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Behavioral Interview Techniques
June 24, 2007 - 03:18 — shilpa
Below are some behavioral interview techniques that you'll find useful:
1. Be prepared for the interview by analyzing and making an educated guess
as to which skills are most desired by the employer. You can study the job
description of the position or go to some job boards to review requirement
sections of related jobs.
2. Compile a list of skills that are relevant to the position you are applying.
3. Identify behavioral interview questions by introductory phases like "Tell
me about a time when...," " Describe a situation where you...," "Give me an
example of..." etc.
4. Listen carefully to each question. If necessary, rephrase the question and
ask for clarification.
5. Use STAR formula to answer behavioral interview question. STAR stands
for Situation, Task, Action and Result. Make sure that your answers are
detailed and specific. This behavioral interview technique is widely
recommended by career advisors.
6. Use your real-life examples instead of your opinions or theoretical
statements. The employers want to know what you have done in the past,
not what you think you would do in the future.
7. Vary the length of your answers. You can prepare short description ofeach situation but be ready to give details if asked. You can also determine
if you have given enough information by asking questions like, "Would you
like more details on that?" "Would you like another example?"
8. Be honest. It will be bad for you if the interviewer find out that your
story is built on weak foundation.
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Things You Should Not Do At An Interview
April 10, 2007 - 02:08 — shilpa
There is enough literature on what you should do at an interview. But here’s
a list of things that you would definitely not want to do at an interview,
unless you don’t want that job or that B-school admit that you have so
wanted.
Never Go Unprepared
Yes sir, I hear you. You know it all. You even counted the number of stepson that staircase to the interview room. But you know that funny thing
called odds. It’s always a damp squib. You might want to do a bit of
preparation. If you have stated, Accountancy as your best subject on your
CV, you’d better be darned well at it. Learn every rule in every accounting
principle, by rote. And while you’re at it, it probably isn’t a bad idea to
memorize the number of pages in the Accounting Standards Book. Some
interviewers ask for weakness. What a silly thing to ask, like your weakness
would be of any help anyway. But you can’t argue with their logic. So turn
around any weakness on its head and make it your strength. If you’re a
weirdo, say you are quite innovative. If you’re a lazy goose and leave things
to last minute, say you work well with short deadlines. If you have had a not
so great time at grad school, tell them you believe in holistic education and
were active at extra-curriculars (of-course you need to back it up). Now if
you think you’re perfect, make up a not so debilitating weakness like
unbridled appetite or chewing nails…
Avoid Over Zealous Dressing
‘Green is the new blue’. Nice tagline, no? Did you buy that green shirt
already? Tsk, tsk, consumerism. Take my advice and save it for your best
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friend’s wedding. Yes, I know you bought it for this special occasion, your
first interview. Classic white is out, I know. But how about sticking to other
safe colors like blue or maybe gray. So what if its boring? At least you won’t
look like a radioactive leprechaun. Funny ties. Haha! That’s a good
attention grabber my friend. Focus, focus. . . We are here to grab that job…
the pink piggies on that yellow tie may prove more an unhealthy distraction
than attraction. Oh, I love that crocodile handbag of yours. Lets hide your
entire disregard for the ecosystem, in the closet. You can flaunt it in that
cocktail party, this weekend.
Never Underestimate Traffic Jams
The venue is only a block away and 15 minutes is all you need to get there.
Have you heard of a certain someone called Mr. Murphy? No? I’ll tell you
that story later. But he devised some fine laws. One of them says on the day
of your interview, every single car will be neatly lined in a jam from your
gate till the venue and every signal will chose to turn red the moment youturn the key in the ignition. So leave home at least one hour in advance.
Okay, so now you have reached too early. What are books for, silly?
Do Not Fake Accent
Does your guy love the way you roll your ‘R’s? Have people told you how
close you come to sounding Oxford educated? Good for you, mate. But its
hard to keep that up all the time, no? See, now that’s the thing with fake
accents. They have a habit of coming undone in the most inappropriate of
moments. And chances are it will happen at the interview too. Take my
word; the interviewer WILL NOT be impressed. So let your natural accent do
the talking this time, eh?
