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Behavioral Questions Flashcards

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1
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What are you most proud of?

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Tauren, Adam, Josh feedback. Hearing how you have impacted peoples lives.

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What are some of the best things you’ve built?

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Platform, plug and play tf modules
Comp Search Module
Measurable Engineering Org
Errr
Maddox
Steps

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Tell me your biggest mistakes, or something you could have done better.

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Ie what have you learned?

Hiring engineers, not JS developers
Provision: push for value,usability combined with feasibility
TP: Dropped Cognito, Nobody owned usaiblity/value, Wasted a week not getting requirements
TP: Misunderstood how Lambda’s worked and it almost caused a big problem.
Workflow
TP: Setup with lambdas led to requests not staying in a single AZ which led to downtime.

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What were some excellent collaborations you’ve had?

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Kuntal, Shawn/Adam
Modeling Director of Product
12 Hours

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Tell me about a time when you advocated for and pushed your own ideas forward despite opposition.

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Measurable engineering organziation

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5
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How do you deal with conflict?

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Mine for it healthy conflict, Thank people when they do it well (dir product), usually a misunderstanding, Never Split The Difference

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How do you like to give and receive feedback?

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Usually immediate but context matters. First, Can I give you some feedback? Undestand how mean it is not to give direct meaningful feedback. Be respectful.
* Adam making bade comments about designer

I ask for feedback all of the time. If I am doing something wrong or dumb, it is your duty to tell me.
* Adam & Shawn telling me I am messing up without program management

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What kinds of technologies are you most excited about?

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The best one to build value and usability for clients that is viable for the business.

Talk about learning AWS.

I want to know how technologies work though. The full stack eng is going to have to know more and more as AI gets better.

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Give an example of a difficult customer interaction and how you worked through it. What was the outcome?

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That one company. First principles, agreement. Our process sucked. Outcome bad.

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What are your strengths and weaknesses?

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Work / life balance as a leader and the implications it gives to others in the org.

I don’t turn off. I am always asking, Why things are they way they are and challenging them.

I was afraid of giving real feedback. I started challenging myself. I read lencioni books and others. Mean not to give feedback. Talk about feedback to Adam

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Describe a time when you faced a conflict with a team member.

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Peer: Copy Container Failure
Boss: CEO, Don, Comp Search
Boss: CEO, Hickman, Cap Tables

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Tell me about a peer that you have a tough relationship and were able to turn it around.

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Shawn had a tough relationship with him when he was in product, but I also saw potential, so I brought him in.

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How does teamwork come into play in your current role?

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Built a culture around HHS, Generative Culture, Leadership is a responsibility, not reward, Care about the human across from you, Psychological Safety.

Adam, Shawn, Me: Challenge each other.

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Share examples of how you manage difficult stakeholders

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Empathy, open and honest, try to explain the situation and problems, try to bring value for them anyways.

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Describe a project you were responsible for or led.

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12 Hours
Comp Search
New Comp Search

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Describe a time where you influenced an outcome.

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Measurable Engineering Organization
Delivery and Repo structure at Exactera

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How do you deal with ambiguity and setbacks?

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Ambiguity is just a problem that is too big. Break it down to the first principles.
* Comp Search
* Becoming CTO

Setbacks: in the moment you solve problems. Then retro and be better.
* Jason railing me during a production issue. I turned to him and said, none of this matter right now. We will retro later.

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17
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Tell me about a time when you have gone above and beyond for a client.

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I took over product: I helped put out a couple of big time fires for our services department.

18
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Tell me about a time when you had to make a difficult decision.

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Toughest decisions are always people decisions. We had to do layoffs and I knew that it meant I needed to remove a couple of people that I brought into the company. Leaders run towards the hard things. I made sure that I was the person who spoke with them.

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How do you handle stressful situations?

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Meditate. Jason, Covid. Felt like he abondoned me. Meditation led me to understand that I was about to abonden everyone too.

Assume positive intent.

20
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Tell me about a time when you wanted to change something that was outside of your regular scope of work.

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Project Managing risks as Dir of Product

21
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Tell me about a time you had to make a fast decision and live with the results.

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Bloated db while building comp search, I needed to understand what was happening during automation.

First Copy Container, Not solving the underlying auto generated ID problem.

22
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What project are you most proud of and why?

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Comp Search. It brought together multiple skills I had been honing.

23
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Tell me about a time a project took longer as expected.

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Media Service
Provision

24
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Tell me about a situation where two teams couldn’t agree on a path forward.

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Being Dir of Product. Designer, Product Managers, Tech leads couldn’t make decisions together.

25
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Describe a situation when you made a mistake, and what you learned from it.

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Workflow
I dropped the cognito store

26
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Tell me about some constructive feedback you received from peer/manager and subordinate

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Adam, Shawn: Program Management
Communication during town halls

MJ: using same words meaning different things.

27
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Tell me about a skill set that you observed in a peer or mentor that you want to develop in the next six months.

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I did develop operations skillset from watching Shawn.
I did develop “lead and mine for problems by having conversations” from walt

28
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Tell me about a time when you mentored someone.

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Josh - One Pager
Adam - Self awareness EQ
Shawn - Changing career path
Tauren - “saved my marriage”

29
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Tell me about something you’ve spearheaded/led the charge on at work.

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Measurable engineering organization

30
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Tell me about a time when you took it upon yourself to give feedback to someone who was holding-back the team.

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Adam. Principal/Leader, Cynicism was confusing people

31
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Tell me about a difficult technical challenge you encountered. How did you navigate it?

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Comp Search

32
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Tell me about your side projects.

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Books
Studying AWS/SRE
Maddox/Errr

33
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Tell me about a project that didn’t go according to plan (shifted priorities/deadlines/budget).

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Copy Container
Workflow redo

34
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How do you negotiate scope/requirements across teams?

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Stepping in Director of Product
Communication, Planning, Strategic Context, Goal Setting
Good, Fast, Cheap, Project Managing Core Risks

35
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How do you stay educated on best-practices/industry trends?

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Substack
Books
Podcasts

36
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How have you worked on your weaknesses and developed your strengths?

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Books. I am more focused on improving myself based on my teams weaknesses, rather than my weaknesses.

37
Q

Tell me about a time you had to deliver on a tight deadline.

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Stepping in as product manager
Comp Search

38
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Tell me about a time you fell behind or missed a deadline on a project. How did you respond?

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Stepping in as product manager
Provision

39
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Tell me about a conflict you had with your own manager. How did you approach this?

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CEO, Do not build a product
CEO, Comp Search

40
Q

Tell me about a time you overcame a conflict with a team member.

A

Copy Container 12 hours

41
Q

Tell me about a time when you had a conflict with your team or the direction your team was headed.

A

Measurable Engineering Org

42
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Tell me about a time where you had to resolve a conflict between two or more of your team members.

A

Tauren vs Xander

43
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Tell me about a time you received feedback from a subordinate.

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Working too many hours sending signals that others were expected to.

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