Behavioral Interview Questions

Review this list of 985 behavioral interview questions and answers verified by hiring managers and candidates.
  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 
    +2

    "I would try to understand their perspective, focus on the issue, find common ground, brainstorm solutions, and agree on a course of action."

    Alemayehu m G. - "I would try to understand their perspective, focus on the issue, find common ground, brainstorm solutions, and agree on a course of action."See full answer

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
    +1 more
  • Twilio logoAsked at Twilio 
    Video answer for 'Tell me about a time you solved a complex problem for a customer.'

    "That's really interesting how in section "Behavioral Interviews for Engineers" there is no single interview for, actually, Engineer. It's EM, SA, CEO, PM etc. So all problems are not relevant for people who are not managing products and not applying for manager's role. Will you consider adding at least couple of them? "

    Nikolas C. - "That's really interesting how in section "Behavioral Interviews for Engineers" there is no single interview for, actually, Engineer. It's EM, SA, CEO, PM etc. So all problems are not relevant for people who are not managing products and not applying for manager's role. Will you consider adding at least couple of them? "See full answer

    Solutions Architect
    Behavioral
    +1 more
  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 
    Video answer for 'How do you consider the impact of your work on the world?'
    +12

    "this is not a helpful interview, she seems so unprepared, confusing, unable to netting it out :("

    Anonymous Giraffe - "this is not a helpful interview, she seems so unprepared, confusing, unable to netting it out :("See full answer

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
    +3 more
  • "Clarifying question: Do I know of this other team? Have i worked with them before? Do i know the TPM of this team B? 1) Schedule 1-1 TPM of this other team (Team B) with the agenda to better understand Team B project 2) State that you came to know that Team B is working on what sounds like a project similar to your team and you want to understand more about it to see what is common /what is different, what are the objectives and who the stakeholders are and so on. Also, important to know how f"

    Adib M. - "Clarifying question: Do I know of this other team? Have i worked with them before? Do i know the TPM of this team B? 1) Schedule 1-1 TPM of this other team (Team B) with the agenda to better understand Team B project 2) State that you came to know that Team B is working on what sounds like a project similar to your team and you want to understand more about it to see what is common /what is different, what are the objectives and who the stakeholders are and so on. Also, important to know how f"See full answer

    Technical Program Manager
    Behavioral
  • "Had to refactor code at recent startup after having it fully deployed and working. This was due to us hitting some performance and UX issues. What I did was refactor the core engine first myself, and then line up a work team to progressively refactor the edges and exception flows that sit around the core. Completed in 4 weeks."

    Kirit K. - "Had to refactor code at recent startup after having it fully deployed and working. This was due to us hitting some performance and UX issues. What I did was refactor the core engine first myself, and then line up a work team to progressively refactor the edges and exception flows that sit around the core. Completed in 4 weeks."See full answer

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
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  • "During my internship at Datavibe Insights, I was initially brought on to assist with routine data cleaning and Excel reporting for the procurement team. My main task was to support weekly report generation, but I noticed inefficiencies in how data from multiple vendors was being manually compiled and formatted each week. Without being asked, I took the initiative to build an automated reporting tool using Excel Power Query and macros. It cleaned, merged, and visualized the data with a few clicks"

    Dhruv M. - "During my internship at Datavibe Insights, I was initially brought on to assist with routine data cleaning and Excel reporting for the procurement team. My main task was to support weekly report generation, but I noticed inefficiencies in how data from multiple vendors was being manually compiled and formatted each week. Without being asked, I took the initiative to build an automated reporting tool using Excel Power Query and macros. It cleaned, merged, and visualized the data with a few clicks"See full answer

    Security
    Behavioral
  • "I product manage customer care - while I belong to the ecommerce platform team. customer care is not a direct contributor for revenue and the feedback i received during my career progression was unless i contribute to revenue i cannot be on promotion track. this is difficult feedback to act on as its not by job responsibility. worked with my manager on 2 fronts - 1) create a succession plan so i can take on additional responsibility that contributes to revenue and 2) create a plan on how care ca"

    Gomathi S. - "I product manage customer care - while I belong to the ecommerce platform team. customer care is not a direct contributor for revenue and the feedback i received during my career progression was unless i contribute to revenue i cannot be on promotion track. this is difficult feedback to act on as its not by job responsibility. worked with my manager on 2 fronts - 1) create a succession plan so i can take on additional responsibility that contributes to revenue and 2) create a plan on how care ca"See full answer

    Technical Program Manager
    Behavioral
  • DoorDash logoAsked at DoorDash 

    "The reason I want to work at Doordash is because I’m a really hard worker, I never give up and I’m good at delivering stuff to my teachers at school whenever they have something to drop off to them, I look at the paper and then I read the directions given to me on the ipad to drop it off."

    Amparo L. - "The reason I want to work at Doordash is because I’m a really hard worker, I never give up and I’m good at delivering stuff to my teachers at school whenever they have something to drop off to them, I look at the paper and then I read the directions given to me on the ipad to drop it off."See full answer

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
    +1 more
  • "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."

