Behavioral Interview Questions

Tell me about yourself?

Do not underestimate the time it takes to prepare for this question
Use mirror or record the voice and play it back and allocate some time for this question
Do not make it sound like enumeration…things like what is given in the resume.
Sometimes interviewer is using this as a starting point… so focus on strengths and then focus on the path you prefer
The best way to evaluate the quality of the answer is to listen to what you said and think about whether it is good/ok/bad?
Keep it around 1.5 minutes…or shorter…but do not go for long winding speech
What sounds great to you is likely to be the same for others

I have over 20+ years of experience mostly between HP and NetApp with a couple of years in IBM. I also had the privilege of working in different capacities in my 20 year career…mostly in software engineering roles starting as engineer and working my way through to senior manager. Later I moved to business analytics and data science domain in individual contributor role and for past 7 years working as data scientist/machine learning engineer.
Currently, as a data scientist, I led multiple projects for different departments within NetApp…In no particular order, some of them are:
- Developing and deploying a virtual chat assistant.
- Predicting support cases that are likely to be escalated
- Developing models to assist support engineers to resolve cases quickly
- Predicting sales pipeline

Last updated on Nov 24, 2020