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HR Questions

1. Summarize your resume for me.

2. Do you follow society norms?
3. Why do they teach Pythagoras theorem in school? Its daily application in our life.
4. Explain Standard deviation in layman language and how do you use it in your day to day life.
5. **Tell us about yourself and your hobbies.
6. I can see in your resume that you have done a lot of managing work in your college. Does
it mean that you have interest in pursuing management after your UG degree?
7. If you don’t plan on doing management, are you planning for your master’s degree?
8. **Where do you see yourself in next 7-8 years?
9. Is there anything else you want to ask us?
10. **Why do you want to work with our company?
11. **What do you know about our company?
12. **Regional preferences and any regional restrictions?
13. **Why should I hire you?
14. **What do you like about yourself?
15. Why are you in civil and not in mechanical?
16. **Tell us about your parent's background.
17. **Introduce yourself in some different way.
18. Why did you do a particular course?
19. **What are your strong points?
20. **Why did you choose SNU?
21. Describe your best quality?
22. Describe any creative thing you have done?
23. If you worked in a team and conflicts arise how will you handle it?
24. What can you say about out of box thinking?
25. What do you think of women empowerment?
26. What skills are required in today’s world to compete.?
27. Give an example where you have given your 100%.
28. How do you think you can contribute to society?
29. What is being interactive?
30. **Which is your dream company?
31. **What are your long term and short-term goals?
32. **Have you ever faced any scary situation in SNU?
33. How can a civil student add value to our company?
34. **Do you want to join the government sector or the private sector? Why?
35. **What/Who is your inspiration?
36. **What are the different courses that you were exposed to in this program?
37. How many hours can you work at a stretch without getting bogged down?
38. Why did you choose Civil as your engineering major and what and how do you plan to give
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39. **Projects.
40. Difference between market and sales?
41. From a given scenario, what is marketing? What is sales? What is management?
42. Name 4 web browsers.
43. In a folder, there are 3 format files - jpeg, video and mp3. Can you mail the folder directly?
What shortcut will you use?
44. What is Mac address and IP address? Does your iPhone, smart phones, android phones
have a Mac address?
45. What is friend functions?
46. What softwares are you aware of in IT industry?
47. Basic questions on file transfer.
48. Latest windows?
49. **Questions about MS office.
50. What is compressing of folders?
51. Extra activities in school and university.
52. Will you be able to do night shifts?
53. If you get an opportunity in Core Company, what will you do?
54. What is important career or money?
55. Why don't you go for higher studies?
56. Describe anything in this room that relates with you?
57. What is an opportunity for you?
58. What is life?
59. If you are a leader of a project, how would you encourage team work and other factors?
60. **Few questions from android app.
61. How comfortable would you be in changing your branch?
62. What type of colleagues do you want?
63. What do you value the most in your life?
64. **What do you think about the odd even formula implemented in Delhi? (question related
to current affairs)
65. How is teaching and research facilities in SNU?
66. What skills do you think are important to cope up in an environment like cognizant?
67. Tell us about the unique thing you persist?
68. How was your day and how was your interview?
69. As a women what are your goals?
70. What are the other non-technical activities you are interested in?
71. You have been a part of sport activities. What do you think you learnt?
72. What are you passionate about?
73. What do you think are the advantages and disadvantages of having twin brother/sister?
74. What is the craziest thing you have ever done?
75. **What is your expected job description?
76. What are your expectations from dell?
77. How do you want your life to be apart from your professional aims?
78. What will you do if you have 100 crores?
79. 5 states which you think are developing?

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80. Tell us something, which you think, is good about dell.

