Behavioral Interview Questions

Review this list of 914 behavioral interview questions and answers verified by hiring managers and candidates.
  • "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
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    "Situation: While working at CVS Health, our inventory management system for OTCHS products was facing challenges. We had increasing stock outs, and our existing data was insufficient to fully understand and address the issue since it has been only a year this product line was initiated. Action: Although we do have a forecasting model to predict demand and other algorithms to trigger out of stock flags to warehouses to fill them, lack of data points on seasonality, supplier delays, compliance"

    Vihari K. - "Situation: While working at CVS Health, our inventory management system for OTCHS products was facing challenges. We had increasing stock outs, and our existing data was insufficient to fully understand and address the issue since it has been only a year this product line was initiated. Action: Although we do have a forecasting model to predict demand and other algorithms to trigger out of stock flags to warehouses to fill them, lack of data points on seasonality, supplier delays, compliance"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
    +2 more
  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 
    Video answer for 'Tell me about a skill you recently learned.'
    +47

    "What are they looking for in the answer? "

    Astro S. - "What are they looking for in the answer? "See full answer

    Data Engineer
    Behavioral
    +1 more
  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 
    +6

    "I use a data driven approach by ensuring there is a deep-dive on all alternatives. My approach to tradeoffs is around how to achieve the customer experience needed. I ensure there is an immediate path to green for a solution and a follow-up solution addressing the problem rightly."

    Syed I. - "I use a data driven approach by ensuring there is a deep-dive on all alternatives. My approach to tradeoffs is around how to achieve the customer experience needed. I ensure there is an immediate path to green for a solution and a follow-up solution addressing the problem rightly."See full answer

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
  • Software Engineer
    Behavioral
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  • Asana logoAsked at Asana 
    +1

    "A good answer is describing an experience where you either proposed something that was selected after discussion or an alternate approach was taken, or you disagreed with a decision and argued for something else, either successfully or not. A good answer would be you had cogent arguments, the decision went another way for some reason, and you then fully backed the decision (agree to disagree is another way of stating it). You did not take it personally and you fully committed to the deci"

    Mrinalini R. - "A good answer is describing an experience where you either proposed something that was selected after discussion or an alternate approach was taken, or you disagreed with a decision and argued for something else, either successfully or not. A good answer would be you had cogent arguments, the decision went another way for some reason, and you then fully backed the decision (agree to disagree is another way of stating it). You did not take it personally and you fully committed to the deci"See full answer

    Product Marketing Manager
    Behavioral
    +3 more
  • Coinbase logoAsked at Coinbase 
    Product Manager
    Behavioral
    +2 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
  • "Context - I joined a large public-facing service as a PM midway through its development. Situation - Due to the SOPs of the company the team already had a metrics framework. That included your standard DAUs, Retention and Acquisition Metrics Concern - As SOP metrics were publicly accepted, the team did not internalise what success actually means to the product they are developing, as the actual value was not being encapsulated in the framework This was evident in the show and tells as the"

    Umang S. - "Context - I joined a large public-facing service as a PM midway through its development. Situation - Due to the SOPs of the company the team already had a metrics framework. That included your standard DAUs, Retention and Acquisition Metrics Concern - As SOP metrics were publicly accepted, the team did not internalise what success actually means to the product they are developing, as the actual value was not being encapsulated in the framework This was evident in the show and tells as the"See full answer

    Data Scientist
    Behavioral
    +2 more
  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 
    Software Engineer
    Behavioral
  • 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
  • Meta (Facebook) logoAsked at Meta (Facebook) 
    +5

    "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
  • Microsoft logoAsked at Microsoft 

    "Situation: While in the middle of a migration project, which required rewrite of services of my product into a cloud infra., we needed to configure our rules management services onto cloud as per legacy platform. The data extract of all the rules from legacy platform in a csv file needed heavy formatting to be usable for configuration of the new service. My entire engineering capacity was allocated on other prioritized ongoing feature migration and I had no bandwidth left in the ongoing spri"

    Geetesh T. - "Situation: While in the middle of a migration project, which required rewrite of services of my product into a cloud infra., we needed to configure our rules management services onto cloud as per legacy platform. The data extract of all the rules from legacy platform in a csv file needed heavy formatting to be usable for configuration of the new service. My entire engineering capacity was allocated on other prioritized ongoing feature migration and I had no bandwidth left in the ongoing spri"See full answer

    Customer Success Manager
    Behavioral
  • Apple logoAsked at Apple 

    "Situation : During my time in my previous company, I was leading a program which involved a cross-functional team. The project was to migrate all the legacy servers to Azure and had a tight deadline of 4 months. Each team had distinct goals and responsibilites to be delivered Task : My task was to collaborate with the multi regional team and ensure a smooth delivery within the defined budget and schedule. Action : I believe communication is the key to handle a cross-functional team"

    Oriole O. - "Situation : During my time in my previous company, I was leading a program which involved a cross-functional team. The project was to migrate all the legacy servers to Azure and had a tight deadline of 4 months. Each team had distinct goals and responsibilites to be delivered Task : My task was to collaborate with the multi regional team and ensure a smooth delivery within the defined budget and schedule. Action : I believe communication is the key to handle a cross-functional team"See full answer

    Technical Program Manager
    Behavioral
  • Discord logoAsked at Discord 
    +2

    "Always assume good intentions on the part of both parties when resolving conflicts. Then proceed with a STAR example."

    Abhinav M. - "Always assume good intentions on the part of both parties when resolving conflicts. Then proceed with a STAR example."See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Behavioral
    +2 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
  • Microsoft logoAsked at Microsoft 

    "I once had to change a decision i had previously made when I got stakeholder feedback that seemed to contradict what was already designed or already even built - such as the way a page was architected or the designs or colors used on a page. I had a justification for all decisions made, but sometimes the stakeholder feedback brings a perspective, such as a part of the user experience, that I had not thought of before. So I then went back to the original design or product and made an adjustment o"

    Sarah K. - "I once had to change a decision i had previously made when I got stakeholder feedback that seemed to contradict what was already designed or already even built - such as the way a page was architected or the designs or colors used on a page. I had a justification for all decisions made, but sometimes the stakeholder feedback brings a perspective, such as a part of the user experience, that I had not thought of before. So I then went back to the original design or product and made an adjustment o"See full answer

    Solutions Architect
    Behavioral
  • LinkedIn logoAsked at LinkedIn 
    Video answer for 'Tell me about a time when you managed an end-to-end program.'
    +2

    "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

    Behavioral
    Program Sense
  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 
    +5

    "As a PM i received a feedback from my program manager on my style of verbal communication. It is about me speaking faster when i wanted to get away with a topic that i wasn't confident (may be not backed up with data, or still in process of getting detailed insight of a problem etc.). Whereas when I'm confident I tend to speak slowly or more assertively that made people to follow easily. I welcomed that feedback so from then on when I'm not confident in a topic I became more assertive to let pe"

    Rajesh V. - "As a PM i received a feedback from my program manager on my style of verbal communication. It is about me speaking faster when i wanted to get away with a topic that i wasn't confident (may be not backed up with data, or still in process of getting detailed insight of a problem etc.). Whereas when I'm confident I tend to speak slowly or more assertively that made people to follow easily. I welcomed that feedback so from then on when I'm not confident in a topic I became more assertive to let pe"See full answer

    Product Manager
    Behavioral
    +6 more
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