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Updated 26 Aug 2022

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Sales & Marketing Interview Questions

user image Anonymous

posted on 26 Aug 2022

I applied via campus placement at Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow

3 Interview Rounds

1

Group Discussion Round

Role of celebrities in modern advertising.

2

One-on-one Round (6 Questions)

  • Q1. Tell me something about yourself.
  • Q2. Which genre do u like in quizzing?
  • Q3. Tell me one particular moment that you liked in Mahabharata.
  • Q4. Give a strategy to revive the drop in sales of Milkybar.
  • Q5. Tell me about an inappropriate brand ambassador choice by a company.
  • Q6. Why Sachin Tendulkar is considered to be a powerhouse?
3

One-on-one Round (5 Questions)

  • Q1. Do you know who's the market leader when it comes to coffee?
  • Q2. What can be done to become the market leader?
  • Q3. Do you think Shilpa Shetty will be a good choice for roping in for herbal baby products?
  • Q4. Should we be worried about the negative review on Amazon for our new product Nescafe e?
  • Q5. Which is your favorite brand?

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - • Prepare HR answers well. Try to be an enthusiast for every interview process.
• Highlight the thing you're most passionate about.

Sales & Marketing Interview Questions

user image Jitendra Jain

posted on 8 Feb 2022

I applied via Referral and was interviewed in Aug 2021.

2 Interview Rounds

1

Resume Shortlist Round

Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
View all tips
2

HR Round (5 Questions)

  • Q1. What are your salary expectations?
  • Q2. Share details of your previous job.
  • Q3. What is your family background?
  • Q4. What are your strengths and weaknesses?
  • Q5. Tell me about yourself.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be confident in your answers and if you don't know the Answers of any questions then politely say no

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I applied via campus placement at Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow

3 Interview Rounds

1

Case Study Round

Quickly run me through your CV.

Tell me about a time when you were able to step into a group, take charge, get support, and bring about excellent results.

a, What information did you seek out to make those decisions in this project?

b, Did you receive any feedback or provide any feedback to the team members during the project?

Can you think about a time when you thought there could be a better way of doing things and you thought of an improvement to an existing idea or process that made it significantly better?

Give me an example of a time when you changed the direction of a project that resulted in a reduction of time or costs.

Give me an example of a situation where you had to overcome major obstacles to make something important happen.

What were the kind of results you were able to deliver?

Tell me about a time when you were able to develop and maintain productive relationships while working with others even though you may have had different points of view.

You have found a way to improve an important and difficult procedure that has been in place for many years in the organization. You would want to share this change which will improve the procedure but you sense that others will oppose this improvement. How would you deal with this situation?

2

Case Study Round

Tell me about a time when you had to suddenly implement a change so as to get better results for the project.

Why did you follow this approach?

Tell me about a time when you had some conflicts in the workplace and how did you go about diffusing the situation?

Did you not have guidelines from HR? Did you follow those?

Give me an example of a time when you had to work on something new an innovative. How did you manage to perform in the situation?

What were the risks involved in your approach?

Tell me about a time when midway through the project, you had to go through a change in project objectives. How did you go about dealing with this change?

Give me an example of a time when during an assignment you had to go through a change in roles and responsibilities.

How will you go about achieving results for 4 separate projects due at different timelines – 1 is due tomorrow, 1 is due next week, 1 is due in 1 month and 1 is due in 1 year?

1. Do you perceive any setbacks in this situation which may deter you at all?

2 .How would you ensure a positive outcome to the situation?

You are working on a deliverable which is due in 1 week but suddenly your manager says that the deliverable needs to be ready by day after tomorrow. How do you go about in this situation.

3

HR Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. Why does P&G use a behavioral and HR based interview system in its recruiting process?

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - 1.Do not lie or make up situations while answering HR questions. The interviewers have a good sense of when you are telling the truth and when you are making stuff up.

2. Also, across the 3 interview rounds, you will notice questions being repeated - it is completely alright to share the same instance/story across interview rounds. The main motive behind doing this is to judge for consistency.

3.Since P&G mostly focuses on behavioral aspects, you only need to prepare for the HR questions. The HR question bank floats should be good enough.

4. Interactions with seniors.

5.Internet.

Sales & Marketing Interview Questions

ITC user image Anonymous

posted on 29 Mar 2023

I applied via campus placement at Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow

2 Interview Rounds

1

Group Discussion Round

Situation based GD to select a leader consensually.

a, All members were given 1 pager case depicting the situation of a plane crash and the character
sketches of 5 persons out of which we had to
choose one leader.

b, Arriving at Consensus was mandated in the
beginning.

2

Guesstimates Round (7 Questions)

  • Q1. Tell us about yourself(emphasis on family background).
  • Q2. ITC has Engage perfume range coming up. Estimate the number of premium perfume bottles sold in Lucknow.
  • Q3. Why ITC?
  • Q4. What are the new trends in FMCG sector?
  • Q5. How is societal marketing relevant to the consumers?
  • Q6. Any situation of conflict faced and your actions in response to it?
  • Q7. How do you feel about ITC creating value on one hand and selling cigarettes on the other?

