Chapter 64. Greatest Weakness Answers for Coding Interviews

What's your greatest weakness? To be 100% honest, I'm not a huge fan of this question since it's a lose-lose question: if the individual being interviewed is completely honest, they probably won't get the job, and if they give a flat out lie it will be evident very quickly.

However, throughout the years I have had several managers ask me this question, so it's important to have a well thought out answer ready. Since I've been on both sides of the interview chair, I have put together a list of the worst ways to answer this question and then some of the best answers.

Bad answers to your greatest weakness

So first of all, these are the kinds of answers you should avoid to the infamous question about what is your great weakness when you're in that coding interview:

• Hard time saying no: This will say that you are weak and will take on too many projects, typically resulting in poor performance...