Interview at IBM

I have a scale and 7 balls. 1 ball is heavier than all the rest. How do I determine the heaviest ball with only 3 possible weighing attempts?

What is a linked list?

Name an advantage of linked list over array?

Name an advantage of array over linked list?

Have you ever used threads?

Should you protect the global data in threads? Why or why not?

Have you ever interfaced with a database?

Tell us about yourself.

Questions about specific resume entries.

Given two strings like x=”hello” and y=”open”, remove any character from string x which is also used in string y, thus making the result x=”hll”.

Interviews at IBM

I have a scale and 7 balls. 1 ball is heavier than all the rest. How do I determine the heaviest ball with only 3 possible weighing attempts?

What is a linked list?

Name an advantage of linked list over array?

Name an advantage of array over linked list?

Have you ever used threads?

Should you protect the global data in threads? Why or why not?

Have you ever interfaced with a database?

Tell us about yourself.

Questions about specific resume entries.

Given two strings like x=”hello” and y=”open”, remove any character from string x which is also used in string y, thus making the result x=”hll”.

Perl interview questions and answers

What arguments do you frequently use for the Perl interpreter and what do they mean?

What does the command ‘use strict’ do and why should you use it?

What do the symbols $ @ and % mean when prefixing a variable?

What elements of the Perl language could you use to structure your code to allow for maximum re-use and maximum readability?

What are the characteristics of a project that is well suited to Perl?

Why do you program in Perl?

Explain the difference between my and local.

Explain the difference between use and require.

What’s your favorite module and why?

What is a hash?

Write a simple (common) regular expression to match an IP address, e-mail address, city-state-zipcode combination.

What purpose does each of the following serve: -w, strict, -T ?

What is the difference between for & foreach, exec & system?

Where do you go for Perl help?

Name an instance where you used a CPAN module.

How do you open a file for writing?

How would you replace a char in string and how do you store the number of replacements?

When would you not use Perl for a project?

Perl interview questions and answers

What arguments do you frequently use for the Perl interpreter and what do they mean?

What does the command ‘use strict’ do and why should you use it?

What do the symbols $ @ and % mean when prefixing a variable?

What elements of the Perl language could you use to structure your code to allow for maximum re-use and maximum readability?

What are the characteristics of a project that is well suited to Perl?

Why do you program in Perl?

Explain the difference between my and local.

Explain the difference between use and require.

What’s your favorite module and why?

What is a hash?

Write a simple (common) regular expression to match an IP address, e-mail address, city-state-zipcode combination.

What purpose does each of the following serve: -w, strict, -T ?

What is the difference between for & foreach, exec & system?

Where do you go for Perl help?

Name an instance where you used a CPAN module.

How do you open a file for writing?

How would you replace a char in string and how do you store the number of replacements?

When would you not use Perl for a project?

.NET interview questions at Wipro

1. Difference between directcast and ctype.
2. An example of a ctype and directcast.
3. ctype(123.34,integer) - should it throw an error? Why or why not?
4. directcast(123.34,integer) - should it throw an error? Why or why not?
5. Difference between a sub and a function.
6. Explain manifest & metadata.
7. Scope of public/private/friend/protected/protected friend.
8. Different kinds of methods.
9. Difference between imperative and interrogative code.
10. Difference between value and reference type.
11. What are the two kinds of properties.
12. What is the raise event used for?
13. Explain constructor.
14. What is a resource? Provide an example from your recent project.
15. What is a system lock?
16. Describe ways of cleaning up objects.
17. Where does the dispose method lie and how can it be used to clean up resources?
18. How can you clean up objects holding resources from within the code?

.NET interview questions at Wipro

1. Difference between directcast and ctype.
2. An example of a ctype and directcast.
3. ctype(123.34,integer) - should it throw an error? Why or why not?
4. directcast(123.34,integer) - should it throw an error? Why or why not?
5. Difference between a sub and a function.
6. Explain manifest & metadata.
7. Scope of public/private/friend/protected/protected friend.
8. Different kinds of methods.
9. Difference between imperative and interrogative code.
10. Difference between value and reference type.
11. What are the two kinds of properties.
12. What is the raise event used for?
13. Explain constructor.
14. What is a resource? Provide an example from your recent project.
15. What is a system lock?
16. Describe ways of cleaning up objects.
17. Where does the dispose method lie and how can it be used to clean up resources?
18. How can you clean up objects holding resources from within the code?

