tech-interview-handbook/contents/behavioral-questions.md

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behavioral-questions	Behavioral interview common questions	Common questions

Here's a list of common behavioral questions to prepare for. If you prepare well for the general questions and apply the STAR format along with demonstrating qualities, you will be fine.

General

• Why do you want to work for X company?
• Why do you want to leave your current/last company?
• What are you looking for in your next role?
• Tell me about a time when you had a conflict with a co-worker.
• Tell me about a time in which you had a conflict and needed to influence somebody else.
• What project are you currently working on?
• What is the most challenging aspect of your current project?
• What was the most difficult bug that you fixed in the past 6 months?
• How do you tackle challenges? Name a difficult challenge you faced while working on a project, how you overcame it, and what you learned.
• What are you excited about?
• What frustrates you?
• Imagine it is your first day here at the company. What do you want to work on? What features would you improve on?
• What are the most interesting projects you have worked on and how might they be relevant to this company's environment?
• Tell me about a time you had a disagreement with your manager.
• Talk about a project you are most passionate about, or one where you did your best work.
• What does your best day of work look like?
• What is something that you had to push for in your previous projects?
• What is the most constructive feedback you have received in your career?
• What is something you had to persevere at for multiple months?
• Tell me about a time you met a tight deadline.
• If this were your first annual review with our company, what would I be telling you right now?
• Time management has become a necessary factor in productivity. Give an example of a time-management skill you've learned and applied at work.
• Tell me about a problem you've had getting along with a work associate.
• What aspects of your work are most often criticized?
• How have you handled criticism of your work?
• What strengths do you think are most important for your job position?
• What words would your colleagues use to describe you?
• What would you hope to achieve in the first six months after being hired?
• Tell me why you will be a good fit for the position.

Airbnb

While loving to travel or appreciating Airbnb's growth may be good answers, try to demonstrate the deep connection you have with the product.

• What does "belong anywhere" mean to you?
• What large problems in the world would you solve today?
• Why do you like Airbnb?
• 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?
• If you had an unlimited budget and you could go somewhere, where would you go?
• Share one of your trips with us.
• What is the most challenging project in or out of school that you have worked on in the last 6 months.
• What is something that you don't want from your last internship/job?
• Give me an example of when you've been a good host.
• What's something you'd like to remove from the Airbnb experience?
• What is something new that you can teach your interviewer in a few minutes?
• Tell me about why you want to work here.
• What is the best gift you have ever given or received?
• Tell me about a time you were uncomfortable and how you dealt with it.
• Explain a project that you worked on recently.
• What do you think of Airbnb?
• Tell me something about yourself and why you'd be a good fit for the position.
• Name a situation where you were impressed by a company's customer service.
• How did you work with senior management on large projects as well as multiple internal teams?
• Tell me about a time you had to give someone terrible news.
• If you were a gerbil, which gerbil would you be?
• What excites you about the company?
• How does Airbnb impact our guests and hosts?
• What part of our mission resonates the most with you?

Source: Glassdoor

Amazon

• How do you deal with a failed deadline?
• Why do you want to work for Amazon?
• Tell me about a situation where you had a conflict with a teammate.
• In your professional experience have you worked on something without getting approval from your manager?
• Tell me a situation where you would have done something differently from what you actually did.
• What is the most exceedingly bad misstep you've made at any point?
• Describe what Human Resources means to you.
• How would you improve Amazon's website?

Source: Glassdoor

ByteDance

• What do you know about <role> and why?
• Take me through a product you launched from start to end
• What's the biggest achievement in your previous projects?
• Tell me about a recent failure and what you learned from the experience
• Why do you want to work at ByteDance?
• What makes you a good fit for this position?
• What excites you about the role?

Source: Glassdoor

Dropbox

• Talk about your favorite project.
• If you were hired here what would you do?
• State an experience about how you solved a technical problem. Be specific about the diagnosis and process.

Source: Glassdoor

Hired

• Tell me about yourself.
• What is your biggest strength and area of growth?
• Why are you interested in this opportunity?
• What are your salary expectations?
• Why are you looking to leave your current company?
• Tell me about a time your work responsibilities got a little overwhelming. What did you do?
• Give me an example of a time when you had a difference of opinion with a team member. How did you handle that?
• Tell me about a challenge you faced recently in your role. How did you tackle it? What was the outcome?
• Where do you want to be in five years?
• Tell me about a time you needed information from someone who wasn't responsive. What did you do?

Source: Glassdoor

Lyft

• Tell me about your most interesting/challenging project to date.
• Why Lyft? What are you looking for in the next role?

Source: Glassdoor

Palantir

• What is something 90% of people disagree with you about?
• What is broken around you?
• How do you deal with difficult coworkers? Think about specific instances where you resolved conflicts.
• How did you win over the difficult employees?
• Tell me about an analytical problem that you have worked on in the past.
• What are your three strengths and three weaknesses?
• If you were in charge of picking projects for Palantir, what problem would you try to solve?
• What are some of the best and worst things about your current company?
• What would your manager say about you?
• Describe Palantir to your grandmother.
• Teach me something you've learned.
• Tell me a time when you predicted something.
• If your supervisors were to rate you on a scale of 1-10, what would they rate you?
• What was the most fun thing you did recently?
• Tell me the story of how you became who you are today and what made you apply to Palantir.

Source: Glassdoor

Slack

• Tell me something about your internship.
• Why do you want to join Slack?
• Tell me about your past projects.
• Explain me your toughest project and the working architecture.
• Apart from technical knowledge, what did you learn during your internship?
• If someone has a different viewpoint to do a project like different programming language, how would handle this situation?
• What are your most interesting subjects and why?
• Did you find any bugs in Slack?
• What is your favorite feature and why?

Source: Glassdoor

Stack Overflow

• What have you built?
• What is the hardest technical problem you have run into?
  • How did you solve it?
• Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
• Why do you want to work here?
• How do you handle disagreements with co-workers?

Source: Glassdoor

Stripe

• How do you stay up to date with the latest technologies?
• Explain a project that you worked on recently that was difficult.
• Where do you see yourself in five years?

Source: Glassdoor

Twitter

• What would your previous boss say your biggest strength was?

Source: Glassdoor