Given below is the list of questions that feature under the two important categories of interview questions:

Personal and personality-based questions:

➢ Tell me about yourself/What would you like us to know about you that is not mentioned in your
resume?
➢ What are the three most important events/incidents of your life?
➢ What are your three major accomplishments/achievements in life?
➢ Where did you grow up?
➢ What were you doing during this gap of time that is mentioned in your resume?
➢ What is that one experience in your life that you would want to go back and change?
Self-Description:
➢ Describe yourself in three words.
➢ How would your friends describe you?
Goals:
➢ Have you set any new goals for yourself recently?
➢ What are your five to ten-year career goals?
➢ What are your career and educational goals?
➢ How would you like your lasting impression to be?
➢ What are your career options right now?
➢ Do you have a final statement?
➢ What are your career options right now?
➢ How do you think you have improved your career path?
Values:
➢ What does ‘success’ mean to you?
➢ What does ‘failure’ mean to you?
➢ What is more important to you: money or the type of job?
➢ Who do you admire? Why?
➢ What are you passionate about?
➢ Who is your hero and why?
Strengths/weaknesses
➢ What are your strongest abilities?
➢ What is your biggest weakness?
➢ Give an example of something that you have done that shows initiative-taking ability?
➢ What have you disliked in your past jobs?
➢ What is that one quality that makes you stand out among your peers?
➢ What major problem have you encountered and how did you deal with it?
➢ Have you ever faced any failures? What did you learn from them?
➢ Can you work on several assignments simultaneously?
➢ What has been your greatest challenge?
➢ Are you creative? Give me an example. What have you done that you consider creative?
Management and Interpersonal skills based questions

➢ Define leadership.
➢ Give me an example of a leadership role that you have played when not everything went as
planned.
➢ Why management? Why this institute? How do you know that management interests you?
➢ Can business and ethics go together?
➢ What qualities should a successful manager possess? Do you have these attributes?
➢ What is management?
➢ How do you think it will help you? What are your career goals?
➢ Tell me how it will help you in business decision process?
➢ Suppose you have an assured monthly salary because of which you don’t face any compulsion to
work, what would you do then?
➢ With management you are closing options and you will be serving only the corporate section?
➢ Would you still like to do an MBA?
Interpersonal Skills
➢ Have you ever managed a conflict? How?
➢ What kinds of people do you like to work with?
➢ Define cooperation.
➢ What kinds of people you cannot work with?
➢ Have you ever spoken before a group of people? How large?
➢ Career & Education Based Questions
➢ What are your personal and professional goals?
➢ What is your short term and long term career objective?
➢ What is your ultimate goal in life?
➢ Where do you see yourself 5 years from now?
➢ Where do you see yourself in 10 years from now?
➢ Which specialization would you want to opt for in MBA and why?
➢ How does MBA add value to your life?
➢ How does MBA make you more credible?
➢ How will MBA help you in achieving your goals?
➢ How will your graduation help you in your MBA?
➢ Would you have wasted your 4 years of engineering by doing MBA?
➢ Which other B-School calls have you received?
➢ Why did you opt for your field of graduation?
➢ What are your expectations from this course of management?
➢ What are your expectations from a B School?
➢ What do you wish to learn from this program?
➢ Why does management as a career attract you?
➢ Since you are already earning, so why do you want to do an MBA?
➢ Tell us at least 5 things that you expect to learn from a B-school.
➢ What is the biggest advantage of MBA?
➢ What parameters would you consider while choosing a B-School?
➢ Why do you want to pursue an MBA before having work-experience?
➢ Why do you want to pursue an MBA from this institute?
➢ 30 years down the line where do you see yourself?
➢ Are you ready to risk your salary and a good job for an MBA degree?
➢ But why not join IAS if you like challenges?
➢ Describe the role that you will play after your management degree ?
➢ How does a B School prepare you for the industry when it cannot mimic an industry environment?
➢ Tell us about your skill sets that are going to be useful in MBA.
