MCIQ

Your personal AI interview coach · For Android

The 50 Most Common Interview Questions

Type your answer. A coach that runs entirely on your phone marks it out of 10 in about three seconds, tells you what to add and shows you a model answer. Then try again and watch your score improve.

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An example from the app: the coach's notes on an answer to question 1.

No. 01 / 50

Tell me about yourself.

Coach's notes

3 of 4 points met
Marked in 2.0 s

Mark: 8/10

You gave a concrete result, cutting missed medication checks by a third. Pick two or three pieces of experience or skills that show what you are good at.

  • Met: Says what they do now or most recently
  • Missed: Mentions relevant experience or skillsPick two or three pieces of experience or skills that show what you are good at.
  • Met: Gives one concrete achievement or example
  • Met: Ends with what they're looking for next

How it works

Answer, get marked, improve

Reading about interviews only gets you so far. Writing an answer, and finding out what it was missing, is what makes the next one better.

  1. Step 01

    Open to a question

    Fifty questions that come up in almost every interview. None of them needs your CV or a job description.

    No. 07 / 50

    Tell me about a time you met a tight deadline.

  2. Step 02

    Write your answer

    Type it the way you would say it. There is no timer, and nobody is listening.

    Your answer

    On a Monday I was asked to prepare planning drawings by Friday. I listed every drawing we needed and

  3. Step 03

    Get your mark

    The coach marks it out of 10 against four points, and gives you a tip for each point you missed.

    2 of 4 points met
    Marked in 2.6 s

    Mark: 5/10

  4. Step 04

    Try again

    Start from your last answer, add what was missing and watch the mark go up. Your best score is kept.

    Attempt 02

    Mark: 5/10Mark: 8/10

Your progress

Fifty questions, one contents page

“All questions” lists every question with your best score beside it, like the contents of a book. See what you have attempted, where you are strong and which answers deserve another go.

Tap an entry to turn to that question. Reset a question whenever you want to start it fresh.

All questions

Average best 8.2/10 · 05 of 50 attempted

  1. 01Tell me about yourself.8/10
  2. 02Describe yourself in three words.10/10
  3. 03How do you stay organised?8/10
  4. 04Why are you leaving your current job?not attempted
  5. 05What are your greatest strengths?5/10
  6. 06What is your greatest weakness?not attempted
  7. 07Tell me about a time you met a tight deadline.10/10
  8. 08How would your colleagues describe you?not attempted

Model answer

An example for every question

Stuck, or curious what a strong answer sounds like? Each question comes with a model answer you can open after you have had a go.

No. 02 · Describe yourself in three words.
Reliable, curious and calm. Reliable because when I say I'll do something, it gets done: as a pharmacy technician I've never missed a stock order deadline in three years. Curious because I like understanding why things happen, so when our dispensing errors went up last spring, I went through every incident report and found most came from two look-alike packets, which we then stored apart. And calm, because a busy pharmacy at five o'clock can get tense, and I'm usually the one keeping the queue moving and reassuring people.

On your phone

A coach that keeps it to itself

The AI coach is built into the app and does its marking on your phone. Your answers are never sent anywhere to be graded, so you can practise the awkward ones in private.

Because the coach needs no connection, grading works offline. Only the ads, anonymous usage statistics and crash reports use the internet.

“Have another go.”

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  • Grading works offline

    On the train, on a plane, in the waiting room.

  • No account

    Open the app and start writing.

The questions

All fifty, from hello to any questions for us?

The questions you are most likely to be asked, whatever the job. You can answer every one of them from your own experience.

  1. Tell me about yourself.
  2. Describe yourself in three words.
  3. How do you stay organised?
  4. Why are you leaving your current job?
  5. What are your greatest strengths?
  6. What is your greatest weakness?
  7. Tell me about a time you met a tight deadline.
  8. How would your colleagues describe you?
  9. What is your greatest professional achievement?
  10. What motivates you?
  11. Tell me about a time you failed.
  12. Tell me about a difficult problem you solved.
  13. How do you handle pressure?
  14. Tell me about a conflict with a colleague and how you resolved it.
  15. Tell me about a time you disagreed with your manager.
  16. Tell me about a time you received critical feedback.
  17. How do you prioritise your work when everything is urgent?
  18. Tell me about a time you missed a deadline.
  19. Tell me about a time you worked well as part of a team.
  20. Tell me about a time you showed leadership.
  21. Tell me about a time you took the initiative.
  22. Tell me about a time you had to learn something new quickly.
  23. Tell me about a time you had to adapt to change.
  24. Tell me about a time you went above and beyond.
  25. Tell me about a time you persuaded someone to see things your way.
  26. Tell me about a time you made a decision without all the information.
  27. Tell me about a time you improved a process.
  28. Tell me about a time you dealt with a difficult customer.
  29. Tell me about a time you faced an ethical dilemma at work.
  30. Tell me about a time you helped a colleague.
  31. Tell me about a time you set a goal and achieved it.
  32. Tell me about a time you explained something complicated to someone.
  33. Tell me about a time you worked with limited resources.
  34. Tell me about a time you took a risk.
  35. Tell me about a time you worked with someone whose style was very different from yours.
  36. What is your working style?
  37. Describe your ideal work environment.
  38. How do you like to be managed?
  39. Do you prefer working alone or in a team?
  40. How do you keep your skills up to date?
  41. What did you learn from your last job?
  42. What do you do outside work?
  43. Where do you see yourself in five years?
  44. What does success look like to you?
  45. How do you make important decisions?
  46. What kind of work do you enjoy most?
  47. Are you interviewing with other companies?
  48. How do you handle a task when the instructions are unclear?
  49. What are you most proud of outside work?
  50. Do you have any questions for us?

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