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# behavioral

// [34] real interview questions. Answers and sources live in the practice app.

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  1. Tell me about yourself.(junior)
  2. Why do you want to work for this company?(junior)
  3. Why are you leaving your current company?(junior)
  4. What are you looking for in your next role?(junior)
  5. Tell me about a time you had a conflict with a co-worker.(mid)
  6. Tell me about a disagreement with your manager or tech lead — for example over a design decision.(senior)
  7. Tell me about a time you had to influence someone without having authority over them.(senior)
  8. How have you handled criticism of your work?(junior)
  9. Tell me about a recent failure and what you learned from it.(mid)
  10. What is the worst professional mistake you have made, and what happened after?(senior)
  11. Tell me about a time you had to meet a tight deadline.(mid)
  12. How do you deal with a deadline you are going to miss?(mid)
  13. Tell me about a time your work responsibilities became overwhelming.(mid)
  14. Tell me about a time you needed information from someone who was unresponsive.(mid)
  15. What is the hardest technical problem you have run into, and how did you solve it?(mid)
  16. What is the most constructive piece of feedback you have received in your career?(mid)
  17. Tell me about something you had to persevere at for multiple months.(mid)
  18. Tell me about a time you did something differently from the standard process, or acted without waiting for approval.(senior)
  19. Tell me about a time you had to deliver bad news to someone.(senior)
  20. Take me through a product or feature you launched from start to end.(senior)
  21. How do you stay up to date with new technologies?(junior)
  22. What are your salary expectations?(junior)
  23. A recruiter insists on knowing your current salary before moving forward. What do you say?(mid)
  24. An interviewer or recruiter asks: 'Do you have other offers?' How do you answer, and how do you use competing offers well?(mid)
  25. You receive an offer that 'expires in three days'. How do you handle the deadline?(mid)
  26. At the end of the interview: 'Do you have any questions for us?' What do you ask?(junior)
  27. Which questions would you ask an interviewer to find out what the engineering culture is really like?(mid)
  28. Why should you ask 'Do you have any concerns about my application?' before the interview ends — and what do you do with the answer?(mid)
  29. Tell me about a time you mentored a junior engineer.(senior)
  30. You are evaluating a fully remote job offer. What do you check beyond the salary?(mid)
  31. A product manager asks you to squeeze 'one small feature' into the current sprint, and you know it does not fit. How do you say no?(mid)
  32. What does 'disagree and commit' actually mean, and when is it the wrong tool?(senior)
  33. Your calendar is so fragmented by meetings that you cannot get focused engineering work done. What do you do?(mid)
  34. How will you measure your own success in your first 90 days here?(mid)