➢ What prompted you to prepare for an MBA entrance in spite of having a background in the medical
field?
➢ What would you bring to the learning environment in this B-School?
➢ When did you decide to do your MBA?
➢ Why do you want to pursue MBA and why specifically HR?
➢ Why do you want to go for an MBA when you could have attended other Management
Development Programs?
➢ Who was Taylor? What did he contribute to management?
➢ What do you like about marketing?
➢ Do you know any one HR person who is famous?
➢ Explain a few principles of management.
➢ Tell us what do you mean by a business model.
➢ What are the colleges known for HR?
➢ What are the five basic branches of management studies?
➢ What are the functionalities of HR?
➢ What are the Pros and Cons of doing an MBA now?
➢ What are the roles of an HR manager in a company?
➢ What is the contribution of Henry Fayol to management?
➢ What is the difference between personnel and human resource management?
➢ What is the practical application of marketing?
➢ What particular specialization would you like to take up in MBA?
➢ What should be the general objectives of business?
➢ What specialization would you like to opt for?
➢ Which subjects would you opt for in case you get selected?
➢ Do you wish to be an entrepreneur?
➢ Why do you want to specialize in marketing?
➢ Why do you want to specialize in finance?
➢ Why do you want to specialize in operations?
➢ Why do you want to specialize in HR?
➢ Why IT to HR? You are from an IT Background, Why MBA in HR?
➢ Which CEO do you admire the most?
➢ Why management after engineering from BITS Pilani?
➢ You are from a commerce background, Why MBA and not CA?
➢ Why MBA is more important for you at this stage when you have a decent job in hand?
➢ Relate MBA to your long term career goals.
➢ You have done B.Tech, why not pursue M.Tech. after that?
➢ Why MBA? Why not Civil Services?
➢ Hobbies Based Questions
➢ Tell me about your interests.
➢ Tell us about your hobbies.
➢ Can you tell me any change of rules that has taken place in the last 10 years in the game of
hockey?
➢ Can you tell me what ‘reverse swing’ is?
➢ Do you watch movies? What are 3D & 4D movies?
➢ How do you define good/bad photography?
➢ Tell us some Mudras in Kathak as it is one of your hobbies.
➢ How does Kathak vary from other dance forms?
➢ Don't you think you should focus on activities other than Kathak?
➢ How many types of guitars are there?
➢ Which magazines do you like to read?
➢ Questions on Cover Stories of leading magazines if someone mentions reading magazines as one
of his hobbies.
➢ Questions related to reading (hobbies) and the last read book.
➢ How much time do you take to complete a Sudoku puzzle?
➢ Which band do you like? And why?
➢ Tell me how many European championships has Chelsea won? Okay, tell me a great management
guy in football.
➢ Tell us something about Five Point Someone.
➢ What are the different strokes in swimming?
➢ What do you do in your leisure time?
➢ What have you done in theatre?
➢ What have you learned from sports?
➢ What is Madhubani art?
➢ What is the difference between Kuchipudi and Kathak?
➢ What kind of paintings do you make?
➢ What records does Michael Phelps hold?
➢ Which is your favorite band?
➢ Which is your favorite song?
➢ Who is the biggest theatre personality according to you in India?
➢ Who is the highest paid player in the sport you like?
➢ Who is the world champion in Swimming?
➢ Why don't you choose football as a career?
➢ Which book did you read last? What did you learn from that book?
➢ Which business magazines do you read?
➢ You also have a certificate of mountaineering. What was it all about?
➢ How has participating in Sports improved your personality?
➢ Describe your job profile.
➢ Elaborate on your experience while working with IBM.
➢ Elaborate on your work experience at Infosys.
➢ Introduce your organization. What role you play in the organization? Tell us about your projects.
➢ Explain your job responsibilities.
➢ How will your current experience help you if you go on to become a manager?
➢ For how many months have you taken a work experience?
➢ Are you not happy with your job? Then why do you want to leave the company?
➢ What kind of challenges have you faced at your workplace?