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Do Not Invoke Skeletons in the Closet
Everyone has them. I have a closet bursting at its hinges and a new one on
its way. No need to be ashamed. But an interview is not the place to
unleash them. If you got sacked from your last job, this is not the best place
to tell them your sob story. NO, I did NOT ask you to lie about it. All I am
saying is, don’t go about telling them what a @$*# %*@ your old boss was or
bad mouth your colleagues. Chances are they just might call him up to
confirm your little story. So be honest. But leave out the details. In this one
exceptional case, the devil is in the details.
Never Lose Your Cool
Surely you have heard of ‘stress interviews’. The ultimate aim of every soul
in that room will be to make you scream and run for life, tearing out your
hair. So never lose that thing called cool. It’s a slick one, Mr. Cool. Once
he’s gone, you might chew those manicured nails, twiddle your fingers or
tear at that loose thread on your skirt (imagine all of it coming undone.
Very Grim, yes). So pick up that Mr. Cool from under the table and be the
pro that you are… By the way, no matter what you do, do not gnash teeth.
You might never get it in shape for the next interview, should you lose out
on this one.
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PRESENCE OF MIND
April 8, 2006 - 01:02 — shilpa
In an IIM interview PANEL-Shall i ask u one tough question or 10 easy
questions? CANDIDATE-ask me one tough question sir p-ok which comes
first.The day or the night? c-the day sir. p-how do u say that? c-Sir, u
promised me that you wont ask me the second toughest question. the guy
was selected.....
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SAP Interview Questions
August 1, 2007 - 22:01 — sandeep
1.What are the differences between a OLAP and OLTP applications
OLAP
a.Summarized data
b.Read only
c.Not Optimized
d.Lot of historical data
OLTP
Detailed
Read write
Optimized for data applications
Not much old data
2.What is a star schema?
A fact table at the center and surrounded (linked) by dimension tables
3.What is a slowly changing dimension?
A dimension containing a characteristics which changes over a time; for
example take employee job title; this changes over a period of time with
different job titles
4. What are the advantages of Extended star schema of BW vs. the star
schema
a. use of generated keys (numeric) for faster access
b. external hierarchy
c. multi language support
d. master data common to all cubes
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e. slowly changing dimensions supported
f.aggregates in its own tables for faster access
5.What is the namespace for BW?
All SAP objects start with 0 and customer is A-Z; all tables begin with /BIO
for SAP and /BIC for customers; All generated objects start with 1-8 (like
export data source); prefix 9A is used in APO.
6.What is an info object?
Business object like customer, product, etc; they are divided into
characteristics and key figures; characteristics are evaluation objects like
customer and key figures are measurable objects like sales quantity, etc;
characteristics also include special objects like unit and time.
7. What are the data types supported by characteristics?
NUMC, CHAR (up to 60), DATS and TIMS
8.What is an external hierarchy?
Presentation hierarchies are stored in its own tables (hierarchy tables) for
characteristic values
9.What are time dependent text / attribute of characteristics?
If the text (for example a name of the product /person over time) or if the
attribute changes over time (for example job title) then these must be
marked as time dependent.
10. Can you create your own time characteristics?
No
11. What are the types of attributes?
Display only and navigational; display only attributes are only for display
and no analysis can be done; navigational attributes behave like regular
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characteristics; for example assume that we have a customer characteristics
with country as a navigational attribute; you can analyze the data using
customer and country.
12. What is Alpha conversion?
Alpha conversion is used to store data consistently by storing any numeric
values with prefixing with Os; for example if you defined material as 6 Numc
then number 1 is stored as 000001 but displayed as 1; this removes
inconsistencies between 01 vs. 001.
13. What is the alpha check execution program?
This is used to check consistency for BW 2.x before upgrading the system to
3.x; the transaction is RSMDCNVEXIT
14. What is the attributes only flag?
If the flag is set, no master data is stored; this is only used as attribute for
other haracteristics; for example comments on a AR document.
15.What is compounding?
This defines the superior info object which must be combined to define an
object; for example when you define cost center then controlling area is the
compounding (superior) object.
