Behavioral Flashcards
Tell me a bit about your professional experience in 2-3 minutes.
- Initial sense of peers experience
- Technology questions and elaboration
- Experience at company
- What had the greatest impact on yourself?
What are you looking for in your next role?
- Good culture fit
- Are you looking for a company of that size?
- Do your expectations match the role?
What an example of a difficult problem you solved? Be specific about how the problem was diagnosed and your process for approaching it.
- Often you are only part of a team and impact was tiny
- Tell what you personally did and your impact
- Not just quantifying achievements but show their impact
- Same result without your achievements?
What would your current/previous boss say your biggest strength was?
- Self aware about personal experience
- Specific example to highlight the answer
Give me an example of a time when you had a difference of opinion with a team member. How did you handle that?
- About teamwork and influence
- Ability to reason and listen to teammates
- How resolving a disagreement
Teach you something your have recently learned.
- How to constantly learn
- Break down complex task in front of audience
How do you continuously learn?
-3
What is the most contructive feedback you have received recently?
- self aware about professional experience
- able to receive feedback and how to act on it
Tell me about a time when you failed a project. How did you try to avoid failure? What did that experience teach you?
- Self aware and self critical
- Thought process lead to failure, tradeoffs and learning from that
- Learning from failure means growths
If you were in charge of picking projects for your company what problem would you try to solve?
-Critical Thinking about company beyond your own role
What is your biggest strength and weakness?
- Self Aware about Yourself
- Area of growth in the past
- Are of growth to come in the future
How did you tackle a challenge your recently faced in your role.
- Example of core competence (collaboration, communication, attention to detail)
- Snapshot of skills
- What would you have done differently and why?
Tell me about a time you had to motivate your team for an action.
- Teamwork and influence
- Reasoning through a problem,. collaborate with teammates, discuss tradeoffs, bring others aboard with their vision
Should you try to play experiences as a junior programmer?
-No, don’t try to act more experienced than you are.
Do many companies have experiences JavaScript programmers?
-No, so saying you got skills in JavaScript, Node etc can impress them
