What kind of questions should I ask in the interview?

[ngdarr]

Can you guys give me some examples as to what kind of intelligent questions I should ask in the interview?


Thank you very much for your help.

[Zooey-Art]

Can you guys give me some examples as to what kind of intelligent questions I should ask in the interview?


Thank you very much for your help.

I'd like to second this request. If anyone has good ideas about what questions to ask during an interview, it would be very helpful. This is a topic that seems to be easily overlooked. Maybe another way to answer this question would be to make a list of concerns that should be addressed either by the interviewees or posed by questions from the interviewer.

[mreevit]

1) How much do you make?

[Irish Blues]

1) How much do you make?

WRONG!

Asking that question alone will very likely get you tossed from consideration. It is extremely rude and will not endear you to the people you'll be working with. DO NOT ask this question.

So ... what do you ask?

[url]http://www.actuary.com/actuarial-discussion-forum/showthread.php?t=863[/url]

We thought it was so important, we made it a sticky. It should pretty much sum things up there.

[Ken]

You should really ask questions that come to your mind as you go as opposed to having a set of questions you're going to ask. There should be some flow to it. I think the only people you should have set questions with is HR where you ask about the interview process and with the students where you have some student program related questions. If you're interviewing with neither HR nor students, you should make sure you get those questions answered anyways.

[mreevit]

I was being sarcastic.

[Irish Blues]

I was being sarcastic.

Next time, point that out - otherwise, there will be people who think you're serious and go ask that question.

[djerry81]

How did you start with this company?
How do you feel about this company?
Does this company promote from within and encourage employees to take on more responsibilities and take on special projects?

Those were a couple questions I ask everytime

[mreevit]

[URL]http://www.career.vt.edu/JOBSEARC/interview/AskQues.htm[/URL]

[pepper2000]

You should go into the interview knowing something about the company, and hopefully you will know enough that you can ask an intelligent question about the company. If it's a growing firm, you might ask what the firm's goals are for the next five years, just as they ask you that kind of question. You might ask the interviewer what (s)he thinks is the most important way for a new employee to succeed. Take the above with a grain of salt, since I am not an experienced interviewer (on either end) and am guessing/repeating what I have heard elsewhere.

I'm fairly sure, though, that it is bad form to ask what the policy is on dating coworkers.