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ESLPod.com presents "Interview Questions Answered," episode three.
It's usually one sentence, maybe two sentences, that summarizes what the company is about-why the company exists-what it is trying to do.
So, you want to find that in the company's website or somewhere that tells you what their mission statement is, and you want to be familiar with it-you want to know what it is.
You're not going to repeat it to the interviewer, you're not going to say, "I know what your mission statement is."
Instead, you are going to try to use that information to help answer this question: "Why do you want to work here?"
You need to know what the company has as its own mission in order to match that with your own ideas.
If you are interviewing with a large US company-a large American company-you can often find information about the company through something called the US Securities and Exchange Commission, especially if this is a what we would call public company that sell stocks in a stock market.
If it's a large US company, and it's a public US company like Google or Apple or IBM or Microsoft-these are all large public companies -
you can get information from the US government, from something called the Securities and Exchange Commission.
And, if you look for that on a website, you can find information about a specific company.
It will tell you how much money they make, the kinds of things they make and so forth.
There's also something in the United States and in other countries called the Better Business Bureau.
The Better Business Bureau, "bureau."
The Better Business Bureau is an organization that has information about different companies and problems they may have had or things that they have done, so you can also look for that on the web.
Of course, the company will probably have its own website, and there will be information on that website about the company.
So, you want to read everything you can, especially the "about us" section in the website.
The purpose of doing all this research-all this investigation-if so that you can answer this question with an intelligent answer.