Subject - Interview Questions

Subject - Interview Questions Most frequently asked Interview Questions Tell me about yourself. Use “Picture Frame Approach” *Do not just repeat what you have given in your resume. It’s a question that most interviewees expect and the one they have the most difficulty answering. Though one could answer this open-ended question in a myriad of ways, the key to answering this question or any other interview question is to offer a response that supports your career objective. This means that you shouldn’t respond with comments about your hobbies, spouse, or extra curricular activities, Interviewers aren’t interested. Provide a brief introduction. Introduce attributes that are key to the open position. Provide a career summary of your most recent work history Tie your response to the needs of the hiring organization Showcase your communication skills. Finish strong. Why do you want to work here? Research the target company before the interview. Basic research is the only way to prepare for this question. Do your homework, and you’ll score big on this question. Give just one or two reasons why you are interested. You can add these points (1) company's reputation(2) desire to join the specific field of interest. What are your weak points? Don’t say you have one, but give one that is really a “positive in disguise.” I am sometimes impatient and do to much work myself when we are working against tight deadlines.” Or “I compliment and praise my staff, but feel I can improve.” Where do you want to be in 5 years? Judge me from the work and I am sure you will put me right where I want to be. Do not over ambitious and speak in a way that you are not satisfied with your current job which you have applied for. What do you look for in a job? Flip this one over. Despite the question, the employer isn’t really interested in what you are looking for. He’s interested in what he is looking for. Address his interests, rather than yours Why are you leaving your current job? You should give two or three reasons for leaving.Lack of challenge, focus on the limitations etc. Never answer with negative reasons, even if they are true. Frame your answer positively by answering why you want to move to the target company instead of why you left or want to leave your most recent job. For example, instead of answering, “I don’t get enough challenges at company,” respond, “I am eager to take on more challenges, and I believe I will find them at [hiring company]. What interests you most about the job? Show how you believe that you are most suited to the post. If you can find out an earlier experience it would be fine. If you have experience, you can quote some similarities from the past and how you achieved success. How is your experience relevant to this job? Sketch out some similar work which you have done in your previous job. It should be something justifiable by you, even though others may think differently.You can even ask some question where you can prove that your experience stands in good strand. Tell me about a time you had to deal with an irritate customer, how did you handle the solution? The question is aimed at you to hear from yourself how you handle people when others loose their temper. Here the best answer you can give to describe a situation and show how you handled it with maturity and diplomacy. What books you read? Do not ever say you have read a book which you have not. Here your suggestion can lead the interviewer to know your taste and interest. It can also hint on how you take your profession. Can we call all your references? If you have given your present boss as your reference you can tell that you prefer to call your current boss only after you receive a confirmed offer as he may not like you changing the job. Do you have any questions? Be prepared to answer this question in advance. List out a few questions you wish to know more about. After you have faced the interview your logic will guide you to ask the question you really want to know more about. How do you handle tension? Answer with ease that in any job and any situation that tension is a part of it. Relax before putting the f act you are very used to such type of works. What is your current salary? Do not bluff. Be specific on the answer. Do not hesitate to say the benefits you enjoyed in the previous job. It may be verified so never mention the benefits you have not got. What is your weakness? Turn the question to a positive one. Simply say that you are a perfectionist and your commitment to output of high quality perfect work. Say this is your weakness.. Don’t say you have one, but give one that is really a “positive in disguise.” I am sometimes impatient and do to much work myself when we are working against tight deadlines.” Or “I compliment and praise my staff, but feel I can improve.”

names

*There are many companies / brands / products whose* *names were derived
from strange circumstances/things/happenings.*

*Mercedes*

*This was actually the financier's daughter's name.*

*Adobe*

*This came from name of the river Adobe Creek that ran behind the house of
founder John Warnock.*

*Apple Computers*

*It was the favorite fruit of founder Steve Jobs. He was three months late
in filing a name for the business, and he threatened to call his company
Apple
Computers if the other colleagues didn't suggest a better name by 5 O'clock
that evening.*

*CISCO*

*It is not an acronym as popularly believed. It is short for San Francisco
.*

*Compaq*

*This name was formed by using COMp, for computer, and PAQ to denote a small
integral object.*

*Corel*

*The name was derived from the founder's name Dr. Michael Cowpland. It
stands for COwpland REsearchLaboratory.*

*Google*

*The name started as a joke boasting about the amount of information the
search-engine would be able to search. It was originally named 'Googol', a
word for the number represented by 1 followed by 100 zeros. After founders-
Stanford graduate students Sergey Brin and Larry Page presented their
project to an angel investor, they received a cheque made out to
'Google'* *...thus
the name.*

*Hotmail*

*Founder Jack Smith got the idea of accessing e-mail via the web from a
computer anywhere in the world. When Sabeer Bhatia came up with the business
plan for the mail service, he tried all kinds of names ending in 'mail' and
finally settled for hotmail as it included the letters "html" - the
programming language used to write web pages. It was initially referred to
as HoTMaiL with selective uppercasing.*

*Hewlett Packard*
*Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard tossed a coin to decide whether the company
they founded would be called Hewlett-Packard or Packard-Hewlett.*
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**Intel*
*Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore wanted to name their new company '
Moore Noyce'but that was already trademarked by a hotel chain so they had to
settle for an acronym of INTegrated ELectronics.*

*Lotus (Notes)*

*Mitch Kapor got the name for his company from 'The Lotus Position' or
'Padmasana'. Kapoor used to be a teacher of Transcendental Meditation of
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi.*

*Microsoft*

*Coined by Bill Gates to represent the company that was devoted to MICRO
computer SOFTware. Originally christened Micro-Soft, the '-' was removed
later on.*
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**Motorola*
*Founder Paul Galvin came up with this name when his company started
manufacturing radios for cars. The popular radio company at the time was
called Victrola.*
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**ORACLE*

*Larry Ellison and Bob Oats were working on a consulting project for the CIA
(Central Intelligence Agency). The code name for the project was called
Oracle (the CIA saw this as the system to give answers to all questions or
something such). The project was designed to help use the newly written SQL
code by IBM. The project eventually was terminated but Larry and Bob decided
to finish what they started and bring it to the world. They kept the name
Oracle and created the RDBMS engine. Later they kept the same name for the
company.*

*Sony*
*It originated from the Latin word 'sonus' meaning sound, and 'sonny' a
slang used by Americans to refer to a bright youngster.*

*SUN*

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*Founded by 4 Stanford University buddies, SUN is the acronym for S
tanford University Network. Andreas Bechtolsheim built a microcomputer;
Vinod Khosla recruited him and Scott McNealy to manufacture computers based
on it, and Bill Joy to develop a UNIX-based OS for the computer.*
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**Yahoo!*

*The word was invented by Jonathan Swift and used in his book 'Gulliver's
Travels'. It represents a person who is repulsive in appearance and action
and is
barely human. Yahoo! Founders Jerry Yang and David Filo selected the name
because they considered themselves yahoos.*

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