Behavioral Interview Questions

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

Jaim - "Whenever I find resistance to my idea, my general approach is to : Validate my idea Identify if it is a political reason or is it a valid engineering tech reason Assuming it is not political but it is resource/difference of opinions that are causing resistance. Then I would try to do a quick POC and show a value proposition for the idea to get the buy-in. One similar situation happened The situation was that stakeholders were promised a feature that would decrease their number of ticket"See full answer

Oluwaseun F. - "Too Technical and too serious. Show personality, they do not put on videos most times, so you won't see them, but they are watching you."See full answer

Priyal S. - "Clarifying questions: By no online presence, do you mean just no website for order or do you mean no searches showing up on Google/Bing as users are looking for supermarkets. Possibilities of declining revenue: For every product, i.e pantry, vegetables and fruits, are our prices much higher than our competitors? Are our competitors getting products from suppliers at a lower rate? Are we exhausting our economies of scale well? What % of people are shopping online for groceries? Are"See full answer

Graig - "Reflect leadership quality in software engineering team"See full answer

Swaroop M. - "Formulate a draft format of idea, open to feedback, communicate your progress"See full answer

Anonymous Reindeer - "Clarifying Questions: Is it a chain of supermarkets? Or just an individual market? Is the revenue overall or just from one store? What are the reasons for the revenue growth? Pandemic? New buildings around? Other? What does the supermarket sell? Anything specialized? Local goods? Is there an app/website available to order stuff? 10,000 - 50,000 Vision: Be the most customer centric store Goals: Able to reach out to as many users as they can. Increase the user base while keeping th"See full answer

Mohamad Y. - "YouTube"See full answer

BePostive - "· Sometimes I have to step back and think through and respond later, not giving decision then and there · Manage between written vs oral communication, I tend to do mode of communication like oral during releases rather written"See full answer

Abdurhman M. - "I had a very difficult situation where the company I was working for was having financial problems. Because of that, I had to fire one person from my team. I chose the team member we had hired most recently. She had great potential, but she still needed guidance to do her job. Before I talked to her, I reached out to some acquaintances from other companies, and one of them was hiring. So, when I gave her the bad news, I also told her about that opportunity. I gave her a recommendation letter and"See full answer

Esther S. - "Things can get chaotic a lot of times where you're pulled into endless meetings with slack pings, emails, tags from Jira/confluence as well as adhoc asks from leadership team. Based on urgency/severity of tasks at hand, I would have my own board for tracking my tasks and set priorities and due dates. For instance, I would create my own Trello board of things that need to get completed in specific date, block out time in my calendar to work on them (as well as putting reminders on my calendar 3 d"See full answer

MM4 - "Success can be measured in various forms, both quantitatively and qualitatively. How many projects were delivered on time? Is the team tracking well against timelines? How often do they need to be course corrected? How much of the architecture is scalable when features are built on top of their work? What is the technical quality of the work produced by the team? How often are engineers from the team looped in for advice, mentorship outside the team? How often & why are interp"See full answer