What are your strengths and weaknesses?
Short answer: Name a strength the role needs with an example, and a real but manageable weakness with what you're doing about it.
What to cover
- Strength: relevant to the job, backed by a short story.
- Weakness: genuine, not a disguised strength, and not core to the role.
- Show the steps you're taking and the progress so far.
Example answer
My strength is debugging data problems end to end — last quarter I traced a revenue mismatch to a timezone bug in an upstream API and fixed it in a day. A weakness is that I used to over-polish internal tools before sharing them. I now share a working version early and iterate on feedback, which has cut my delivery time and gets better input from the team.
Avoid
- “I'm a perfectionist” or “I work too hard”.
- A weakness that's essential to the job.
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