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Interview Preparation (Interview questions (Intelligence / problem-solving…

- - - - the pitch
        
        Tell me about yourself
        
        “I'm a sales manager for Orthogonal Ads, where I lead a team of six salespeople. I have worked there for two years and manage sales for our mobile integration components.”
        
        Walk me through your resume.
        
        starting from your college experience. The more recent the experience
        
        key accomplishments
        
        what learn?
        
        What drives you?
        
        Ex: “To back up, I did my undergraduate degree at the University of Pittsburgh, where I was the president of my fraternity. I found that I really enjoyed the recruiting side—trying to identify and recruit the right members. It required me to quickly assess people, filter who is and isn't a good match, build quick relationships with people, and sell them on our strengths. This was what drew me into sales.
        “When I graduated, I ended up actually taking a job in customer support for a health care start-up. I joined when the company was only about 15 people and worked very closely with the sales team. When the company needed to ramp up its sales efforts, I transitioned completely over to sales. I met my sales quota every year, and eventually got poached by an ex-manager who was starting a new company.
        
        What You're Doing Now
        
        Extracurriculars
        
        “Outside of work, I've been learning how to do home remodeling. I love learning new things and getting my hands dirty—literally, in this case. I've so far remodeled my bathroom and I'm halfway through my kitchen.”
      - Why should we hire you?
        
        1.personal attribute
        
        Second, I am not afraid of trying something new and failing. I don't stick to just what's easy; I push my limits. This has made me a leader in tackling top challenges at my prior positions and will do the same for you.
        
        1 skill
        
        First, I have a deep background in statistics. This will allow me not only to perform complex analysis, but also to drive changes by teaching the rest of the team how to do this.
        
        cultural match
        
        “Third, I'm passionate about the quantification of body metrics. I will enter the company excited, and I will stay excited. I am always reading up on the latest trends.”
      - Why Shouldn't We Hire You?
        
        motivations + skills (what exites, love working with people, tough algorithm problems...)
        
        ex:
        
        “There are two major reasons.
        
        “First, I'm really interested in the design of large systems. I've taken a lot of courses on distributed systems and explored this for my senior project. I feel Google is the best place to deepen my knowledge in this area.
        
        “But, second, and perhaps more important, I really believe that the most important thing for any job is to make sure that you're learning a lot. Whereas at many companies you really learn only about your own team, at Google employees seem to be encouraged to transfer between teams, to share knowledge across teams, to do tech talks about their team's architecture, and so forth. I can't think of any place where I'd learn more than at Google.”
      - Why are you leaving your job?
        
        “My current position has been great in certain ways. It has taught me a lot about communication, negotiations, and how to manage many clients at once. However, I've found that I excel most in building longer-lasting relationships with clients, and I'm looking for an opportunity where this is a primary focus.”
      - Where Do You See Yourself in Five Years?
        
        “I'd like to move into a marketing role eventually. I'm good at thinking about product positioning—it's one of the things that makes me a good fit for this role—but I know I need more formal business experience before doing that. I hope to develop some of those skills here. I'm also taking classes online on statistics to develop my quantitative side.
        “I've also considered starting a company one day, but I don't know if that will be within the next five years or not. I love working in close-knit teams, moving fast, and pushing the envelope of what's realistic.”
      - What Are Your Strengths?
        
        “I think there are three core strengths. “First, I have strong communication skills that have been refined through five years of prior teaching experience. “Second, I'm a very creative person. Whether it's writing new song lyrics for my band or designing a novel interface, I'm able to find unique solutions to problems. “Third, I am passionate about learning. I recently finished up a certificate in psychology at the local university, and I'm starting a new program now in art history. I may never directly apply this education, but I love learning new things.”
      - What are your weaknesses?
        
