J&J Vistakon marketing interview questions

J&J Vistakon 1st Round – marketing interview questions

1. How do you define leadership and provide an example of when you were a leader. Also, name someone who embodies these qualities.

2. Give an example of when you used creativity to solve a problem.

3. How did you use your analytical skills in science and apply it to marketing.

4. What made your job as a (your old title) so exciting?

5. Tell me a time when you didn’t meet a deadline and how you handled the situation.

6. Tell me one thing you did really well as soon as you got to (your old company) and one thing that took some time to do well.

7. How would your boss describe you?

8. Tell me about a time when you failed.

9. If I asked your former manager about you, what would he/she say is your greatest skill and what do you need to change/improve?

10. Are you more creative or analytical? Give me an example of where you were creative. Give me one of where you were more analytical.

11. (Shown two advertisements: one of a competitor and one of Vistakon. Then asked to give opinions of both.)

12. Basic behavioral questions asking for examples on: Leadership, Teamwork, Missed a deadline, Had to solve a complex problem.

13. What did you like the most about your last job?

14. What is your favorite city?

15. Analyze 2 advertisements (Acuvue and Freshlook.) Who do you think our target market is?

16. What is a leader? When is the time that you have been a great leader?

17. What is the biggest challenge you had in your last job?

18. Why marketing? Why Vistakon?

19. What is a new product that has come out in the last couple of years that you really like?

J&J Vistakon 2nd Round marketing interview questions

1. What is the best/most effective presentation you’ve ever given?

2. What did you like least about your last client?

3. What did you enjoy the most at your last client and why?

4. Tell me a time when a peer has asked you to do something and it conflicts with your schedule (basically, you have to make a sacrifice), what do you do/how do you feel about it?

5. Tell me a time when you have had so much to do and you have fallen behind or not been able to complete something on time, what did you do?

6. Tell me how you feel about things where there is no stopping point—like you have to continually learn. Do you like that?

7. What was the absolute greatest challenge that you have been given on the job?

8. I see from your resume that you have done much more process stuff than financial stuff, are you doing something to learn more about that aspect of the business?

9. You have 1 minute to sell me on the $20 million software that you sold at Deloitte. I am a business manager at Wal-Mart.

10. Now that I know more about the software, you have 20 seconds to sell me on why I should hire your firm.

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