Marketing Interview Questions

While different interviewers may ask distinctive questions, it always helps to be prepared for severe grilling. So we have to drawn up a list of frequently asked marketing interview questions. Read all the questions and prepare answers dotted with examples for success in the job interview.

  1. Tell me about your self?
  2. What are your strong points?
  3. What are your weak points?
  4. Do you have competitve skills?
  5. Are you intiative?
  6. What is the difference between sales and marketing?
  7. What is your goals and objectives?
  8. Who is your role model?
  9. Are you comfortable with english?
  10. Are you ready for travelling?
  11. What is marketing?
  12. Why did you choose marketing?
  13. Why did you choose in this sector?
  14. Tell me the concept of demand and supply?
  15. What is strategic planning?
  16. What is your strategic plans?
  17. How do you motivate others?
  18. What is your idea about BCG model?
  19. What is SWOT analysis and its uses?
  20. What is marketing plan and its aim and objectives?
  21. What is marketing intelligence system?
  22. What is product life cycle?
  23. What is brand positioning and identity?
  24. What is market surey?
  25. Are you intrested in market survey?
  26. Sell this product(pen,chocolate or any product) to me?
  27. How will you find out the buyers mind?
  28. How will you fit for this job?
  29. Why are intrested in this company?
  30. How would you brand yourself?
  31. Have you visited our website?
  32. What do you know about our company?
  33. Tell me the products of our company?

Service Marketing Questions:

  1. What is difference between marketing of service and product?
  2. What is the important factor in service marketing?
  3. What are the charachterstics of service?
  4. How do you differentiate services?
  5. What are the different types of pricing under various situations?
  6. Is it easy to do marketing service?
  7. What is the demand of our product service and how will you manage that?
  8. Do you any idea about our company service?
  9. Why our company service varies from others?
  10. What is pricing strategies?
  11. Who is our compeititors?
  12. If the price of our service is high how will you get the customer?
  13. What are the softwares required for our service?
  14. How will you treat the customer?
  15. Do you have experience in service sector?
  16. What is the basic difference between your past company and our company?
  17. Will you keep in the contact with customer?
  18. How many contacts do you have in this service sector?
  19. Is there any government limitations for our service?

Banking, Insurance sector marketing interview Questions:

  1. Why are you intrest in selecting banking or insurance sector?
  2. Do you have idea any about banking products and tell me briefly?
  3. What are the banking marketing strategies?
  4. What are the negative points in our banking marketing and how can you overcome it?
  5. What do you know about our bank?
  6. What is our position in the present market?
  7. Tell me about the company and what are the facilities you have learned from our website?
  8. Why do we differ from others?
  9. What is our bank growth rate?
  10. Sell me a fixed deposit account?
  11. Are you smart worker or hard worker?
  12. Do you have bank account in our bank and explain brifly why?
  13. What are your strategies with respect to banking sector?
  14. What is pricing strategy according to you?
  15. Do you prefer leads or direct selling?
  16. How much time you can work per day?
  17. Usually insurance sector will have high pressure and what will you do for that?
  18. What is cross selling?
  19. What are the most challenges in banking sector?

Pharmacetical marketing interview questions:

  1. Why did you prefer pharmacetical marketing?
  2. Do you have any experience in pharmacetical company?
  3. As a fresher what do you know about pharmacetical market?
  4. Who is the leading compeititor in the market?
  5. What do you know about our company and its market value?
  6. Tell me some products of our company?
  7. What are our new products?
  8. Is pharma market is saturated and why?
  9. How will you differentiate past company and our company?
  10. How your strategic plans differ from others?
  11. Do you have good contacts in this field?

other sectors marketing interview questions:

  1. What are latest products in FMCG?
  2. What is our latest offers?
  3. What is the future of our company?
  4. Which is the best mode of advertising?