Preparation Points

Example of an interesting technical problem you solved
Example of an interpersonal conflict you overcame
Example of leadership or ownership
Story about what you should have done differently in a past project
Piece of trivia about your favorite language, and something you do and don’t like about said language
Question about the company’s product/business
Question about the company’s engineering strategy (testing, Scrum, etc)

Common Questions

Tell me about yourself
- Consider yourself a character in a story, and structure the story with a beginning, middle, and end.
- There should be inflection points, characterization, and easy to understand motivations.
- Keep it as short as possible, while preserving color and what makes you interesting.
- Try not to be negative.
- Frame your story around seeking challenge and wanting to better yourself, rather than rejecting or disliking things.
Strengths & Weaknesses
Challenges faced
What’s your story / walk me through your resume / why’d you leave your last job? (these are essentially the same question)
Why us?
Tell me about a challenging bug you faced and how you solved it.
Tell me about an interesting project you worked on.

Metacognition about coding. Do you think about how to code well
Ownership/leadership. Do you see your work through to completion? Do you fix things that aren’t quite right, even if you don’t have to?
Communication. Would chatting with you about a technical problem be useful or painful?
Are you proud of what you’ve done? amped about what they’re doing? and do you have opinions about languages and workflows?