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General / Introduction

• Who is Imran Tahir? Which country does he play for?
• Introduce yourself.
• Tell us about your educational background.
• Tell us about your work experience.
• What work have you done, and at which place? 
• What is Sulphate Resisting Cement (SRC)?
• What are the advantages and applications of SRC?
• What are the types of bridges according to the material used?
• What are the types of piles according to design?
• What are the different components of a road section?
• What are the different types of masonry bonds?
• What is the difference between English bond and Flemish bond?
• What are the major differences in RCC construction practices in Pakistan and Saudi Arabia (KSA)?
• Some 2, 3 questions were more..
• Related to experience.. what did you work on, and which place..

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Technical question

• What grade of steel is most commonly used in RCC work, and why?
• What is TMT bar, & how is it different from HYSD bar?
• What is a gable frame? Show the reinforcement detailing for a gable frame.
• What is active earth pressure & passive earth pressure?
• What kind of software is presently used in structural analysis?
• What equipment is used to gauge the depth of ground water table?
• Why do rail wagons have their opening at the bottom?
• What are the types of plastering?
• What are the various factors to be considered while laying out of a runway?
• What is a wind rose diagram?
• What are the various methods of tunnelling in hard rock?
• What is fibre-reinforced concrete?
• What is a dragline?
• Various types of geosynthetics?
• What is the degree of indeterminacy of a two-hinged arch?
• What is the difference b/w a impulse & reaction turbine?
• What is a reciprocating pump?
• What kind of pump is commonly used in concrete pumping?
• Difference b/w consolidation & compaction?
• What is Well logging?

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Technical Question:

• What is a unique gauge policy in railways?
• What is anchorage length?
• What is an inter-river connection project?
• What are the various types of surveying?
• What is negative super-elevation?
• What are the factors to be considered while designing a road on curve?
• Explain Archimedes' principle.
• What is Euler's law?
• What is buoyancy?
• What are the various kinds of roofs?
• What are river training works?
• What is the difference b/w groynes & spurs?
• What are various waterborne diseases?
• What are E. coli bacteria?
• What is the difference b/w hydraulic and hydrologic routing?
• Method of seepage control in an earthen dam?
• Define a flexibility matrix?
• What is a drop panel?

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Introduction 

• Please introduce yourself.
• Tell us about your university education.
• Why did you select Civil Engineering?
• What was your final-year project?

General Knowledge

• What is the largest continent in the world?
• Which is the longest river in the world?
• What is the national sport of Pakistan?

Technical Question 

• Explain the working of a total station?
• What are the various methods of road alignment?
• What are the various types of roads?
• What is cross drainage works?
• What is our national water policy?
• What is the difference between ultimate stress philosophy & working stress philosophy?
• What is a unit hydrograph?
• What is the difference b/w watershed & ridge alignment?
• What is a carbon credit?
• Function of railway sleeper, ballast & rail?
• Explain bituminous mix design?
• What are various Atterberg limits?
• Difference b/w shallow & deep foundations?
• What is SPT number?
• Tell me the definition of topography?
• What is the design philosophy of a two-way slab?
• What is the difference b/w CPM & PERT?
• Difference b/w delta & duty?
• What is the function of a weep hole?
• What are the various earth-compacting instruments?

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Introduction 

• Give us a brief introduction about yourself.
• What is your educational background?

Technical questions:

• What are the causes of failure of a barrage?
• What are the various kinds of soil?
• What is C-φ soil?
• RCC column and footing design?
• Difference b/w concrete & steel bridges?
• Composition of cement?
• Lacey's & Kennedy's method for designing a canal?
• What is BOD & COD?
• What is the difference b/w WSM & LSM?
• Draw the shear force & bending moment diagram for a fixed beam with UDL?
• What is finite element method of design?
• What is self-compacting concrete?
• Draw rough sketch of a culvert?
• What are the various factors to be considered in spillway design?
• What is the function of ballast?
• What are the various factors to be considered while designing an earthquake resistance structure?
• How to decrease the thickness of a two-way slab?
• Minimum cover for a RCC column & slab?
• What is fly ash content in coal?
• What are the various methods of canal layout?

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Introduction

• Introduce yourself and tell us about your qualifications.
• What is your approach to teamwork?
• Where do you want to be professionally in five years?
• Why should we hire you?

