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Software Engineer Behavioral Interview Questions

Review this list of 242 Behavioral Software Engineer interview questions and answers verified by hiring managers and candidates.
  • Netflix logoAsked at Netflix 
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  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 
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    "During my internship at Inceptra Analytics, our team was working on improving the monthly reporting process for the operations department. I proposed switching from manual Excel reports to a Power BI dashboard to automate and visualize key metrics. However, some team members were hesitant—they felt the current process, although tedious, was more familiar and controllable. My task was to get buy-in from the team to adopt a more efficient reporting method without causing disruption or resistance."

    Dhruv M. - "During my internship at Inceptra Analytics, our team was working on improving the monthly reporting process for the operations department. I proposed switching from manual Excel reports to a Power BI dashboard to automate and visualize key metrics. However, some team members were hesitant—they felt the current process, although tedious, was more familiar and controllable. My task was to get buy-in from the team to adopt a more efficient reporting method without causing disruption or resistance."See full answer

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  • Stripe logoAsked at Stripe 
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    "I want to work at Stripe because Stripe has become the industry standard for many businesses and startups in the world. As a CFO I would be proud to work with a leader on a processing market, improving it position with my skills and experience. I will be happy to be a part of this great Team and learn from them."

    Stanislav I. - "I want to work at Stripe because Stripe has become the industry standard for many businesses and startups in the world. As a CFO I would be proud to work with a leader on a processing market, improving it position with my skills and experience. I will be happy to be a part of this great Team and learn from them."See full answer

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  • Anthropic logoAsked at Anthropic 
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    "Yes to peer manager from stackholder team the problem was every time she wanted say something she used to have three way connect with me and my manager"

    Graig - "Yes to peer manager from stackholder team the problem was every time she wanted say something she used to have three way connect with me and my manager"See full answer

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  • Anthropic logoAsked at Anthropic 
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  • Google logoAsked at Google 
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    "Situation: As a Product Manager at Cisco, I was leading the development of a new highly critical product for enterprise customers. Midway through the project, a key engineering team was reassigned due to an urgent security patch, leaving us understaffed with only six weeks left before a critical customer pilot. Task: I had to ensure the product launched on time without sacrificing key features, despite losing half of our engineering team. The challenge was to"

    fuzzyicecream14 - "Situation: As a Product Manager at Cisco, I was leading the development of a new highly critical product for enterprise customers. Midway through the project, a key engineering team was reassigned due to an urgent security patch, leaving us understaffed with only six weeks left before a critical customer pilot. Task: I had to ensure the product launched on time without sacrificing key features, despite losing half of our engineering team. The challenge was to"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Behavioral
  • Google logoAsked at Google 
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    "Honestly, In addition to having the right expertise and skills required for this job, I am really looking forward to being part of this organisation’s journey. I am really confident that I will really exceed your expectations in achieving both mine and the company’s goals. I have worked with different teams in different capacities, managed a team of engineers successfully from very early part of my career and that has made me a very easy person to work with. I get things done easily. I am passio"

    Piyush D. - "Honestly, In addition to having the right expertise and skills required for this job, I am really looking forward to being part of this organisation’s journey. I am really confident that I will really exceed your expectations in achieving both mine and the company’s goals. I have worked with different teams in different capacities, managed a team of engineers successfully from very early part of my career and that has made me a very easy person to work with. I get things done easily. I am passio"See full answer

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  • OpenAI logoAsked at OpenAI 
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  • Netflix logoAsked at Netflix 
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  • Anthropic logoAsked at Anthropic 
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  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 
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    "It is very easy to shy away and not make a decision because you might feel the right information is not there to make a decision While dealing with ambiguity it is essential to remain Calm. And Establish what it is you want to achieve by asking a lot of questions to the necessary stakeholders Access the risk, analyze the data at hand, ask the right questions, and be very clear and concise in decision-making"

    Satish murthy D. - "It is very easy to shy away and not make a decision because you might feel the right information is not there to make a decision While dealing with ambiguity it is essential to remain Calm. And Establish what it is you want to achieve by asking a lot of questions to the necessary stakeholders Access the risk, analyze the data at hand, ask the right questions, and be very clear and concise in decision-making"See full answer

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  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 
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    Video answer for 'How do you consider the impact of your work on the world?'
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    "this is not a helpful interview, she seems so unprepared, confusing, unable to netting it out :("

    Anonymous Giraffe - "this is not a helpful interview, she seems so unprepared, confusing, unable to netting it out :("See full answer