        I think I have three main weaknesses. “First, I sometimes lack attention to detail. While this is somewhat good in that it enables me to execute quickly, it also means that I can make careless mistakes. I have learned that I need to double- or triple-check important work before submitting it. “Second, I am a very quantitative person, and sometimes I can lose sight of the personal aspects of a decision—who is impacted and why. I've learned the hard way that I need to consider who all the stakeholders are in a decision, and how they'll react. “Third, I am too critical of ideas—both my own and sometimes those of others. I've largely masked this by focusing on offering positive feedback, but I know I have some room to improve my internal reactions.”
      - Why Unemployment
        
        The best answer involves accomplishing something or brushing up on new skills.
- - - - ex: chanllening
        situation: On my last project, I was asked to oversee the work of a man who was much older than me. He was working too independently from the rest of my team and not keeping us informed, and this ended up introducing a lot of conflicting work. When I went to discuss the issues with him, he blew up at me—practically shouting that he had been working since before I was even born.
      - action: I did three things to resolve the situation. First, I sought the advice of a teammate who had worked with him for much longer, to see if she could help me understand what happened. What she told me was that he was really insecure and tended to lash out. Second, I went back to him and took the responsibility on myself, saying that I screwed up in not keeping him informed of my work. I told him that I was new to this and didn't really know what I was doing, and asked him to advise me on how to manage it. This helped him feel better about himself, and also allowed us to work together to find a solution. Third, I pushed these changes out to the team since, really, it was a broader problem of how to keep two semi-independent projects in sync. I set up a process for weekly check-ins and goals, empowering individual people to ensure their completion.
      - result: This solution ended up largely resolving the situation. He and I worked together very well from then on, since he no longer saw me as a threat. He even started seeking out my advice, and he had never done that with anyone before. The new teamwide process was also very successful and reduced a lot of the friction in project management.
      - common mistake: to much we not I | simple actions | Why need explain more for action
    - - Tell Me About a Time When You Gave a Presentation to a Group of People Who Disagreed with You
        
        tech lead review code for everybody -> peer review maybe better and reduce the work for him and improve coding for everybody, increase collaborations. -> he think it is a waste of time and he can review for all and this process had been implemented for many years -> I asked others and know that he work very hard and want to manage everything. -> have talked with him and convince him about how to improve coding skills for everybody and first time you can control and make advice for others.
      - Tell Me About the Biggest Mistake You Made on a Past Project
      - Tell Me About a Time When You Had to Deal with a Teammate Who Was Underperforming
      - Tell Me About a Time When You had to Make a Controversial Decision
        
        Ichoosing technology in project nodejs
      - Tell Me About a Time When You had to Use Emotional Intelligence to Lead
- - - - Mathematics ~ 3124 8924 | 3000 9000
      - assumptions : the width of air craft for pingpong
      - Careless ~ average money in clothing of US -> is man = woman?
      - Intuition : 1m pizza US each year -> two low bz 1 pizza for 300pp
      - ask clarifying = assumption -> make equation -> compute each component -> check value make sense
    - - Resolve ambiguity
        
        Who is buying the car—the girl or the parents? Is this for a new car or an additional key fob for an existing car? Is it a regular car or an SUV?
      - Understand customer
        
        a 16-year-old girl from a wealthy family. You should probably figure out on your own what the girl values (price, appearance, durability, etc.) and what her use cases are (throwing the keys in her purse, finding her car, etc.).
      - Compare existing products
        
        what ways is a typical key fob not ideal for the girl or her parents?
      - Design the features
        
        Appearance. Offer the item in multiple colors with a glossy exterior, and have the key fold out from the key fob.
        Durability. We want a durable material, like a hard plastic, that doesn't scratch easily.
        Safety. Can we implement a 911 button on the key fob? What about a global positioning system (GPS) tracker—or is this too scary?
      - questions
        
        Design a TV remote for six-year-olds. Design an ATM for the blind. You are given a million-dollar budget to redesign the bathroom of a famous tech executive. What would you do? Most people dislike bank websites. Design a website for a new bank. Design the heating/air-conditioning controls for a car. Assume that you're designing from scratch: no one has ever seen a car's air-conditioning/heating controls.