Questions to ask your future boss and colleagues

Some job interviews result in meeting the group manager and team that you’ll be working for. Here’s a useful collection of questions to ask.

1. Could you explain the company’s organizational structure?
2. What is the organization’s plan for the next five years, and how does this department or division fit in?
3. What specific skills from the person you hire would make your life easier?
4. Will we be expanding or bringing on new products or new services that I should be aware of?
5. What are some of the problems that keep you up at night?
6. What are some of the skills and abilities you see as necessary for someone to succeed in this job?
7. What would be a surprising but positive thing the new person could do in first 90 days?
8. What challenges might I encounter if I take on this position?
9. How does upper management perceive this part of the organization?
10. What are your major concerns that need to be immediately addressed in this job?
11. What do you see as the most important opportunities for improvement in the area I hope to join?
12. What are the attributes of the job that you’d like to see improved?
13. What are the organization’s three most important goals?
14. What is your company’s policy on attending seminars, workshops, and other training opportunities?
15. How do you see this position impacting the achievement of those goals?
16. What is the budget this department operates with?
17. What attracted you to working for this organization?
18. What committees and task forces will I be expected to participate in?
19. What have you liked most about working here?
20. How will my leadership responsibilities and performance be measured? By whom?
21. What are the day-to-day responsibilities I’ll be assigned?
22. Are there any weaknesses in the department that you are particularly looking to improve?
23. What are the department’s goals, and how do they align with the company’s mission?
24. What are the company’s strengths and weaknesses compared with the competition? (name one or two companies)
25. How does the reporting structure work here? What are the preferred means of communication?
26. What goals or objectives need to be achieved in the next six months?
27. Can you give me an ideal of the typical day and workload and the special demands the job has?
28. This a new position. What are the forces that suggested the need for this position?
29. What areas of the job would you like to see improvement in with regard to the person who was most recently performing these duties?
30. From all I can see, I’d really like to work here, and I believe I can add considerable value to the company. What’s the next step in the selection process?
31. How does this position contribute to the company’s goals, productivity, or profits?
32. What is currently the most pressing business issue or problem for the company or department?
33. Would you describe for me the actions of a person who previously achieved success in this position?
34. Would you describe for me the action of a person who previously performed poorly in this position?
35. How would you describe your own management style?
36. What are the most important traits you look for in a subordinate?
37. How do you like your subordinates to communicate with you?
38. What personal qualities or characteristics do you most value?
39. Could you describe to me your typical management style and the type of employee who works well with you?
40. Corporate culture is very important, but it’s usually hard to define until one violates it. What is one thing an employee might do here that would be perceived as a violation of the company’s culture?
41. How would you characterize the organization? What are its principal values? What are its greatest challenges?
42. How would you describe the experience of working here?
43. If I were to be employed here, what one piece of wisdom would you want me to incorporate into my work life?
44. What are a couple of misconceptions people have about the company?
45. Work-life balance is an issue of retention as well as productivity.
46. Can you talk about your own view of how to navigate the tensions between getting work done and encouraging healthy lives outside the office?
47. How does the company support and promote personal and professional growth?
48. What types of people seem to excel here?
49. Every company contends with office politics. It’s a fact of life because politics is about people working together. Can you give me some exams of how politics plays out in this company?
50. What have I yet to learn about this company and opportunity that I still need to know?
51. I’m delighted to know that teamwork is highly regarded. But evaluating performance of teams can be difficult. How does the company evaluate team performance? For example, does it employ 360-degree feedback programs?
52. What are the organization’s primary financial objectives and performance measures?
53. What operating guidelines or metrics are used to monitor the planning process and the results?
54. To what extent are those objectives uniform across all product lines?
55. How does the company balance short-term performance versus long-term success?
56. What kinds of formal strategic planning systems, if any, are in place?
57. Can you describe the nature of the planning process and how decisions concerning the budgeting process are made?
58. Can you identify the key corporate participants in the planning process?
59. How often and in what form does the company report its results internally to its employees?
60. In the recent past, how has the company acknowledged and rewarded outstanding performance?
61. What are the repercussions of having a significant variance to the operating plan?
62. Are budgeting decisions typically made at corporate headquarters, or are the decisions made in a more decentralized fashion?
63. I’m glad to hear that I will be part of a team. Let me ask about reward structures for teams. Does the company have a formal team-based compensation process?
64. Is the company more of an early adapter of technology, a first mover, or is it content to first let other companies work the bugs out and then implement a more mature version of the technology?
65. How does the company contribute to thought leadership in its market?
66. How advanced is the company’s commitment to knowledge management?
67. I was pleased to hear you describe the company’s branding strategy.
68. How does branding fit into the overall marketing mix?
69. How does this position contribute to the company’s goals, productivity, or profits?
70. According to (name source), your principal competitor, Brand X, is the best-selling product in the space. What does Brand X do better than your product?
71. Business Week magazine ranks the company second (or whatever) in its industry. Does this position represent a change from where it was a few years ago?
72. How accessible is the CEO (name him or her) to people at my level of the organization?
73. Does the CEO (name him or her) publish his or her email address?
74. I understand that the CEO is really approachable. Are there ground rules for approaching him or her?
75. Staff development is mentioned in your annual report as a measure on which executives are evaluated. What kinds of training experiences might I expect?
76. Is the department a profit center?
77. Can you please tell me about the people who will look to me for supervision?
78. Would I encounter any coworker or staff person who’s proved to be a problem in the past?
79. What happened to the person who previously held this job?
80. The incumbent was dismissed? How could the problems have been avoided?
81. The incumbent was promoted? I’m delighted to hear it. Would it be possible for me to talk to him or her?
82. What is the company customer-service philosophy?
83. Could you tell me about a time when the team/company went out of its way to provide knock-your-socks-off service?
84. The best companies rely on rich customer data to fuel personalized content and services. How is the company doing in personalizing its offerings?
85. Customers are expecting companies to protect their data. Does the company have a privacy policy for its Web initiatives, and how does the company balance the momentum for ever-increasing personalization with rising concerns for privacy?
86. How empowered are employees? How much of the company’s money can your people (including the ones with single-digit pay grades) spend on their own recognizance to satisfy a customer or address a work-process issue?
87. How often would I come into direct contact with real, living, breathing, paying customers?
88. What are the success factors that will tell you if the decision to bring me on board was the right one?
89. To make our working relationship successful - something we both want - we’ll need to be sure we have good chemistry together. How might we determine this, and then what action would you see us engage in to build that relationship?
90. If you and I were developing some sort of philosophical difference, how would you want to go about resolving it?

