Behavioral Flashcards
Tell me about a time where you had to motivate your team
- Situation: on Voices, had to meet tight deadline for a customer
- Task: Recognized that it was gonna be tight so I wanted to make sure I could do what I could to unlock the potential of the team.
- Action: In meetings and discussions, I would always connect that specific conversation to our mission of increasing civic engagement.
Result: the team was able to see the bigger picture and make the deadline
Tell me about a time where you picked yourself up from a failure
Situation: realized that nobody wanted to use Carbon Wallet
Task: figure out what to do next
Action: Examine the cold hard facts that it wasn’t working and accept the defeat and then start fresh the next day.
Result: Started pivoting, talking to mentors, doing more user interviews, starting from zero again
What do you think makes a good leader and manager?
- Empathy: leaders cannot only be technical, they have to know how to work with humans
- Mission focused: i think mission mindset is so important because it unlocks everything else and provides a decision making framework that the rest of the team can align on. ie at reddit people were not mission focused so people had hard times aligning with each other
- Growth mindset: always iterating, fail fast
Why are you interested in working at Artyc?
Climate is my north star, and I need to see our entire economy become electrified this decade. Artyc has the opportunity to play a massive role in that process. Not only electrification, we can stop using refrigerants which are deeply harmful.
Also prefer startups
What do you love about working at a startup?
Everyone is mission focused, this is where real innovation happens. I will learn more quickly here than at a big company. More fun, more ups and downs.
What are some of Artyc’s big use cases?
Agriculture and Medical
What are some of your strengths?
- empathy
- mission focus
- growth mindset
What are some of your weaknesses?
- not great at having hard conversations. I have had strong feelings about something and have been slow or hesitant to initiate those conversations. ie When i was co-founder dating, I intuitively felt that it wasnt going to work after 2 weeks but I didn’t pull the trigger until a couple weeks after that.
- solve by scheduling time for conversations like that in advance
Tell me about a time you failed at work. What did you learn from it?
- Situation: working at Dubsmash as a midlevel engineer
- Task: build out a complex feature before this deadline
- Action: I tried and failed, did raise the alarm early
- Result: Senior engineer stepped in to help me and get job done
- learning: important to raise that flag early, important to really invest and cultivate that team relationship.
Tell me about a time you disagreed with a coworker / manager / decision
- Situation: co-founder dating someone that had momentum
- Task: co-founder tells me that they want to offer advisory-equity to somebody that I don’t know
- Action: Spent some time asking myself how i felt about this, expressed my concerns with their decision, but also offered that I trust you to make the right decision. I didn’t wanna set an ultimatum, bc i think thats unhealthy for 99% of things
- Result: co-founder heard my concerns and ultimately agreed. Also important to recognize that
- believer in disagreeing but committing and then reviewing results later
Are you taking a breath before answering?
Tell me about a time you had to work or make a decision quickly / under a tight deadline
Situation: Sign on to do some freelance work, build app from scratch
Task: PM says “we need the app by some date”, how will you build it?
Action: Decide to build using my strongest tool, SwiftUI
Result: make the deadline
Most impressive accomplishment?
Voices
Hardest technical challenge
Situation: working on DinnerTok
Task: Build a UI where the user can scroll a feed left and right. Difficult bc if you build it in the wrong way then the LeftRight scroll might eat touch gestures from the UpDown scroll.
Action: Build a proof of concept to (in)validate ideas quickly, found a CollectionView layout that did not present gesture issues
Result: Shipped the feature on time and everyone loved it
Hardest bug solved
Situation: working on DinnerTok
Task: Seeing bug where a video in the feed would start over when a network request occurs.
Action: first try to reproduce, done. begin running tests as fast as possible to narrow down the cause. So i start enabling/disabling components. Disabling one component reveals that the bug stops. So i research that component to understand whats happening and swap it for another component
Result: we fixed it
