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Jeremiah
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What are 10 Questions I Can Use To Interview An Electronics Engineer ?
I am looking for some help finding interview questions to ask an Electronics Engineer. I need questions that are NOT personal but instead are educational and informative. Anything helps, and I would really appreciate your responses, Thank you.
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Michelle M.
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Hello, Jeremiah !
There are so many questions you can ask if you are screening electrical engineering candidates for a position at your company. It's great that you are inquiring about this because inspiration for employment interviews is very important and you'll want to have a feel for the person's personality as they react to and answer your questions. It will also be an effective way to have their knowledge revealed to you. You'll want to be prepared so the interview will be a natural conversation and comfortable for both parties. These questions may also prepare you for interviews that you may go on. So this is a wonderful inquiry.
Here are some questions you could ask :
1. What does electrical engineering mean to you ?
2. When did you have a communication challenge in your work and how did you resolve it ?
3. How do you prioritize your work when you have several projects you are working on ?
4. How do you ensure accuracy in your work ?
5. Tell me of a situation in which you had to deal with conflict on the job. How did you handle it ?
6. What kind of goals would you have if we hired you ?
7. What can you do for us that other candidates can't ?
8.What do you know about our company ?
9. Tell me about your involvement in the last project you worked on.
10. Tell me about a time that you had to give someone difficult feedback.
These are just some of many, many more questions that will give you insight into someone whom you are just meeting for the first time. Someone you will want to trust enough to hire.
If you are interviewing electrical engineers in order to get a personal insight as to what the job is like, here are the questions you may want to ask :
1. How were you inspired to go into electrical engineering ?
2. What is the worst thing about your job ?
3. What is the best thing about your job ?
4. What was the biggest obstacle that you've experienced in becoming an electrical engineer ?
5. What do you consider your biggest success in electrical engineering ?
6. How long did it take you to get to where you are today ?
7. What is the biggest conflict you have had while working with others ?
8. Tell me about a project you didn't like doing and one that you loved doing and why.
9. What was college like for you ?
10. What course subjects in college do you apply most often to your work ?
I have provided you with two sets of questions, ones that employers may ask you when you go on interviews and ones that you can ask engineers in order to become more familiar with what the job is like. Interviewing people who are already working in the field will be a very beneficial way to get a picture of what the engineering world is like.
I wish you all the best moving forward !
There are so many questions you can ask if you are screening electrical engineering candidates for a position at your company. It's great that you are inquiring about this because inspiration for employment interviews is very important and you'll want to have a feel for the person's personality as they react to and answer your questions. It will also be an effective way to have their knowledge revealed to you. You'll want to be prepared so the interview will be a natural conversation and comfortable for both parties. These questions may also prepare you for interviews that you may go on. So this is a wonderful inquiry.
Here are some questions you could ask :
1. What does electrical engineering mean to you ?
2. When did you have a communication challenge in your work and how did you resolve it ?
3. How do you prioritize your work when you have several projects you are working on ?
4. How do you ensure accuracy in your work ?
5. Tell me of a situation in which you had to deal with conflict on the job. How did you handle it ?
6. What kind of goals would you have if we hired you ?
7. What can you do for us that other candidates can't ?
8.What do you know about our company ?
9. Tell me about your involvement in the last project you worked on.
10. Tell me about a time that you had to give someone difficult feedback.
These are just some of many, many more questions that will give you insight into someone whom you are just meeting for the first time. Someone you will want to trust enough to hire.
If you are interviewing electrical engineers in order to get a personal insight as to what the job is like, here are the questions you may want to ask :
1. How were you inspired to go into electrical engineering ?
2. What is the worst thing about your job ?
3. What is the best thing about your job ?
4. What was the biggest obstacle that you've experienced in becoming an electrical engineer ?
5. What do you consider your biggest success in electrical engineering ?
6. How long did it take you to get to where you are today ?
7. What is the biggest conflict you have had while working with others ?
8. Tell me about a project you didn't like doing and one that you loved doing and why.
9. What was college like for you ?
10. What course subjects in college do you apply most often to your work ?
I have provided you with two sets of questions, ones that employers may ask you when you go on interviews and ones that you can ask engineers in order to become more familiar with what the job is like. Interviewing people who are already working in the field will be a very beneficial way to get a picture of what the engineering world is like.
