HR Questions

Hi folks, the below questions might sound really simple and elementary. You inner voice might even say Why give
two hoots, I will sail through them. But trust me folks a little bit of preparation is needed to create an impact in the
brief 10 min window given to you (generally the NITIE interviews are short). So try to prepare answers for these, I
would advise not to mug them up, but do have a rough framework to approach these questions.
The first 30 questions are general HR questions.

1. Tell us about yourself.

2. What are your greatest strengths?
3. What are your greatest weaknesses?
4. Tell me about something you did or failed to do that you now feel a little ashamed of.
5. Why did you leave your previous job?/Why MBA as a fresher?
6. What are your career options at this moment?
7. What are your hobbies & interests?
8. Which is the last book you read?
9. Tell about a situation when you or your work was criticized
10. How do you feel about reporting to a younger person (minority, woman, etc)?
11. If given a chance, what one thing you would like to change in your life which you have done?
12. Can you work under pressure?
13. What makes you angry?
14. Who has inspired you in your life and why?
15. Where could you use some improvement?
16. Do you have any Entrepreneurship plans? If yes share your vision and the work you have done till
now to achieve that vision.
17. Are you a team player?
18. Where do you see yourself five years from now?
19. As MBA is mostly about peer learning, What contributions could you make to your fellow batch
mates learning
20. Which subjects have you enjoyed studying the most and why?
21. Which subjects did you dislike and why?
22. What do you consider to be your most significant professional/ academic achievements and why?
OR What was the toughest challenge youve ever faced? OR What is your single largest
achievement so far? Why do you consider it to be your largest achievement?

23. What are the engineering subjects that you think are relevant to real life?
24. Describe an incident that has had a deep impact on you and brought about a significant change?
25. Could you share with us one experience in your recent past, wherein you were placed under a lot
of stress and how you handled that situation?
26. Tell us about a situation wherein you influenced a team of people to implement on innovative
idea. OR Give me an example of your creativity (analytical skill managing ability, etc.)
27. Could you explain to us how were you able to handle a recent situation wherein you faced a
dilemma between you ethics & integrity and achievement of crucial desired result?
28. Long & short term objectives?
29. Why MBA, not M.Tech or M.S? Do you think India needs more MBAs or Research scholars?
30. You as a person. Describe in one word?

NITIE specific HR questions

1. Calculate the opportunity cost if you join NITIE?
2. Why NITIE not IIMs?
3. How much weightage would you give to ROI in your B School selection process?
4. How is the term Make in India relevant to NITIE?
5. What advantage do you think you will gain having Mumbai as a location in terms of B School
life and for your career in general?
6. Why not PGDISEM? (This is mostly for Chemical, Environmental Engineers)
7. When was NITIE started? (All the other gyaan available in the website)
8. How do you feel about the NITIE campus?
9. Your comments on NITIEs admission process?
10. What is Industrial Management?