Answer in a way to turn things in your advantage. "tell me about a time when you failed" Failed to meet deadline (which you never do) that one time where you

Answer in a way to turn things in your advantage. "tell me about a time when you failed" Failed to meet deadline (which you never do) that one time where you take initiative to rewrite spagetti legacy code from scratch. Later on everyone thanked you for that. But yes - first time it looked like a failure. "what's the worst thing your previous manager would say about you" Manager was pedantic asshole and insisted on doing thing his way. You did it your way and succeeded making manager unhappy because you took a risk and challenged the stigma jeopardizing his role.