➢ Describe the corporate structure of your organization.
➢ Describe the current product that you have been working on. People say it is full of innovations.
What is your take?
➢ Did you face problems motivating your team?
➢ Did you have foreign clients?
➢ Discuss the appraisal process at Infosys. How has Infosys benefited you?
➢ Do you think you are a bad performer and won't get a better opportunity?
➢ Explain the concept of total quality management.
➢ Explain the different levels of an organization.
➢ Have you interacted with your customers?
➢ How can you improve upon the current profile that you are working in?
➢ How do you analyze the market?
➢ What are the various services offered by your company?
➢ Have you worked on any project in MS?
➢ How do you do sales forecasting?
➢ Apart from your regular work, what else have you done in your company?
➢ How do you get the estimate for the time required to finish a project?
➢ How do you ensure the productivity of your subordinates?
➢ How good was your company?
➢ How is quality measured at your job?
➢ How is your company performing in the wake of recession?
➢ How much time did you need to understand your client's business?
➢ If rupee depreciates, Infosys (candidate's previous organization) earns more or less?
➢ Is there any impact of the slowdown in the west on the business that your organization gets?
➢ On which technology do you work?
➢ Since your company has a high growth potential, then why do you want to leave the job and change
the field?
➢ So you are working in ONGC, how did you contribute to ONGC's success?
➢ So you are working with TCS, which company did it recently acquire?
➢ Explain your job profile as the magazine editor.
➢ Tell us something about the CSR initiatives of your previous organization.
➢ Tell me about the job sites that you have worked at.
➢ Tell us about any one creative project that you undertook in your job.
➢ There are 5 people working under you. How will you motivate and manage them?
➢ What are the different modules of SAP?
➢ What are the latest happenings in your industry?
➢ What are your responsibilities as a team leader at Infosys?
➢ What challenges did you face while in job?
➢ What change would you like to bring in the management of your previous organization ?
➢ What changes and advancements did you bring about in your company?
➢ What did you learn in your previous job?
➢ What differentiated your company from others in the same industry?
➢ What do you think is the most important thing to make a project successful?
➢ What have you gained during your employment with your previous organization?
➢ What have you learnt while managing your venture?
➢ How do you define an organization?
➢ What is back end and front end of a product?
➢ What is going to be your next role if you are promoted?
➢ What is the annual revenue that your company generates?
➢ What is the difference between a manager and a leader?
➢ What is the importance of Communication in your business?
➢ What is the rate of attrition at Infosys? So what is the reason behind this high rate of attrition that
Infosys is facing?
➢ What is the role of an Associate System Engineer?
➢ What is the significance of the critical path?
➢ What is the team size that you are leading?
➢ What is your business strategy?
➢ What kind of training did you receive in your job?
➢ What platform does IBM work on?
➢ What projects were you involved in during your job?
➢ What revenues are generated by your project?
➢ What services does your company deal in?
➢ What things you keep in mind while entering into a new market?
➢ What was the growth rate of your company?
➢ What were the reasons for leaving your job?
➢ What would be the opposite of back order processing?
➢ What would you like to discuss? Your work-ex or Your Engineering?
➢ Which foreign delegation have you handled?
➢ Which technology and which platform are you currently working on?
➢ Who are your major competitors?
➢ Who has to answer if you do not do your job well?
➢ Who is expected to be the next CEO of your company?
➢ Who is the founder of your company?
➢ Who tells you what to do in your job?
➢ Who was the client and for how many months were you on bench?
➢ Why are you leaving your Bank PO post? Why did you opt for Bank PO being an engineer in the
first place?
➢ Why are you looking to quit your job when you are doing well in a good company?
➢ Why did you change your job?
➢ Why did you join Infosys after doing B.tech in Electronics and Communication?
➢ Why did you leave job in just 4 months?
➢ Why do you switch jobs so early?
➢ Why do you want to leave an obviously envied field to do an MBA?
➢ Why do you want to shift from your field? Don't you find it interesting?
