How do you talk about your failures when asked in an interview? I don't want to seem like I'm BS-ing my answer but I also don't want to sabotage my chances.

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Do people ask you genuinely if you've had any major failures?? Or just weaknesses. If failures I would shift into failures that happened around you/from other people on the team or on the company level and how you handled them.

I would talk about how you grew from them and found solutions. Turn the negatives into positives and show that they were nothing more than temporary setbacks.

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