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Behavioral Interview Questions

Review this list of 1,031 Behavioral interview questions and answers verified by hiring managers and candidates.
  • Instagram logoAsked at Instagram 
    1 answer

    "The most impressive thing that I’ve done was I got to do a fowards flip on the gym mat and I’ve gotten way flexible "

    Amparo L. - "The most impressive thing that I’ve done was I got to do a fowards flip on the gym mat and I’ve gotten way flexible "See full answer

    BizOps & Strategy
    Behavioral
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  • Product Manager
    Behavioral
  • Remitly logoAsked at Remitly 
    2 answers

    "There are many places where you can gather feedback. We can divide the feedback from external and internal sources External sources: facebook twitter reddit G2. Internal sources: on-app surveys or chats support Support engineers Sellers Recordings or notes from other PMs However, you always have to talk with the customers so customer interviews are very important. "

    Sergio C. - "There are many places where you can gather feedback. We can divide the feedback from external and internal sources External sources: facebook twitter reddit G2. Internal sources: on-app surveys or chats support Support engineers Sellers Recordings or notes from other PMs However, you always have to talk with the customers so customer interviews are very important. "See full answer

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
  • Better.com logoAsked at Better.com 
    2 answers

    "Hard worker, positive attitude and arrives ready to work with no emotional issues."

    Amparo L. - "Hard worker, positive attitude and arrives ready to work with no emotional issues."See full answer

    Product Designer
    Behavioral
    +1 more
  • LinkedIn logoAsked at LinkedIn 
    1 answer

    "talked about a time when customer is trying to go to cloud for first time and championing the effort.. it is strategic and also a risk because outside of the OEM, no one we know had implemented this product architecture on the cloud.. used first [principles, did a crawl, walk jog approach and implemented it. Risk because of lack of reference architecture, clodu tech was new to me . career making/breaking project for customer. result : project was successful. presented story in a conference."

    Sayee M. - "talked about a time when customer is trying to go to cloud for first time and championing the effort.. it is strategic and also a risk because outside of the OEM, no one we know had implemented this product architecture on the cloud.. used first [principles, did a crawl, walk jog approach and implemented it. Risk because of lack of reference architecture, clodu tech was new to me . career making/breaking project for customer. result : project was successful. presented story in a conference."See full answer

    Technical Program Manager
    Behavioral
    +2 more
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  • Anthropic logoAsked at Anthropic 
    2 answers

    "Follow news and resources via conferences or top companies' blogs, such as NeurIPS 2023 or Google Research Blog to get updates about the machine learning landscape. Research the papers on the new technology or approach that was mentioned or introduced via the subscribed sources, such as listed above. Following media channels, podcasts, or influencers on social media who were recently active in the industry to catch up with the trending and valuable insights, research, thoughts... Scan Github"

    Ban N. - "Follow news and resources via conferences or top companies' blogs, such as NeurIPS 2023 or Google Research Blog to get updates about the machine learning landscape. Research the papers on the new technology or approach that was mentioned or introduced via the subscribed sources, such as listed above. Following media channels, podcasts, or influencers on social media who were recently active in the industry to catch up with the trending and valuable insights, research, thoughts... Scan Github"See full answer

    Machine Learning Engineer
    Behavioral
    +1 more
  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 
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    Product Manager
    Behavioral
  • Bloomberg logoAsked at Bloomberg 
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    Software Engineer
    Behavioral
  • OpenAI logoAsked at OpenAI 
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    Video answer for 'Walk me through a past data science project.'
    Data Scientist
    Behavioral
  • "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"

    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

    Behavioral
  • DoorDash logoAsked at DoorDash 
    2 answers

    "Designed and framework to conduct risk and control assessment of applications that are prone to fraud risk and designed a target roadmap of overarching controls that further mitigates the risk. I explained how I took incharge of coming up with the framework for the assessment and held sessions. Role played with my team to think all the use cases possible and explained the accomplishments and takeaways."

    Hmj V. - "Designed and framework to conduct risk and control assessment of applications that are prone to fraud risk and designed a target roadmap of overarching controls that further mitigates the risk. I explained how I took incharge of coming up with the framework for the assessment and held sessions. Role played with my team to think all the use cases possible and explained the accomplishments and takeaways."See full answer

    BizOps & Strategy
    Behavioral
    +1 more
  • Microsoft logoAsked at Microsoft 
    1 answer

    "Interviewer wanted to learn more about architecture and or scalability. But I was not sure what the expected answer was"

    Mridul J. - "Interviewer wanted to learn more about architecture and or scalability. But I was not sure what the expected answer was"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Behavioral
  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 
    1 answer

    "Situation - A time I saw a peer struggling was while I was at Google working in Mountain View. A fellow colleague of mine was consistently not meeting standards in his performance reviews and wasn’t sure why. He was upset because Google was his dream company and he wasn’t sure how to improve based on his feedback. Task - I was tasked to design a based VUI framework for our discovery space on smart displays. This colleague was acting as the VUI lead for the project while I acted as t"