Questions to ask your future boss and colleagues

Some job interviews result in meeting the group manager and team that you’ll be working for. Here’s a useful collection of questions to ask.

1. Could you explain the company’s organizational structure?
2. What is the organization’s plan for the next five years, and how does this department or division fit in?
3. What specific skills from the person you hire would make your life easier?
4. Will we be expanding or bringing on new products or new services that I should be aware of?
5. What are some of the problems that keep you up at night?
6. What are some of the skills and abilities you see as necessary for someone to succeed in this job?
7. What would be a surprising but positive thing the new person could do in first 90 days?
8. What challenges might I encounter if I take on this position?
9. How does upper management perceive this part of the organization?
10. What are your major concerns that need to be immediately addressed in this job?
11. What do you see as the most important opportunities for improvement in the area I hope to join?
12. What are the attributes of the job that you’d like to see improved?
13. What are the organization’s three most important goals?
14. What is your company’s policy on attending seminars, workshops, and other training opportunities?
15. How do you see this position impacting the achievement of those goals?
16. What is the budget this department operates with?
17. What attracted you to working for this organization?
18. What committees and task forces will I be expected to participate in?
19. What have you liked most about working here?
20. How will my leadership responsibilities and performance be measured? By whom?
21. What are the day-to-day responsibilities I’ll be assigned?
22. Are there any weaknesses in the department that you are particularly looking to improve?
23. What are the department’s goals, and how do they align with the company’s mission?
24. What are the company’s strengths and weaknesses compared with the competition? (name one or two companies)
25. How does the reporting structure work here? What are the preferred means of communication?
26. What goals or objectives need to be achieved in the next six months?
27. Can you give me an ideal of the typical day and workload and the special demands the job has?
28. This a new position. What are the forces that suggested the need for this position?
29. What areas of the job would you like to see improvement in with regard to the person who was most recently performing these duties?
30. From all I can see, I’d really like to work here, and I believe I can add considerable value to the company. What’s the next step in the selection process?
31. How does this position contribute to the company’s goals, productivity, or profits?
32. What is currently the most pressing business issue or problem for the company or department?
33. Would you describe for me the actions of a person who previously achieved success in this position?
34. Would you describe for me the action of a person who previously performed poorly in this position?
35. How would you describe your own management style?
36. What are the most important traits you look for in a subordinate?
37. How do you like your subordinates to communicate with you?
38. What personal qualities or characteristics do you most value?
39. Could you describe to me your typical management style and the type of employee who works well with you?
40. Corporate culture is very important, but it’s usually hard to define until one violates it. What is one thing an employee might do here that would be perceived as a violation of the company’s culture?
41. How would you characterize the organization? What are its principal values? What are its greatest challenges?
42. How would you describe the experience of working here?
43. If I were to be employed here, what one piece of wisdom would you want me to incorporate into my work life?
44. What are a couple of misconceptions people have about the company?
45. Work-life balance is an issue of retention as well as productivity.
46. Can you talk about your own view of how to navigate the tensions between getting work done and encouraging healthy lives outside the office?
47. How does the company support and promote personal and professional growth?
48. What types of people seem to excel here?
49. Every company contends with office politics. It’s a fact of life because politics is about people working together. Can you give me some exams of how politics plays out in this company?
