INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

FOR MARINE ENGINEERS, PART 2

SET #1
1. Talk about maritime industry
2. why did you join this career?
3. How long will you continue in this field?
4. Who is your role model?
5. What are your achievements?
6. What will be your action if there is a fire in engine room?
7. What are the SOLAS requirements of a portable foam fire extinguisher?
8. What is GT and NT?
9. What are the things you can find written on an air compressor?
10. What is the procedure of boiler blow down?

SET#2
1. Tell me about your family?
2. how will you handle your anger?
3. what all things will you do when you are angry?
4. which is your favourite subject?
5. explain the working of purifier
6. What are the SOLAS requirements of an air bottle?
7. enumerate boiler water test?
8. what is water hammer?
9. what is the extinguishing media used to putout scavenge fire?
10. How DCP extinguishes the fire?

SET#3
1. what is the best quality in yourself?
2. are you very emotional person?
3. how long will you continue sailing?
4. what do you know about this company?
5. how many annexes are there in MARPOL and explain those?
6. how will you know if there is fire in the starting air line?
7. what are the alternatives for fossil fuels?
8. what are the latest amendments in SOLAS?
9. where do we use a PV valve?
10. what is trim of a ship?

SET#4
 1. what is your name?
2. tell me about your family
3. rate yourself out of 10 (never say 10/10)
4. why did you choose merchant navy as your career?
5. if there is some emergency in your family and they want you to be with them, but you
are supposed to join onboard on that same day, what will be your action?
6. what is the capital of Norway?
7. what is your height?
8. what are the SOLAS requirements for starting air system safety equipment?
9. how will you put out fire on main deck?
10. what is the working principle of a single phase induction motor?
11. what are the components in fire tetrahedron?

SET #5
1. What are your hobbies?
2. what is your other field of interest than marine engineering? (one question on that topic
might ask)
3. tell me about your college?
4. what was the saddest moment in your life?
5. how did you overcome that (above mentioned) situation?
6. what are your strengths?
7. what is your favourite subject?
8. why boiler is considered as a dangerous equipment onboard?
9. what is supercharging and scavenging?
10. what are the safeties included in a compressed air system?
11. what is stiff ship?

Interview tips
10 attitude strikeouts that most often condemn job candidates:
1. Doesn’t ask questions (only ask questions when interviewer ask you to do so,
example: “Now, do you have any questions?”)
2. Condemnation of past employer
3. Inability to take criticism
4. Poor personal appearance
5. Indecisive, cynical, lazy
6. Overbearing, overly aggressive, “know-it-all”
7. Late to interview
8. Failure to look at interviewer while interviewing
9. Unable to express self clearly
10. Overemphasis on money