It's important that our team members at Plaid are serious about their professional growth and improvement. What would you say is your greatest weakness?

This common interview question is an opportunity to demonstrate self-insight. Give an honest answer with a real weakness you have been focusing on and explain the plan you've put into place to work on it. Just make sure the weakness isn't a core competency of the Plaid job description. If it's an analyst role, revealing logical reasoning skills as a weakness likely won't get you far. Reflect on traits you want to work on, but that won't affect overall job success.

Honesty and self-awareness are key for this question. Interviewers have heard it all and will see through phony attempts to present a trait as a weakness that is not a weakness.