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HVAC technician interview scorecard

Reviewed September 8, 2026 · tradegrader.ai

Candidate
Interviewer
Date
Role being filled Residential serviceInstallMaintenance / PMCommercial serviceLead / foreman

Diagnostic thinking

Walk me through a call where the obvious answer turned out to be wrong.

Best for: All roles

Rate 12345

You gauge up and suction pressure is low with high superheat. What do you check next?

Best for: Service, maintenance, commercial

Rate 12345

How do you decide whether a compressor has actually failed?

Best for: Service, commercial

Rate 12345

A customer says their system was fixed last week by someone else and it's doing the same thing. How do you handle that call?

Best for: Service, maintenance

Rate 12345

Tell me about a call you couldn't solve.

Best for: All roles

Rate 12345

Electrical, controls and airflow

Walk me through how you'd isolate a no-cool call where the outdoor unit isn't running.

Best for: Service, commercial

Rate 12345

How comfortable are you reading a wiring diagram on equipment you've never seen?

Best for: All roles

Rate 12345

When do you check static pressure?

Best for: Service, install, maintenance

Rate 12345

Safety and code

Tell me about a time you had to stop work for a safety reason.

Best for: All roles

Rate 12345

What's your process before you work on anything energized?

Best for: All roles

Rate 12345

What do you do if you find a gas leak or a cracked heat exchanger and the customer doesn't want to deal with it?

Best for: Service, maintenance

Rate 12345

Customer-facing judgment

How do you explain a repair-versus-replace decision to a customer?

Best for: Service, maintenance

Rate 12345

A customer is upset before you've said a word. What do you do?

Best for: All customer-facing roles

Rate 12345

Their last shop

What would have kept you?

Best for: All roles

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Describe how your last shop dispatched you.

Best for: Service, maintenance, commercial

Rate 12345

What's the ratio of your work that was maintenance versus service versus install?

Best for: All roles

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