I wish you all the best moving forward !
Michelle Selko, MS, OTR/L
occupational therapist
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Michelle’s Answer
Hi Jeremiah!
Not sure if you have interviewed the engineer yet, but I am guessing you are interviewing to find out more about their career. What are you curious about? Do you want to know about their education? Do you want to know what their daily job looks like? Or maybe what different types of jobs that electronics engineers work in? Maybe you want to know the thing they like best about their profession. I hope the interview gives you good information about electronic engineering!
Not sure if you have interviewed the engineer yet, but I am guessing you are interviewing to find out more about their career. What are you curious about? Do you want to know about their education? Do you want to know what their daily job looks like? Or maybe what different types of jobs that electronics engineers work in? Maybe you want to know the thing they like best about their profession. I hope the interview gives you good information about electronic engineering!
Joseph Neilson
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Joseph’s Answer
Something that might be educational and informative might be to ask about something you've learned about in school electronics or physics, and how that's used in an industrial setting.
Perhaps something like:
As an electrical engineer, do you regularly use or think about Ohm's law?
Think about electronics concepts you've learned about and work out whether you can create some good interview questions from them
Perhaps something like:
As an electrical engineer, do you regularly use or think about Ohm's law?
Joseph recommends the following next steps:
Of course, it depends what you mean by interviewing. Based on other questions I've seen asked on the site, I've assumed this is the sort of interview you'd do as a school careers assignment, where you're asking someone questions to better understand their job, to help you decide whether it's something you'd like to follow in future.
Some of the other answers address the other type of interview, where you're an employer recruiting this person and trying to understand whether they're a good hire or not - which is a completely different question.
If you wanted to clarify which you meant, people could perhaps give better answers.
Joseph Neilson
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It's difficult to steer between "soft personal interview" and "silly competency test". You need to evaluate the person's ability to do the job you have open, but you don't want to come off as a certification tester or something similar -- there are tons of interview question/answer sites on line and candidates can memorize a lot of things. Patricia's answer above is right on the money -- you start with some softballs ("What is Ohm's law?", "What is an operational amplifier?", "Explain in basic terms how an A/D and D/A converter works") and move up, clearly stating that you aren't trying to make the applicant fail or induce a case of nerves, but just assessing where [s]he fits into the list of those under consideration.
Or there's this. When hiring electronics techs, we'd interview them at an active bench. Sometime during the interview, we'd toss a cold soldering iron their way. It was easy to tell who were the experienced techs (they'd jump out of the way) and the ones faking experience (they'd catch it). :)
Have fun with the interviews, come in with a professional, relaxed attitude and a bit of humor. Loosen things up and you'll soon get a sense of who's sitting in front of you.
Or there's this. When hiring electronics techs, we'd interview them at an active bench. Sometime during the interview, we'd toss a cold soldering iron their way. It was easy to tell who were the experienced techs (they'd jump out of the way) and the ones faking experience (they'd catch it). :)
Have fun with the interviews, come in with a professional, relaxed attitude and a bit of humor. Loosen things up and you'll soon get a sense of who's sitting in front of you.
Patricia Pizzillo
Network Architect
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Patricia’s Answer
Hi,
Asking some technical questions based on a resume is the place to start. If your interview role is a technical interview, I tell all perspective interviewees that I am not asking questions to trip them up…I am asking questions based on what they claim they know from their resume. If a perspective employee cannnot speak to their resume, there is no need to ask the general challeges questions, or why you should hire them or the strengths and weakness questions.
Hope this helps.
Asking some technical questions based on a resume is the place to start. If your interview role is a technical interview, I tell all perspective interviewees that I am not asking questions to trip them up…I am asking questions based on what they claim they know from their resume. If a perspective employee cannnot speak to their resume, there is no need to ask the general challeges questions, or why you should hire them or the strengths and weakness questions.
Hope this helps.
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