Behavioral Interview Questions MEGA LIST

For those struggling in behavioral interviews, here are some questions from the top companies: ## General - Why do you want to work for X company? - Why do you want to leave your current/last company? - What are you looking for in your next role? - Tell me about a time when you had a conflict with a co-worker. - Tell me about a time in which you had a conflict and needed to influence somebody else. - What project are you currently working on? - What is the most challenging aspect of your current project? - What was the most difficult bug that you fixed in the past 6 months? - How do you tackle challenges? Name a difficult challenge you faced while working on a project, how you overcame it, and what you learned. - What are you excited about? - What frustrates you? - Imagine it is your first day here at the company. What do you want to work on? What features would you improve on? - What are the most interesting projects you have worked on and how might they be relevant to this company's environment? - Tell me about a time you had a disagreement with your manager. - Talk about a project you are most passionate about, or one where you did your best work. - What does your best day of work look like? - What is something that you had to push for in your previous projects? - What is the most constructive feedback you have received in your career? - What is something you had to persevere at for multiple months? ## Airbnb While loving to travel or appreciating Airbnb's growth may be good answers, try to demonstrate the deep connection you have with the product. - What does "belong anywhere" mean to you? - What large problems in the world would you solve today? - Why do you like Airbnb? - If you had an unlimited budget and you could buy one gift for one person, what would you buy and who would you buy it for? - If you had an unlimited budget and you could go somewhere, where would you go? - Share one of your trips with us. - What is the most challenging project in or out of school that you have worked on in the last 6 months. - What is something that you don't want from your last internship/job? - Give me an example of when you've been a good host. - What's something you'd like to remove from the Airbnb experience? - What is something new that you can teach your interviewer in a few minutes? - Tell me about why you want to work here. - What is the best gift you have ever given or received? - Tell me about a time you were uncomfortable and how you dealt with it. - Explain a project that you worked on recently. - What do you think of Airbnb? - Tell me something about yourself and why you'd be a good fit for the position. - Name a situation where you were impressed by a company's customer service. - How did you work with senior management on large projects as well as multiple internal teams? - Tell me about a time you had to give someone terrible news. - If you were a gerbil, which gerbil would you be? - What excites you about the company? - How does Airbnb impact our guests and hosts? - What part of our mission resonates the most with you? ## Amazon - How do you deal with a failed deadline? - Why do you want to work for Amazon? - Tell me about a situation where you had a conflict with a teammate. - In my professional experience have you worked on something without getting approval from your manager? - Tell me a situation where you would have done something differently from what you actually did. - What is the most exceedingly bad misstep you've made at any point? - Describe what Human Resources means to you. - How would you improve Amazon's website? ## Dropbox - Talk about your favorite project. - If you were hired here what would you do? - State an experience about how you solved a technical problem. Be specific about the diagnosis and process. ## Hired - Tell me about yourself. - What is your biggest strength and area of growth? - Why are you interested in this opportunity? - What are your salary expectations? - Why are you looking to leave your current company? - Tell me about a time your work responsibilities got a little overwhelming. What did you do? - Give me an example of a time when you had a difference of opinion with a team member. How did you handle that? - Tell me about a challenge you faced recently in your role. How did you tackle it? What was the outcome? - Where do you want to be in five years? - Tell me about a time you needed information from someone who wasn't responsive. What did you do? ## Lyft - Tell me about your most interesting/challenging project to date. - Why Lyft? What are you looking for in the next role? ## Palantir - How do you deal with difficult coworkers? Think about specific instances where you resolved conflicts. - How did you win over the difficult employees? - Tell me about an analytical problem that you have worked on in the past. - What are your three strengths and three weaknesses? - If you were in charge of picking projects for Palantir, what problem would you try to solve? - **What is something 90% of people disagree with you about?** - What are some of the best and worst things about your current company? - **What is broken around you?** - What would your manager say about you? - Describe Palantir to your grandmother. - Teach me something you've learned. - Tell me a time when you predicted something. - If your supervisors were to rate you on a scale of 1-10, what would they rate you? - What was the most fun thing you did recently? - Tell me the story of how you became who you are today and what made you apply to Palantir. ## Slack - Tell me something about your internship. - Why do you want to join Slack? - Tell me about your past projects. - Explain me your toughest project and the working architecture. - Apart from technical knowledge, what did you learn during your internship? - If someone has a different viewpoint to do a project like different programming language, how would handle this situation? - What are your most interesting subjects and why? - Did you find any bugs in Slack? - What is your favorite feature and why? ## Stack Overflow - What have you built? - What is the hardest technical problem you have run into? - How did you solve it? - Where do you see yourself in 5 years? - Why do you want to work here? - How do you handle disagreements with coworkers? ## Stripe - How do you stay up to date with the latest technologies? - Explain a project that you worked on recently that was difficult. - Where do you see yourself in five years? ## Twitter - What would your previous boss say your biggest strength was?