General Knowledge

• What is the national bird of Pakistan?
• Which is the smallest continent?
• Who was the first Governor-General of Pakistan?

Technical question 

• Application of venturimeter?
• How do you measure discharge in an open channel flow?
• What is Weber's number?
• For what value of Reynolds's number the flow is laminar in pipe?
• Method of irrigation?
• Difference b/w rigid pavement & flexible pavement?
• Design data for continuous beam by working stress method?
• Difference between under bridge & road over bridge?
• What are the various data required for design of aquifer?
• What is TBM (Temporary Bench Mark)?
• What is indeterminacy of a structure?
• What are various energy methods?
• What are various types of column?
• What is difference b/w under-reinforced & over-reinforced section?
• What do you understand by index properties of soil?

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Introduction 

• Tell us about yourself.
• What is your educational qualification?
• Why did you choose Civil Engineering?
• What are your strongest engineering subjects?
• What practical experience do you have?
• What is one important lesson you learned during your studies?
• How do you manage multiple tasks?
• How do you react when a project does not go according to plan?
• What are your professional ambitions?
• Why should we select you?

General Knowledge 

• What is the largest province of Pakistan by population?
• What is the national tree of Pakistan?
• Which city is called the City of Gardens in Pakistan?

Technical question

• What is factor of safety?
• What are the various kind of connection used in steel structure?
• What is column base?
• What is catchment area of a dam?
• Where is plate girder used?
• What is project crashing & resource levelling?
• Difference b/w resource levelling & resource allocation?
• Why mild steel is commonly used in earthquake resistant structure?
• What is bending moment diagram?
• What is shear force diagram?
• Difference b/w a cement mortar & concrete?
• How can you measure the workability of concrete at site?
• What is the relation b/w strength of a cube & strength of a cylinder?
• What is mechanical gauge?

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Introduction 

• Please introduce yourself.
• Tell us about your educational journey.
• Why did you decide to become a Civil Engineer?
• What was your final-year project?
• What technical skills did you gain during your degree?
• What are your professional strengths?
• What is one area you want to improve?
• How do you handle responsibility?
• What are your career plans?
• Why are you interested in this organization?

General Knowledge 

• What is the capital of Balochistan?
• Which is the largest dam in Pakistan by reservoir capacity?
• What is the national fruit of Pakistan?

Technical question

• Tell the application of water hammer?
• Tell me the distribution system of your local area?
• If a point load is applied at mid-point of the beam, then what is the deflection on a simply supported beam or fixed beam?
• What is the role of transverse bar in column?
• Which type of steel is used in off-shore structure for making a column? Fe 250, Fe 415 or Fe 500?
• What is effect of fluoride in drinking water?
• Role of torsional reinforcement in slabs?
• Why do we always go for an over reinforced section?
• What are the various losses in a pipe flow?
• Explain Hardy Cross method?
• What is broad crested weir?
• What is difference between weir & a barrage?
• What are principle stresses?
• What do you understand by hydrostatic pressure?
• What is difference b/w fluid kinematics & fluid statics?

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Introduction — 10

• Give us your introduction.
• Tell us about your academic qualifications.
• Why did you choose Civil Engineering?
• Which area of Civil Engineering interests you most?
• What was your most important academic achievement?

General Knowledge

• Who is the current Secretary-General of the United Nations?
• What is the largest planet in our solar system?
• What is the national animal of Pakistan?

Technical question 

• What is flexural strength of concrete in rigid pavement?
• Tell me about relative stiffness of concrete?
• What is modulus of subgrade reaction? How is it found?
• What is problem in doing work with flexible pavement?
• What is porosity & void ratio?
• Explain the phenomenon of liquefaction, boiling of sand & quick sand?
• Tell us Isothetical method?
• Method of measuring precipitation?
• What is cone of depression?
• Explain the term green building? Do you know any such building in India?
• Explain the curve between stress & strain for mild steel?
• Why the compressive strength of steel is more than tensile strength of steel?
• What are the basic properties of steel? Stress or strain? and Why?
• What is code of OPC for different grade?
• What is a water hammer? How is it prevented?

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HR QUESTIONS — CONTRACTOR COMPANY STYLE

• Why do you want to work with a contractor and not a consultant?
• How do you manage work pressure during a tight deadline?
• Tell me about a mistake you made on-site and how you fixed it.