16.What is the Bex options for characteristics like F4 help for query
definition and execution?
This defines how the data is displayed in query definition screen or when
query is executed; options are from the data displayed, from master data
table (all data) and from dimension data; for example let us assume that
you have 100 products in all, 10 products in a cube; in bex you display the
query for 2 products; the following options for product will display different
data
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a. selective data only - will display 2 products
b. dimension data - will display 10 products
c. from master data - will display all 100 products
17. What are the data types allowed for key figures?
Amount, number, integer, date and time.
18. what is the difference between amount/quantity and number -
amount/quantity
always comes with units; for example sales will be amount and inventory
quantity.
19. What are the aggregation options for key figures?
If you are defining prices then you may want to set "no aggregation" or you
can define max, min, sum; you can also define exception aggregation like
first, last, etc; this is helpful in getting headcount; for example if you
define a monthly inventory count key figure you want the count as of last
day of the month.
20. What is the maximum number of key figures you can have in an info
cube?
233
21. What is the maximum number of characteristics you can have per
dimension?
248
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22. What are the nine decision points of data warehousing?a. Identify fact table
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b. Identify dimension tables
c. Define attributes of entities
d. Define granularity of the fact table (how often
e. Pre calculated key figures
f. Slowly changing dimensions
g. Aggregates
h. How long data will be kept
i. How often data is extracted
23. How many dimensions in a cube
Total 16 out of which 3 are predefined time, unit and request; customer is
left with 13 dimensions
24. What is a SID table and advantages
The SID table (Surrogate ID table) is the interface between master data and
the dimension tables; advantages :-
a. uses numeric as indexes for faster accessb. master data independent of info cubes
c. language support
d. slowly changing dimension support
25. What are the other tables created for master data?
a. P table - Time independent master data attributes
b. Q table - Time dependent master data attributes
c. M view - Combines P and Q
d. X table - Interface between master data SIDs and time independent
navigational attributes SIDs (P is linked to the X table)
e. Y table - Interface between master data SIDs and time dependent
navigational attributes SIDs (Q is linked to the Y table)
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26. What is the transfer routine of the info object?
It is like a start routine; this is independent of the data source and valid for
all transfer routines; you can use this to define global data and global
checks.
27. What is the DIM ID?
Dim ids link dimensions to the fact table
28. What is table partition?
SAP is using fact table partitioning to improve performance; you can
partition only on OCALMONTH or OFISCPER;
29. How many extra partitions are created and why?
Usually 2 extra partitions are created to accommodate data before the
begin date and after the end date
30. Can you partition a cube which has data already?
No; the cube must be empty to do this; one work around is to make a copy
of the cube A to cube B; export data from A to B using export data source;
empty cube A; create partition on A; re-import data from B; delete cube B
31. What is the transaction for Administrator work bench?
RSA1
32. What is a source system?
Any system that is sending data to BW like R/3, flat file, oracle database or
external systems.
33. What is a data source?
The source which is sending data to a particular info source on BW; for
example we have a OCUSTOMER_ATTR data source to supply attributes to
OCUSTOMER from R/3
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34. What is an info source?
Group of logically related objects; for example the OCUSTOMER info source
will contain data related to customer and attributes like customer number,
address, phone no, etc
35. What are the types of info source?
Transactional, attributes, text and hierarchy
36. What is communication structure?
Is an independent structure created from info source; it is independent of
the source system/data source
37. What are transfer rules?
The transformation rules for data from source system to info
source/communication structure
38. What is global transfer rule?
This is a transfer routine (ABAP) defined at the info object level; this is
common for all source systems.
