IT management interview questions

1. Summarize the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats of the financial position of the company as you understand them.
2. We view the accounting/financial management functions in this position as more than tracking numbers, but tracking and analyzing number to find ways to reduce expenditures and increase revenues. What experience do you have in using your accounting and financial management skills to identify waste and opportunity? What were the results of your efforts?
3. How have you increased revenues in the previous companies you’ve worked for?
4. How much success have you had with budgets you have developed or assisted in developing? Explain.
5. When you think about managing the optical networking group, what do you think? How would you approach this responsibility? What would you like to know about it?
6. What are the most important policies and procedures in your philosophy to cash management?
7. When analyzing your group budget, what would you be looking for?
8. Describe two instances when you had to work weekends or evenings to meet expectations and/or “fill the gap” from other employees and/or subordinates?
9. What types of reports would you like to review your first month on the job and why? What kind of regular meetings would you schedule with your division managers?
10. What experience do you have with Local Area Networks/Servers/computer technicians and dealing with vendors?
11. What do you want staff to tell you about their position your first week on the job? After the first month?
12. How will you determine your expectations from your staff? At what point do you believe it is important to give staff a “Preview Review”?
13. How will you help staff change from a “This is how I’ve always done it.” to new processes you implement?
14. How do you reward excellence, innovation, initiative, teamwork?
15. How many performance evaluations have you conducted in the last 12 months? How did your reports fare? How did you help them do well? What could you have done to help them perform at the highest level?

Interview questions for Business Objects developer

1. What is a universe?
2. Analysis in business objects?
3. Who launches the supervisor product in BO for the first time?
4. How can you check the universe?
5. What are universe parameters?
6. Types of universes in business objects?
7. What is security domain in BO?
8. Where will you find the address of repository in BO?
9. What is broad cast agent?
10. In BO 4.1 version what is the alternative name for broadcast agent?
11. What services the broadcast agent offers on the server side?
12. How can you access your repository with different user profiles?
13. How many built-in objects are created in BO repository?
14. What are alerters in BO?
15. What are different types of saving options in web intelligence?
16. What is batch processing in BO?
17. How can you first report in BO by using broadcast agent?
18. Can we take report on Excel in BO?

Good questions to ask during management interview

1. Could you please describe the management team to me?
2. Does the company have a Net-use policy?
3. Will I receive my assignments from IT or from the business unit?
4. Do developers have little contact with the business unit or significant contact?
5. Can you show or sketch me an organizational chart?
6. If for any reason you were unable to function as CEO, how would you like to see the company managed?
7. To whom does the chief information or technology officer report?
8. How would you describe the degree to which you want your heirs to have strategic or operational influence in the company until one of them is ready to assume the role of COO or CEO?
9. What are you hoping to accomplish, and what will be my role in those plans?
10. May I see a job description? What are the most important responsibilities of the job?
11. How much time should be devoted to each area of responsibility?
12. What is my spending/budget authority?
13. What initial projects would I be tackling?
14. What are the biggest technical challenges ahead for this department/ company?
15. Presuming that I’m successful on this assignment, where else might I be of service to the company?
16. Traditionally, companies have used IT to reduce bottom-line costs. But
17. I am excited about the use of IT to advance top-line opportunities such as creating new products and identifying new markets. Can you talk about how IT is used in this company to create top-line value?
18. What structured strategies for software testing have you found effective here?
19. Does the company use an IT steering committee?
20. If you put all the salespeople in a line from your best to the merely acceptable performer, what are the earnings of the 50th percentile? The 25th? The 75th?
21. Can you describe the performance of the sales team?
22. What is the commission structure, and what is my earning potential in 1, 3, 5, or 10 years?
23. What percentage of salespeople attain objectives?
24. What percentage of the current people are above and below their set goals?