81. What did you do yesterday?
82. What is Innovativeness? What are its Pros and cons?
83. If you have Brilliant Idea, but management is creating a hurdle to execute it then what
would you do to come out of it?
84. What do you mean by Trust, Integrity?
85. How did you manage breeze events?
86. Tell us about the motivating factors in your life.
87. Explain the concept of normalization.
88. Which one do you respect more ‘intelligence’ or collaboration?
89. What is the difference between morals and ethics, integrity and trust
90. **Why take up job and not go for higher studies despite good CGPA?
91. Tell us about any day-to-day problem and your solution to it.
92. How SNU changed you as a person?
93. You are a Communication minor, show some marketing skills and market sauna slim belt.
94. You have a cake. In how many attempts can you cut it in 8 equal pieces?
95. There are nine identical balls. In how many attempts can you find which has the least
weight?
96. How can you relate your minor with your major?
97. Tell us something about your OCJ?
98. What did you understand from the pre placement talk we conducted?
99. What do you understand from work life balance?
100. What could be the reason of your low CGPA?
101. What is the first thing you will do if I tell you right now that you are selected?
102. What are the top three questions you prepared for this interview?
103. Mistakes of your life and what did you learn from them.
104. Explain "career objective" part mentioned in resume.
105. It was based on an airplane that wanted to circle the earth but even with full tank, it could
only move half the distance. Assuming that they had a technology that could fuel the plane
midair by using another plane and that there exists only one runway on the entire planet,
how many planes are required to enable at least one plane to circle the earth?
106. **What are your areas of interests - subject wise?
107. **What are the internships you have done and what did you learn from them.
108. Do you have any project in mind that you think you can execute/work on in this company?
109. What do you think is the role of your Branch in IT industry?
110. Suggest the Problem Faced in Laptop with the perspective of consumer and then with
Engineer Point of view.
111. How sure are you with the basics of your core subject?
112. What are the components of a computer?
113. Explain the functioning of an UPS.
114. Which sector of IT will you prefer?
115. How comfortable you are with the CSE students?
116. Tell us about your daily routine.
117. How can you relate your minor with your major?

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118. What do you hate and love?

119. Define confidence by taking one event as an example.
120. One memorable event in your life that you’ll never forget.
121. We have a 6-month internship to teach you how we work. What if you don't like the work
we do? Will you leave the company?
122. What do you think has been your best achievement in the college?
123. How would you help our company grow?
124. You are a driver, you have someone in your car who had a heart attack, and you are stuck
in a jungle so how will you handle the situation?
125. Why did you decide to opt for EE branching Engineering?
126. You are from EE, how will you help our company?
127. If I appoint you as the CEO of our company and did not pay you anything then what would
you choose?
128. Suppose if someone joins your group randomly and he is your family friend (surprisingly)
then what will you do? Will you assign him work in the similar fashion as for the rest of the
team-mates or will you reduce his workload?
129. Do you like meeting new people?
130. Do you like travelling? Have you travelled before?
131. It is very important to build good relationships at work but sometimes it does not always
work out. If you can, tell me about a time when you were not able to build a successful
relationship with a difficult person.
132. Some people consider themselves to be “big picture people” and others are “detail
oriented”. Which are you? Give an example of a time when you displayed this.
133. What would you do if the products is not perfect and is sold to the clients and why?
134. Quality or Quantity what is more important?
135. Difference between effectiveness and efficiency
136. Why did you want to come to Noida from Tamil Nadu for studies?
137. In a family with many children, every boy has as many brothers as sisters and every girl
has twice as many brothers as sisters, how many children were there? (No. of boys and
girls)
138. A train travels at 1 mile/min and has to cross a 1-mile tunnel. In how much time will it
cross the tunnel completely?
139. Do you know how to drive?
140. **Where are you from?
141. **Three reasons why you like SNU?
142. **Apart from engineering, what do you like?
143. What is productivity?
144. **What technical skills do you have?
145. If you are given a building, how will you find the area?
146. What is the difference between : morals and ethics
147. 10th and 12th qualifications.
148. What is Time management?
149. You are the last candidate; give me one strong reason why should I take you?
150. Has anyone ever asked you to do something unethical? What did you do?

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151. **Tell me about a time you had to confront a peer, customer or colleague.
152. How did your college experience prepare you for a career in this field?
153. Describe the work environment that makes you thrive?
154. How many contacts do you have in your phone?
155. Which team game (Min 5 members) do you play?
156. Which is the fastest growing sector?
157. Why E-commerce is the fastest growing sector?
158. Questions about the MBA program at SNU
159. If you have to meet a very old friend and at the same time, you have an important work to
complete, how will you deal with this situation?
160. **Questions related to excel.
161. **What is your interest in politics?
162. What do you feel about AAP?