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Do:

1.Be confident and know yourself inside out! HR answers are the key to a good interview.

2.Try to prepare for at least 2 domains just for worst case scenarios.


Don't:

1.Don't overdo the prep with information overflow.
Only read the relevant parts thoroughly.

2. Interactions with seniors.

3. Mock GDs/PI.

4. Internet.

5. Company specific.

6. Interaction with previous year ITC interns.

7. Detailed analysis of company website and latest news over internet.

Domain Specific(Marketing).

1. Kotler is the most important prep source.

2. Mock GDs help in preparing for actual ones. Even some.

I applied via campus placement at Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow

3 Interview Rounds

1

Case Study Round

ABC condoms have high brand awareness in the country and are also of high quality, but have low sales since local companies are setting up deals with distributers who are preferring the latter to ABC. How do you increase sales and also how do you allocate budgets for the same?

2

HR Round (4 Questions)

  • Q1. Tell me something about yourself.
  • Q2. Describe your work experience and related questions. Example - Describe clients and markets, timeline of work-ex, types of campaigns, most successful campaign, ...read more
  • Q3. Search funnel for a product, Market share/search impression share of the client vs competitor etc.
  • Q4. Any questions for us?
3

HR Round (6 Questions)

  • Q1. Why marketing?
  • Q2. What do u prefer - brand marketing, digital, sales etc?
  • Q3. How does sales fit into your goals?
  • Q4. How would you interact with subordinates who are elder to you?
  • Q5. What if a subordinate isn't delivering result on time?
  • Q6. Still isn't working inspite warnings?

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - 1. Internet.

2. Company website & product list.

3.Be well versed with details regarding work experience.

I applied via campus placement at Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow

3 Interview Rounds

1

Group Discussion Round

GD: Should CSR be the mandate of corporations?

2

Other Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. If you were Amazon, what business opportunity would you leverage in India?
  • Q2. If you were PM of the country, what policy would you implement? What have you done during your college life?
3

HR Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. CV and HR based – specific to my background.

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - 1.Tell your unique story without any apologies.

2. Internet – mainly information about the company.

Sales & Marketing Interview Questions

Dabur user image Anonymous

posted on 23 Feb 2024

Interview experience
5
 Excellent
Difficulty level
 Moderate
Duration
 2-4 weeks
Result
Selected  Selected

I applied via Approached by Company and was interviewed before Feb 2023.

1 Interview Round

1

HR Round (1 Question)

  • Q1. What is beat in sale

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Be positive and confident

Interview Questions

I applied via campus placement at Indian Institute of Management (IIM), Lucknow

2 Interview Rounds

1

One-on-one Round (6 Questions)

  • Q1. Tell me something about yourself.
  • Q2. Any situation where you resolved the conflict?
  • Q3. Give an example of how you have handled a challenge in the workplace before.
  • Q4. Give an example of when you performed well under pressure.
  • Q5. Tell about the most significant achievement of your life?
  • Q6. Describe a time when something didn't work out as you had planned. What did you do and what did you learn from it?
2

One-on-one Round (3 Questions)

  • Q1. Tell me something about yourself.
  • Q2. Why do you think you have been selected for the second round?
  • Q3. Share a situation where you use your numbers skill to outperform your colleagues?

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - ✓ Prepare for questions based on guesstimates, Mock GDs and PIs.
✓ Perform extensive HR preparation
✓ Prepare for previous year's interview questions and P&G HR questions.
✓ For company info go through - Prismags, MOM and Company website.
✓ Ensure you have all the important examples and instances from your past (college, work-ex, extra-curricular).
✓ CV and HR questions are extremely important. Repeated questions are asked to check for consistency. Ensure you have well-structured and thought out answers.
✓ Be unique and be yourself. Answer with a smile.
✓ Discussion with seniors will help.
✓ You should just know the basic terms.

Sales & Marketing Interview Questions

ITC user image Anonymous

posted on 19 Dec 2022

4 Interview Rounds

1

Resume Shortlist Round

Pro Tip by AmbitionBox:
Keep your resume crisp and to the point. A recruiter looks at your resume for an average of 6 seconds, make sure to leave the best impression.
View all tips
2

Aptitude Test Round

Logical, Quantitative questions asked

3

Group Discussion Round

In groups of 10-15, picked the most talkative and loudest.

4

One-on-one Round (2 Questions)

  • Q1. Asked about background, selling to D2C and B2C
  • Q2. It was a stress interview so kept interrupting while answering

Interview Preparation Tips

Interview preparation tips for other job seekers - Learn about the company and be street smart and outspoken.

Nestle Interview FAQs

How many rounds are there in Nestle Sales & Marketing interview?
Nestle interview process usually has 2-3 rounds. The most common rounds in the Nestle interview process are One-on-one Round, Resume Shortlist and HR.
What are the top questions asked in Nestle Sales & Marketing interview?

Some of the top questions asked at the Nestle Sales & Marketing interview -

  1. Do you know who's the market leader when it comes to coff...read more
  2. Do you think Shilpa Shetty will be a good choice for roping in for herbal baby ...read more
  3. What can be done to become the market lead...read more

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