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Master The Behavioral Interview [Part 1] - How This Course Works

Let's not mince words: Most software engineers are pretty terrible at behavioral interviews. Unlike interview types like data structures & algorithms (DSA) and system design, behavioral interviews are purely open-ended. Here are the core parts of the lesson:

  • Your instructor Alex Chiou walks you through his extensive 10+ year Silicon Valley background across top companies like PayPal, Course Hero, Meta, and Robinhood, explaining how ultra-sharpening his behavioral interview skills played a huge part in his career success. His reward? Growing from $85k TC to $750k in just 7 years!
  • How software engineers throw their careers by from over-indexing on LeetCode grinding instead of developing more balanced interview expertise, particularly with behavioral interviews
  • We walk you through the course objectives. By the end of the course, you will have the right mentality to answer any behavioral question well, understand what a good behavioral answer looks like (vs. a bad one), use the right tactics to prepare, possess the skills to vet the company, and know what behavioral performances look like across different levels

To learn more about Alex's interview success journey and overall job searching tactics, check out his master job searching course: [Course] Ace Your Tech Interview And Get A Job As A Software Engineer

Master The Behavioral Interview As A Software Engineer

Master The Behavioral Interview As A Software Engineer

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Data structures and algorithms problems (i.e. LeetCode) suck up all the attention among software engineers when it comes to interviews. However, you need to master far more than LeetCode to land a quality tech job (even at FAANG). If you want to succeed on the software engineer interview journey, you absolutely have to get good at what's actually the most important interview type: Behavioral interviews. Here are the attributes of behavioral interviews that make them so critical: You will encounter them on every interview loop from Big Tech to early-stage startups They can screen you out early (often at the recruiter pre-screen) They're used extensively for leveling You cannot fail them and still get an offer Despite this, many engineers see them as a fairly meaningless and fluffy exercise. This leads to them struggling with behavioral interviews, often not realizing that they're getting hard rejected on these rounds! By taking this course, that won't be you anymore. After going through it, you will: 🧠 Have the right mentality to answer any behavioral question well ✅ Understand good vs. bad behavioral answers 📖 Use the right tactics to prepare properly 🤔 Possess the skills to vet the company 📊 Know what behavioral performances look like across different levels The beautiful thing about behavioral interviews is that by improving at them, you just become a better software engineer overall. Skills like effective communication, speaking with charisma, and empathizing with others are fundamental skills that are useful anywhere at any stage in your career.