HR / Behavioral Interview Qs

Basic

Why are you looking for a job change?
Why do you want to join our company?
What are the benefits that you are going to add to the team if we take you?
- (What good qualities do you bring?)
What are your strengths and weaknesses?
- Have you covered your weaknesses?
- How are you working on them?
What is the greatest achievement in your professional life?
- Example: Leading a team just after 1 year.
Where do you want to see yourself after a few years?
- (What are your professional goals?)
How do you want to contribute to the team?
- As a member or managing person/lead?
How do you manage conflicts among your teammates?
- With manager or lead?
How do you handle the situation when your team is working on one feature but the manager/client wants another feature?
- Example: Team working on a production bug (not yet identified by users) but manager wants a new feature/next sprint task.
How do you handle pressure situations?
How do you update yourself with the latest technologies?
How will you convince the client/non-technical person to choose your product?
- Example: Explain best features such as data privacy, easy usage, etc.
How flexible are you to work with different time zones?

Describe a situation when you couldn’t meet your standards and expectations on a technical task.
- What did you do about it?
Describe a situation when you took the initiative to correct a problem or mistake rather than waiting for someone else to do it.
What is the most challenging task you achieved?
- Example: Old app had no pagination → pages loaded all data in one request → request timeouts.
- Solution: Implemented global API endpoint that works for all CRUD operations, database queries, pagination, filters, sorting, attribute selection.
- (Group by implemented only for few APIs).
Describe a time when you found a simple solution to a complex problem.
How do you deal with a situation when you can’t meet your standards and expectations on a task?
Tell me about a time you disagreed with your project partners/team. How did you resolve the issue?
Tell me about a time when you effectively used your judgment to solve a problem.
Tell me about a time when you had to work on a task with unclear responsibilities.