Behavioral Interview Questions

Sandy L. - "Clarify Functionality: Watch is a tab in FB app where people can upload and view Videos. What's the redesign? We collapsed the reaction and comment bar so people can see more videos and spend more time watching videos. What's the objective of the redesign? To help people discover and watch more videos they'll enjoy._ Structure To decide whether or not to ship this redesign, i'd like to go over. How does the Watch Tab fit into FB's mission and what's its goal? What's the long-"See full answer

Ritu G. - "In order to earn team members trust you need to show - 1- You need to show them you trust them. Treat others the way you wanted to be treated. 2- Do what you say. Keep commitments. 3- Listen 4- Admit when you make mistakes 5- Consistently make good decisions "See full answer

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

Simran S. - "I recently led the development and implementation of a data analytics platform tailored for credit unions and mortgage companies, which was suffering from fragmented systems, inconsistent data fields across LOS platforms, and outdated reporting practices. Here's how I managed the full lifecycle: ✅ Initiation / Discovery Conducted executive interviews across five financial institutions to understand reporting and visibility gaps. Shadowed loan officers and underwriters"See full answer

Praful B. - "The company culture is very supportive and collaborative. Googlers are encouraged to be creative and innovative, and there is a lot of freedom to explore new ideas. The work is challenging and rewarding. Googlers have the opportunity to work on cutting-edge projects that have a real impact on the world. The company is committed to diversity and inclusion. Google is a great place to work for people from all backgrounds and with all different perspectives. I am confident that I would b"See full answer

John F. - "Currently, I do a lot of data analysis using Azure Databricks and PowerBI. In Databricks, I write some basic SQL queries to retrieve the data and then pull that data into PowerBI for analysis. While this is sufficient, I believe there is room to make this skill set stronger. One way that I mitigate this currently is to maintain a strong relationship with our data analytics team. Whenever I have issues massaging or querying the data, I will reach out to one of those team members to help me get to"See full answer

Shanavas M. - "I will have a discussion with him regarding why he disagrees with my solution. I will try to present him a plan about my solution. why I think its the best approach and take his feedback. I will try to analyze his approach and find the best in both approach. Will try to discuss with him and come up with an approach which is agreeable to both parties. The idea is refining the solution and approach instead of personally taking the disagreement. I will make sure that we are attacking the problem"See full answer

Sankar S. - "We will not always have all the required data to make a decision quickly. We need to work with ambiguity effectively by tying up the available facts with intuition."See full answer

Amit A. - "What are you strengths -: My strengths would include my eagerness to learn. This allows me to be open to new projects, roles and products and I can give my 100% to achieve the goals expected of me Other strengths would include my collaborative approach to work. I believe a team can achieve tremendous success if shares a common goal, respects other's opinions and contribution and is built on fundamental of trust Finally my biggest strength would be my commitment and passion to solve the custome"See full answer

BePostive - "· Listen both sides and without any bias. Support or focus on the problem rather than person. Take necessary steps in case there is middle ground its well and good if both parties agree. If not be honest and support the person who is correct. Ultimate goal is to be useful for overall project and company rather individual satisfaction. The approach should be fit into overall team goal."See full answer

Singer29 - "Let me tell you about a time when my manager was on a two week PTO and I was building the post-MVP roadmap for a newly launched product. Being a SaaS platform for supporting restaurants, I'd led the conception, planning, development and launch of the MVP for an online ordering solution for diners in restaurants. After the launch of the MVP, our original plan was to build features which supported table-service restaurants like keeping an open tab. But while looking at the data, I realized that a"See full answer

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 resolution"See full answer

Sachin P. - "The key here is a) not to overreact to Sales bypassing me going straight to Engineering (while understanding every team acts according to their incentives), and b) communicate with all parties as much as possible to get everyone on the same page. 1) First, I'd speak to Sales and understand the feature being requested. I consider Sales to be one of the most important primary research funnels - they have direct, regular touchpoints with the client and are finely attuned to the lifeblood o"See full answer

Vijay P. - "Explained in STAR format one of the project situation where I had originally approved problem with different design which was correct approach that time. But as the project progressed that approach needed revision. Emphasized on facts why original approach was taken with points. Also focused tail end of discussion on learnings out of situation and how you end up deploying better solution from that learning."See full answer

Dhruv M. - "During my internship at Quantiva Solutions, I was leading a small team of fellow interns on a data visualization project. I was very focused on meeting the deadline and often pushed the team to keep moving quickly through tasks. About midway through the project, one of my teammates pulled me aside and said that while they appreciated my organization, they felt I wasn’t giving enough space for others to contribute ideas and that it made the collaboration feel more task-driven than team-oriented."See full answer

Yazeed - "I began by defining Booking.com as a marketplace or a platform, matching between supply and demand, with a transaction in the middle (payment/booking process). This structure allows me to categorize potential cancellations into three main channels: demand, supply, and transaction. Cancellation Scenarios: a. Demand (Guests/Travelers): Change of Plans: Guests might change their travel plans. Found a Better Deal: They might find a better deal elsewhere. Errors in Booking: Accidental booking o"See full answer

A G. - "Clarification Qs: What does "split" mean here? - split the UI and if so how (through tabs?) What counts as "media" - clarified already What is prompting us to consider this change? - any negative feedback from the users/ decrease in certain Newsfeed metrics like engagement etc/ any particular business goal? is this across or platforms eg desktop/mobile ? Is this for all regions? Mission of FB: Fb's mission is to bring people closer together by enabling them to build communiti"See full answer

Imju B. - "Wondering what is the difference between OKR based and Roadmap based. I feel it is based on the time horizon."See full answer