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Tech Hiring Managers Answer Common Behavioral Interview Questions
“Why do you want to work for our company?”

Anyone making a career change soon? We used our platform to ask senior FAANG employees, heavily involved with the hiring process, about behavioral interview questions.
This post might get a little long, so please feel free to skip to the part you’re more interested in! Let’s get started:
Common Behavioral Questions
- Tell me about a project you’ve worked on.
- What do you do if you disagree with your boss?
- Why do you want to work for our company?
- Why do you want to leave your company?
- What’s your weakness?
1. Tell Me About a Project You’ve Worked On
For all significant projects you’ve worked on, explicitly highlight what you contributed and what you built, even if it was as part of a team. We want to understand your contributions and what value you delivered to the project.
Have concrete metrics, understanding of the timelines involved, as well as trade-offs made. The best answers also reflect what you could have done differently to better improve the outcome of the…