I got some rejections due to my behavioral answers not being good enough for the interviewer as i nailed the technical part. I've rewritten these and need someone to review them
#Can someone review my behavioral answers
compact night
Tell me about yourself -
Hi my name is Raiden, I'm a software engineer and I enjoy solving complex problems, I've experience as a full stack web developer and I enjoy working with all areas of stack and I enjoy building out user friendly efficient websites. Since college I got exposure to web development through an online coding bootcamp and since then I decided I wanted to do this as a career and since then I've gained about 5 years of experience building out dozens of different applications. At my last company I helped launch insurance products for multiple origins, this included modifying our current insurance product to support different suppliers as well as modifying the frontend codebase to accomodate the new contract structure and be more backend driven as well as work with new products. The technologies I've experienced with include React, Redux on the frontend and Scala on the backend with MySQL and mongoDB for database
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Tell me about the time you failed at work -
So i was tasked with impementing new functionality in some component. The component was old poorly written legacy code that wasnt refactored so it was a bit tricky to work with. After shipping it in prod we found that it had gotten some bugs which arose due to some unclear requirements with the PO, luckily I had that feature under experiment so I just turned off the experiment and turned it back on after fixing the bugs. In sprint retro we realised it arose due to me not having a proper document of the requirements and we made action plan to always have a document of requirements ready along with plan to refactor that component so to avoid those kind of bugs in the future.
cunning trail
They told you that the no hire decision was because of your answers to these two questions?
compact night
nope i never get feedback for rejections
they always say vague stuff with not better fit, moving with a better candidate
these are questions im just preparing for next interview
cunning trail
I would not make assumptions then about which things went well or didn't, because it can be hard to tell that as a candidate
compact night
it must be behavioral because i got to the final round for a company talking with an engineering manager and got rejected after it
and recently it happened again in the first round where i did well on technical part
cunning trail
In terms of this stuff: the about yourself feels a little long and I would probably cut the technologies part because that's on your resume, but not a big deal
compact night
dont think its that long, will take 1.5 minutes to say in an interview
cunning trail
Re: failure, it's not a particularly big example but I suppose in five years it's possible the only problem you've caused is shipping bugs. Aside from that, it feels to me like you're avoiding responsibility: "poorly written legacy code that wasn't refactored", "unclear requirements". There's also no description of how important the bugs were that you shipped, and I like to see a recognition of impact.
compact night
good point, thanks i will modify that one
supple basin
what companies did you interview at?
compact night
what companies did you interview at?
Hopper, clipboard health, Manatal
supple basin
never heard of those, but if they keep records of your interview, you can probably request them to see why they rejected you. there's a thread about how to do it here, but i can't remember
compact night
so gave another interview and got asked this behavioral
if you are given unlimited resources for a project what will you do?
minor ginkgo
it must be behavioral because i got to the final round for a company talking wi...
doesn't mean you failed behavioral. they might have just like the other person better
compact night
i mean i want to become the better person
i want to be able to nail every interview i get
minor ginkgo
there's so much more going on when you're interviewing people than just the content of their answers
minor ginkgo
he's not better
they just like him more
in this example
do you see what i'm saying?
sometimes you're just not right for a role no matter how much you fine tune things
compact night
yeah it sucks since i dont have a job right now so every rejection hurts extra
minor ginkgo
yeah, internalizing this should help you not take it personally and reduce some of the hurt
it's the RNG part of it
cunning trail
so gave another interview and got asked this behavioral
if you are given unlimit...
That's going to depend on the project, no?
Is that really a behavioral question, or a system design one?
compact night
i just didnt knew how to answer this and spew out random garbage
cunning trail
Ask clarifying questions
compact night
yes i asked for what kind they said for a software project
then i said i would invest in diversifying our products for increased business opportunities and invest in fixing tech debt