➢ Why do you want to switch over from IT to management?
➢ Why don't you want to stay in IT?
➢ Why have you stuck so long with the same company?
➢ Would you take the risk of giving an important task to your subordinate knowing that he might not
do it well and you could incur a loss?
➢ You are leading the pharmaceutical vertical! Who are your clients?
➢ You have been to the US on work visa, what is the process to get a US visa?
➢ You have data warehousing as a subject. Where is it used?
➢ You have done Chemical Engineering. So why did you work in an IT firm?
➢ You seem to have a lot of information in the field of IT. Why don't you do a PhD?
➢ You've worked at Wipro. How was the work environment there?
Top 100 Situation Based Questions asked in MBA Interviews
➢ MBA aspirants are often asked questions related to particular situations so as to assess their
decision making skills. Given below is a list of 100 situational questions asked in interviews.
➢ 10 coins are tossed in air, what is the probability of getting 5 heads?
➢ 12 people on a ship have nothing to eat. It is decided that 6 would die and other 6 would eat them.
On which side will you be?
➢ Can you sell this pen to me?
➢ Can you solve this puzzle?(9 points were given and a candidate was asked to join all points with 4
straight lines without lifting the pen).
➢ Can you draw the graph of the spin shot on the XY axis? Which mathematical graph does it
represent?
➢ Compare the cars which you own (Santro and Dzire).
➢ Describe five uses of a stapler other than the normal reasons for which it is put to use.
➢ Different situations were given on a sheet and you have to interpret each of the situations. For e.g.
You are going from Hyderabad to Bangalore with family, you were out too late and your room was
locked by someone else and you didn't get a room. What will you do?
➢ Even after preparing for one full year you couldn't get into an IIT. Why low grades in Engineering
also?
➢ Gaming is an addiction and not a hobby. Comment. Why should we select you?
➢ Give an example when you felt compassionate & helped some poor people.
➢ State 2 instances where you witnessed corruption first hand.
➢ Give us an example of a situation where you thought out of the box.
➢ Give us an example where you set a goal for yourself and achieved it.
➢ How can you make this room better?
➢ How do you scale yourself on the scale of 1 to 10 on: 1. intelligence 2. street smartness 3. fooling
others 4. Hardworking
➢ How will you market a pen without a refill?
➢ How will you predict the market for the next 2 years for your product? What techniques will you
use?
➢ How would you convert people into clients if you are not getting leads?
➢ How would you go about resolving a conflict between two friends?
➢ How would you handle a situation where your boss is biased towards your female colleagues?
➢ How would you react if the interview was at 8 pm or in a pub at 12 in the night?
➢ What would you do if you are made the CM of your state?
➢ You were put in various managerial situations wherein you led a team of people and then asked
about your criteria for giving them the rewards for their outstanding performance towards the
completion of their targets. What would be the likely criteria?
➢ Extempore: The two pens in my pocket.
➢ Extempore: To be or not to be.
➢ If a movie is made on you in 2050, what would its title be and summarize the story of the movie?
➢ If given a chance to change your name, what will you change it to and why?
➢ If given a chance to prepare a budget, what changes will you make?
➢ If given a chance, How will you revive Satyam?
➢ If there is only one seat in NMIMS and the panel has to pick between Gandhi, Hitler, Bush and you,
who would it be and why?
➢ If you are launching a luxury product, how you will market it and what area will you target?
➢ If you are made the education minister, what steps would you take to improve the existing
education infrastructure and facilities and how would you ensure education to rural areas.
➢ If you are working in a company, your friend is fired and only you know the secret as to why he was
fired, will you disclose the secret to your friend?
➢ If you have to change something in India, what would that be?
➢ If you travel from A to B @ 40kms/hr. What should be your return speed to make an average speed
of 80 km/hr.?
➢ Let's assume, you've been made the VP of your company. What measures are you going to take to
check the high attrition rate that is evidently visible?
