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834 questions across 64 roles. Open one to see what a strong answer includes and common slips, then drill it out loud with Ava. New to answer structure? Start with the learning hub.
Behavioural
Past experience: what you did and what happened.
220 questions
Technical
Craft knowledge and how you would do the work.
572 questions
Case
A scenario to reason through and decide.
29 questions
System design
Design a system and defend the trade-offs.
13 questions
220 questions match your filters.
- BehaviouralEntry levelHotel Front Desk Agent
How do you make sure housekeeping and the next shift know about special guest requests?
Tests: Communication
- BehaviouralMid levelHotel Front Desk Agent
You have a line of four guests, the phone is ringing and someone is asking you about parking. How do you manage it?
Tests: Composure under pressure
- BehaviouralSeniorHotel Front Desk Agent
Tell me about a time you turned around a guest who was really unhappy.
Tests: Complaint handling and service recovery
- BehaviouralAny levelHotel Front Desk Agent
What makes a guest feel truly welcome at a hotel?
Tests: Communication
- BehaviouralEntry levelProduct Manager
Tell me about a time you had to explain a complicated idea to someone without your background. How did you make sure it landed?
Tests: Stakeholder communication
- BehaviouralMid levelProduct Manager
Tell me about a time an experiment or launch did not go the way you expected. What did you learn and what did you change?
Tests: Experimentation & launch
- BehaviouralMid levelProduct Manager
Describe a time customer research changed your mind about what to build.
Tests: Customer discovery
- BehaviouralSeniorProduct Manager
Tell me about a time you decided to stop or kill something your team had invested in. How did you make that call?
Tests: Ownership & judgement
- BehaviouralAny levelProduct Manager
Tell me about a product decision you owned that turned out to be wrong. What happened next?
Tests: Ownership & judgement
- BehaviouralEntry levelTechnical Product Manager
Imagine two engineering teams disagree about who should own a shared service. How would you help them reach a decision?
Tests: Cross-team communication
- BehaviouralMid levelTechnical Product Manager
Describe a time you worked on a product used by developers, like a platform service or developer tool. How did you learn what they needed?
Tests: Developer experience
- BehaviouralMid levelTechnical Product Manager
Tell me about a time you had to understand a system's architecture well enough to make a product call. How did you get up to speed?
Tests: Technical fluency
- BehaviouralSeniorTechnical Product Manager
Tell me about a time an engineering lead and a business leader wanted opposite things. How did you broker a decision?
Tests: Cross-team communication
- BehaviouralAny levelTechnical Product Manager
Tell me about an outage or serious bug that affected your product. What was your role, and what changed afterwards?
Tests: Ownership
- BehaviouralEntry levelProduct Designer
Tell me about a time you got tough feedback on a design. How did you respond?
Tests: Collaboration & critique
- BehaviouralMid levelProduct Designer
How do you hand off designs to engineers so that what ships matches what you intended?
Tests: Collaboration & critique
- BehaviouralSeniorProduct Designer
A product manager wants to ship a design you believe will hurt users. How do you make your case?
Tests: Communicating design decisions
- BehaviouralAny levelProduct Designer
Tell me about a time you had to explain a design decision to people who are not designers. How did you make it convincing?
Tests: Communicating design decisions
- BehaviouralMid levelUX Researcher
Tell me about a time your findings were ignored or pushed back on. What did you do?
Tests: Influencing stakeholders
- BehaviouralSeniorUX Researcher
Tell me about research that changed a major product or business decision. How did you get it heard at that level?
Tests: Storytelling & communication