Grokking the Behavioral Interview

The ultimate guide to behavioral interviews. Developed by FAANG engineers. Use real-world questions, video recording, and structured strategies to get interview-ready in just a few hours.

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36 Lessons

Certificate of Completion

The ultimate guide to behavioral interviews. Developed by FAANG engineers. Use real-world questions, video recording, and structured strategies to get interview-ready in just a few hours.

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Mock Interview

Explanations

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Mock Interview

Explanations

This course includes

5 Quizzes

This course includes

5 Quizzes

Course Overview

Many times, it’s not your technical competency that holds you back from landing your dream job, it’s how you perform on the behavioral interview. Whether you’re a software engineer, product manager, or engineering manager, this course will give you the tools to thoroughly prepare for behavioral and cultural questions. But beyond even technical roles, this would be useful for anyone, in any profession. As you progress, you'll be able to use Educative's new video recording widget to record yourself answerin...Show More

TAKEAWAY SKILLS

Management

Prepare For Interview

Behavioral Interview

Course Content

Why Prepare?

Get familiar with the importance of preparation, authenticity, professionalism, and behavioral interview goals.

Why Prepare?Authenticity Everyone is an Interviewer The Purpose of Behavioral Interviews

Preparing/Homework

Discover the logic behind effective interview prep, organization research, and cultural analysis.

Doing your Homework Exercise: List Organization Values Exercise: Create a List of Experiences The STAR Technique Exercise: STAR Technique Borrowing from other disciplines Be a Cultural Anthropologist

Patterns for Behavioral Questions

Explore behavioral interview strategies, answer personal experience questions, handle hypotheticals, and ask insightful organizational questions.

Recognizing Behavioral Interview Questions Prior Experience Questions Parsing Prior Experience Questions Sample Prior Experience Questions Exercise: Answering Prior Experience Questions Practice: Answering Prior Experience Questions Hypotheticals Practice: Answering Hypothetical Questions Values-Based Questions Asking Questions Good Questions to Ask Quiz: Test yourself

Interview Etiquette

Enhance your skills in effective interview etiquette, communication, and professional interactions.

Introducing Yourself Cultural Interview Phone interviews Techniques for phone interviews Body Language Body Language Techniques Video Conference Interviews Techniques for Video Conference Interviews Not an exact match? No problem!On Being Rejected Three different ways to practice

Conclusion and Quizzes!

Take a closer look at practicing responses, self-reflection, authenticity, and meet key contributors.

Conclusion Contributing Authors

Trusted by 1.4 million developers working at companies

Anthony Walker

@_webarchitect_

Emma Bostian 🐞

@EmmaBostian

Evan Dunbar

ML Engineer

Carlos Matias La Borde

Software Developer

Souvik Kundu

Front-end Developer

Vinay Krishnaiah

Software Developer

Eric Downs

Musician/Entrepeneur

Kenan Eyvazov

DevOps Engineer

Anthony Walker

@_webarchitect_

Emma Bostian 🐞

@EmmaBostian

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