➢ Okay, so you have been posted in Tamil Nadu for the past 2 years, the three of us are tourists and
you have to sell Tamil Nadu to us in 5 sentences. Do it.
➢ Recall any peculiar situation while you were at your job where there were conflicting ethics.
➢ Sell this water bottle to us.
➢ How was the experience of living in different cities? Which is your favorite out of the places you've
lived in and why?
➢ So you write, recite something that you've written.
➢ Speak on any topic of your choice.
➢ Speak on your hair style for a minute.
➢ Speak something on "Democracy is bad for India".
➢ Suppose tomorrow Aishwarya Rai comes to you saying that she is fed up of Abhishek Bachchan
and wants to marry you. What will you do? What advice will you give to Aishwarya?
➢ Tell how you will motivate your employees to work for long hours without being paid overtime.
➢ Let’s say that a person is an excellent performer but the company policy doesn't allow him to be
considered for a promotion due to inexperience, how will you handle this situation?
➢ There is a project, you are a team of four, and one of you doesn't do his part but copies it from
somewhere one hour before the submission. Submission deadline cannot be extended. What will
you do, submit it or report it?
➢ What advice will you give to the finance minister for the development of our country?
➢ What are health, wealth and happiness? What will you opt for?
➢ What is more important: ethics or targets?
➢ What do you plan to do if you are not able to convert your calls? How was your performance in
CAT?
➢ What if we don't provide you with campus placement, will you join or not?
➢ What if you convert all of your calls?
➢ What if you don't get a job? What if the recession worsens?
➢ What if you face Ajmal Kasab right after you move out of this room?
➢ What if you were offered an on-site opportunity right now? Would you grab it or still pursue MBA?
➢ What are ethics? You book 1 ticket in railways to travel for an interview but the ticket is not
confirmed and you have to board a train. Will you offer Rupees 200 to T.T. and stand in general
boogie or miss the interview?
➢ What will you do as the director of IIM-A to improve it?
➢ What would be your inputs if you had to redesign this room?
➢ What would you do if you were the railway minister?
➢ What would you have done as the Head of the Indian Army in the wake of 26/11 attacks?
➢ What would you like to be for a day? Why?
➢ What would you prefer, being an entrepreneur or having a good job?
➢ Why don't you join the B-school in your college since your college has an MBA school too?
➢ Will you be able to cope up with 12 hrs of work a day?
➢ Will you consider going back to your previous company after completing MBA?
➢ Will you speak about your name for one minute?
➢ Would you retain your team members, knowing that they are not very productive?
➢ You are a Patron of a church, attendance gets low and the priest is closing down the church- what
might be the possible problems?
➢ You are the captain of a cricket team and have only 10% winning chances. Devise a strategy to
win.
➢ You have a medical problem and you have left the field asking for it blank. Why so? Don't you think
you should have mentioned it here? But you have signed the declaration that I have provided
information to the best of my knowledge. I think you should be disqualified? Do you want to say
something?
➢ You seem to be a fan of cricket, think as if you are a speaker and give a speech on cricket.
➢ You wrote "satiated" word in your SOP. What do you mean by it? Do you use such words in your
daily communication?
➢ Describe a time when you were faced with a stressful situation and how you overcame the
situation.
➢ Tell me about a situation where you have had to speak with an unhappy customer.
➢ Give me an example of a time when you motivated others and how this led to a positive outcome.
➢ Describe a situation where you knew your boss was wrong – how did you handle it?
➢ Tell me about a time when you encountered a conflict in the workplace and how you handled it?
➢ Describe a time when you put the needs of your workmates before your own when completing a
task.
➢ Discuss a setback you have overcome in the last 12 months.
➢ Describe how you would handle the situation if you met resistance when introducing a new idea or
policy to a team or work group.
➢ How would you deal with a colleague at work with whom you seem to be unable to build a
successful working relationship?
➢ You disagree with the way your supervisor asks you to handle a problem. What would you do?
➢ Tell me about a time you faced an ethical dilemma.
➢ How would you handle a conflict within your team?