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Common interview questions you should actually practice
These are the questions you cannot afford to fumble. Niriksh helps you practice them out loud, with AI feedback that flags weak STAR structure, missing impact, and rambling answers in real time.
Behavioral interview questions
Tell me about yourself. Why this company? Describe a conflict with a teammate. Tell me about a time you failed. Walk me through your most impactful project. What is your biggest weakness? Niriksh coaches you through each of these using STAR, tightens your storytelling, and reuses your real experience across roles.
- Tell me about yourself
- Why do you want to work here?
- Describe a time you handled conflict with a teammate
- Tell me about a project where you led without authority
- Walk me through a failure and what you learned
- What is your greatest strength and weakness?
- Describe a time you had to influence a stakeholder
Technical interview questions
Data structures, algorithms, SQL, coding under time pressure, debugging exercises, and language-specific trivia. Practice answering them out loud the way you would on a phone screen, with the AI interviewer holding you to time and pushing back on hand-wavy answers.
- Reverse a linked list
- Find the kth largest element in an array
- Two sum variants and complexity tradeoffs
- SQL: top N per group
- Design a rate limiter
- Explain time and space complexity of your solution
System design interview questions
For senior roles, the system design round is decisive. Practice common designs (URL shortener, news feed, chat, ride sharing, payments) with structured prompts that mirror real interviews and a rubric that scores requirements gathering, capacity estimation, and tradeoff articulation.
- Design a URL shortener
- Design a chat application
- Design a news feed
- Design a ride sharing service
- Design a payment system
- Design a notification service
Frequently asked questions
How do I prepare for behavioral interview questions?
Use the STAR framework (Situation, Task, Action, Result), prepare 6 to 8 stories that cover leadership, conflict, failure, impact, and growth, and rehearse them out loud. Niriksh scores STAR adherence on every answer.
How do I answer "tell me about yourself"?
Use a 60 to 90 second arc: present (current role and impact), past (one relevant transition), future (why this role). End with a hook that invites the interviewer in.
What is the best way to practice system design?
Start by reading the prompt aloud, ask clarifying questions, estimate scale, sketch the core data flow, then deep dive one component. Niriksh prompts you through this cadence every session.