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Behavior Interview

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  • https://leetcode.com/discuss/interview-question/462901/behavioralleadership-questions-for-interviews :::

  • Have you ever faced any challenges/conflicts with colleagues.

  • Challenge with manager when you had to disagree with your manager and manager agreed with your point.

  • Challenge with manager when you had to agree with manager even though he was wrong.

  • What you could have done for above so that you could have convinced your manager?

  • What is your biggest strength and weakness?

  • Situation when you had to agree with your junior.

  • Your improvement areas.

  • Recent improvements which helped your in professional and personal life.

  • Describe the project that you had the most trouble with. What would you have done differently?​

  • Talk about a time where you had to make a decision in a lot of ambiguity.

  • What was the biggest takeaway from your current job that you’ll carry with you throughout your career?​

  • How do you keep your team engaged?

  • Give an example of how you set your goals and achieve them​.

  • Tell me about a time when you solved a conflict at work.

  • Give examples of situations where you have shown effectiveness, empathy, adaptability, and humbleness.

  • Why do you want to change jobs? Why now?

  • Share an example of how you were able to motivate employees or co-workers.

  • What do you do when the requirement from the stakeholder is vague?

  • How do you make a case for your vision and opinion?

  • How do you stay organized?

  • Give an example of an occasion when you used logic to solve a problem.

  • What do you do if you don’t know the solution for a certain problem and nobody can help at the moment?

  • Have you handled a difficult situation with a coworker? How?

  • How do you experiment?

  • What websites do you spend a lot of time on?

  • What do you do if you disagree with your boss?

  • Talk about a time when you failed.

  • Where do you see yourself in next 5/10 years?

  • How do you know a feature you have built is working ?

  • Tell me about a time when your suggestions brought positive changes/impact to the team.

  • Tell me about a situation where you had a conflict with someone on your team. What was it about? What did you do? How did they react? What was the outcome?

  • Give an example of when you saw a peer struggling and decided to step in and help. What was the situation and what actions did you take? What was the outcome?

  • Tell me about a time you committed a mistake?

  • Tell me about a time when your earned your teammate’s trust?

  • Tell me about a time when you couldn’t meet your deadline?

  • Tell me about a time when your teammate didn’t agree with you? What did you do?

  • Tell me about a time when you invented something?

  • Tell me about a time when you took important decision without any data?

  • Tell me about a time when you helped one of your teammates?

  • Have you ever been in a situation where you had to make a choice among a few options, but did not have a lot of time to explore each option

  • Have you ever failed at something? What did you learn from it?

  • name time when you went out of your way to help someone?

  • Time when you came up with novel solution.

  • Received negative feedback from manager and how you responded.

  • Time when you went above and beyond your job responsibilities.

  • Time when you did not have enough data and had to use judgement to make decision.

  • Time when you helped someone in their work.

  • Time when you helped someone grow in career and it benefited them.

  • Time when you helped someone grow but did not benefit them.

  • Time when you were 75% through a project and realized you had the wrong goal.

  • Time when your team members were not supporting something but you pushed and went for a more optimal solution.

  • Time when you pushed back a decision from your management for better long term benefits.

  • Time when you failed to meet your commitment

  • Tell me about yourself. Tell me about a project you’re working on.

  • Time when you were working on a project on a time constraint

  • Time when you didn’t meet a deadline

  • Time when you needed help from somebody

  • Tell me about yourself.

  • Tell me about a time you had to help a team member struggling with a task.

  • Tell me about a time you faced an obstacle and how you overcame it.

  • Tell me about one of your projects?

  • Tell me about one of your projects so the same as the first guy.

  • Tell me a time you took some on some risk

  • Have you ever gone out of your way to help a peer? (ownership)

  • Have you ever had to make a tough decision without consulting anybody? (bias for action)

  • asked me about my past projects that I’ve worked on and gave me detailed explaination about the Internship.

  • Tell me about a time when you learned new technologies

  • Tell me about a time when you took a decision on your own without the manager’s prior approval

  • Tell me about a time you had multiple solutions and you had to select an optimal one

  • Tell me about a time when you innovated and exceeded the expectation

  • Tell me about a time where you had to make a decision based on limited information and how it impacted the outcome.

  • Tell me about a time where you had limited time and how it impacted

  • Tell me about a time where you did not know something and how you tackled it(Something related to it)

  • first one was about handling a tight deadline, second is setbacks on projects?

  • Handling a tight deadline

  • How would you help a new employee who is facing technical difficulties?

  • disagree and commit and ownership LPs.

  • Tell me about your yourself (the general icebreaker).

  • Tell me about tim when you faced a difficult challenge.

  • Tell me about a time when you needed help from someone during a project.

  • Tell me about a time when you thought of an unpopular idea.

  • Tell me about a time when you had to decide upon something without consulting your superior.

  • Tell me about a time when you had to face tight time constraints during a project.

  • Tell me about yourself.

  • Tell me about a time when you did not meet your deadlines for a project.

  • Tell me about a time when you had conflicting ideas with your teammates and how did you resolve them?

  • a project you’re proud of

  • a time when you faced a setback initially but still achieved the goal.

  • a time when you had to cut corners to meet a deadline

  • Tell me about a time when you felt under pressure that you wouldn’t be able to get something done or had to take a pivot at the last minute