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Tech Hiring Managers Answer Common Behavioral Interview Questions

“Why do you want to work for our company?”

Rooftop Slushie
Better Programming
5 min readJan 10, 2020

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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.

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Common Behavioral Questions

  1. Tell me about a project you’ve worked on.
  2. What do you do if you disagree with your boss?
  3. Why do you want to work for our company?
  4. Why do you want to leave your company?
  5. 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…

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