Interview Questions

gdecuri - "I suggest a 4 step process: Ensure your recruitment process and company's branding are inclusive. This means using inclusive language in your job postings, avoiding gender stereotypes, and making sure your company's website and social media presence are welcoming to people from all backgrounds. Partner with nonprofit and cultural organizations to reach a more diverse pool of candidates. Many organizations can help you connect with candidates from underrepresented groups. These org"See full answer

Scott S. - "Great question! Last year, we were working on a critical project to develop a real-time risk analytics platform. This platform was designed to provide our traders with instantaneous risk metrics, allowing them to make informed decisions in a fast-paced trading environment. Midway through the project, we faced a significant issue: our chosen data processing framework was not performing as expected under the high data throughput required by our trading algorithms. This was causing unacceptable lat"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

Kanishkan V. - "I responded with a project that I was a part of during my capstone class. I described how I used HTML, Python, and PostGRESQL in conjunction to create a functioning website using SCRUM."See full answer

Sathi C. - "Being a team player is very important to a small to medium team where each individual play a role to set the culture of collaboration for the team. I will definitely be coaching my report to improve on becoming a team player and trying to influence to understand why it is utterly important for her/his individual growth and success. A ship can not be built by only two hands and any disconnect within the team can prove to be costly."See full answer

Syed I. - "I use a data driven approach by ensuring there is a deep-dive on all alternatives. My approach to tradeoffs is around how to achieve the customer experience needed. I ensure there is an immediate path to green for a solution and a follow-up solution addressing the problem rightly."See full answer

BePostive - "Each team member is different, understand their needs, strengths, weakness areas. Motivate accordingly. Frequent 1:1 and help in their career growth. According to me micromanagement never wins, so don't even try it. Inform team high level picture in case if some work is not challenging."See full answer

Hans - "Situation: Was given negative feedback about an aspect of my communications. The person said it made them worried because of the brevity and the format of some messages. (Their worry was that a longer negative message was coming) Task(s): Reflected on feedback about my communication style. Acknowledged the point. Assumed best intentions on the part of the person giving the feedback Saw things from the other person's point of view Action(s): In private - Apologised to the person wh"See full answer

Shanavas M. - "I will have a discussion with him regarding why he disagrees with my solution. I will try to present him a plan about my solution. why I think its the best approach and take his feedback. I will try to analyze his approach and find the best in both approach. Will try to discuss with him and come up with an approach which is agreeable to both parties. The idea is refining the solution and approach instead of personally taking the disagreement. I will make sure that we are attacking the problem"See full answer

Scott S. - "One of the most challenging moments I experienced as a Engineering Manager was with an employee who was a very talented engineer but struggled with communication and collaboration within the team. This situation not only affected his performance but also created tension among team members. To sort of elaborate on it, I had an engineer on my team, Ravi, who was extremely skilled technically and consistently delivered high-quality code. However, Ravi often worked in isolation, was reluctant to sh"See full answer

Kiley S. - "Great question. As a Product Manager, it is common to have to have difficult conversations with clients, stakeholders, or co-workers. This question actually reminds me of a time that I was faced with having to tell a client that the original estimate we gave them was much lower than it should have been and would, therefore, take much longer and cost a lot more as well. In this scenario, we had to work within a client's legacy codebase and didn't realize the limitations, roadblocks, and barrie"See full answer

Scott S. - " Last year, we were in the midst of a critical project to develop a new machine learning-driven risk analytics platform. This platform was intended to provide real-time risk assessments and predictive insights to enhance our trading strategies. However, midway through the project, our project lead unexpectedly had to take an extended leave of absence due to a personal emergency. This left the team without clear leadership during a crucial phase of the project. Stepping into the Leadership R"See full answer

Scott S. - " Project Overview: Real-Time Risk Management System Objective The goal was to develop a real-time risk management system capable of processing and analyzing large volumes of trading data to provide near-instantaneous risk assessments. This system was crucial for enabling traders to make informed decisions while managing their exposure to various market risks in real-time. Complexity Factors 1. \\Data Volume and Velocity\\ \\High Throughput:\\ The system needed to ha"See full answer

BePostive - "For me the answer looks very broad and general. It would be good the reply is relevant and focus good examples using STAR format. Please let me know your views."See full answer

Abhinav M. - "Always assume good intentions on the part of both parties when resolving conflicts. Then proceed with a STAR example."See full answer

BePostive - "· Creating templates for requirement stories regarding acceptance criteria, there are lot of places where modifications are done later. Freeze them as early as possible once PR is in execution · Product managers asking random requests directly with engineers by passing leads and manager, work which is not in the sprint planning. Learned from this and gave a thought to call it out in team agreement · Follow up on Retrospective action items didn’t happen 100%"See full answer

Scott S. - " Situation Our data engineering team was tasked with developing a new real-time analytics platform for derivatives trading. To ensure the project’s success, we needed buy-in and support from various non-technical teams, including finance, compliance, and senior management. These teams needed to understand the importance of the project, the resources required, and how it would benefit the organization. Task My task was to effectively communicate the technical requirements and benefits of"See full answer

BePostive - "Learn to know why they want to switch and also make sure their understanding about the new role is in line with organization standards. Train them if they are lagging in some aspects and make sure to layout a plan for them to grow in that direction. Put them in pilot project or as shadow manager for some time if there are any opportunities in the organization. Once they are up to speed help them applying internally to the specific position."See full answer

BePostive - "· Yes I had too, list our all the options you provided for their growth (1:1 talks, training program, pairing with SME's on domain and enrolling tech courses based on candidate weak areas) and how it didn’t help. Didn’t show progress in PIP program Performance Improvement Program."See full answer