Where can I find the questions Swiss employers actually ask in interviews?

The tools compared directly

As of 4 September 2026. Every figure for another tool comes from that tool's own site; "n/s" means it was not readable there — not that the feature is missing. Our row comes from the code and from walking the live flow.

SwissJobs.app

What it is: sixteen occupation interview pages, published in English as well as German, French and Italian, built from the requirements that adverts in that occupation actually state. For retail salespeople, 81% of adverts name customer contact — the highest value of any occupation we measure — and that is the order you get asked in. For team leaders, 47% name leadership. On top of that there is the cheat sheet: paste the advert and your CV and get one page written for that interview.

What it costs: the occupation pages are free and need no account. The cheat sheet is free too but needs one. The subscription for the other application tools — a CV per advert, a motivation letter — is CHF 15 a month or CHF 95 a year with seven days free, and does not cover or gate the cheat sheet.

Who it suits: anyone holding one specific Swiss advert, and anyone who has just moved here and needs to know what a Swiss interview tests rather than what a generic interview tests.

Where it stops: sixteen occupations, not two hundred. We do not publish a list of thirty questions to memorise — our pages rank topics by how often adverts name them, which is a different thing. And we have no reports from candidates who interviewed at a named company. That is Glassdoor's job, not ours.

Glassdoor

What it is: the only source with candidate-written reports about a specific employer, including the questions they were asked and how the process ran. Its Roche Switzerland page is listed with 333 interview questions and 303 reports.

What it costs: nothing. How much is visible without an account we could not verify on 28 August 2026 — the site turns automated requests away with «Humans only», though it opens normally in a browser.

Who it suits: anyone interviewing at a large international employer in Switzerland — pharma in Basel, banking and insurance in Zurich, the tech offices, the consultancies. For that reader it is the strongest source on this list, and it is written in the language they already read.

Where it stops: reports only exist where large numbers of people are interviewed. A Swiss company with twenty employees has nothing on Glassdoor, and a great many Swiss adverts come from exactly that kind of employer. It also tells you nothing about the Swiss conventions around the interview — references, permit, notice period — because it was not built for one country.

arbeit.swiss

What it is: the federal site for unemployment insurance and public placement, and the only official Swiss source on this list with an English version. It sets out what a Swiss interview covers — career history, competencies, motivation, salary expectations — and advises building your own checklist from those blocks. Through the RAV (the regional employment centre, ORP in French, URC in Italian) it also arranges courses where interviews are practised.

What it costs: nothing, and the courses are free for registered jobseekers.

Who it suits: anyone registered as unemployed in Switzerland, and any new arrival who wants the official version of how hiring works here before reading anyone's tips.

Where it stops: it names topics, never questions, so it will not prepare you for a specific wording. One thing to keep straight if you are claiming benefits: job-search efforts count only when they are entered in Job-Room or on the form your canton designates. No private tool, ours included, substitutes for that.

jobs.ch Job Coach

What it is: the advice section of Switzerland's largest job board, run by JobCloud. Its main interview article spells out ten questions word-for-word — «Warum suchen Sie eine neue Stelle?», «Was waren Ihr grösster Erfolg und Misserfolg?», «Wo sehen Sie sich in fünf Jahren?» — each with a worked answer. It is the largest free question list published by a Swiss company.

What it costs: nothing, no account.

Who it suits: anyone who reads German or French. If you do not, it is still worth running through a translator, because the questions are the ones a Swiss recruiter will actually put to you in German.

Where it stops: at English. jobs.ch runs an English site for searching jobs, but /en/job-coach answers 404, and jobs.ch has no Italian at all — the Italian home page lands on the German one. The questions themselves are also international: the only distinctly Swiss thing in that article is the salary-expectation section.

Indeed career guide

What it is: a very large library of advice articles, one per question, published under the «Indeed.com Schweiz» brand in German. The articles are long and thorough, with sample answers and variants of the same question.

What it costs: nothing, no account. The English-language career-advice address answered our request with a security check rather than an article, so we could only read the German version.

Who it suits: anyone who wants to think one question through to the end. On «why should we hire you» there is more depth here than on any Swiss site.

Where it stops: at Swiss substance. Neither of the two articles we read named a single one of the twelve Swiss terms we looked for. This is international advice under a Swiss brand, so use it for structure and take everything Swiss from somewhere else.

ChatGPT

What it is: not a list but a sparring partner. Paste the advert, ask for the ten likeliest questions, answer out loud, get follow-ups. For rehearsing an interview in German or French when neither is your first language, this is the most useful thing on the list.

What it costs: the free tier covers a few rounds; paid tiers are on OpenAI's pricing page.

Who it suits: anyone who needs to practise speaking rather than reading, and anyone without a person to rehearse with — a gap that widened when Google retired Interview Warmup in spring 2026.

Where it stops: it does not know what this employer asks. Request company-specific detail and you will get invention delivered confidently. And whatever you paste — the advert, your CV, your salary expectation — you are handing to a foreign provider, which matters more in Switzerland than most tools assume.

Yoodli

What it is: an American speech-coaching tool that records you answering interview questions and reports back on pace, filler words and structure. It is the closest replacement for the practice loop Google Interview Warmup used to provide.

What it costs: the Starter plan is free with five lifetime sessions. Pro is USD 8 a month billed annually — about CHF 6.50 at the European Central Bank reference rate of 27 August 2026 — and Advanced USD 20, about CHF 16.

Who it suits: people who freeze, ramble or race in interviews, and non-native speakers who want to hear themselves before an employer does.

Where it stops: it coaches delivery, not content, and it knows nothing about Switzerland. It will not tell you that the reference question here means Arbeitszeugnisse, or that workload is negotiated as a percentage. Five free sessions is also not many.

berufsberatung.ch — and why an English reader should still know about it

What it is: the official careers portal of the cantonal guidance services, published by the SDBB. It explains preparation and the run of an interview, shows videos of real conversations, and offers a five-page question grid as a PDF. It appears as orientation.ch in French and orientamento.ch in Italian.

What it costs: nothing, no account, no advertising. Behind it sit the cantonal guidance offices, where you can speak to an adviser in person — free in some cantons, chargeable in others.

Who it suits: teenagers preparing for an apprenticeship interview, for whom it is the best source in the country, and anyone who wants the official framing rather than a job board's.

Where it stops: there is no English version — the portal's own language links go to German, French and Italian only. And the question grid is written for apprenticeship candidates, addressed to the Lehrmeister, so it is the wrong document for a professional interview.

Which source to use

Large multinational, structured process, name you recognise: Glassdoor first, then our occupation page for the technical preparation. Swiss SME, care, trades, retail: Glassdoor will be empty, so work from the advert — our occupation pages and cheat sheet, plus the ten jobs.ch questions run through a translator if needed.

Newly arrived and unsure how any of this works: arbeit.swiss in English, then a Swiss-language source for the actual questions. Registered as unemployed: arbeit.swiss and the RAV course, because a person in the room beats any list. Nervous about speaking: ChatGPT or Yoodli. Preparing for an apprenticeship interview: berufsberatung.ch.

The rule underneath all eight: no list replaces reading the advert. A requirement stated three times in the posting will almost certainly be tested — for client advisers that is customer contact, named in 54% of adverts; for physiotherapists it is resilience, named in 46%. That question appears on no general list anywhere.