## List - Why do you want to work for X company? - Why do you want to leave your current/last company? - What are you looking for in your next role? - I am looking for something my past two roles could not give me: a voice that gets heard and more collaborative peers. - In my last role, I had one remote working tech lead that made it difficult to collaborate with. He worked odd hours and responded once every few days. He worked in a silo and made widespread changes to the UI every few weeks. Also as a cost of making widespread changes, - I am also looking for a place where my voice gets heard because at Cigna, I worked with managers who would not adopt tech stack changes that would improve user experience and save the company money. The core purpose of the application was to generate dynamic financial reports and the PM designed it in such a way that a mainframes DB would send data to the browser for report generation. This resulted in a slow user experience where the application would frequently crash because users were using Internet Explorer - Tell me about a time when you had a conflict with a co-worker. - Tell me about a time in which you had a conflict and needed to influence somebody else. - What project are you currently working on? - What is the most challenging aspect of your current project? - What was the most difficult bug that you fixed in the past 6 months? - How do you tackle challenges? Name a difficult challenge you faced while working on a project, how you overcame it, and what you learned. - What are you excited about? - What frustrates you? - Imagine it is your first day here at the company. What do you want to work on? What features would you improve on? - What are the most interesting projects you have worked on and how might they be relevant to this company's environment? - Tell me about a time you had a disagreement with your manager. - Talk about a project you are most passionate about, or one where you did your best work. - What does your best day of work look like? - What is something that you had to push for in your previous projects? - What is the most constructive feedback you have received in your career? - What is something you had to persevere at for multiple months? - Tell me about a time you met a tight deadline. - If this were your first annual review with our company, what would I be telling you right now? - Time management has become a necessary factor in productivity. Give an example of a time-management skill you've learned and applied at work. - Tell me about a problem you've had getting along with a work associate. - What aspects of your work are most often criticized? - How have you handled criticism of your work? - What strengths do you think are most important for _your job position_? - What words would your colleagues use to describe you? - What would you hope to achieve in the first six months after being hired? - Tell me why you will be a good fit for the position.