Graduate IT interview questions
Graduate IT interviews combine graduate-level questions — your potential, motivation and fit, and how fast you learn — with IT & Digital questions on incidents, change and project delivery, information security, vendors, data and digital strategy.
Use examples from your studies, attachment, part-time work, clubs and societies, and structure behavioural answers with the STAR method (situation, task, action, result), kept simple.
Sample questions
Technical "In a database, what is a primary key?"
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What the interviewer is looking for: Data fundamentals.
Technical "What is 'agile' in software development?"
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What the interviewer is looking for: Delivery approaches.
Situational "A user asks you for administrator rights on their laptop so they can install software. What do you do?"
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Technical "A user says their computer is 'not working'. How do you approach it?"
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Behavioural (STAR) "Tell me about a time you learned a new technology quickly."
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Technical "How would you recognise a phishing email?"
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The four answers to each question, and why one is stronger than another, are in the free practice.
Questions
What does a Graduate IT interview cover?
General questions about you, your motivation and your behaviour at work, plus IT & Digital questions on incidents, change and project delivery, information security, vendors, data and digital strategy, pitched at graduate level.
How do I prepare?
Practise choosing the strongest answer and learn why it works. Then prepare your own examples from your studies, attachment, part-time work, clubs and societies, and rehearse them aloud.
Are these questions with answers?
Each page shows real questions from the Interview Practice Suite and, for some, what the interviewer is looking for. The four answers to each question — and why one beats another — are in the free practice: 10 questions at your level with feedback on every answer.
Answer keys are written by EunoiaData from recognised interview practice and checked by a review panel. A practice tool: it scores the answers you choose, not how you speak in a real interview. Not designed for hiring, selection or promotion decisions.