Behavioral Interview Questions

Push S. - "STAR story weaved around the project 0 to 1 execution with all the technical tradeoffs, issues, and success metrics involved."See full answer

Praful B. - "The customer's business needs and requirements. The technical aspects of their legacy system. The budget and timeline constraints. The risks and mitigation strategies. The customer's specific concerns. Assess the feasibility of migrating their legacy system to the cloud - This will involve evaluating the technical aspects of their legacy system, as well as the business impact of the migration. Develop a migration plan -This plan should outline the steps involved in migrat"See full answer

Scott S. - "As a Software Engineering Manager, one of the biggest mistakes I encountered early in my role involved underestimating the importance of aligning team goals with individual career aspirations and professional growth opportunities. This oversight became evident through a project that initially seemed successful but later revealed deeper issues within the team dynamics and morale. I was leading a software development team on a major project aimed at revamping a critical trading platform. The proj"See full answer

Sridhar K. - "Back in 2019, I had to take a decision of firing an engineer as he was rude and abusive to one of my customers"See full answer

S Y. - "Clarifying question? What is GCP and what does it mean to create a new GCP region in Portugal? GCP is Google Cloud Portugal. Creating a new region means creating data centres (clouds) which can be used as hosts. Is there a business objective to consider Portugal for a new region? None in particular Structure: Explore internal factors Is there a particular business goal that we are trying to accomplish like goal of getting more business from EU companies in coming few years? If yes"See full answer

Saran V. - "Understanding: Understand the reason for the pushback? Is the pushback related to any program constraints such as schedule, cost, quality, or scope? Is this pushback from a single stakeholder or a majority of the stakeholders? Working towards overall program goal: Explain how your idea is tied to the overall program's success metric or the goal Bring in data points to echo the above point Bring in examples of how this approach has helped in the past or with other competitors "See full answer

Mallory M. - "The first thing I would want to do is understand why. Did the requirements change? Did we underscope the project? Were there unforeseen technical complexities? Did our capacity or velocity change for any reason? Did other more urgent priorities come up that shifted focus away from this? Next I would want to understand all of the risks of missing the launch deadline. Are other teams dependent on our work? Are there any external marketing communications tied our to launch? What will be the impact"See full answer

David P. - "delete"See full answer

Daniel M. - "Should be able to charge the airpod case when pluged into energy. Should be able to charge when the airpod case has battery. Should be able to alert if the airpod case is out of battery. Should be able to sync with non-paired devices. Should be able to sync automatically with paired devices. Should be able to sync automatically with paired devices that are closer to the airpod. Should be able to switch the connection to a device answering a call. Should be able to pause during us"See full answer

Anonymous Starfish - "Ask my manager how urgent is my task and why it should be done if needed. If its urgent enough and I can’t wait, communicate with team explaining what goals going to be achieved by implementing and why its important"See full answer

Soumya S. - "In 2019, I was given a very important problem to solve. In a team of 3 we had to build a mobility assist device. The customer segment we would go for was something we could decide. The project was very close to me as I had lost someone I loved because of cancer and I saw how reduced mobility was a huge pain point in not being able to do physical activities. My team could only think of elderly people as the main target market. As the Head of Product what I did was: 1) I helped them dive even d"See full answer

Scott S. - "Great question! Before communicating any major change, I would ensure I have a deep understanding of the strategic shift, its rationale, and its implications. This involves meeting with senior management to gather all necessary details and preparing to address any questions or concerns from the team. To share a recent experience I had, so Last year, our senior management decided to shift our focus towards leveraging machine learning and advanced real-time analytics to enhance our trading stra"See full answer

Snighdha G. - "By showing results that I have achieved by taking that action because seeing is believing. For example, when we had issues with our child's behavior and wanted to understand what as parents we are doing wrong, we went and sought help from a specialist and similarly advised same to others having some form of mental health issues to seek help since we benefitted with it a lot."See full answer

Nid P. - "I explained the story of trying to help the engineer to improve the performance and after it is failed, the steps I have taken to move the eng to PIP."See full answer

Deepak S. - "I would understand the real cause of it. Is it really a time issue or motivation issue or skill issue. If we know the actual root cause, we can better deal with it accordingly. If it is a time issue, I would understand the work done by the team and related impact. Influence them to work on high impact work. If their work is also equally important, I would offer help from my team to heavy lift and they can just guide my team. I would partner with respective team owner to get more resources for f"See full answer

Scott S. - " A couple of years ago, we were working on a project to integrate a new third-party data feed into our existing data processing pipeline. This data feed was critical for enhancing our trading algorithms with more comprehensive market data. Given the tight timeline and high stakes, I decided to push for a rapid implementation. In my eagerness to meet the deadline, I underestimated the complexity of integrating this new data feed. I did not allocate sufficient time for thorough testing and valida"See full answer

Raja S. - "The accomplishment I am most proud of is winning the Information Systems Gameday Analytics Challenge at the University of Utah. Project Highlights: Challenge: The competition required analyzing Super Bowl commercial tweets to provide valuable insights to advertisers, including sentiment analysis and return on ad spend. Solution: I led the analysis using Python to scrape and process data from the Twitter API, and applied advanced sentiment analysis techniques to evaluate public re"See full answer

John F. - "During the course of my career, I have had the opportunity to fill a variety of roles. I’ve been a business analyst, a consultant, a project manager, a scrum master, a product owner, and a product manager. Each of these has had aspects that I have enjoyed. There are a few that standout though over everything else. First is that I have a passion for working with people. In each of these roles, my favorite part was always working with a diverse range of individuals from various levels of the orga"See full answer