Chapter 3

Fifty more classic questions: be prepared

There are many interview question books, which feature hundreds of different questions and answers. Whilst you might have time to quickly read through them, you’re unlikely to have the time or the inclination to look at any of them in any great depth, nor to think through your own answers.

If you look closely at all these questions you’ll see that many of them are simply variations on a theme and that the same core themes come up again and again. There are so many different ways to word a question but only a limited number of topics the interviewer is likely to be interested in.

I believe that rather than spoon-feeding you the answers to questions it’s much more important for you to recognise ...

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