50. What have I yet to learn about this company and opportunity that I still need to know?
51. I’m delighted to know that teamwork is highly regarded. But evaluating performance of teams can be difficult. How does the company evaluate team performance? For example, does it employ 360-degree feedback programs?
52. What are the organization’s primary financial objectives and performance measures?
53. What operating guidelines or metrics are used to monitor the planning process and the results?
54. To what extent are those objectives uniform across all product lines?
55. How does the company balance short-term performance versus long-term success?
56. What kinds of formal strategic planning systems, if any, are in place?
57. Can you describe the nature of the planning process and how decisions concerning the budgeting process are made?
58. Can you identify the key corporate participants in the planning process?
59. How often and in what form does the company report its results internally to its employees?
60. In the recent past, how has the company acknowledged and rewarded outstanding performance?
61. What are the repercussions of having a significant variance to the operating plan?
62. Are budgeting decisions typically made at corporate headquarters, or are the decisions made in a more decentralized fashion?
63. I’m glad to hear that I will be part of a team. Let me ask about reward structures for teams. Does the company have a formal team-based compensation process?
64. Is the company more of an early adapter of technology, a first mover, or is it content to first let other companies work the bugs out and then implement a more mature version of the technology?
65. How does the company contribute to thought leadership in its market?
66. How advanced is the company’s commitment to knowledge management?
67. I was pleased to hear you describe the company’s branding strategy.
68. How does branding fit into the overall marketing mix?
69. How does this position contribute to the company’s goals, productivity, or profits?
70. According to (name source), your principal competitor, Brand X, is the best-selling product in the space. What does Brand X do better than your product?
71. Business Week magazine ranks the company second (or whatever) in its industry. Does this position represent a change from where it was a few years ago?
72. How accessible is the CEO (name him or her) to people at my level of the organization?
73. Does the CEO (name him or her) publish his or her email address?
74. I understand that the CEO is really approachable. Are there ground rules for approaching him or her?
75. Staff development is mentioned in your annual report as a measure on which executives are evaluated. What kinds of training experiences might I expect?
76. Is the department a profit center?
77. Can you please tell me about the people who will look to me for supervision?
78. Would I encounter any coworker or staff person who’s proved to be a problem in the past?
79. What happened to the person who previously held this job?
80. The incumbent was dismissed? How could the problems have been avoided?
81. The incumbent was promoted? I’m delighted to hear it. Would it be possible for me to talk to him or her?
82. What is the company customer-service philosophy?
83. Could you tell me about a time when the team/company went out of its way to provide knock-your-socks-off service?
84. The best companies rely on rich customer data to fuel personalized content and services. How is the company doing in personalizing its offerings?
85. Customers are expecting companies to protect their data. Does the company have a privacy policy for its Web initiatives, and how does the company balance the momentum for ever-increasing personalization with rising concerns for privacy?
86. How empowered are employees? How much of the company’s money can your people (including the ones with single-digit pay grades) spend on their own recognizance to satisfy a customer or address a work-process issue?
87. How often would I come into direct contact with real, living, breathing, paying customers?
88. What are the success factors that will tell you if the decision to bring me on board was the right one?
89. To make our working relationship successful - something we both want - we’ll need to be sure we have good chemistry together. How might we determine this, and then what action would you see us engage in to build that relationship?
90. If you and I were developing some sort of philosophical difference, how would you want to go about resolving it?