39. What are the options available in the transfer rule Assign info object,
assign a constant, ABAP routine or a Formula (From version 3.x); example
are :
a. Assign info object - direct transfer; no transformation
b. Constant - for example if you are loading data from a specified country in
a
f lat file, you can make the country as constant and assign the value
c. ABAP routine - for example if you want to do some complex string
manipulation; assume that you are getting a flag file from legacy data and
the cost center is in a field and you have to "massage" the data to get it; in
this case use ABAP code
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d. For simple calculations use formula; for example you want to convert all
lower case characters to upper case; use the TOUPPER formula
40. Give some important formula available
Concatenate, sub string, condense, left/right (n characters),1_trim, r_trim,
replace, date routines like DATECONV, date-week, add_to_date, date_diff,
logical functions like if, and;
41. When you do the ABAP code for transfer rule, what are the important
variables you use?
a. RESULT - this gets the result of the ABAP code
b. RETURNCODE - you set this to 0 if everything is OK; else this record is
skipped
c. ABORT - set this to a value not 0, to abort the entire package
42. What is the process of replication?
This copies data source structures from R/3 to BW
43. What is the update rule?
Update rule defines the transformation of data from the communication
structure to the data targets; this is independent of the source
systems/data sources
44. What are the options in update rules?
a. one to one move of info objects
b. constant
c. lookup for master data attributes
d. formula
e. routine (ABAP)
f. initial value
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45. What are the special conversions for time in update rules?
Time dimensions are automatically converted; for example if the cube
contains calendar month and your transfer structure contains date, the date
to calendar month is converted automatically.
46. What is the time distribution option in update rule?
This is to distribute data according to time; for example if the source
contains calendar week and the target contains calendar day, the data is
split for each calendar day. Here you can select either the normal calendar
or the factory calendar.
47. What is the return table option in update rules for key figures?
Usually the update rule sends one record to the data target; using this
option you can send multiple records; for example if we are getting total
telephone examples for the cost center, you can use this to return
telephone expenses for each employee (by dividing the total expenses by
the number of employees in the cost center) and creating cost record foreach employee in the ABAP code.
48. What is the start routine?
The first step in the update process is to call start routine; use this to fill
global variables to be used in update routines;
49. How would you optimize the dimensions?
Use as many dimensions as possible for performance improvement; for
example assume that you have 100 products and 200 customers; if you make
one dimension for both, the size of the dimension will be 20,000; if you
make individual dimensions then the total number of rows will be 300. Even
if you put more than one characteristic per dimension, do the math
considering worst case scenario and decide which characteristics may be
combined in a dimension.
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50. What is the conversion routine for units and currencies in the update
rule?
Using this option you can write ABAP code for unit/currency conversion; if
you enable this flag, then unit of the key figure appears in the ABAP code as
an additional parameter; for example you can use this to convert quantity in
pounds to kilo grams.
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SAP Interview QuestionsMay 22, 2007 - 17:01 — sandeep
1. What is ERP? - ERP is a package with the techniques and concepts for the
integrated management of business as a whole, for effective use of
management resources, to improve the efficiency of an enterprise. Initially,
ERP was targeted for manufacturing industry mainly for planning and
managing core business like production and financial market. As the growth
and merits of ERP package ERP software is designed for basic process of a
company from manufacturing to small shops with a target of integrating
information across the company.
2. Different types of ERP? - SAP, BAAN, JD Edwards, Oracle Financials,
Siebel, PeopleSoft. Among all the ERP’s most of the companies implemented
or trying to implement SAP because of number of advantages aver other ERP
packages.
3. What is SAP? - SAP is the name of the company founded in 1972 under the
German name (Systems, Applications, and Products in Data Processing) is
the leading ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) software package.
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4. Explain the concept of “Business Content” in SAP Business Information
Warehouse? - Business Content is a pre-configured set of role and task-
relevant information models based on consistent Metadata in the SAP
Business Information Warehouse. Business Content provides selected roles
within a company with the information they need to carry out their tasks.
These information models essentially contain roles, workbooks, queries,
InfoSources, InfoCubes, key figures, characteristics, update rules and
extractors for SAP R/3, mySAP.com Business Applications and other selected
applications.
5. Why do you usually choose to implement SAP? - There are number of
technical reasons numbers of companies are planning to implement SAP. It’s
highly configurable, highly secure data handling, min data redundancy, max
data consistency, you can capitalize on economics of sales like purchasing,
tight integration-cross function.
