Questions · 29 sets · 249 questions
The questions interviewers actually ask.
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The core ten
The classics every interviewer draws from. Five at an 8 cover about 40% of interviews. First up: “Tell me about a time you had to deliver under significant pressure or a tight deadline.”
By role
Sales and account management8“Walk me through a deal you won that you were close to losing. What turned it?”
Customer service and support8“Tell me about the angriest customer you handled. How did it end?”
Healthcare and clinical8“Tell me about a time you raised a patient safety concern.”
Teaching and education8“Tell me about a student who was not making progress. What did you do?”
Operations and project management8“Walk me through a project that went off track. How did you bring it back?”
People and HR8“Tell me about a difficult employee relations case you handled.”
Marketing and communications8“Walk me through a campaign you ran. How did you judge whether it worked?”
Finance and accounting8“Tell me about a time you found an error in the numbers. What did you do?”
Public sector and competency-based8“Tell me about a time you delivered a service with fewer resources than it needed.”
New grad and early career8“Tell me about the project you're proudest of: school, internship, or personal. What was YOUR contribution?”
By company and setting
Amazon Leadership Principles12“Tell me about a time you made a decision that put the customer first even though it cost you or your team something.”
Google: Googleyness and Leadership8“Tell me about a time you had to make progress on a problem that was ambiguous or underspecified. How did you decide what to do?”
Meta: execution and impact8“Tell me about a time you shipped something fast and it mattered. What did you trade away to move that fast?”
Microsoft: growth mindset8“Tell me about a time you failed at something that mattered. What did you learn, and where did you apply it?”
Apple: craft and ownership8“Tell me about something you shipped where you cared about a detail nobody else noticed. Why did it matter?”
Netflix: judgment and candor8“Tell me about a decision you made without asking for permission. How did it turn out?”
Stripe: writing, rigor, users8“Tell me about a document you wrote that changed a decision.”
Fintech and banks8“Tell me about a time you balanced speed against a regulatory or compliance requirement.”
Startups and seed stage8“Tell me about a time you had to build something with no spec and no one to ask.”
Consulting style8“Tell me about a time you structured an unclear problem for a group.”
Job search stages9“Walk me through your background.”
Tech roles
Engineering manager10“Tell me about a time you managed an underperforming engineer. What did you do, and how did it end?”
Product manager10“Tell me about a product decision you made that was unpopular with engineering, design, or leadership.”
System design discussion10“A PM asks you to 'add real-time notifications' to your product. Before designing anything: what do you need to know, and what would you propose as a v1 scope?”
Data and analytics9“Tell me about an analysis that changed a product or business decision.”
SRE and platform9“Walk me through an incident you led from detection to postmortem.”
Security9“Tell me about a vulnerability you found and how you handled it.”
Technical program managers9“Tell me about a program you ran across several teams with competing priorities.”
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