eBay interview questions and answers

1. Let’s say you have 100,000 records and you want to delete 95,000 at a time and keep only 5 thousand. But in local memory you don’t have enough space for 95,000 records. What do you do in this case? How do you delete without any problem with time and performance?
2. I need data on eBay customers in Chicago who can did bid on certain item? I dont have access to eBay database directly. How I get the information?
3. With DTS packaging I can store tables in Excel and convert them back to SQL. But once I copied tables to Excel I want to modify some info. How you do that without editing the Excel file?
4. What is cursor and where do you use them?

eBay interview questions and answers

1. Let’s say you have 100,000 records and you want to delete 95,000 at a time and keep only 5 thousand. But in local memory you don’t have enough space for 95,000 records. What do you do in this case? How do you delete without any problem with time and performance?
2. I need data on eBay customers in Chicago who can did bid on certain item? I dont have access to eBay database directly. How I get the information?
3. With DTS packaging I can store tables in Excel and convert them back to SQL. But once I copied tables to Excel I want to modify some info. How you do that without editing the Excel file?
4. What is cursor and where do you use them?

Visual Basic interview questions

How do you center a form?

Can I send keystrokes to a DOS application?

Convert an RGB value to a long, or a long to RGB.

Implement smooth scrolling for either text, graphics or controls across a form.

Implement some quick and easy encryption (can be something primitive).

4 different types of sorts: advantages and disadvantages.

Compute CRC32 checksum, write a quick piece of code that accepts the packet of data and returns the CRC.

How do you use the Mouse OFF event?

How do I call Windows Help files from a VB program?

How do I create a textbox that lets you insert tabs?

How do I make text box that displays asterisks when the user types in data such as password?

How do I create multi-column combo box?

How do I make a menu popup from a CommandButton?

How to create menus at run time in VB?

Write a generic error handling routine.

How to copy text to the Windows clipboard and from it.

How can I call a Command button without clicking it?

Write a simple app with Encrypt and Decrypt buttons and Textbox where the user can enter text for encryption and decryption.

3 main differences between flexgrid control and dbgrid control

ActiveX and Types of ActiveX Components in VB

Advantage of ActiveX Dll over ActiveX Exe .

Advantages of disconnected recordsets . Benefit of wrapping database calls into MTS transactions 6. Benefits of using 23 MTS

Can database schema be changed with DAO, RDO or ADO?

Can you create a tabletype of recordset in Jet-connected ODBC database engine?

Constructors and destructors

Controls which do not have events

Default property of datacontrol

Define the scope of Public, Private, Friend procedures?

Describe Database Connection pooling relative to MTS

Describe: In of Process vs. Out of Process component. Which is faster?

Difference between a function and a subroutine, Dynaset and Snapshot, early and late binding, image and picture controls, linked object and embedded Object,listbox and combo box,Listindex and Tab index,modal and moduless window, Object and Class, query unload and unload in form, declaration and instantiation of an object?

