Questions for behavioral interviews
·2 mins
- Scope (of my role at current organization).
- About me, as an individual:
- Strengths.
- Growth areas, in terms of technical skills.
- Growth areas, in terms of leadership skills.
- Feedback that surprised you.
- What inspires me.
- What drains me.
- Leadership skills:
- Conflict with teammate. (Could be an example where you changed your mind.)
- Conflict with cross-functional team.
- Conflict with a partner/cross-organization team.
- Engagement with a partner team that went well.
- Engagement with a partner team that didn’t go well.
- Gave feedback to a peer or junior.
- Handle shift in priorities from leadership.
- Best mentorship relationship.
- Situation where you needed crisp communication.
- Acted in a tense/ambiguous situation where you didn’t have enough data.
- Some cross-function partner or someone from another organization wasn’t performing well.
- Manager specific:
- What do you look for in your manager?
- Feedback to upper management.
- Conflict with manager == feedback to manager.
- Project retrospective (for one large project):
- What would you do differently if re-starting from scratch?
- Technical and organizational challenges. (Not the same as trade off.)
- Technical trade off.
- Business trade off.
- Biggest:
- Technical problem == road block.
- Risk that paid off == decision that went against popular opinion.
- Failure == risk that didn’t pay off as expected.
- Operational event.
- Operational process you setup.
- Short-term vs long-term trade off.
- Something you did for the team that you are proud of.