    Ben G. - "Situation - A time I saw a peer struggling was while I was at Google working in Mountain View. A fellow colleague of mine was consistently not meeting standards in his performance reviews and wasn’t sure why. He was upset because Google was his dream company and he wasn’t sure how to improve based on his feedback. Task - I was tasked to design a based VUI framework for our discovery space on smart displays. This colleague was acting as the VUI lead for the project while I acted as t"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Behavioral
    +3 more
  • "One project that stands out involved building a customer segmentation dashboard for our marketing team using Power BI. The goal was to help them target campaigns more effectively by segmenting customers based on purchase behavior and demographics. Early in the project, I noticed significant data quality issues in the source tables coming from our CRM system. There were missing values in key fields like customer age and region, duplicate customer IDs, and inconsistencies in how product categories"

    Tim F. - "One project that stands out involved building a customer segmentation dashboard for our marketing team using Power BI. The goal was to help them target campaigns more effectively by segmenting customers based on purchase behavior and demographics. Early in the project, I noticed significant data quality issues in the source tables coming from our CRM system. There were missing values in key fields like customer age and region, duplicate customer IDs, and inconsistencies in how product categories"See full answer

    Product Analyst
    Behavioral
    +1 more
  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 
    1 answer

    "Understanding the Basics Choosing Learning Resources Practicing and Applying Knowledge Seeking Help and Staying Updated Leveraging Modern Tools"

    An D. - "Understanding the Basics Choosing Learning Resources Practicing and Applying Knowledge Seeking Help and Staying Updated Leveraging Modern Tools"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Behavioral
  • Google logoAsked at Google 
    1 answer

    "Situation - I had 2 projects in hand. 1st - My primary project under my direct line manager, and 2nd - Under a dotted line manager. I committed to my 2nd project based on my assumptions and planning of the primary project's scope & timelines. For both these projects, I was the key resource. Unfortunately, we got some new findings in my first project, and it happened to be a case where management made an overcommitment to our business without gauging the assumptions correctly. This put pressu"

    DM - "Situation - I had 2 projects in hand. 1st - My primary project under my direct line manager, and 2nd - Under a dotted line manager. I committed to my 2nd project based on my assumptions and planning of the primary project's scope & timelines. For both these projects, I was the key resource. Unfortunately, we got some new findings in my first project, and it happened to be a case where management made an overcommitment to our business without gauging the assumptions correctly. This put pressu"See full answer

    Customer Success Manager
    Behavioral
    +1 more
  • Google logoAsked at Google 
    3 answers

    "My use of Pinterest is somewhat limited. Pinterest is a social network that enables users to save and share ideas in a visual manner. So whether you are interested in fashion, health, lifestyle, decor, sports, you can learn about those in a visual manner. Am I correct? Of course, Pinterest provides recommendations for people to follow, makes it easy to save images as pins, categorize into various topics. The source of revenue is advertisements. That’s my understanding. Is there anything else I"

    Bg - "My use of Pinterest is somewhat limited. Pinterest is a social network that enables users to save and share ideas in a visual manner. So whether you are interested in fashion, health, lifestyle, decor, sports, you can learn about those in a visual manner. Am I correct? Of course, Pinterest provides recommendations for people to follow, makes it easy to save images as pins, categorize into various topics. The source of revenue is advertisements. That’s my understanding. Is there anything else I"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
    +2 more
  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 
    3 answers

    "I'm seeking a role in which I can be continually challenged to devise innovative and streamlined solutions for complex issues, particularly with regard to the persistent soaking problem. I'm excited about the opportunity to not only excel in my own performance but also to empower and enable my colleagues to perform at their absolute best. My goal is to wield my influence and magnetic qualities to not only attract but also retain top-tier engineering talent, all in alignment with our shared objec"

    Anonymous Narwhal - "I'm seeking a role in which I can be continually challenged to devise innovative and streamlined solutions for complex issues, particularly with regard to the persistent soaking problem. I'm excited about the opportunity to not only excel in my own performance but also to empower and enable my colleagues to perform at their absolute best. My goal is to wield my influence and magnetic qualities to not only attract but also retain top-tier engineering talent, all in alignment with our shared objec"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Behavioral
    +2 more
  • Meta logoAsked at Meta 
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    Machine Learning Engineer
    Behavioral
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  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 
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    "In my time as a product designer, I’ve seen a transition of growth from something that is visually appealing to what is actually useful / functional / scalable. I think as designers, we are afraid to let things go such as the visual fidelity of design and how something could be useful but not necessarily have the flash of a more consumer based product. I think when we learn to let that go, we can see the scale of our impact and that we aren’t just people who make something look good/pretty but t"

    Ben G. - "In my time as a product designer, I’ve seen a transition of growth from something that is visually appealing to what is actually useful / functional / scalable. I think as designers, we are afraid to let things go such as the visual fidelity of design and how something could be useful but not necessarily have the flash of a more consumer based product. I think when we learn to let that go, we can see the scale of our impact and that we aren’t just people who make something look good/pretty but t"See full answer

    Product Designer
    Behavioral
    +1 more
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