Title: 20250821 JH | Set of support stories | Mock interview questions (1)
Course: Course Log Pkaptur 2025

09:00-10:00   1ach   -3000 + 6000 = 3000 ach


Set of support stories
Look at the areas of interest you will likely cover during a behavioural questions interview.
→ review your support stories
→ label them or give them a meaningful title
→ decide which are most relevant to each topic

Mock interview questions - Zoom recordings
Have you ever delegated a project with success?
https://disk.yandex.ru/i/rE2V4qmVaWI2VA

How do you feel when you have to take a decision on the spur of the moment?
https://disk.yandex.ru/i/Cu-B9AnY-X8BEw


Greatest & weakest points of your career
biggest achievement
professional diligence (beyond the call of duty)
fact-finding & problem-solving challenge
ambitions & failures
3) security code optimisation
20) bug found before release signature
22) driver filter (in the military)
23) giving up doing a PhD

Upstream & downstream feedback
making a long-lasting impact or being appreciated
motivating others (as a team player pulling their weight)
missing an obvious solution
dealing with negative upstream and/or downstream feedback
When things go wrong, do you take time to evaluate your work?
6) 25 yo legacy redesign
7) mentoring new employees (and failed)
8) adding validation steps to fix pipeline in building process
14) re-energising team to solve pbs (related to 2000-bug story)
21) retro develop-t of oval scanner

Cross functional collaboration
feedback from previous boss & colleagues
difficult relationships at work
developing preventive measures
showing initiative and taking the lead
presentation skills to influence someone's opinion
managing cross-functional stakeholder relationships and partnerships
1) substituting for absent manager
10) volleyball
18) testing telemetering service
19) skada user name parsing errors
24) AI checklist

Conflict resolution
ways & means of dealing with conflict
argumentative pitch to overcome someone's resistance
stressful situation stretching your coping skills
dealing with a very upset customer or co-worker
conforming to a controversial policy
prioritising tasks
4) 2000 bugs in industrial cyber security
5) argument with lead architect about database
17) sigma story

Leadership
building team spirit
delegating a project effectively
distinguishing leadership from management
taking a decision on the spur of the moment
making an unpopular decision
firing a friend
Where do you see yourself in 5 years?
contribution to shaping technical direction and setting team's roadmap
9) delegating a feature to an intern
11) telemetric initiative
13) finding a bug before a deadline
15) start-up vs big tech approach
16) windows event tracing
25) rephrased sigma w/ focus on technical direction
28) transparency & motivating senior employees

Mentoring
mentoring junior team members
building a high-performing and psychologically safe team culture
strategy for growing engineers within your team to support long-term retention and leadership succession
12) improving on-boarding process
26) intern afraid of other team members
27) your manager as a role model


 Zoom meeting details
Meeting ID: 765 1187 4648
Passcode: pFGjq3
https://us04web.zoom.us/j/76511874648?pwd=pqq81L5Zbdw6lT8hToYVMKUIJsisYn.1