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Behavioral Interview Questions

Review this list of 1,015 Behavioral interview questions and answers verified by hiring managers and candidates.
  • Visa logoAsked at Visa 

    "I generally struggle with stakeholders and partners who doesn't communicate enough. Now it could be either they don't invest sufficient time and energy in doing so or at times they lack the skill sets to do so. In both the cases, the entire responsibility fell on the other person to dig deep into why someone is doing the way they are doing, reading into patterns and behaviour of their personality and adapting to those communication styles"

    Lati K. - "I generally struggle with stakeholders and partners who doesn't communicate enough. Now it could be either they don't invest sufficient time and energy in doing so or at times they lack the skill sets to do so. In both the cases, the entire responsibility fell on the other person to dig deep into why someone is doing the way they are doing, reading into patterns and behaviour of their personality and adapting to those communication styles"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Behavioral
    +2 more
  • "As a Technical Program Manager at Amazon, I typically coordinate cross-functional teams to drive technical project execution, ensuring timelines and deliverables align with business goals. My day involves managing stakeholders, resolving blockers, and continuously optimizing processes for scale."

    Bajrangi C. - "As a Technical Program Manager at Amazon, I typically coordinate cross-functional teams to drive technical project execution, ensuring timelines and deliverables align with business goals. My day involves managing stakeholders, resolving blockers, and continuously optimizing processes for scale."See full answer

    Technical Program Manager
    Behavioral
  • Anduril logoAsked at Anduril 
    Video answer for 'Tell me about a time when you managed an end-to-end program.'
    +4

    "In my organization, I was given a initiative to improve the time spent by users on web application so that we can improve the quality of engagement on the website. Overview of a business model: We are a research organization that delivers where users (B2B clients) consume research content in form of research reports. Clients has specifically subscription for a year and if clients engage continuously and they spend more time on research they will retain. Success metrics: Improve time spe"

    Harshit J. - "In my organization, I was given a initiative to improve the time spent by users on web application so that we can improve the quality of engagement on the website. Overview of a business model: We are a research organization that delivers where users (B2B clients) consume research content in form of research reports. Clients has specifically subscription for a year and if clients engage continuously and they spend more time on research they will retain. Success metrics: Improve time spe"See full answer

    Technical Program Manager
    Behavioral
    +1 more
  • "At RTI while working on content-based recommender system on our ecommerce site, we received request from one of our distributor clients to make the system not only suggest products based on their purchasing history but also exclusively push higher priced items, regardless of their actual needs or demand patterns, it was challenging situation because it contradicted the primary purpose of our system, which was value based, patient centric product recommendations. To understand in this situation i"

    Vihari K. - "At RTI while working on content-based recommender system on our ecommerce site, we received request from one of our distributor clients to make the system not only suggest products based on their purchasing history but also exclusively push higher priced items, regardless of their actual needs or demand patterns, it was challenging situation because it contradicted the primary purpose of our system, which was value based, patient centric product recommendations. To understand in this situation i"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
  • +1

    "User Need Not Being Met by the Market: Instant, Seamless Cross-Border Refunds Identifying the Gap- One major gap in the digital payments industry is the lack of instant, seamless cross-border refunds for consumers. Currently, international refunds take days or even weeks due to exchange rate fluctuations, banking delays, and compliance checks. This creates frustration for users, especially in e-commerce, where consumers expect instant refunds like they receive for domestic transactions. Pain Poi"

    Ani T. - "User Need Not Being Met by the Market: Instant, Seamless Cross-Border Refunds Identifying the Gap- One major gap in the digital payments industry is the lack of instant, seamless cross-border refunds for consumers. Currently, international refunds take days or even weeks due to exchange rate fluctuations, banking delays, and compliance checks. This creates frustration for users, especially in e-commerce, where consumers expect instant refunds like they receive for domestic transactions. Pain Poi"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
    +1 more
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    "Referring to https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbusinesscouncil/2022/03/23/15-strategies-for-balancing-competing-stakeholder-priorities/?sh=7c82aa68262f Understand the conflicting priorities and align it with the goal/ objectives and the company mission. Start with the Least Common Denominator between the conflicting priorities to come to a commonality and start from there to objectively approach the next imp priority Always keep communication on and be transparent with 'equality' an"

