Job Questions to Ask Flashcards
Business Analyst: Questions to ask?
- What types of projects have you worked on?
- What was the goal of your last project?
- What is your requirements gathering experience?
- What experience do you have developing use cases?
- What has been your experience with the testing process?
- Do you have any manual or automated QA testing experience?
- What methodologies do you have experience in? (Agile, Waterfall, Scrum, RUP)
- What is your experience with risk mitigation strategies?
- Can you write SQL queries?
- How large was the development team you worked with?
- What stakeholders did you have to interact with?
- Have you built workflow diagrams?
- What was the biggest challenge you faced in your last project and how did you overcome it?
Systems Analyst Questions to Ask?
What types of projects have you worked on?
• What is your requirements gathering experience?
• What experience do you have developing use cases?
• What has been your experience with the testing process?
• What methodologies do you have experience in? (Agile, Waterfall, Scrum, RUP)
• What is your experience with risk mitigation strategies?
Application Developer: Questions to Ask
Questions to ask:
• What types of apps have you built?
• What is your application development process?
• Do you do agile development?
• Describe your most successful app development project?
Project Managers: Questions to ask?
• What is your strength as a project manager (what you are looking for here is the types of
• projects they have managed? Are they strong on app dev? Or infrastructure? Data? ERP?)
• Review the resume first; look for a PM that has done something specific.
• What projects are you best at managing?
• Do you have PMP, Itil, CSM or other certifications that are current?
• What type of project management methodologies do you excel at? (Agile, waterfall, scrum,
Kanban, SAFe)
• What was the goal of the project you worked on?
• How many resources did you manage?
• What types of technologies did they work with?
• What was the budget of the project? And did you meet it?
Application Developer: Questions to Ask?
What types of apps have you built?
• What is your application development process?
• Do you do agile development?
• Describe your most successful app development project?
Quality Assurance Engineers: Questions to Ask?
• What testing techniques do you have experience with? (UI Testing, Automated Testing, Test
Driven Development Strategies and others)
• What coding experience do you have? (JAVA, HTML5, DB2, XML)
• What experience do you have with web security technology?
• What experience do you have with software QA tools and processes?
Business Intelligence Developer: Questions to Ask?
What BI tools do you have experience with?
• How have you participated in data warehouse design?
Data Warehouse Manager Questions to Ask?
- How large was your department?
- How many direct reports did you have?
- What BI tools do you have experience with?
Data Analyst Questions to Ask
Questions to ask:
• What data analyst software do you have experience with?
• Which areas of data analysis do you prefer to work in? (operations, marketing, financial, etc)
• What was your most difficult data analysis project?
Project Manager Questions to ask?
What is your strength as a project manager (what you are looking for here is the types of
• projects they have managed? Are they strong on app dev? Or infrastructure? Data? ERP?)
• Review the resume first; look for a PM that has done something specific.
• What projects are you best at managing?
• Do you have PMP, Itil, CSM or other certifications that are current?
• What type of project management methodologies do you excel at? (Agile, waterfall, scrum,
Kanban, SAFe)
• What was the goal of the project you worked on?
• How many resources did you manage?
• What types of technologies did they work with?
• What was the budget of the project? And did you meet it?
Purchasing Agent Questions to Ask?
- What are your strategies for discovering the best products?
- What factors would you consider when closing a deal with a supplier?
- What is your experience in creating reports?
- How many suppliers did you interact with?
Procurement Officer Questions to Ask?
Questions to ask:
• What are your strategies for discovering the best products?
• What factors would you consider when closing a deal with a supplier?
• What is your experience in creating reports?
• How many suppliers did you interact with?
Network Engineer/Network Architect Questions to Ask
What certifications do you have and are they current? (Top certs are CCIE, CCNP, JNCIE-ENT,
CompTIA Network+, and WCNA)
• What types of networks have you had experience with?
• What size networks have you had experience with?
• Has your experience been design or support?
• Have you built servers? How many? What kind?
• What is your experience with routers, bridges, hubs?
• What has been your experience with application or web hosting?
• Do you have any network security experience?
• Do you have any database experience?
Systems Engineer Questions to Ask?
What is your experience installing, configuring and troubleshooting UNIX/Linux based
environments?
• What is your experience in the administration and performance tuning of application stacks?
(e.g., Tomcat, JBoss, Apache, Ruby, NGINX)
• How much Cloud experience do you have? Do you have experience with AWS (Amazon Web
Services)?
• What is your experience with virtualization and containerization? (e.g., VMware, Virtual Box)
• What is your experience with automation software in order to optimize efficacy (e.g., Puppet,
CFEngine, Chef)
• What are your scripting skills? (e.g., shell scripts, Perl, Ruby, Python)
• What is your networking knowledge? (OSI network layers, TCP/IP)
Cloud Engineer Questions to Ask?
What current cloud engineering concepts do you use most often?
• Describe the last project you were on. What was your role in that project?
