Civil Engineer

Job Interview Questions and Answers

Question: Can you introduce yourself and your related experience as a civil engineer? What sort
of projects were you involved in?
Answer: Speak about the variety of civil engineering assignments and construction projects you
have worked on. Describe your professional background and express any related strengths and
special accomplishments in the field.
Question: Tell us about any creative idea or innovative solution you brought to a project in your
past professional background.
Answer: In order to stand out and excel as a candidate, demonstrate your creativity, logical thinking,
unique analytical approach or any interesting/special problem solving abilities. These can be
introduced to the interviewer only by providing success stories provable professional achievement
or qualification accomplishment. Prepare your rendition; be brief, yet emphasize your contribution.
Question: In your professional experience, have you performed any site survey to analyze its
constructional needs and possibilities?
Answer: If you did, please give an example of a site survey in which you played a significant role
and explain how you determined and investigated engineering constrains etc.
Question: Have you made risk and/or feasibility, reliability analyses?
Answer: One of the important duties in civil engineering work is to ensure safety measures (or to
manage risks) for both workers and users of the facility. In addition, in many construction works,
some aspects require testing the materials reliability (for example Strength of Materials, SOM) and
feasibly of designed products or constructions. Discuss your experience in this realm.
Question: Have you led a team? How many people have you worked with?
Answer: In some workplaces, your role as a civil engineer may require leading a team, managing
projects with good interpersonal skills and leadership abilities. If you have experience managing a
team and dealing with various personalities provide some details, highlighting your achievements.

Quality Assurance
QA Engineer Interview Questions and Answers
Question: Can you describe the various responsibilities and roles of a quality engineer?
Answer: Discuss here not only quality control, QA tests, and monitoring of various kinds (materials,
products, electrical systems), but also other related tasks that a QA engineer might be responsible
for: improvement processes, quality-oriented staff training, and quality-related customer services.

 Question: Describe your previous interactions with customers. How do you handle
customer complaints?
Answer: Quality engineers can serve as the link between customers and suppliers. When a
customer complains about product quality, the engineer must then solve the problem between the
customer, the company, and its affiliates, including material and parts suppliers. Briefly describe
some interesting problems that you have successfully tackled.
Question: Did you ever undertake staff training and instruction on Quality Assurance?
Answer: Training and instruction of staff regarding quality issues is sometimes necessary as part of
quality control. If you have any experience in this field, describe the specific reason and subject of
training. Underscore, without arrogance, your accomplishments with the group.
Question: What else, besides quality monitoring, can you suggest to ensure quality of
materials and products?
Answer: A basic procedure in quality engineering is Continuous Improvement. Describe
involvement, method of data collection from observation and monitoring of production processes.
Problem-solving skills are the key to success here and you will do well to mention your unique
abilities in this area: Problems you solved, corrections you facilitated and improvements you
initiated.
Question: How effective would you say your team-playing skills are?
Answer: Quality Engineers interact with employees at all levels, from minor suppliers to organization
management.
Describe a specific assignment where you had to use your communication skills, participate in a
group endeavor or manage/lead a team. Discuss your routine communication with all levels of
management, quality managers and inspectors, development engineering divisions, operations and
QA testing staff.

Latest Job Interview Questions and Answers

Q.1 What is soil analysis?
ANS..Soil analysis is the testing of soil to determine the nutritional and elemental composition of soil.
It is generally tested for knowing the contents of nitrogen, potassium and phosphorous.
Q.2 State the applications of modulus of elasticity?

ANS...Modulus of elasticity is related to the flexibility of the material. The value of modulus of
elasticity is pretty important in case of deflection of different materials used in building construction.
Q.3 What is the basic difference in absorption, adsorption, and sorption?
ANS...Absorption refers to the phenomenon where an atom, molecule or ions enter any bulk phase
like gas, solid or liquid. Absorption refers to the phenomenon where energy of photon is transferred
to other entity.
Adsorption is similar to absorption. It refers to the surface rather than a volume. Adsorption takes
place when the gas or liquid solute accumulates on the surface of solid. A substance diffuses in
liquid or solid to form a solution.
Q.4 How are the freeway bridges built?
ANS..The traffic that is likely to go over the bridge at a time is estimated and the cement, rocked with
rubber stanchions is placed over the freeway to build a bridge. Off-ramp from freeway to the bridge
and on-ramp from the bridge to the freeway are constructed. Cement slabs are used to build a
platform.
Q.5 A flat slab is capable to withstand ?
Ans..concentrated loads.
Q.6 State the applications of modulus of elasticity?
ANS...Modulus of elasticity is related to the flexibility of the material. The value of modulus of
elasticity is pretty important in case of deflection of different materials used in building construction.
Q.7 Difference between routine maintenance and major maintenance for school facilities?
Ans..Routine maintenance is handling the minor repairs of the school campus. Major maintenance
can be total reconstruction or renovation of the school.
Q.8 Cantilever retaining walls can safely be used for a height not more than?
Ans..6 m
Q.9 An R.C.C. column is treated as long if its slenderness ratio is greater than?
Ans..50
Q.10 The minimum number of main steel bars provided in R.C.C.?
Ans. .rectangular columns is 4