    Pramod V. - "Referring to https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesbusinesscouncil/2022/03/23/15-strategies-for-balancing-competing-stakeholder-priorities/?sh=7c82aa68262f Understand the conflicting priorities and align it with the goal/ objectives and the company mission. Start with the Least Common Denominator between the conflicting priorities to come to a commonality and start from there to objectively approach the next imp priority Always keep communication on and be transparent with 'equality' an"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
    +5 more
  • Twitter logoAsked at Twitter 
    Video answer for 'How do you typically structure one-on-one meetings?'

    "Notes from the Video. 1-1s are two way feedback. Important tool to discuss things that are not possible in group setting feedback to employee by manager feedback to manager by employee Feedback to employee can vary by the type of performer the employee is (a) high performer (b) meets expectations (c) under performing Dos and Don't Avoid project discussion as they can be obtained else where. Focus on feedback to employee. Unless there is a critical project item to be d"

    Adib M. - "Notes from the Video. 1-1s are two way feedback. Important tool to discuss things that are not possible in group setting feedback to employee by manager feedback to manager by employee Feedback to employee can vary by the type of performer the employee is (a) high performer (b) meets expectations (c) under performing Dos and Don't Avoid project discussion as they can be obtained else where. Focus on feedback to employee. Unless there is a critical project item to be d"See full answer

    Engineering Manager
    Behavioral
  • "I believe these are the traits of a great PM. I see PM to be somone who is a great manager of customer problems and for that he/she has to be: Be an expert at the one domain and know the customer of the product in that domain and curate experiences for them better than the competition. Be persuasive - Get things done by convincing rather than commanding. Learn how great products are by being an engineer. Be a fearless leader by championing teams ideas all the way to the management la"

    Siddharth P. - "I believe these are the traits of a great PM. I see PM to be somone who is a great manager of customer problems and for that he/she has to be: Be an expert at the one domain and know the customer of the product in that domain and curate experiences for them better than the competition. Be persuasive - Get things done by convincing rather than commanding. Learn how great products are by being an engineer. Be a fearless leader by championing teams ideas all the way to the management la"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
    +1 more
  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 
    +1

    "Situation - A time I dealt with conflict while on a team was while I was working at Shopify on physical and digital gift card refund point of sale solutions. The situation was that we were dealing with complex technical constraints including not changing particular UI components behavior to act as they should be intended. On the refund screen, the existing design was using a toggle on the same screen to bring up a modal for gift card selection to either select digital or physical options. Thi"

    Ben G. - "Situation - A time I dealt with conflict while on a team was while I was working at Shopify on physical and digital gift card refund point of sale solutions. The situation was that we were dealing with complex technical constraints including not changing particular UI components behavior to act as they should be intended. On the refund screen, the existing design was using a toggle on the same screen to bring up a modal for gift card selection to either select digital or physical options. Thi"See full answer

    Product Designer
    Behavioral
    +3 more
  • Anthropic logoAsked at Anthropic 

    "Mission-first doesn’t mean ignoring revenue; it means optimizing for the right revenue. For me, it looks like: ( I qualify for legitimate use cases and clear success metrics; I’m transparent about limitations and risks; I escalate edge cases early rather than trying to ‘get creative’ to save a deal; and (4) I’d rather slip a quarter than sign a customer into a deployment that’s likely to cause harm or blow up trust later. Practically, I manage this by building pipeline that matches our ideal cus"

