Interview Assignment - One on one interview

Interview Assignment

You saw a one-on-one interview conducted by Anshumani. Given below is a table in which you will find three columns.

First column refers to the questions asked by Anshumani (conversational) during the interview. Read these questions and identify which of these are leading questions.

Fill in yes/no in the second column accordingly. If you choose yes for a question, then in the third column – provide a suggestion as in how you would have asked the similar question so that it is NOT leading.

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Questions asked during the video (Asked by Interviewer - Anshumani)

Leading Question (Yes/No)

Siddharth, so you are 26. You have an MBA. You are in a sales function. Are you originally from Bombay?

Okay. So you grew up in Delhi?

And how long have you been in Bombay?

Do you live with friends or do you live with family?

What do you guys do for food typically?

So what time does the cook come at your place?

Why were you so insistent on getting a cook?

So when you do order from outside for breakfast and lunch, how do you typically order like what are you go-to places? Do you order online?

Do you end up ordering from the same places again and again?

How varied are your choices of food? So what I want to understand is that I am guessing that the cook at home is cooking Indian food typically. [Right] But for your breakfast and lunch are you ordering Indian food or it’s a mix of western and Indian food.

So, given a choice would you prefer Indian food?

So, there are a couple of things which are interesting is one you said that you would prefer home cooked food. The other is of course that you also prefer Indian food.

Suppose you could get home cooked food but not from a cook coming to your house. So let me explain that. What if somebody in your neighbourhood you know who have a large family, who cook for their entire family. But they can also supply that food to you. Would that be something that would be appealing to you.

Yes

If yes, then suggest what you would have asked so it doesn’t remain a leading question?

If no, then keep this field blank.

The suggested question would be Which city you are from?

No No No No No No Yes

This could be aksked as How do you prefer ordering food?

No Yes

Which cuisine you prefer/order for breakfast and lunch?

No No

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You don’t feel that you could potentially say if you had for one month if you know your morning breakfast whether it’s paratha, whether it’s poha but it will be fixed menu right coming in for about a month. Do you feel that could get a little boring?

No

So, for that variety – So what is more important, so you have mentioned two things. One is that it’s home cooked food but you will also want it to be consistent.

Between the two things which would you rate higher. For example, if I could supply you food from three different kitchens from three different people who are cooking food at home and of course the taste would vary. The kind of things they are cooking will vary. Would that work for you or would you still care more about consistency.

How would you try out like for example, you are growing up, you would have gone internet, friends, houses and things like that. Some of their moms would have been great cooks, some not so much.

What is the kind of frequency with which you eat that will help you make a just decision? I mean how many meals you will have to have from somebody’s kitchen for you to be able to say you know I like their food more than.

Yes

This can be asked as how often do you prefer variety? Are you willing to try food from different kitchens on a weekly basis?

No

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