circular columns is 6
octagonal columns is 8

Some Interesting Interviews Questions and Answers

Q.1 The maximum area of tension reinforcement in beams shall not exceed?
Ans..4%
Q. 2 What is the tallest man made structure in the world?
Ans. KVLY-TV mast is one of the tallest man made structure in the world. Its height is 2063 feet.
The second one is Burj Dubai. Its height is 800 meter.
Q.3 How we can measure the concrete?
Ans. Cubic Feet, Cubic Yard and Cubic Meter are the three method which are mostly preferred to
measure the concrete.
Q. 4 What is braced excavation all about?
Ans. Excavation are braced to reduce the cave-in of surrounding unstable soil. It is useful to
confirm the strength of the basement.
Q. 5 What do you understand by aggregate?
Ans. To resist the compression stress of a composite material, an special component is used This
special component is known as aggregate.

Some knowledgeable Interview Questions

Q. 6 why should pumping not be used in case of concrete work?
Ans. In pumping operation fluid exert pressure on the contact surface of pipes, this pressure must
be overcome the friction between the contact surface of pipes and concrete. The weight of concrete
is also overcome by this pressure when concrete is placed over the pumping pipe. As we know that
only water is pump able, hence all the pressures generated by water are in concrete..Segregation
and bleeding are the main effect generated in this system due to pumping to reduce these effect, the
proportion of cement is increased in order to increase the cohesion., and as a result it leads to the
reduction of segregation and bleeding.
Q. 9 What are the steps involved in concreting process?
Ans. (A) Batching.....It is the process of measurement of the different materials for making the
concrete. There are generally two ways of batching...
1 Volume Batching

2 Weight Batching
(B) Mixing.....For making a good mixing the materials should be mixed first in dry condition and then
in wet condition.
(C) Transportation and Placing of concrete...After mixing the concrete the next step is to place it to
its final location as soon as possible. Mixing should be done nearby place to reduce transportation.
(D) Compaction of Concrete....When concrete is placed it may have some air bubbles entrapped in
it. It may be a case of reduction of strength by 30%. Hence compaction is done to reduce or
eleminate this problem.
Q.3 What are the various methods of concrete curing?
Ans. The process of Maintaining the moisture and temperature in the fresh wall is known as
cunning. It is performed for a small duration of time to allow the hardening of concrete.
Steps are given below:1 Spray of water on walls.
2 Wet covering of surface.
3 Pounding
4 Steam curing
5 Application of curing compounds.

Latest Civil Engineering Interview Questions

Q. 1 What is Punching Shear?
Ans. Punching shear is a type of failure of reinforced concrete slabs subjected to high localized
forces. In flat slab structures this occurs at column support points.
Q. 2 The standard sand now a days used in India is obtained from ?
ANS..Ennore (madras)

Q.3 The mixture of different ingredients of cement is burnt at temperature of ?

ANS...1400 degree centigrade
Q. 4 For ensuring quality of concrete which aggregates are used?
ANS... Graded aggregates
Q.5 IN Quality Control of Portland Cement, the test essentially done is ?
ANS... Setting time, Soundness, tensile strength,consistency.
Q.6 Why we are not provide bar in the center of the column and bar?
Ans... Steel are provided for tension. In column max. tesile stresses are generated along the column
face.
Q.7 What is the difference between BC and SDBC ?
Ans BC- Bituminous Concrete
SDBC- SemiDense Bituminous Concrete
Q.8 What is the meaning of Fe415 ?
Ans Fe stands for Ferrous material ie iron from which the reinforcement steel bars are
manufactured. The number 415 indicates that the Yield Strength (tensile strength when it is
subjected to elongation) of steel is 415 N/mm2.
The reinforcement steel bars used in RCC (Reinforced Cement Concrete) are designated in grades
of Fe250, Fe415 or Fe500 depending on their Yield Strength. (The numbers 215, 415 and 500 tell
about this Yield Strength in N/mm2the bars are designed and manufactured to have.)
Q.9 what is the difference between sill beam,Tie beam and plinth beam?( asked in l&T )
Ans sill beam:- flexural member
Tie beam:- fully compression member
plinth beam :- loading from bottom (soil mass) is UDL so
main reinforcement is in top of beam.
Q.10 The foundation in which a cantilever beam is provided to join two footings, is known
as?
Ans..strap footing
Q).11 The foundations are placed below ground level, to increase?

Ans.
a. strength
b. work ability
c. stability of structure
Q. 12 Dado is usually provided in?
Ans..bath rooms
Q.13 The wall shown in the below figure has failed. The cause of failure or the error made in
the design of the failded wall is ?
Ans.. overturning
Q. 14 A flat slab is capable to withstand ?
Ans..concentrated loads.
Q.15 why we are using crank length in rcc slab reinforcement?
Ans. Crank lengths are used because the moments at the edge strips are negative while that at mid
span are positive so reinforcement are alternatively provided at the top and bottom respectively.. so
just to have connection between the reinforcement and for the slab to behave as a single unit by
providing continuous bars, cranking is done in slabs.