Behavioral Interview Questions

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  • Stripe logoAsked at Stripe 
    Video answer for 'How would you communicate layoffs to affected individuals?'
    Engineering Manager
    Behavioral
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    "At a personal level: Happiness index, how happy are you in the team (smile faces on each retrospective) Mastery, how do you help the team to grow. Be present, how each member communicates, and how participative the team members are in the activities. Performance metrics: Cycle-time, the time someone takes to end a task/issue. Quality, how many bugs are associated with your code. Reviews, how many times, and how you help the team to move forward. "

    Cristian A. - "At a personal level: Happiness index, how happy are you in the team (smile faces on each retrospective) Mastery, how do you help the team to grow. Be present, how each member communicates, and how participative the team members are in the activities. Performance metrics: Cycle-time, the time someone takes to end a task/issue. Quality, how many bugs are associated with your code. Reviews, how many times, and how you help the team to move forward. "See full answer

    Behavioral
    Analytical
  • Microsoft logoAsked at Microsoft 

    "The biggest factor that excites me about technology is its ever changing and dynamic trend. In my life, I have seen the transition from landlines to simple mobile to smartphones, from Cathode tube desktop screen to super slim TFT and many more. I think technology has now (with time) become integral part of human life and getting in-sync with it is like a normal and very cool phenomena."

    Sagrika S. - "The biggest factor that excites me about technology is its ever changing and dynamic trend. In my life, I have seen the transition from landlines to simple mobile to smartphones, from Cathode tube desktop screen to super slim TFT and many more. I think technology has now (with time) become integral part of human life and getting in-sync with it is like a normal and very cool phenomena."See full answer

    Technical Program Manager
    Behavioral
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  • "I told a story about having good intentions to help out a superior with a problem but I did so without seeking buy-in (permission) first. While I did solve the problem and provided value to him and my other colleagues, I was reprimanded for crossing boundaries and not respecting his privacy (I accessed his computer without his permission to deliver a resolution to a problem). While I had good intentions and the outcome was good, my approach left me with a negative mark and a life long lesson r"

    Zakery K. - "I told a story about having good intentions to help out a superior with a problem but I did so without seeking buy-in (permission) first. While I did solve the problem and provided value to him and my other colleagues, I was reprimanded for crossing boundaries and not respecting his privacy (I accessed his computer without his permission to deliver a resolution to a problem). While I had good intentions and the outcome was good, my approach left me with a negative mark and a life long lesson r"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Behavioral
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  • "WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO CUSTOMER VALUE TO THE CUSTOMER IMPACT ON THE CUSTOMER PRIORITIZE BASED ON THAT the sales team wants Specific changes to customer - Value NPV etc Client services want automation - Customer priority "

    Anonymous Mastodon - "WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO CUSTOMER VALUE TO THE CUSTOMER IMPACT ON THE CUSTOMER PRIORITIZE BASED ON THAT the sales team wants Specific changes to customer - Value NPV etc Client services want automation - Customer priority "See full answer

    Behavioral
  • "Described a bug I found on an app designed for a specific make of tablet. In this sequence I described: The app the bug was found in The priority and severity of the bug That it was a regression to an existing working piece of functionality The hardware and the firmware on the device the bug occurred on The steps that led to me finding the bug and how it manifested itself Talked about how we debugged from the point of view of: Code Component Deployed application Comparison to"

    Hans - "Described a bug I found on an app designed for a specific make of tablet. In this sequence I described: The app the bug was found in The priority and severity of the bug That it was a regression to an existing working piece of functionality The hardware and the firmware on the device the bug occurred on The steps that led to me finding the bug and how it manifested itself Talked about how we debugged from the point of view of: Code Component Deployed application Comparison to"See full answer

    QA Engineer
    Behavioral
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  • "We have to work with the c-suite to understood the direct quartly outcomes or goals. This could be our epic and then we try to break that down into business value and complexity . This will allow us to prioritize whats next. From there we can structure a mvp to cover maybe some of these areas to understand the estimation of this work. After the first couple weeks we can structure a roadmap and then define when"

