Interview for Relay Protection Engineer

1. How are you today?
2. How do you think that you are suitable for the job?
3. So, you are saying that you have experience with Siemens Relays, Relaying software, Communication topology and you have worked before on the projects, how confident are you to work for this work profile? Can you elaborate or explain in detail.
4. How all these things will help you better perform the job?
   
5. Can you tell me how many relays you have worked for? i.e. how many protection relays from Siemens, ABB, GE, SEL you have actually used in the projects?
6. Can you tell me if you have commissioned all of them by yourself?
7. Can you quantify the numbers you have used in the projects?
8. How did you configure these relays?
9. What software is used to configure ABB, Areva relays?
10. Were there different engineers to configure ABB, Siemens relays?
11. Have you worked on Automation ?
    
12. How do you do relay settings?
13. How does two relay communicate with each other?
14. What protocols are you familiar?
15. Have you worked on Profibus or IEC-103 before?
16. What parameters does IEC-61850 transfer? Is it just protection only? Or non protection parameters are also transferred?
17. Have you worked on HMI before?
18. Have you used software to build HMI?
19. How does trigger, alarm or trip or event logs are configured on HMI?
20. How many IEDs connect to the Ethernet Switch?
21. What is the limitation of connecting the IEDs to the switches?
22. What other communication protocols are you familiar?
23. How will the relay communicate with the other relay? Say, there are two relays , say trafo, one on HV side and other on LV side, how will they communicate with each other?
24. Tell me how good are you with travelling?
25. Can you travel all the time?
26. If not, give me the % you can travel?
27. What traits you are looking in for a manager you will be working with ?
28. What personal traits you will not like your manager to have?
29. Do you have any personal limitations, what you cannot do?
30. How long can you work? I mean how long will be the working hours you can put up?
31. How much comfortable are you with night travelling?
32. Can you describe any challenges in the work before, which you can describe or give details?
33. These are the technical challenges. What abou the personal challenges you have faced in work?
34. What if you dont like any thing particular with your boss? how will you cope up with that?
35. How soon can you join us?
36. What are your aspirations?
37. Why did you choose your masters in Computer Science?
38. Can you elaborate on your work experience?
39. Have you commissioned the relays before?
40. How do you trouble shoot the relays?
41. Has your experience only upto protection or you have with automation too?
42. Are you familiar with preparing drawings in Autocad / Elcad /Microstation?
43. How good are you with them?
44. Do you know how to exactly draw drawings?
45. What kind of drawings are you familiar with?
46. One, Three line, SLD, Logic diagrams, relay, cut outs, which ones?
47. For how long do you have experience in them?
48. What causes trigger in the HMI?
49. What causes alarm in the HMI?