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General behavioral Interview

This section may be covered by the Behavioral Interview in Powerday, so feel free to skip this section

1. Questions For All candidates

  • What Is the Accomplishment You Are Most Proud Of?

  • What Is the Biggest Challenge Facing Your Current Job Right Now?

  • When did you take a risk, make a mistake, or fail? How did you respond, and how did you grow from that experience?

  • Tell me about a time when you were faced with a problem that had a number of possible solutions. What was the problem and how did you determine the course of action? What was the outcome of that choice?

  • Talk me through a conflict with a cross-functional partner and how you resolved it.

  • How do you work with less- or non-technical colleagues such as designers or project managers?

  • How do you reason about engineering excellence-type work with less-technical partners?

  • Describe a time you took the lead on a project.

2. Questions For People leaders

  • How do you help people manage their careers?

  • What’s an example of a tough management situation you’ve dealt with?

  • A tech lead on your team tells you, “I want to be a manager.” How do you respond?

  • How do you approach one-on-ones with your team, and what do you talk about?

  • What’s the value of one-on-ones with your team members?

  • Give an example of a conflict between teammates and how you resolved it.

  • Have you ever had to dismiss someone from your team?

  • Give me an example of when your engineering partners wanted to prioritize a project, but the data science or design teams disagreed?

3. Closing questions

  • Why should we NOT hire you?