    Sebastián N. - "Mission-first doesn’t mean ignoring revenue; it means optimizing for the right revenue. For me, it looks like: ( I qualify for legitimate use cases and clear success metrics; I’m transparent about limitations and risks; I escalate edge cases early rather than trying to ‘get creative’ to save a deal; and (4) I’d rather slip a quarter than sign a customer into a deployment that’s likely to cause harm or blow up trust later. Practically, I manage this by building pipeline that matches our ideal cus"See full answer

    Sales Representative
    Behavioral
  • "In our product portfolio there were many teams and we were almost 12 product managers interacting closely to deliver the entire product feature area. Situation was that we were frequently had defects come in which will result in defects pushed back and forth. Goal was to avoid this as SLA of defects was getting impacted immensely there were priority 2 defects which we were sitting for couple of weeks before being looked at. There was a need to establish a triaging process. Along with my leaders"

    Karthik T. - "In our product portfolio there were many teams and we were almost 12 product managers interacting closely to deliver the entire product feature area. Situation was that we were frequently had defects come in which will result in defects pushed back and forth. Goal was to avoid this as SLA of defects was getting impacted immensely there were priority 2 defects which we were sitting for couple of weeks before being looked at. There was a need to establish a triaging process. Along with my leaders"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
  • Meta logoAsked at Meta 
    +6

    "Clarifying questions Scope: Just Reels in Facebook, or Instagram too? Mobile and desktop? Goal: Any specific goal we know of or up to me to decide? Framework/Overview Strategy Metric options with pros/cons North Star Metric (NSM) Risks & countermetrics Strategy / The Why: we want to give people … Meta: the power to build community + Bring people closer together Reels: new form of self-expression / entertainment with short form video and pro editing tools Ads in Re"

    Mike Z. - "Clarifying questions Scope: Just Reels in Facebook, or Instagram too? Mobile and desktop? Goal: Any specific goal we know of or up to me to decide? Framework/Overview Strategy Metric options with pros/cons North Star Metric (NSM) Risks & countermetrics Strategy / The Why: we want to give people … Meta: the power to build community + Bring people closer together Reels: new form of self-expression / entertainment with short form video and pro editing tools Ads in Re"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
    +2 more
  • Meta logoAsked at Meta 
    +1

    "I most want to communicate a few principals of conflict resolution that I believe were integral in this situation, which are mutual respect, a results orientation, an unwavering focus on the user. To that end, here’s how I’d like to structure this answer: First, I’ll tell you about the project we were working on, to provide some background for you. Second, I’ll describe the disagreement. Third, I’ll describe how we arrived at a solution, and finally, I’ll discuss how those 3 conflict resolu"

    Ross B. - "I most want to communicate a few principals of conflict resolution that I believe were integral in this situation, which are mutual respect, a results orientation, an unwavering focus on the user. To that end, here’s how I’d like to structure this answer: First, I’ll tell you about the project we were working on, to provide some background for you. Second, I’ll describe the disagreement. Third, I’ll describe how we arrived at a solution, and finally, I’ll discuss how those 3 conflict resolu"See full answer

    Engineering Manager
    Behavioral
    +4 more
  • "I like chatgpt for the following users Getting industry references are easy and time saving Getting recommendations is very easy Responses are accurate I use chatgpt to get feedback on content and identify gaps in my documentation or thought process I use chatgpt as a search engine and to get conscise situation based information. Chatgpt offers varierty of other tools in the explore version where similar users can create different content PRD template Chatgpt users 1."