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  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 
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    "During my internship at Datavibe Insights, I was initially brought on to assist with routine data cleaning and Excel reporting for the procurement team. My main task was to support weekly report generation, but I noticed inefficiencies in how data from multiple vendors was being manually compiled and formatted each week. Without being asked, I took the initiative to build an automated reporting tool using Excel Power Query and macros. It cleaned, merged, and visualized the data with a few clicks"

    Dhruv M. - "During my internship at Datavibe Insights, I was initially brought on to assist with routine data cleaning and Excel reporting for the procurement team. My main task was to support weekly report generation, but I noticed inefficiencies in how data from multiple vendors was being manually compiled and formatted each week. Without being asked, I took the initiative to build an automated reporting tool using Excel Power Query and macros. It cleaned, merged, and visualized the data with a few clicks"See full answer

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  • Meta logoAsked at Meta 
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    "I product manage customer care - while I belong to the ecommerce platform team. customer care is not a direct contributor for revenue and the feedback i received during my career progression was unless i contribute to revenue i cannot be on promotion track. this is difficult feedback to act on as its not by job responsibility. worked with my manager on 2 fronts - 1) create a succession plan so i can take on additional responsibility that contributes to revenue and 2) create a plan on how care ca"

    Gomathi S. - "I product manage customer care - while I belong to the ecommerce platform team. customer care is not a direct contributor for revenue and the feedback i received during my career progression was unless i contribute to revenue i cannot be on promotion track. this is difficult feedback to act on as its not by job responsibility. worked with my manager on 2 fronts - 1) create a succession plan so i can take on additional responsibility that contributes to revenue and 2) create a plan on how care ca"See full answer

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  • Anthropic logoAsked at Anthropic 
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  • Microsoft logoAsked at Microsoft 
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    "Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organisation on the planet to achieve more. I am always inspired by helping others to achieve more by participating to different volunteer and mentorship experiences like Microsoft Student Ambassador, and GeeksForGeeks student ambassador, and I have also created and shared a free competitive-programming guide which once reached more than 700 stars on github, that enables students and professionals to join Microsoft like Microsoft, that hav"

    Davide P. - "Microsoft's mission is to empower every person and every organisation on the planet to achieve more. I am always inspired by helping others to achieve more by participating to different volunteer and mentorship experiences like Microsoft Student Ambassador, and GeeksForGeeks student ambassador, and I have also created and shared a free competitive-programming guide which once reached more than 700 stars on github, that enables students and professionals to join Microsoft like Microsoft, that hav"See full answer

    Software Engineer
    Behavioral
  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 
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    "Follow STAR Example: In my most recent role at x, we've been working every quarter to set our quarterly goals or even decide for the year but given in 2022 we've been through a great resignation phase there was a high attrition because of which we have overloaded engineering teams. During last quarterly planning, I started to question with my manager about giving a focus to our engineering, so we complete one thing absolutely fine which is more impactful for our customers and add immediate val"

    Ash I. - "Follow STAR Example: In my most recent role at x, we've been working every quarter to set our quarterly goals or even decide for the year but given in 2022 we've been through a great resignation phase there was a high attrition because of which we have overloaded engineering teams. During last quarterly planning, I started to question with my manager about giving a focus to our engineering, so we complete one thing absolutely fine which is more impactful for our customers and add immediate val"See full answer

    Software Engineer
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  • DoorDash logoAsked at DoorDash 
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    "The reason I want to work at Doordash is because I’m a really hard worker, I never give up and I’m good at delivering stuff to my teachers at school whenever they have something to drop off to them, I look at the paper and then I read the directions given to me on the ipad to drop it off."

    Amparo L. - "The reason I want to work at Doordash is because I’m a really hard worker, I never give up and I’m good at delivering stuff to my teachers at school whenever they have something to drop off to them, I look at the paper and then I read the directions given to me on the ipad to drop it off."See full answer

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  • Anthropic logoAsked at Anthropic 
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  • Amazon logoAsked at Amazon 
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    "Our team were developing a HQ trivia for fitness. So at that moment our focus was developing an eye-catching animation for both iOS and Android. By the way, implementing an animation were hard without the progress of it. So we wanted to see an immediate progress. So I decided to use tools or libraries such as Lottie or Kite. Then it increased the quality and the productivity dramatically. So our designer were happy with it and also our dev team could reuse the code from the designed animation fr"

    Woongshik C. - "Our team were developing a HQ trivia for fitness. So at that moment our focus was developing an eye-catching animation for both iOS and Android. By the way, implementing an animation were hard without the progress of it. So we wanted to see an immediate progress. So I decided to use tools or libraries such as Lottie or Kite. Then it increased the quality and the productivity dramatically. So our designer were happy with it and also our dev team could reuse the code from the designed animation fr"See full answer

    Software Engineer
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