Behavioral Interview Questions

Saran V. - "Understanding: Understand the reason for the pushback? Is the pushback related to any program constraints such as schedule, cost, quality, or scope? Is this pushback from a single stakeholder or a majority of the stakeholders? Working towards overall program goal: Explain how your idea is tied to the overall program's success metric or the goal Bring in data points to echo the above point Bring in examples of how this approach has helped in the past or with other competitors "See full answer

Jaison E. - "I broke down my answer into Understanding the goal, investigating the current state and its challenges, prioritizing opportunities, brainstorming solutions, and selecting solutions. To understand the goal and current state, I asked questions about the onboarding funnel and the conversion percentages. They have clear metrics to share, with the specific conversion rates for each stage. I then identified the subscription screen in the flow as one of the key opportunities, as most of the drop happ"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

Ilnur I. - "I really appreciate how he clearly explains every term he uses!"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

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

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

Akshai V. - "When are you talking about Sales Is the Number of Items that have dropped or GMV dropped ? If the GMV has dropped then clearly there is a drop in the Price of Items ? Is there any category or White Goods which have lead to decrease in the Price of Goods ? Is there a Long Term Promotion running By the Marketing and not because of it ? A customer Journey in a typical Market Place is that customer adds items to car Go To E-Commerce Site -----> Search--->Add Items to Bag"See full answer

Ben G. - "Situation - A time where I had to collaborate with a team member in another department was while I was at Google working on my hotel project and had to work with the legal department for our OOBE flow. Task - I was tasked to work cross functionally with the legal department to lead the design of the out of box experience for our product to ensure our guest users were sure of policies around data and privacy. Action - In order to establish cadence and effective relationship building, I set up a t"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

Shen A. - "I will interpret the question as "focus on the next 5 years". I will also give a high-level helicopter view since I’m supposed to imagine I’m CEO of Shopify. The mission of Shopify has always been to enable merchants and lessen the frictions in conducting commerce. Shopify is not an eCommerce company like Amazon, but a Tools and Infrastructure company like Stripe. Building tools and services for merchants are our core competencies. When we think about the main problems that Merchants have"See full answer

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

Amishr - "For a mature product, I would do the following - Review the list of backlog items Meet with stakeholders and business owners to verify the relevance (are they still valid? esp. for new feature request) Break down the backlog list by a. Product improvements b. New features c. Operational Resiliency Do a 70-30 split with New features+Product Imp =70%, Resiliency =30% Prioritize by impact/scale and effort (team's capacity) by quarter Revisit Quarterly For a new product - Start"See full answer

Alexander R. - "In my previous role as a Team Leader at XYZ Corporation, our department was facing high turnover rates, and the skill levels within the team were not meeting the company's evolving demands. We were in the midst of a major project that required a skilled and cohesive team to deliver on tight deadlines. My primary responsibility was to enhance team development and retention. Specifically, I needed to reduce turnover by 20% within six months and improve team competency to handle new project requir"See full answer

Shivam G. - "My Favourite music application - YT Music YT music is a music streaming service for individuals. YT Music is exclusive for YT Premium members. Users : Listeners Creator Ops (internal to Youtube) Business Goal : Improve Listener engagement by 20% in the next 6 months. Listener Engagement - DAU (Activity is defined as listened to music for at-least 10 mins) Listener User Segments : Music Enthusiasts Music for relaxation Which segment has the opportunity? List Pain"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

Satesh A. - "I dont know is good and you should use however than but."See full answer