    Howard H. - "We have to work with the c-suite to understood the direct quartly outcomes or goals. This could be our epic and then we try to break that down into business value and complexity . This will allow us to prioritize whats next. From there we can structure a mvp to cover maybe some of these areas to understand the estimation of this work. After the first couple weeks we can structure a roadmap and then define when"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
  • Anthropic logoAsked at Anthropic 
    Product Marketing Manager
    Behavioral
  • ElevenLabs logoAsked at ElevenLabs 
    Software Engineer
    Behavioral
    +1 more
  • Discord logoAsked at Discord 
    Data Scientist
    Behavioral
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  • "During my internship at Inspira Analytics, our intern team had worked for two weeks on a client presentation for a new data dashboard. Unfortunately, during the final review, the manager pointed out several major flaws in our analysis and asked us to redo the entire structure. The feedback was blunt, and the team felt discouraged, questioning whether our efforts were even valued. As the informal team lead, I felt responsible for helping lift the team’s morale and refocus everyone so we could del"

    Dhruv M. - "During my internship at Inspira Analytics, our intern team had worked for two weeks on a client presentation for a new data dashboard. Unfortunately, during the final review, the manager pointed out several major flaws in our analysis and asked us to redo the entire structure. The feedback was blunt, and the team felt discouraged, questioning whether our efforts were even valued. As the informal team lead, I felt responsible for helping lift the team’s morale and refocus everyone so we could del"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
  • Software Engineer
    Behavioral
  • LinkedIn logoAsked at LinkedIn 

    "Although there is no fixed or predefined framework that I follow to prioritize, I do have a methodical criterion that is suitable to my organization and practices. The business outcome/value proposition of each project/request - try to quantitative every metric below Number of customers going to be impacted in that product vertical - item with more customers gets more weight Is this an existing feature or a new feature - existing features get more weightage especially if thi"

    Naresh A. - "Although there is no fixed or predefined framework that I follow to prioritize, I do have a methodical criterion that is suitable to my organization and practices. The business outcome/value proposition of each project/request - try to quantitative every metric below Number of customers going to be impacted in that product vertical - item with more customers gets more weight Is this an existing feature or a new feature - existing features get more weightage especially if thi"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
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  • TikTok logoAsked at TikTok 
    Product Manager
    Behavioral
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    Product Manager
    Behavioral
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  • "During my initial days as a Product Manager, I faced challenges working with our central design team. The team received requests from multiple Product Managers, and prioritization was often influenced by the rapport each PM had built with them. Since I was new, I struggled to convey the importance of my tasks effectively, leading to delays in my projects. This was a significant learning moment for me. I realized that to succeed, I needed to earn the trust of the design team and demonstra"

    Shahrukh K. - "During my initial days as a Product Manager, I faced challenges working with our central design team. The team received requests from multiple Product Managers, and prioritization was often influenced by the rapport each PM had built with them. Since I was new, I struggled to convey the importance of my tasks effectively, leading to delays in my projects. This was a significant learning moment for me. I realized that to succeed, I needed to earn the trust of the design team and demonstra"See full answer

    Behavioral
  • TikTok logoAsked at TikTok 

    "Actually, all experiences in my life have been important so far. I say this with conviction since i consider myself a highly introspective person and often find ways to make myself more efficient. So, retrospection becomes very important for me. Still amongst them, the most valuable experience for me during my entrance exam preparation. I wasn't a good scorer and despite studying for the entire day couldnt score marks. It my self confidence to plummet. In the final days of the exam, i just told"

    Trusha M. - "Actually, all experiences in my life have been important so far. I say this with conviction since i consider myself a highly introspective person and often find ways to make myself more efficient. So, retrospection becomes very important for me. Still amongst them, the most valuable experience for me during my entrance exam preparation. I wasn't a good scorer and despite studying for the entire day couldnt score marks. It my self confidence to plummet. In the final days of the exam, i just told"See full answer

    Data Scientist
    Behavioral
  • Stripe logoAsked at Stripe 

    "In my experience, project success translates to three things: Customer Success => Quality increments to service leading to customer success. (Measure by KPIs like customer satisfaction score, SLA, Revenue growth etc) Team Success => High Team morale with successful execution and collaboration of project. Individual Success => Individual career goals and aspirations are met I think the later two are difficult are measured via KPIs. Although there can be indirect KPIs to measure those as we"

    shg - "In my experience, project success translates to three things: Customer Success => Quality increments to service leading to customer success. (Measure by KPIs like customer satisfaction score, SLA, Revenue growth etc) Team Success => High Team morale with successful execution and collaboration of project. Individual Success => Individual career goals and aspirations are met I think the later two are difficult are measured via KPIs. Although there can be indirect KPIs to measure those as we"See full answer

    Engineering Manager
    Behavioral
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