    Shraddha D. - "I like chatgpt for the following users Getting industry references are easy and time saving Getting recommendations is very easy Responses are accurate I use chatgpt to get feedback on content and identify gaps in my documentation or thought process I use chatgpt as a search engine and to get conscise situation based information. Chatgpt offers varierty of other tools in the explore version where similar users can create different content PRD template Chatgpt users 1."See full answer

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
    +3 more
  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 

    "Described a scenario where I joined an established project as an EM Typical medium sized team - 6 devs, 2 testers, PO, PM (part time) Scrum master (very hands off) The product was well established and already being used by circa 30000 single country based users for the companies own products (personal banking capabilities) We were due to go live with a BIG change about 2 months after I joined - this change meant a user could manage multiple personal banking accounts from the 1 interface. We w"

    Hans - "Described a scenario where I joined an established project as an EM Typical medium sized team - 6 devs, 2 testers, PO, PM (part time) Scrum master (very hands off) The product was well established and already being used by circa 30000 single country based users for the companies own products (personal banking capabilities) We were due to go live with a BIG change about 2 months after I joined - this change meant a user could manage multiple personal banking accounts from the 1 interface. We w"See full answer

    Customer Success Manager
    Behavioral
    +1 more
  • LinkedIn logoAsked at LinkedIn 
    Video answer for 'How do you prioritize features for your engineering team?'

    "A mature manager. Great conversational answer. I wish more sessions with him"

    LateArriver - "A mature manager. Great conversational answer. I wish more sessions with him"See full answer

    Engineering Manager
    Behavioral
  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 
    +4

    "To bring any product to market here are the below steps that I would (did) take: 1.Understand the problem stmt / stakeholder need and asses depth of the problem (qualitatively and then gather metrics to quantify it) 2.Do market study on understanding relatable solutions if any 3.Carve out viable solution/ideation that aligns with overall Business Vision/Goal 4.Get stakeholders buy in on the idea 5.Guesstimate and prioritize high level features, Cost and ROI. 6.Build Business case for Project Le"

    Bk - "To bring any product to market here are the below steps that I would (did) take: 1.Understand the problem stmt / stakeholder need and asses depth of the problem (qualitatively and then gather metrics to quantify it) 2.Do market study on understanding relatable solutions if any 3.Carve out viable solution/ideation that aligns with overall Business Vision/Goal 4.Get stakeholders buy in on the idea 5.Guesstimate and prioritize high level features, Cost and ROI. 6.Build Business case for Project Le"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
    +3 more
  • "Situation- I was leading a product through a complete overhaul to a new replacement product, and at the same time had to maintain the old product. Concern - In the old product, the team was usually stuck 40-50% of the time in bug fixing This could have hampered the velocity and GTM of the new product Action Localised the problem to one major component - Export and Import Function- had 90% contribution to the issues Worked with the engineering team to diagnose the issue, the issue was i"

    Umang S. - "Situation- I was leading a product through a complete overhaul to a new replacement product, and at the same time had to maintain the old product. Concern - In the old product, the team was usually stuck 40-50% of the time in bug fixing This could have hampered the velocity and GTM of the new product Action Localised the problem to one major component - Export and Import Function- had 90% contribution to the issues Worked with the engineering team to diagnose the issue, the issue was i"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 
    +6

    "Great question. As a Product Manager, it is common to have to have difficult conversations with clients, stakeholders, or co-workers. This question actually reminds me of a time that I was faced with having to tell a client that the original estimate we gave them was much lower than it should have been and would, therefore, take much longer and cost a lot more as well. In this scenario, we had to work within a client's legacy codebase and didn't realize the limitations, roadblocks, and barrie"

    Kiley S. - "Great question. As a Product Manager, it is common to have to have difficult conversations with clients, stakeholders, or co-workers. This question actually reminds me of a time that I was faced with having to tell a client that the original estimate we gave them was much lower than it should have been and would, therefore, take much longer and cost a lot more as well. In this scenario, we had to work within a client's legacy codebase and didn't realize the limitations, roadblocks, and barrie"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
  • +1

    "after completing my project, I asked my manager for feedback on my performance. My aim was to identify areas for improvement, and learn more about new technologies which are in the"

    Sugrim S. - "after completing my project, I asked my manager for feedback on my performance. My aim was to identify areas for improvement, and learn more about new technologies which are in the"See full answer

    Finance and Strategy
    Behavioral
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