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Hydro-Quebec interview questions

21 questions researched across 1 Hydro-Quebec seat in Engineering. Below are 12 of them.

Seats we researched

  • Engineering InternEngineering · intern · 20 min

12 Hydro-Quebec interview questions

  1. Tell me about a time you had to explain something technical to a non-engineer.

  2. How do you check your own work?

  3. What do you want to have learned by the end of a four-month term?

  4. Walk us through a project from your degree and your specific contribution.

  5. Tell us about a time a team member was not delivering. What did you do?

  6. How would you approach a maintenance problem on equipment you cannot take offline?

  7. What would you do if you thought a design was unsafe and you were the most junior person?

  8. Un nouveau client industriel veut se raccorder au réseau de distribution. Quelles vérifications feriez-vous pour vous assurer que son installation ne dégrade pas la qualité du service pour les clients voisins?

  9. On a three-phase distribution feeder, one phase is carrying much more current than the other two. What problems does that cause, and how would you diagnose and correct it?

  10. A rural feeder has had repeated outages every winter for three years. How would you go about finding the cause?

  11. Avant de travailler sur un équipement électrique, qu'est-ce que la consignation et pourquoi chaque étape est-elle importante?

  12. Tell me about a time you had to move a piece of work forward on your own, with little supervision. How did you decide when to ask for help?

What a strong answer does

The questions above fall into 2 kinds. What a strong answer does differs by kind, not by question.

Behavioral7 of 12 above
Lead with the claim and context; isolate your personal action and decision; explain the trade-off; quantify the result; finish with what you learned and changed.
Technical5 of 12 above
State the intuition first; walk through the mechanics; make assumptions explicit; test a risk or edge case; connect the answer to the role.

9 more Hydro-Quebec questions

The rest of the bank — 21 in total — is asked by the interviewer during practice, so you meet them the way you would on the day rather than reading them first.

Practise Hydro-Quebec questions

How these questions were researched

Every question carries a provenance grade. Some were reported by candidates who sat the round, some come from the firm’s own published guidance or a source that trains for it, and the rest are written to match how this firm asks. Each seat is studied on its own — the round it actually runs, the order it runs it in, and what it is listening for. A Hydro-Quebec round is not a generic behavioural screen, and practising one as the other is how people walk in unprepared.

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