    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

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
    +1 more
  • "I consider my greatest strengths to be my inquisitive nature and my ability to empathize with users. My inquisitiveness drives me to question and challenge the status quo, constantly seeking new perspectives and innovative approaches. I find inspiration in observing advertisements, analyzing their plots, and connecting them to the products being advertised. This curiosity fuels my creativity and pushes me to think outside the box. Furthermore, my empathetic nature plays a vital role in my desig"

    Mallikarjun B. - "I consider my greatest strengths to be my inquisitive nature and my ability to empathize with users. My inquisitiveness drives me to question and challenge the status quo, constantly seeking new perspectives and innovative approaches. I find inspiration in observing advertisements, analyzing their plots, and connecting them to the products being advertised. This curiosity fuels my creativity and pushes me to think outside the box. Furthermore, my empathetic nature plays a vital role in my desig"See full answer

    Behavioral
  • TikTok logoAsked at TikTok 

    "I aim to utilize hands-on activities to apply the knowledge I've acquired, safeguard the organization from threat actors, and contribute to its growth."

    Bravin V. - "I aim to utilize hands-on activities to apply the knowledge I've acquired, safeguard the organization from threat actors, and contribute to its growth."See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Behavioral
  • HelloFresh logoAsked at HelloFresh 

    "Something not mentioned in my resume is my hobbies. I have a strong interest in analyzing situations, which I enjoy as a mental exercise. I'm also skilled at painting and have a passion for reading books, which helps me broaden my perspective."

    Manaswini D. - "Something not mentioned in my resume is my hobbies. I have a strong interest in analyzing situations, which I enjoy as a mental exercise. I'm also skilled at painting and have a passion for reading books, which helps me broaden my perspective."See full answer

    Data Analyst
    Behavioral
  • "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."

    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

    Behavioral
  • "I said we could always revert the production issues. Solve it at DEV environment and then publish again. Interviewer gave me an example of it like a database schema change that may not be possible to revert. I said that we always used SQL scripts to upgrade and downgrade the database schema for each production deployment. So it would not be a problem for us. I guess my answer was not accepted."

    Bulent K. - "I said we could always revert the production issues. Solve it at DEV environment and then publish again. Interviewer gave me an example of it like a database schema change that may not be possible to revert. I said that we always used SQL scripts to upgrade and downgrade the database schema for each production deployment. So it would not be a problem for us. I guess my answer was not accepted."See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Behavioral
  • "Product -> Self service Portal North Star Metric-> No. of proposal downloaded Problem-> 15% Decrease in Proposal downloads RCA-> System Health check-> Bugs, errors in pages during session, site crashed, server inavailability, new feature was introduced which made it difficult for user to navigate. If there was problem of server in-availability, is load balancer working fine/server is not available? If problem was with feature-> What feature was introduced? do an A/B test with older feature Fu"

    Smriti G. - "Product -> Self service Portal North Star Metric-> No. of proposal downloaded Problem-> 15% Decrease in Proposal downloads RCA-> System Health check-> Bugs, errors in pages during session, site crashed, server inavailability, new feature was introduced which made it difficult for user to navigate. If there was problem of server in-availability, is load balancer working fine/server is not available? If problem was with feature-> What feature was introduced? do an A/B test with older feature Fu"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
    +1 more
  • " Questions: Deadly diseases: new and current CEO of healthtech startup: adoption phase Mission: to improve and extend lives What we do: Research new diseases and connects people to doctors Structure: Objective -> Macro-Factors -> Company -> Users -> Suggestions Objective: Why? Mission to improve and extend lives How do we inform the world about these 20 deadly diseases we detected? Macro-Factors(climate/competition) World events like pandemics - this is a good investment* "

    Cameron P. - " Questions: Deadly diseases: new and current CEO of healthtech startup: adoption phase Mission: to improve and extend lives What we do: Research new diseases and connects people to doctors Structure: Objective -> Macro-Factors -> Company -> Users -> Suggestions Objective: Why? Mission to improve and extend lives How do we inform the world about these 20 deadly diseases we detected? Macro-Factors(climate/competition) World events like pandemics - this is a good investment* "See full answer

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
    +1 more
  • Google logoAsked at Google 
    Product Manager
    Behavioral
  • Airbnb logoAsked at Airbnb 
    +1

    "Leadership though empathy - I helped underperforming engineer to break into product since she had great product qualities like good attention to the user.. Now she is my peer and we cross-collaborate extensively. I have earned her trust and she can go the extra mile when my team needs some support."

    Delyan P. - "Leadership though empathy - I helped underperforming engineer to break into product since she had great product qualities like good attention to the user.. Now she is my peer and we cross-collaborate extensively. I have earned her trust and she can go the extra mile when my team needs some support."See full answer

    Engineering Manager
    Behavioral
  • Instacart logoAsked at Instacart 

    "Clarify Retention for which side of the platform - advertisers, groceries/shops, shoppers, users? - Assume Is there any specific event or trend driving retention down or we’re looking in general to overall improve from current state? - Assume Is this tied to any particular geography or region? - Assume Is this tied to any specific persona within our 4 sided platform? - Assume Are we changing the definition of retention (time, frequency, others)? - Assume no Goal - Improve the use"

    Parag - "Clarify Retention for which side of the platform - advertisers, groceries/shops, shoppers, users? - Assume Is there any specific event or trend driving retention down or we’re looking in general to overall improve from current state? - Assume Is this tied to any particular geography or region? - Assume Is this tied to any specific persona within our 4 sided platform? - Assume Are we changing the definition of retention (time, frequency, others)? - Assume no Goal - Improve the use"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
    +3 more
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