Draw and explain Sequence Model of DAO

How can objects on different threads communicate with one another?

How can you force new objects to be created on new threads?

How does a DCOM component know where to instantiate itself?

How do I register a component?

How do I set a shortcut key for label?

What kind of components can be used as DCOM servers?

Name of the control used to call a Windows application

Name the four different cursor and locking types in ADO and describe them briefly

Need of zorder method, no of controls in form, Property used to add a menus at runtime, Property used to count number of items in a combobox,resize a label control according to your caption.

Return value of callback function, The need of tabindex property

Thread pool and management of threads within a thread pool

To set the command button for ESC, Which property needs to be changed?

Type Library and what is it’s purpose?

Types of system controls, container objects, combo box

Under the ADO Command Object, what collection is responsible for input to stored procedures?

What are the ADO objects? Explain them.

What are the different compatibility types when we create a COM component?

What do ByVal and ByRef mean and which is the default?

What does Option Explicit refer to? 36. What does the Implements statement do?

What is OLE and DDE? Explain.

What is the difference between Msgbox Statement and MsgboxQ function?

What keyword is associated with raising system level events in VB?

What methods are called from the ObjectContext object to inform MTS that the transaction was successful or unsuccessful?

What types of data access have you used.

What was introduced to Visual Basic to allow the use of Callback Functions?

Which controls can not be placed in MDI?

Which controls have refresh method, clear method

Which Property is used to compress a image in image control?

Which property of menu cannot be set at run time?

Which property of textbox cannot be changed at runtime?

What is the maximum size of a textbox?

Which tool is used to configure the port range and protocols for DCOM communications?

Visual Basic interview questions

How do you center a form?

Can I send keystrokes to a DOS application?

Convert an RGB value to a long, or a long to RGB.

Implement smooth scrolling for either text, graphics or controls across a form.

Implement some quick and easy encryption (can be something primitive).

4 different types of sorts: advantages and disadvantages.

Compute CRC32 checksum, write a quick piece of code that accepts the packet of data and returns the CRC.

How do you use the Mouse OFF event?

How do I call Windows Help files from a VB program?

How do I create a textbox that lets you insert tabs?

How do I make text box that displays asterisks when the user types in data such as password?

How do I create multi-column combo box?

How do I make a menu popup from a CommandButton?

How to create menus at run time in VB?

Write a generic error handling routine.

How to copy text to the Windows clipboard and from it.

How can I call a Command button without clicking it?

Write a simple app with Encrypt and Decrypt buttons and Textbox where the user can enter text for encryption and decryption.

3 main differences between flexgrid control and dbgrid control

ActiveX and Types of ActiveX Components in VB

Advantage of ActiveX Dll over ActiveX Exe .

Advantages of disconnected recordsets . Benefit of wrapping database calls into MTS transactions 6. Benefits of using 23 MTS

Can database schema be changed with DAO, RDO or ADO?

Can you create a tabletype of recordset in Jet-connected ODBC database engine?

Constructors and destructors

Controls which do not have events

Default property of datacontrol

Define the scope of Public, Private, Friend procedures?

Describe Database Connection pooling relative to MTS

Describe: In of Process vs. Out of Process component. Which is faster?

Difference between a function and a subroutine, Dynaset and Snapshot, early and late binding, image and picture controls, linked object and embedded Object,listbox and combo box,Listindex and Tab index,modal and moduless window, Object and Class, query unload and unload in form, declaration and instantiation of an object?

Draw and explain Sequence Model of DAO

How can objects on different threads communicate with one another?

How can you force new objects to be created on new threads?

How does a DCOM component know where to instantiate itself?

How do I register a component?

How do I set a shortcut key for label?

What kind of components can be used as DCOM servers?

Name of the control used to call a Windows application

Name the four different cursor and locking types in ADO and describe them briefly

Need of zorder method, no of controls in form, Property used to add a menus at runtime, Property used to count number of items in a combobox,resize a label control according to your caption.

Return value of callback function, The need of tabindex property

Thread pool and management of threads within a thread pool

To set the command button for ESC, Which property needs to be changed?

