Behavioral Interview Prompt (STAR)

Context: You are interviewing for a Software Engineer role in an onsite behavioral/leadership round.

Using the STAR framework, walk through one major project on your resume. Include:

1. Situation: Context and business/technical stakes.
2. Task: Your specific responsibilities and goals.
3. Actions: Key decisions, design/trade-offs, execution steps, collaboration, and how you handled cross-team dependencies or disagreements.
4. Results: Measurable outcomes (KPIs/metrics), impact, and what changed.

Also address:

• Hardest technical or organizational challenge and how you handled it.
• Disagreements or cross-team dependencies: what they were and how you resolved them.
• Trade-offs you made and why.
• A time you failed or missed a deadline: what happened, what you learned, and what you would change.
• How you measured success (KPIs/metrics), communicated progress to stakeholders, and ensured quality under time pressure.
• Concrete examples of leadership, ownership, conflict resolution, and adaptability.