6. Can BW run without a SAP R/3 implementation? - Certainly. You can runBW without R/3 implementation. You can use pre-defined business content
in BW using your non-SAP data. Here you simply need to map the transfer
structures associated with BW data sources (InfoCubes, ODS tables) to the
inbound data files or use 3rd part tool to connect your flat files and other
data sources and load data in BW. Several third party ETL products such as
Acta, Infomatica, DataStage and others will have been certified to load data
in BW.
7. What is IDES? - International Demonstration and Education System. A
sample application provided for faster learning and implementation.
8. What is WF and its importance? - Business Work Flow: Tool for automatic
control and execution of cross-application processes. This involves
coordinating the persons involved, the work steps required, the data, which
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needs to be processed (business objects). The main advantage is reduction
in throughput times and the costs involved in managing business processes.
Transparency and quality are enhanced by its use.
9. What is SAP R/3? - A third generation set of highly integrated software
modules that performs common business function based on multinational
leading practice. Takes care of any enterprise however diverse in operation,
spread over the world. In R/3 system all the three servers like presentation,
application server and database server are located at different system.
10. What are presentation, application and database servers in SAP R/3? -
The application layer of an R/3 System is made up of the application servers
and the message server. Application programs in an R/3 System are run on
application servers. The application servers communicate with the
presentation components, the database, and also with each other, using the
message server. All the data are stored in a centralized server. This server is
called database server.
11. What should be the approach for writing a BDC program? - Convert the
legacy system data to a flat file and convert flat file into internal table.
Transfer the flat file into sap system called “sap data transfer”. Call
transaction(Write the program explicitly) or create sessions (sessions are
created and processed ,if success data will transfer).
12. Explain open SQL vs native SQL? - ABAP Native SQL allows you to include
database-specific SQL statements in an ABAP program. Most ABAP programs
containing database-specific SQL statements do not run with different
databases. If different databases are involved, use Open SQL. To execute
ABAP Native SQL in an ABAP program, use the statement EXEC. Open SQL
(Subset of standard SQL statements), allows you to access all database
tables available in the R/3 System, regardless of the manufacturer. To avoid
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conflicts between database tables and to keep ABAP programs independent
from the database system used, SAP has generated its own set of SQL
statements known as Open SQL.
13. What are datasets? - The sequential files (processed on application
server) are called datasets. They are used for file handling in SAP.
14. What are internal tables check table, value table, and transparent
table? - Internal table: It is a standard data type object, which exists only
during the runtime of the program. Check table: Check table will be at field
level checking. Value table: Value table will be at domain level checking ex:
scarr table is check table for carrid. Transparent table: - Exists with the
same structure both in dictionary as well as in database exactly with the
same data and fields.
15. What are the major benefits of reporting with BW over R/3? Would it be
sufficient just to Web-enable R/3 Reports? - Performance — Heavy reporting
along with regular OLTP transactions can produce a lot of load both on the
R/3 and the database (cpu, memory, disks, etc). Just take a look at the load
put on your system during a month end, quarter end, or year-end — now
imagine that occurring even more frequently. Data analysis — BW uses a
Data Warehouse and OLAP concepts for storing and analyzing data, where
R/3 was designed for transaction processing. With a lot of work you can get
the same analysis out of R/3 but most likely would be easier from a BW.
16. How can an ERP such as SAP help a business owner learn more about
how business operates? - In order to use an ERP system, a business person
must understand the business processes and how they work together from
one functional area to the other. This knowledge gives the student a much
deeper understanding of how a business operates. Using SAP as a tool to
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learn about ERP systems will require that the people understand the
business processes and how they integrate.
17. What is the difference between OLAP and Data Mining? - OLAP - On line
Analytical processing is a reporting tool configured to understand your
database schema ,composition facts and dimensions . By simple point-n-
clicking, a user can run any number of canned or user-designed reports
without having to know anything of SQL or the schema. Because of that
prior configuration, the OLAP engine “builds” and executes the appropriate
SQL. Mining is to build the application to specifically look at detailed
analyses, often algorithmic; even more often misappropriate called
“reporting.
