Questions To Ask Any Employer

in #life7 years ago

I've got an interview today for a new position I was scouted out for. I'm interviewing for a spot as Software Automation and Security Engineer Lead for a leading medical device company. The recruiter who scouted me out sent me this list of questions to have handy for during and after the interview. I think they are great questions. I have done many interviews in my life, and I think these are always great questions to ask. They should make your interviewer think and hopefully show that you're interested. If anyone has any other great questions, please share them below, but I'm hoping this can help all of you!

Manager Questions (if you feel it appropriate):
 How would you describe your management style? What do you view as your strengths
and weaknesses?
 How do you handle differences in direction with your staff? Can you give me some
specific examples?
 What are your expectations regarding communication (and the mechanism) with staff
on project progress and issues?
 What are your expectations for project reporting and what tools do you employ to
monitor project progress? Who is responsible for updating project progress/tasks?
 What specific level of involvement do/will you have with my work?
 What is the opportunity for growth/career progression?
 Does COMPANY sponsor professional development/continuing education?
 How often are performance reviews given?

Manager or Peer Questions:
 Please give me your opinion of the group’s chemistry and working relationship. What
are the group’s biggest challenges?
 How would you describe a typical day in this position?
 What type of customer interface will this position have?
 What do you feel will be my greatest challenge(s) the first 6 months I’m on board?
 Where can I help you the most day one – where is your pain?

Personal Questions:
 What is your background and experience prior to COMPANY?
 What do you like best about COMPANY?
 What do you like least about COMPANY?
 What has been your biggest challenge here at COMPANY?
 What one thing would you change about your position or the company?

Company Specific Questions:
 Where is COMPANY strategically positioned in their market-space?
 What are the barriers to entry (if any) to COMPANY market-space?
 What type of investment has COMPANY committed to future/new product
development?
 What new product lines/specific system solutions are planned or have been announced
recently?

Sort:  

Nice Post!!! great tool Exxodus

I dont know how we can ask what we dont know the priority of this business.

But, sometime, in Indonesia, the manager ask:

How much you want it? If i pay you, can you explain why the money will be for you?

Or, sometime, you dont agre with your boss. How you make communication to cooling down your boss.

Interesting. Great points!

Sometime, ask him/her about how much time from 24 hours can focus to work, and why?

You will know somebody who really seriously to work

Great questions! This will be very helpful for me when I do some interviews after graduating college!

happy to hear! best of luck!

Congratulations @exxodus! You have completed some achievement on Steemit and have been rewarded with new badge(s) :

Award for the number of comments received

Click on any badge to view your own Board of Honor on SteemitBoard.

To support your work, I also upvoted your post!
For more information about SteemitBoard, click here

If you no longer want to receive notifications, reply to this comment with the word STOP

Upvote this notification to help all Steemit users. Learn why here!

Great timing! I have an interview tomorrow. This is very helpful. Thank you for the post :)

Hi folks - I'm a professional resume writer /interview coach - to share some insight, the questions that include "can you give an example of" or "Tell me about a time when you.....", those are called 'behavioral interview questions' (sometimes called structural interviews) - they ask the applicant to "prove" their skills with a story. This is a smart interviewing strategy, because it's one thing for an applicant to say, "Ya, I can do that, here are my skills". But it's MUCH more convincing to SHOW how you actually did those things in the past by sharing an example. (it's basically a 'BS'-er filter technique :) ) Hope that helps some!