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Why are you looking to leave your current role, or open to a new one?
Resume & Behavioral · Intermediate level
Answer
I would answer this with a concise, honest story that connects motivation, self-awareness, and measurable growth. My core message is that I want larger reliability impact, strong engineering culture, and room to stay hands-on while influencing systems and people. When discussing strengths or accomplishments, I anchor them in outcomes such as reduced toil, faster delivery, safer migrations, cost reduction, or better incident response. When discussing weaknesses or feedback, I show the behavior I changed and how I measure improvement.
Technical explanation
Behavioral answers should use STAR/CAR: situation/context, challenge, action, result, and learning.
For career motivation, keep it positive and focused on scope, impact, growth, and role alignment.
For weakness/feedback, choose a real but managed issue and show concrete improvement.
Hands-on example
1. Prepare three stories: a reliability win, a difficult feedback/learning moment, and a cross-team influence example.
2. For each story, write the metric, stakeholders, trade-off, and what changed afterward.
3. Practice a 90-second version and a deeper follow-up version.
4. End each answer by tying it back to the target role's reliability needs.
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