18. What is “Extended Star Schema” and how did it emerge? - The Star
Schema consists of the Dimension Tables and the Fact Table. The Master
Data related tables are kept in separate tables, which has reference to the
characteristics in the dimension table(s). These separate tables for masterdata is termed as the Extended Star Schema.
19. Define Meta data, Master data and Transaction data - Meta Data: Data
that describes the structure of data or MetaObjects is called Metadata. In
other words data about data is known as Meta Data. Master Data: Master
data is data that remains unchanged over a long period of time. It contains
information that is always needed in the same way. Characteristics can bear
master data in BW. With master data you are dealing with attributes, texts
or hierarchies. Transaction data: Data relating to the day-to-day
transactions is the Transaction data.
20. Name some drawbacks of SAP - Interfaces are huge problem, Determine
where master data resides, Expensive, very complex, demands highly
trained staff, lengthy implementation time.
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21. What is Bex? - Bex stands for Business Explorer. Bex enables end user to
locate reports, view reports, analyze information and can execute queries.
The queries in workbook can be saved to there respective roles in the Bex
browser. Bex has the following components: Bex Browser, Bex analyzer, Bex
Map, Bex Web.
22. What are variables? - Variables are parameters of a query that are set in
the parameter query definition and are not filled with values until the
queries are inserted into workbooks. There are different types of variables
which are used in different application: Characteristics variables,
Hierarchies and hierarchy node, Texts, Formulas, Processing types, User
entry/Default type, Replacment Path.
23. What is AWB?. What is its purpose? - AWB stands for Administrator
WorkBench. AWB is a tool for controlling, monitoring and maintaining all the
processes connected with data staging and processing in the business
information whearhousing.
24. What is the significance of ODS in BIW? - An ODS Object serves to store
consolidated and debugged transaction data on a document level (atomic
level). It describes a consolidated dataset from one or more InfoSources.
This dataset can be analyzed with a BEx Query or InfoSet Query. The data of
an ODS Object can be updated with a delta update into InfoCubes and/or
other ODS Objects in the same system or across systems. In contrast to
multi-dimensional data storage with InfoCubes, the data in ODS Objects is
stored in transparent, flat database tables.
25. What are the different types of source system? - SAP R/3 Source
Systems, SAP BW, Flat Files and External Systems.
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26. What is Extractor? - Extractors is a data retrieval mechanisms in the SAP
source system. Which can fill the extract structure of a data source with the
data from the SAP source system datasets. The extractor may be able to
supply data to more fields than exist in the extract structure.
‹ SAP Interview QuestionsupWhat are BIW and BW? Why do they have a
significant role in Enterprise Resource Planning?
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Questions to ask recuiter
May 22, 2007 - 17:27 — cutegirl
1. How did you find me?
2. Is this a retainer or contingency assignment?
3. Are you dealing with the client’s HR people, or do you have direct
contact with the hiring manager?
4. How long has the client been with you?
5. How many candidates have you placed with this client?
6. When will I find out the name of the principal or client company?
7. May I have a written job description?
8. Where is the position located?
9. Where is the company headquartered?
10. To whom does the position report?
11. Can you tell me about this executive’s management style?
12. Why is the position open?
13. What happened to the person who previously held this position?
14. Is this a new position?
15. How long has the position been open?
16. How long have you been working on the assignment?
17. What does the position pay?
18. Are here any pay or compensation constraints that I should take into
consideration?
19. What can you tell me about the person who will be interviewing me?
20. What is his or her position, title, management style?
21. Who will make the final hiring decision?
22. After you present my resume, when can I expect to hear from you
regarding the status of this position?
23. Can you describe, specifically, how the company navigates/balanceswork? and personal-life issues?
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24. What might I do that would violate the culture of the company during
my interview?
25. What is the work environment like, cubicles, offices, large open area,
etc…?
26. What is the proper dress code for the interview?
27. How many people are there on this team/project/assignment that I will
be closely working with?
28. What is the normal/acceptable work schedule, 8/5, 10/4, etc…?
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A TRUTHFUL HR INTERVIEW
September 13, 2006 - 12:45 — meera
Honestly, we will have these answers in our mind ... but we give different,
tailored and suitable answers to the guy !
