This is another fun tough interview question and, like most of them, they are easier than they initially sound, but because it’s an interview and we think it’s important. We kind of panic a little bit.
Now, you can talk about that time in ‘04 when you were relatively junior and you just knew you didn’t put in your best effort and the results showed. You can do that.
You can also do the speech (and this one is my favorite, actually) you can do the speech about, “I’ve got a very active self-critic. I evaluate myself regularly and most of the time, I can dissect what I’ve done and spot areas for improvement. After all, there are times that I have done presentations for clients and I wasn’t successful. I didn’t close the business.
“At times, I wrote code and I could’ve done it faster. But at the end of the day, overall, what I think is true of me is that I did very well, and overall, I’ve done a great job. My review showed that semicolon my clients liked me . . . “ “
You get the idea. Talk about and suggest being a perfectionist that does regular self-reviews but in the end, provide yourself with a self-evaluation that you do very good work.
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