Research Manager Interview Questions
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How do you influence people who do not report to you? How do you get them to do things even though they don't have to or want to?
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I would answer this question by first stating that it is important to get to know how people are motivated on a personal level first. If they do not report to you then you might not have positional authority to ask them for a deliverable. At a company like Microsoft, I'm sure that there are jobs/roles that require people to get help/collaboration from people outside of their positional authority. To do this, you must first know what motivates a person and proactively make personal "deposits" to build some solid connections so that when you need to make a "withdraw" you have invested enough. Deposits can be made by taking an interest in someone, providing them with help when they need it, or maybe buying them lunch/drinks. Less
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a) I've never actually had someone refuse to help me when asked, but b) I would try ahead of time to get to know them so that when I need to influence them or need to request assistance, they already have a basic level of comfort with me. Less
Questions regarding how long you will stay with the company
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What they really want to know is that you little ambition to do something more interesting, as the work is boring and few with any talent stay with it long. Less
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I am seeking a role that allows growth from within in areas of management, professional development and training. These are the ingredients of stability. Less
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After reviewing the organization, I am positive that inclusion in a variety of opportunities would be avail. I am creative and enjoy taking on new responsibilities and results. Less
Discuss a time you had to deal with a customer complaint?
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Referred to a previous manager escalation that Ii had
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Customers complaint varies However,a simple complaint can be attended to immediately while a difficult complaint will be taken care of during the time that there are no much customers Therefore,a polite attention should be given to the complainant to be a Little patient because of the much customers Less
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Customers complaint varies However,a simple complaint can be attended to immediately while a difficult complaint will be taken care of during the time that there are no much customers Therefore,a polite attention should be given to the complainant to be a Little patient because of the much customers Less
What's your favorite tree?
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C'mon. It's got to be the "Ticket Oak" right?
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The Ash tree of course
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Willow Tree
What is one thing that you would improve at Ultimate Nutrition?
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Their website.
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The employee morale
You are overqualified, why?
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There is normal and reasonable answer to this strange question?
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Wow, an incredible question?Maybe being overqualified is a sin?!
When would you use k means cluster and when would you use hierarchical cluster?
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Hierarchical Clustering and k-means clustering complement each other. In hierarchical clustering, the researcher is not aware of the number of clusters to be made whereas in k-means clustering, the number of clusters to be made are specified before-hand. Advice- If unaware about the number of clusters to be formed, use hierarchical clustering to determine the number and then use k-means clustering to make more stable clusters as hierarchical clustering is a single-pass exercise whereas k-means is an iterative process. Less
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Interesting answer
Why do you want to work for us? What are your quantitative skills like?
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Sir or Madam PhD in Social Psychology: I hope you follow through with your veto! I also was not offered the job. I also interviewed; was cut short after the intelligence and personality test, when I asked why their SPSS data for fa What my quantitative skills like? 16 years corporate use of statistics. 19 to 20 since I learned SPSS and SAS on the IBM MVS mainframe using JCL (Job command language). Then worked for SPSS 4 years designing Less