1. Why did you apply for this job?
I have applied for many jobs along with this and you called me now.
2. Why do you want to work for this company?
I have to work for some company who ever gives me a job, I don't have any
specific company in mind.
3. Why should I hire you?
You have to hire some one, you may give me a try.
4. What would you do if this happened?
Well, it depends my mindset and mood at that situation...
5. What is your biggest strength?
Basically, daring to join any company who pays me well, without thinking of
the fate of company
6. What is your biggest weakness?
Girls
7. What was your worst mistake, and how did you learn from it?
Joining my earlier company and learnt that I need to jump to get moremoney, so I am here today
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8. What accomplishments in your last position are you most proud of?
Had I accomplished any in my last position, why do I need to change my job?
I could demand more and stay there.
9. Describe a challenge you faced and how you overcame it?
Biggest challenge is answering the question "why are you looking for a
change" and I started blabbering irrelevantly to overcome that.
10. Why did you leave/ are you leaving your last job?
For the same reason why you left your earlier job
11. What do you want from this job?
If no work is given but keep giving good hikes
12. What are your career goals and how do you plan to achieve them?
Make more money and for that keep jumping companies for every 2 yrs
13. Did you hear of our company and what do you know of us?
Yeah, I know that you will ask this, I've gone through your website
14. What is the salary expected and how do justify that?
Well, no one will change job for the same salary, hence, give me 20% extra
than what I am getting and that is unpublished industry standard
(I know you will bargain on what ever I ask, hence, I have already hiked my
current salary by 30%)
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Creativity is the master of presence of mind
May 6, 2006 - 12:26 — sandeep
Not only our technical knowledge helps, but also the presence of mind and
the right answer at right time. Even if you don't know the answer for a
question, just confuse the questioner...
Question and the Answer given by Candidates, oh! sorry they are IAS*
Officers now. (*Indian Administrative Service)
Q. How can you drop a raw egg onto a concrete floor without cracking it?A. Concrete floors are very hard to crack! (UPSC Topper)
Q. If it took eight men ten hours to build a wall, how long would it take four
men to build it?
A. No time at all it is already built. (UPSC 23 Rank Opted for IFS)
Q. If you had three apples and four oranges in one hand and four apples andthree oranges in the other hand, what would you have?
A. Very large hands.(Good one) (UPSC 11 Rank ! Opted for IPS)
Q. How can you lift an elephant with one hand?
A. It is not a problem, since you will never find an elephant with one hand.
(UPSC Rank 14 Opted for IES)
Q. How can a man go eight days without sleep?
A. No Problems, he sleeps at night. (UPSC IAS Rank 98)
Q. If you throw a red stone into the blue sea what it will become?
A. It will Wet or Sink as simple as that. (UPSC IAS Rank 2)
Q. What looks like half apple ?
A. The other half. (UPSC - IAS Topper )
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Q. What can you never eat for breakfast ?
A . Dinner.
Q. What happened when wheel was invented ?
A, It caused a revolution.
Q. Bay of Bengal is in which state?
A. Liquid (UPSC 33 Rank )
Q. Interviewer said "I shall either ask you ten easy questions or one really
difficult question. Think well before you make up your mind!"
A. The boy thought for a while and said, "my choice is one really difficult
question."
Q."Well, good luck to you, you have made your own choice! Now tell me
this: "What comes first, Day or Night?"
A. The boy was jolted into reality as his admission depends on the
correctness of his answer, but he thought for a while and said, "It's the DAY
sir!"
Q. "How" the interviewer asked,
A. "Sorry sir,you promised me that you will not ask me a SECOND difficult
question!" He was selected for IIM!
Technical Skill is the mastery of complexity, while Creativity is the master
of presence of mind..........
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Modesty Pays.......
March 15, 2006 - 14:21 — cutegirl
Interviewer: Tell me about yourself.
Candidate: I am Rameshwar Kulkarni. I did my Tele Communication
engineering from BabanRao Dhole-Patil Institute of Technology.
