Behavioral Interview Questions

Otto yhoda A. - "Context: While working as a Senior Systems Engineer at Indra on a project for BBVA, I was primarily responsible for building ETLs and optimizing data pipelines using Spark and Scala. Action: During a critical deployment phase, our QA lead had to leave unexpectedly due to a personal emergency. With no one available to manage testing coordination, I volunteered to step in — even though it wasn’t my formal responsibility. I quickly reviewed the test cases, communicated with stakeholders, an"See full answer

Vipan K. - "As a postgraduate student of computer science, one of my weaknesses might be that I sometimes focus too much on theoretical concepts, which can lead to delays in practical implementation. I also find that while I’m strong in certain areas like algorithms and data structures, I need to spend more time refining my skills in newer technologies or languages that aren't part of the core curriculum. Additionally, balancing research, coursework, and any side projects can be challenging, occasionally le"See full answer

Kiley S. - "Set Success metrics for Google Maps: Assuming we are focusing on mobile experience… Clarify the product: Overall, it is a directions app: Gets you from point a to point b Allows for several methods of transportation - car, public transit, walking, biking, rideshare After entering location, you click your transport method, and select get directions which leads you to steps to get to you location or if you are driving or walking it speaks to you giving youthe directions aloud based on sett"See full answer

Anjali P. - "Question and video tagged not same. "See full answer

Dheeraj D. - "Thanks Hozefa for your insights on this. I see that hozefa talks about giving used cases. It would be very helpful if there was an example provided with STAR framework."See full answer

Christopher K. - "Background Context I'm a PM at a venture-backed SaaS in the legal tech space. We provide end-to-end contract management experience for our customers with the following features: Upload - Contracts signed in DocuSign, etc. automatically uploaded to our system through API integrations. Data Extraction - Contract terms such as payment terms and key dates are automatically OCRed and extracted using ML. Analytics - Contract terms are searchable, filter, and customize for reporting. Work"See full answer

Surbhi G. - "Hi Team, where can I see sample answers for this question?"See full answer

Adam M. - "This is a great question! If you don't mind, I'd love to list 3 strengths and weaknesses then dive a little deeper on one of each of them. I think my three greatest strengths are: Empathy Openness to feedback Drive And three weaknesses I have been working to strengthen are: Sometimes my desire to achieve can put me at risk of overcommitting Communicating status to the right stakeholders at the appropriate time Creating detailed and strategic lists of priorities so I can meet th"See full answer

Namu - "Provided an example from my work history where I asked to move the Go-live date to prevent launch date failure."See full answer

Harshita G. - "Is the "idea" I'm trying to sell something new or built off an existing service/product we offer? Interviewer: Let's assume new. Assuming it's a proper sit-down meeting with senior management to go over the proposal, here is what the slide deck would contain. Introduction/Description of the problem I'm trying to solve: Before proposing a solution, it is important to first identify the problem we're trying to solve. This section would contain the description of the problem/pain poi"See full answer

Deepak K. - "When I did't reach my expected deadline and if my work is unfinished after the deadline is arrived, I started rectifying the areas where I leg behind why i did't meet the expected deadline and i complete the work as soon as possible by working double and hard . And next time i will make sure that the problems which i faced earlier should not arrived again , and I mus match the deadline."See full answer

Shashikant A. - "I followed STAR format"See full answer

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

Nikita B. - "Mission: Tiktok's mission is to inspire creativity and Joy. Any business wants to make sure that they are serving the value to their customers: For TikTok customers are: Viewers 2. Content Creators 3. Advertisers So few metrics we could measure are: Time spent/day Total no of videos created/day engagement rate = users who interacted in one of the meaningful action on Tiktok / total users at a day level either likes, share, watched vide for at least 5 mins, created video "See full answer

James W. - "I've recently worked closely with a product that had both the best and worst performing teams. The situation is that one team is struggling to deliver within a reasonable timeframe, a few stronger members of the team are carrying the weaker. Work is taking a long time. They aren't listening to each other. They aren't helping each other to get work over the line. They are getting stuck down rabbit holes. They aren't continually improving their processes. They are getting frustrated and at risk o"See full answer

Dev S. - "Since you have indicated that the drop has been from the past few days and it is the sales drop. Assumption 1: It is not a gradual decrease and something that has been seen in the last few days. My assumption is the e-commerce site is a google store site where google sells all the products. At a very High-level the decline in sales could be caused by customers buying less on the site, customer churn, or decline in new customers, higher cart abandonment rate, checkout process. I would struc"See full answer

Malay K. - "While answering such a question, it is important to focus on personal growth, learning, and how the experience improved your teamwork. You want to demonstrate self-awareness, humility, and an ability to adapt. I had this experience while working on a cross-functional project that involved collaboration between the engineering and marketing teams. In the interview, I shared a story when I misjudged someone and showed unconscious bias towards due their gender, ethnicity or age. It was embarrassin"See full answer