Tell me about yourself
Short answer: Give a 60-second story: who you are now, what you've done that matters for this role, and why you want this job.
What to cover
- Present: your current role and the one thing you're best at.
- Past: one or two achievements with numbers that match the job description.
- Future: why this role and company is the logical next step.
- Keep it under 90 seconds and end by handing back to the interviewer.
Example answer
I'm a data engineer with three years of experience building batch and streaming pipelines on Spark and Airflow. At my current company I moved our nightly ETL to an incremental design, which cut processing time from six hours to forty minutes and saved about 30% on compute. Before that I built our first data quality checks, which caught bad loads before they reached dashboards. I'm looking for a team working at larger scale with real-time data, which is why this role on your platform team excites me.
Avoid
- Reciting your whole résumé or childhood.
- Personal details unrelated to work.
- Going past two minutes.
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