Interviewer: BabanRao Dhole-Patil Institute of Technology? I had never
heard of this college before!
Candidate: Great! Even I had not heard of it before getting an admission
into it . What happened is - due to cricket world cup I scored badly! in
12th.I was getting a paid seat in a good college. But my father said (I prefer
to call him 'baap') - "I can not invest so much of money".(The baap actually
said - "I will never waste so much of mon ey on you"). So I had to join this
college. Frankly speaking this name - BabanRao Dhole-Patil, can at the most
be related to a Shetakari Mahavidyalaya. Interviewer: ok, ok. It seems you
have taken 6 years to complete your engineering.
Candidate: Actually I tried my best to finish it in 4 years. But you know,
these cricket matches and football world cup, and tennis tournaments. It is
difficult to concentrat e. So I flunked in 2nd and 3rd year. So in all I took 4 +
2 = 7 years.
Interviewer: But 4+2 is 6.
Candidate: Oh, is it? You know I always had KT in maths. But I will try to
keep this in mind. 4+2 is 6, good, thanks. These cricket matches really
affect exams a lot. I think they should ban it.
Interviewer: Good to know that you want cricket matches to be banned.
Candidate: No, no... I am talking about Exams!!
Interviewer: Ok, What is your biggest achievement in life?
Candidate: Obviously, completing my Engineering. My mom never thought I
would complete it. In fact, when i flunked in 3rd year, she was looking for ajob for me in BEST (Bus corporation in Maharashtra) through some relative.
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Interviewer: Do you have any plans of higher study?
Candidate: he he he.. Are you kidding? Completing 'lower' education itself
was so much of pain!!
Interviewer: Let's talk about technical stuff. On which platforms have you
worked?
Candidate: Well, I work at SEEPZ, so you can say Andheri is my current
platform. Earlier I was at Vashi center. So Vashi was my platform then. As
you can see I have experience of different platforms! (Vashi and Andheri are
the places in Mumbai)
Interviewer: And which languages have you used?Candidate: Marathi, Hindi, English. By the way, I can keep quiet in German,
French, Russian and many other languages.
Interviewer: Why VC is better than VB?
Candidate: It is a common sense - C comes after B. So VC is a higher version
than VB. I heard very soon they are coming up with a new language VD!
Interviewer: Do you know anything about Assembly Language?
Candidate: Well, I have not heard of it. But I guess, this is the language our
ministers and MPs use in assembly.
Interviewer: What is your general project experience?
Candidate: My general experience about projects is - most of th! e times
they are in pipeline!
Interviewer: Can you tell me about your current job?
Candidate: Sure, Currently I am working for Bata InfoTech ltd. Since joining
BIL, I am on Bench. Before joining BIL, I used to think that Bench was
another sof tware like Windows.
Interviewer: Do you have any project management experience?
Candidate: No, but I gues! s it shouldn't be difficult. I know Word and Excel.
I can talk a lot. I know how to dial for International phone call and use
speaker facility. And very important - I know few words like - 'Showstoppers
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' , 'hotfixes', 'SEI-CMM','quality','versioncontrol','deadlines' , 'Customer Satisf
action' etc. Also I can blame others for my mistakes!
Interviewer: What are your expectations from our company?
Candidate: Not much.
1. I should at least get 40,000 in hand.
2. I would like to work on a live EJB project. But it should not have
deadlines. I personally feel that pressure affects natural talent.
3. I believe in flexi-timings.
4. Dress code is against basic freedom, so I would like to wear t-shirt and
jeans.5. We must have sat-sun off. I will suggest Wednesday off also, so as to
avoid breakdown due to overwork.
6. I would like to go abroad 3 times a year on short term preferably 1-2
months) assignments. Personally I prefer US, Australia and Europe. But
considering the fact that there is a world cup in West Indies in 2007, I don't
mind going there in that period. As you can see I am modest and don't have
many expectations. So can I assume my selection?
Interviewer: he he he ha ha ha. Thanks for your interest in our organization.
In fact I was never entertained so much before. Welcome to INFOSYS .. :-))
We look forward to working with you..:-))
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