Job Interview Preparation Simplified

How to answer questions about failures

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Dec 30, 2022
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ADVICE

Choosing Failure Examples

  • Choose work failures where you learned something.
  • Avoid examples with significant negative consequences, unless mitigated.
ADVICE

Describing the Situation

  • Briefly describe the situation and your task in 2-3 sentences.
  • Explain the context, complexity, and your goal.
ANECDOTE

Example Project Failure

  • Thorsten gives an example of a software project for a mobile self-checkout app.
  • The senior expert became ill, and there was no backup plan.
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