Type Library and what is it’s purpose?

Types of system controls, container objects, combo box

Under the ADO Command Object, what collection is responsible for input to stored procedures?

What are the ADO objects? Explain them.

What are the different compatibility types when we create a COM component?

What do ByVal and ByRef mean and which is the default?

What does Option Explicit refer to? 36. What does the Implements statement do?

What is OLE and DDE? Explain.

What is the difference between Msgbox Statement and MsgboxQ function?

What keyword is associated with raising system level events in VB?

What methods are called from the ObjectContext object to inform MTS that the transaction was successful or unsuccessful?

What types of data access have you used.

What was introduced to Visual Basic to allow the use of Callback Functions?

Which controls can not be placed in MDI?

Which controls have refresh method, clear method

Which Property is used to compress a image in image control?

Which property of menu cannot be set at run time?

Which property of textbox cannot be changed at runtime?

What is the maximum size of a textbox?

Which tool is used to configure the port range and protocols for DCOM communications?

Good questions to ask during management interview

1. Could you please describe the management team to me?
2. Does the company have a Net-use policy?
3. Will I receive my assignments from IT or from the business unit?
4. Do developers have little contact with the business unit or significant contact?
5. Can you show or sketch me an organizational chart?
6. If for any reason you were unable to function as CEO, how would you like to see the company managed?
7. To whom does the chief information or technology officer report?
8. How would you describe the degree to which you want your heirs to have strategic or operational influence in the company until one of them is ready to assume the role of COO or CEO?
9. What are you hoping to accomplish, and what will be my role in those plans?
10. May I see a job description? What are the most important responsibilities of the job?
11. How much time should be devoted to each area of responsibility?
12. What is my spending/budget authority?
13. What initial projects would I be tackling?
14. What are the biggest technical challenges ahead for this department/ company?
15. Presuming that I’m successful on this assignment, where else might I be of service to the company?
16. Traditionally, companies have used IT to reduce bottom-line costs. But
17. I am excited about the use of IT to advance top-line opportunities such as creating new products and identifying new markets. Can you talk about how IT is used in this company to create top-line value?
18. What structured strategies for software testing have you found effective here?
19. Does the company use an IT steering committee?
20. If you put all the salespeople in a line from your best to the merely acceptable performer, what are the earnings of the 50th percentile? The 25th? The 75th?
21. Can you describe the performance of the sales team?
22. What is the commission structure, and what is my earning potential in 1, 3, 5, or 10 years?
23. What percentage of salespeople attain objectives?
24. What percentage of the current people are above and below their set goals?

Good questions to ask during management interview

1. Could you please describe the management team to me?
2. Does the company have a Net-use policy?
3. Will I receive my assignments from IT or from the business unit?
4. Do developers have little contact with the business unit or significant contact?
5. Can you show or sketch me an organizational chart?
6. If for any reason you were unable to function as CEO, how would you like to see the company managed?
7. To whom does the chief information or technology officer report?
8. How would you describe the degree to which you want your heirs to have strategic or operational influence in the company until one of them is ready to assume the role of COO or CEO?
9. What are you hoping to accomplish, and what will be my role in those plans?
10. May I see a job description? What are the most important responsibilities of the job?
11. How much time should be devoted to each area of responsibility?
12. What is my spending/budget authority?
13. What initial projects would I be tackling?
14. What are the biggest technical challenges ahead for this department/ company?
15. Presuming that I’m successful on this assignment, where else might I be of service to the company?
16. Traditionally, companies have used IT to reduce bottom-line costs. But
17. I am excited about the use of IT to advance top-line opportunities such as creating new products and identifying new markets. Can you talk about how IT is used in this company to create top-line value?
18. What structured strategies for software testing have you found effective here?
19. Does the company use an IT steering committee?
20. If you put all the salespeople in a line from your best to the merely acceptable performer, what are the earnings of the 50th percentile? The 25th? The 75th?
21. Can you describe the performance of the sales team?
22. What is the commission structure, and what is my earning potential in 1, 3, 5, or 10 years?
23. What percentage of salespeople attain objectives?
24. What percentage of the current people are above and below their set goals?