What role does empathy play in your life and how has it helped you? Empathy helps me to better understand other people's needs. Mainly, without being given an account of a first hand experience or being there myself it is difficult to make decisions that affect other people's circumstances in a positive manner.
How does empathy help you build better software You are better equiped to create software that works in a more effective manner according to the users needs/ environment.
Why is empathy important for working on a team? Along the same lines as creating better software, you are better equipped to understand your teammates perspectives and culture. This helps to lead to a more cohesive unit and productive inclusive environment.
Describe a situation in which your ability to emphathize with a colleague or teammate was helpful I once had who would always get hurt whenever we did physical exercises. At first I didn't understand why this person would injure so easily and dismissed it as malingering. After asking his person about their situation I learn they had a prior injury that would be frustrated by the exercises we were doing and this person was too prideful to say so. This lead to changing the set of exercises this person would do and I never have done this without being empathic to them.
When do you find it most difficult to be empathetic in professional settings? How can you improve your skills when faced with these scenarios? When faced with really type deadlines and very strict constraints, I find it difficult to be empathetic at all times. I can counter this by allowing as much time as possible for being considerate of others as well as if I am able to be part of the planning process to have empathy included as much possible.
What is the benefit of specifying the height and width of images in CSS compared to specifying in the HTML? Essentially the style is given lowest priority and is easily overriden by other styles in your css, further the UA(browser) may not honor the style in HTML.
What is an image sprite, and why is it useful? Sprites are amazing and I wish there were used everywhere, literally. Image sprites are small collection of images placed into another image in an array style. You can access them by specifying the size of the sprites and then an x,y style accessing pattern in css. They are useful because they can save bandwidth and thus loading times.