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id: behavioral-questions
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title: Common Questions
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### General
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- Why do you want to work for X company?
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- Why do you want to leave your current/last company?
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- What are you looking for in your next role?
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- Tell me about a time when you had a conflict with a co-worker.
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- Tell me about a time in which you had a conflict and needed to influence somebody else.
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- What project are you currently working on?
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- What is the most challenging aspect of your current project?
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- What was the most difficult bug that you fixed in the past 6 months?
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- How do you tackle challenges? Name a difficult challenge you faced while working on a project, how you overcame it, and what you learned.
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- What are you excited about?
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- What frustrates you?
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- Imagine it is your first day here at the company. What do you want to work on? What features would you improve on?
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- What are the most interesting projects you have worked on and how might they be relevant to this company's environment?
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- Tell me about a time you had a disagreement with your manager.
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- Talk about a project you are most passionate about, or one where you did your best work.
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- What does your best day of work look like?
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- What is something that you had to push for in your previous projects?
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- What is the most constructive feedback you have received in your career?
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- What is something you had to persevere at for multiple months?
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### Airbnb
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Source: [Glassdoor](https://www.glassdoor.com/Interview/Airbnb-Interview-Questions-E391850.htm)
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While loving to travel or appreciating Airbnb's growth may be good answers, try to demonstrate the deep connection you have with the product.
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- What does "belong anywhere" mean to you?
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- What large problems in the world would you solve today?
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- Why do you like Airbnb?
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- If you had an unlimited budget and you could buy one gift for one person, what would you buy and who would you buy it for?
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- If you had an unlimited budget and you could go somewhere, where would you go?
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- Share one of your trips with us.
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- What is the most challenging project in or out of school that you have worked on in the last 6 months.
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- What is something that you don't want from your last internship/job?
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- Give me an example of when you've been a good host.
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- What's something you'd like to remove from the Airbnb experience?
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- What is something new that you can teach your interviewer in a few minutes?
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- Tell me about why you want to work here.
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- What is the best gift you have ever given or received?
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- Tell me about a time you were uncomfortable and how you dealt with it.
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- Explain a project that you worked on recently.
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- What do you think of Airbnb?
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- Tell me something about yourself and why you'd be a good fit for the position.
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- Name a situation where you were impressed by a company's customer service.
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- How did you work with senior management on large projects as well as multiple internal teams?
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- Tell me about a time you had to give someone terrible news.
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- If you were a gerbil, which gerbil would you be?
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- What excites you about the company?
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- How does Airbnb impact our guests and hosts?
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- What part of our mission resonates the most with you?
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### Amazon
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Source: [Glassdoor](https://www.glassdoor.com/Interview/Amazon-Interview-Questions-E6036.htm)
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- How do you deal with a failed deadline?
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- Why do you want to work for Amazon?
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- Tell me about a situation where you had a conflict with a teammate.
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- In your professional experience have you worked on something without getting approval from your manager?
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- Tell me a situation where you would have done something differently from what you actually did.
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- What is the most exceedingly bad misstep you've made at any point?
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- Describe what Human Resources means to you.
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- How would you improve Amazon's website?
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### Dropbox
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Source: [Glassdoor](https://www.glassdoor.com/Interview/Dropbox-Interview-Questions-E415350.htm)
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- Talk about your favorite project.
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- If you were hired here what would you do?
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- State an experience about how you solved a technical problem. Be specific about the diagnosis and process.
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### Hired
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Source: [Glassdoor](https://hired.com/blog/candidates/10-top-interview-questions-how-to-answer/)
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- Tell me about yourself.
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- What is your biggest strength and area of growth?
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- Why are you interested in this opportunity?
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- What are your salary expectations?
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- Why are you looking to leave your current company?
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- Tell me about a time your work responsibilities got a little overwhelming. What did you do?
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- Give me an example of a time when you had a difference of opinion with a team member. How did you handle that?
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- Tell me about a challenge you faced recently in your role. How did you tackle it? What was the outcome?
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- Where do you want to be in five years?
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- Tell me about a time you needed information from someone who wasn't responsive. What did you do?
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### Lyft
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Source: [Glassdoor](https://www.glassdoor.com/Interview/Lyft-Interview-Questions-E700614.htm)
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- Tell me about your most interesting/challenging project to date.
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- Why Lyft? What are you looking for in the next role?
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### Palantir
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Source: [Glassdoor](https://www.glassdoor.com/Interview/Palantir-Technologies-Interview-Questions-E236375.htm)
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- **What is something 90% of people disagree with you about?**
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- **What is broken around you?**
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- How do you deal with difficult coworkers? Think about specific instances where you resolved conflicts.
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- How did you win over the difficult employees?
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- Tell me about an analytical problem that you have worked on in the past.
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- What are your three strengths and three weaknesses?
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- If you were in charge of picking projects for Palantir, what problem would you try to solve?
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- What are some of the best and worst things about your current company?
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- What would your manager say about you?
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- Describe Palantir to your grandmother.
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- Teach me something you've learned.
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- Tell me a time when you predicted something.
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- If your supervisors were to rate you on a scale of 1-10, what would they rate you?
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- What was the most fun thing you did recently?
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- Tell me the story of how you became who you are today and what made you apply to Palantir.
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### Slack
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Source: [Glassdoor](https://www.glassdoor.com/Interview/Slack-Interview-Questions-E950758.htm)
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- Tell me something about your internship.
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- Why do you want to join Slack?
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- Tell me about your past projects.
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- Explain me your toughest project and the working architecture.
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- Apart from technical knowledge, what did you learn during your internship?
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- If someone has a different viewpoint to do a project like different programming language, how would handle this situation?
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- What are your most interesting subjects and why?
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- Did you find any bugs in Slack?
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- What is your favorite feature and why?
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### Stack Overflow
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Source: [Glassdoor](https://hired.com/blog/candidates/10-top-interview-questions-how-to-answer/)
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- What have you built?
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- What is the hardest technical problem you have run into?
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- How did you solve it?
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- Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
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- Why do you want to work here?
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- How do you handle disagreements with co-workers?
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### Stripe
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Source: [Glassdoor](https://www.glassdoor.com/Interview/Stripe-Interview-Questions-E671932.htm)
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- How do you stay up to date with the latest technologies?
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- Explain a project that you worked on recently that was difficult.
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- Where do you see yourself in five years?
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### Twitter
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Source: [Glassdoor](https://www.glassdoor.com/Interview/Twitter-Interview-Questions-E100569.htm)
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- What would your previous boss say your biggest strength was?
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