Behavioral Interview Questions

Teja G. - "To describe designing a complex system architecture, an AI would outline its analytical, iterative, and constraint-driven approach, highlighting principles like microservices, scalability, and security. An AI's process would be based on patterns learned from vast datasets of successful architectural designs, focusing on adaptability for different applications. Here is a breakdown of an AI's approach to designing a complex system, followed by a hypothetical example based on its internal knowledge"See full answer

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

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

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

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

Ash I. - "Follow STAR Example: In my most recent role at x, we've been working every quarter to set our quarterly goals or even decide for the year but given in 2022 we've been through a great resignation phase there was a high attrition because of which we have overloaded engineering teams. During last quarterly planning, I started to question with my manager about giving a focus to our engineering, so we complete one thing absolutely fine which is more impactful for our customers and add immediate val"See full answer

Woongshik C. - "Our team were developing a HQ trivia for fitness. So at that moment our focus was developing an eye-catching animation for both iOS and Android. By the way, implementing an animation were hard without the progress of it. So we wanted to see an immediate progress. So I decided to use tools or libraries such as Lottie or Kite. Then it increased the quality and the productivity dramatically. So our designer were happy with it and also our dev team could reuse the code from the designed animation fr"See full answer

Anonymous Mollusk - "My weakness was stage fright and talking in front of a large audience. This TPM role does offer me an opportunity to do both but not at the scale at which impacts my day to day role. Also over many years I have taken remedial action e.g. joined a Toast Masters club to overcome my weakness."See full answer

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

Googlepm 1. - "Getting things done : I am extremely proud of walking the extra mile to get things done which I am extremely proud of in my career Ladder transfer : Being on the tactical front, to dream about creating a product from its inception to the delivery and being able to achieve it Gaining trust : Leading without authority is critical and gaining trust in the process of the peers and stakeholders is one thing I am extremely proud of."See full answer

Prem D. - "Situation I'm the CEO of a healthtech startup with a blood test that can detect 20 deadly diseases early. We have limited resources across engineering, regulatory, and go-to-market, so we can't launch everything at once. The challenge is figuring out where to focus first to maximize patient impact while building a sustainable business. Task My job is to decide which diseases to prioritize, identify the right customer segment, and create a clear path to market that sets us up for long-ter"See full answer

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

Darren L. - "JJ Zhou, co-founder at the previous company taught me this: if you want to get people build a boat, tell them how great the sea is. That advice guided me through challenges I face to get my team on board with my vision. When i became the payment PM where I oversaw the user checkout experience, I decided to introduce Agile approach and organized the workflow into Scrums. The challenge was most engineers and data-scientists in my team were from banks so they were comfortable with water-fall. On"See full answer

Chinedu ekene O. - "After more than five years at my previous company, I had contributed significantly to many important projects and helped the team navigate critical transitions, such as our shift from a monolithic to a microservices architecture. However, over time, I realized that my goals and the direction of the company were no longer fully aligned. I felt I had outgrown the position and was ready for new challenges, where I could continue to grow both technically and professionally. Ultimately, I’m excited a"See full answer

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