Interview Process - HR Interview questions

         Step-by-Step Interview Process - HR Interview questions

1. Interview schedule :

2.Technical discussion: 

2.Technical discussion:

3.Manger Round :

4.Soft skills discussion :

5.HR Round :

6.Request for Document submission:

7.Offer letter Release and acceptance confirmation. 
8.Pre-Joining or Post-Joining discussion and getting confirmation for On-Boarding date.
9. On-Boarding (Joining the company)

1. Interview schedule - Consultancy or direct company will contact and schedule  a date and time for interview . It may be either telephonic round or face to face.

2.Technical Discussion: At schedule date and time Technical resource or Technical expert will have a technical and subject deep discussion to asses our knowledge and experience for the current requirement.

3.Manger Round: Some time it may be go as technical discussion, Manger will asses our experience and discuss about ITIL concepts, shifts, Location and current project requirement.

4.Soft skills discussion: Few company will have this round in there interviews, they will assess our Language skills and our soft skills (hearing ,speaking and presentation skills).

5.HR round: They will check our carrier graph ( educational and work experience) if any gaps will ask for reason. They will ask for reason for a change , I mean why we are leaving the company and Salary negotiations, Relocation expenses, Dependencies (Family member are willing to relocate), Joining bonus if applicable.

6.Request for Document submission: They will request to send all  required documents and verify it and release the offer letter, Some companies they will go for Pre-verification on  submitted documents and then they will release offer letter.

7.Offer letter Release and acceptance confirmation: Once offer letter is released, I mean either soft copy or hard copy reached to us, they will ask to go through it once and provide the confirmation on Salary, Joining date,Location. If anything needs to be change or modify discussions and negotiations will take place.

8.Pre-Joining or Post-Joining discussion and getting confirmation for On-Boarding date.
   Some times we may need to discuss about pre-joining if we already relieved from working organization or joining date is to long than our last working date. Some times joining date may be to early or our notice period is not yet completed in our current working organization.

9. On-Boarding (Joining the company)
  On agreed joining date we need to take  requested sets of  documents along with xerox and originals
(All Education Mark Lists,Relieving and experience letters of previous employers,Photos,Identity proffs(Local address proof and permanent address proof))

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Behaving right in an interview

1)Arrive 5-10 minutes before the interview. Never arrive too late or too early. If you are running late due to some

unavoidable situation, call ahead and make sure that the interviewers know your situation. Also, be apologetic for

arriving late due to unfortunate situation.

2) First impressions are everything: Firm handshake, maintain eye contact, smile, watch your body language, be

pleasant, dress neatly and know the names of your interviewers and thank them by their names for the opportunity.

3) Try, not to show that you are nervous. Every body is nervous for interviews but try not to show it. [Hint: Just think that

even if you do not get the job, it is a good learning experience and you would do better in your next interview and

appreciate yourself for getting this far. You can always learn from your mistakes and do better at your next interview.]

4) It is good to be confident but do not make up your answer or try to bluff.

If you put something in your resume then better be prepared to back it up. Be honest to answer technical questions because you are not expected to remember everything  If you have not used  such a tools and commands  in your work experiance tell the truth that i did not get an opportunity to exploure the things tell the things you used to the interviewer.

Also, try to provide brief answers, which means not too long and not too short like yes or no. Give examples of times you performed that particular task. If you would like to expand on your answer, ask the interviewer if you could elaborate or go on. It is okay to verify your answers every now and then but avoid verifying or validating your answers too often because the interviewer might think that you lack self-confidence or you cannot work independently. But if you do not know the answer to a particular question and keen to know the answer, you could politely request for an answer but should not request for answers too often. If you think you could find the answer(s) readily on the internet then try to remember the question and find the answer(s) soon after your interview.

4)You should also ask questions to make an impression on the interviewer. Write out specific questions you want to

ask and then look for opportunities to ask them during the interview. Many interviewers end with a request to the

applicant as to whether they have anything they wish to add. This is an opportunity for you to end on a positive note

by making succinct statements about why you are the best person for the job.

5) Try to be yourself. Have a good sense of humor, a smile and a positive outlook. Be friendly but you should not tell

the sagas of your personal life. If you cross your boundaries then the interviewer might feel that your personal life will

interfere with your work.

6) Be confident.

a rounds to a pressing problem.

7) Unless asked, do not talk about money. Leave this topic until the interviewer brings it up or you can negotiate this

with your agent once you have been offered the position. At the interview you should try to sell or promote your

technical skills, business skills, ability to adapt to changes, and interpersonal skills. Prior to the interview find

out what skills are required by thoroughly reading the job description or talking to your agent for the specific job and

be prepared to promote those skills (Some times you would be asked why you are the best person for the job?).

You should come across as you are more keen on technical challenges, learning a new piece of technology,

improving your business skills etc as opposed to coming across as you are only interested in money.

8) Speak clearly, firmly and with confidence but should not be aggressive and egoistical. You should act interested in

the company and the job and make all comments in a positive manner. Should not speak negatively about past

colleagues or employers. Should not excuse yourself halfway through the interview, even if you have to use the

bathroom. Should not ask for refreshments or coffee but accept it if offered.

9) At the end of the interview, thank the interviewers by their names for their time with a firm handshake, maintain

eye contact and ask them about the next steps if not already mentioned to know where you are at the process and

show that you are interested.

Tell me about Yourself

Tell me about yourself or about some of the recent projects you have worked with? What do you consider your

most significant achievement? Why do you think you are qualified for this position? Why should we hire you and

what kind of contributions will you make? 

