of safety used in design?
Q: Interpret a Stress vs. Strain Curve.
Q: What types of equations or theories would be used in Static Failure?
Q: What types of equations would be used in Fatigue Failure?
Q: Which one is more efficient– a four stroke engine or a two stroke? Why?
General Questions for Electrical Engineers
Q: Why electrical engineering?
Q: What is the difference between earthing and grounding?
Q: Why transistors are not used as switching devices?
Q: Define watt.
Q: How are analog signals converted to digital signals?
Q: Explain the differences between a transistor and capacitor.
Q: Describe the functions of a diode.
Q: Describe the basic elements of an integrated circuit.
Q: What is a UPS?
Q: Describe how energy is stored in an inductor on electronic level.
Q: What is the difference between a Verilog task and a Verilog function?
Q: What is the difference between a Vera task and a Verilog task?
General Questions for Chemical Engineers
Q: How do you go about mixing two unknown chemicals?
Q: How would you separate water and benzene?
Q: How do you calculate the sonic velocity of a gas stream?
Q: What is unit operation?
Q: What are the effects of oils on the properties of Polyolefins?
General Questions for Computer & IT Engineers
Q: Write a function that returns the factorial of a number.
Q: What are data structures?
Q: What are condition statements?
Q: Define exception handling with example.
Q: Name the operating systems you are familiar with.
Q: What is the difference between a bug and a virus?
Q: What is hyper threading (HT technology)?
Q: Which programming language would you choose to make accounting software and why?
Q: What is a database? How does it differ from data marts and data warehouses?
Q: Explain the projects undertaken by you.
Q: Write the code to sort an array of integers.
Q: What is the difference between recursion and iteration?
Q: What are the similarities between recursion and iteration?
Q: What are constructors?


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