Discuss deadlines, feedback, and deep dives
Overview
This question evaluates behavioral and leadership competencies—deadline and prioritization skills, stakeholder communication and accountability, responsiveness to negative feedback, initiative beyond requirements, and diagnostic root-cause analysis with verification.
Amazon
Sep 6, 2025, 12:00 AM
Software Engineer
Technical Screen
Behavioral & Leadership
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Behavioral & Leadership Interview (Software Engineer – Technical Screen)
Use the STAR method (Situation, Task, Action, Result). Provide distinct examples for each prompt, quantify outcomes where possible, and emphasize your reasoning, trade-offs, and verification steps.
- Tight Deadline
- What was the context?
- How did you plan and prioritize?
- What trade-offs did you make?
- What was the outcome?
- Missed Deadline
- What happened and why?
- How did you communicate and mitigate impact?
- What did you learn and change afterward?
- Negative Feedback
- What feedback did you receive?
- What did you change as a result?
- How did you follow up to show improvement?
- Beyond Requirements
- What did you do beyond the stated requirements and why?
- How did you implement it?
- What measurable impact did it have?
- Dive Deep
- How did you form hypotheses about a problem?
- How did you gather data and test those hypotheses?
- How did you verify the root cause and fix it?
- Reverse Questions
- Propose two thoughtful questions you would ask the hiring manager about expectations and team practices.
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