FAQ

 [Hint:] Pick your recent projects and enthusiastically brief on it. Interviewer will be looking for how passionate

you are about your past experience and achievements. Also is imperative that during your briefing, you

demonstrate on a high level(without getting too technical) how you applied your skills and knowledge in some of

the following key areas:

Performance issues:

Application issues.

Memory issues:

 Exception Handling:

 Multi-threading (Concurrency issues):

Hi This is <Name>, I did my MCA in 2008 from Nagarjuna University.
Currently I am working with <Current working company>. Prior to that i have worked with <Previous company>
with the payroll of <if your working as contractor>

I involed in Installation of weblogic application server 8.1,9.2,10.3 I meant 11g and webserver
appache 2.0 and 2.2.

I have good experiance in Troubleshooting and Performance tuning as well as monitoring and
managing all weblogic server resources and webservices.

Apart from this,

1.I involued in creation and configuration of Domains.
2.Creation and configuration of clusters for providing load balencing and failover support.
3.Creation and configuration of JDBC and Datasources and connection pools.
4.Deployment of applications.
5.Managing SSL certificates.

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Day to day activities.

1.Taking shift handover from previous shifts.
2.Health status check-up of all weblogic server instances
Login to admin console and will check the all server status.
All server status should be running
If any of the server is failed kill those servers first.
Bounse or restart the server manually.
3.Checking the webservices and applications.
4.Periodical deployment on Non prod  and production servers.
5.Supporing and following ITIL concepts in Incidents,change and problem management.
6.Providing on call support of 24*7 Basis.
7.Giving shift hand over to next shift.
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Working Environment

There are totaly 50 applications deployed on 10 domains.
Each domain contains of 1 horizantal cluster.
Each cluster contains 10-15 managed servers.

Currently we are working on Linux 4.0 and 5.0
Application server weblogic 9.2 and 11g
webserver Apache 2.0 and 2.2.
Backend DB is Oracle 9i.
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Technical Questions.

1.Tell me about urself.
2.Apache configuration.
3.Differences between versions.
4.How will you create domain.
5.what is recent issue you have faced.
6.How to take Threaddump,Heap dump and core dump, where we need to enable flags and how we can analyze it.
7.What is the performance tuning technics you used.
8.What do you mean by JVM can you explain the memory and Permegen.

Why are you leaving your current position? FAQ

 [Hint]

1 Do not criticize your previous employer or co-workers or sound too opportunistic.

2 It is fine to mention a major problem like a buy out, budget constraints, merger or liquidation.

3 You may also say that your chance to make a contribution is very low due to company wide changes or

looking for a more challenging senior or designer role.

 What do you like and/or dislike most about your current and/or last position? AQ

 [Hint]

The interviewer is trying to find the compatibility with the open position. So

Do not say anything like:

􀂃 You dislike overtime.

􀂃 You dislike management or co-workers etc.

It is safe to say:

􀂃 You like challenges.

􀂃 Opportunity to grow into design, architecture, performance tuning etc

􀂃 Opportunity to learn and/or mentor junior developers..

􀂃 You dislike frustrating situations like identifying a memory leak problem or a complex transactional or a

concurrency issue. You want to get on top of it as soon as possible.

How do you handle pressure? Do you like or dislike these situations?AQ

 [Hint] These questions could mean that the open position is pressure-packed and may be out of control. Know

what you are getting into. If you do perform well under stress then give a descriptive example. High achievers tend

to perform well in pressure situations.

 What are your strengths and weaknesses? Can you describe a situation where you took initiative? Can you

describe a situation where you applied your problem solving skills? FAQ

 [Hint]

Strengths:

􀂃 Taking initiatives and being pro-active: You can illustrate how you took initiative to fix a transactional issue,

a performance problem or a memory leak problem.

􀂃 Design skills: You can illustrate how you designed a particular application using OO concepts.

􀂃 Problem solving skills: Explain how you will break a complex problem into more manageable sub-sections

and then apply brain storming and analytical skills to solve the complex problem. Illustrate how you went

about identifying a scalability issue or a memory leak problem.

􀂃 Communication skills: Illustrate that you can communicate effectively with all the team members, business

analysts, users, testers, stake holders etc.

􀂃 Ability to work in a team environment as well as independently: Illustrate that you are technically sound

to work independently as well as have the interpersonal skills to fit into any team environment.

􀂃 Hard working, honest, and conscientious etc are the adjectives to describe you.

Weaknesses:

Select a trait and come up with a solution to overcome your weakness. Stay away from personal qualities and

concentrate more on professional traits for example:

􀂃 I pride myself on being an attention to detail guy but sometimes miss small details. So I am working on

applying the 80/20 principle to manage time and details. Spend 80% of my effort and time on 20% of the

tasks, which are critical and important to the task at hand.

􀂃 Some times when there is a technical issue or a problem I tend to work continuously until I fix it without having

a break. But what I have noticed and am trying to practice is that taking a break away from the problem and

thinking outside the square will assist you in identifying the root cause of the problem sooner.

What are your career goals? Where do you see yourself in 5-10 years?

Be realistic.

Describe a time when you were faced with a stressful situation that demonstrated your coping skills? Give me an

example of a time when you used your fact finding skills to solve a problem? Describe a time when you applied

your analytical and/or problem solving skills?

Situation:

Why do you want to work for us? What motivates you? What demotivates you? What are you looking for in your

next job? What is your definition of an ideal job? FAQ

 (Research the company prior to the interview). Look at their

website. Know their product lines and their competitors. Learn about their achievements or strengths.