@@theMadZakuPilot Well I would say, think about a personal project which you worked with, it may be with a capstone project or time when you worked with your Friends
It’s fine to talk about your dog in the “tell me about yourself” part. “…On my free time you can find me hiking and teaching fun tricks to my dog”. It makes you more personable and human. Sometimes it’s a reason to bond over a commonality with your interviewer.
A good way to tackle competency based questions like these is the PSMO - Problem, Solution, Method, Outcome. Be concise, stick to the point and don’t waffle on. Cool video with some useful info 👍🏼👍🏼
1:43 Tell me about yourself 3:50 Tell me about a time you have to persuade someone at work, what did you do? 5:26 Tell me about a time you failed at work and what did you learn from it? 7:08 Takeaways from the video
it amazes me that people spend tens of thousands of dollars a year, on a college degree and they do not prepare you for skills like this that are required for getting a job. ALL aspects required to get a job should be part of the curriculum, from resume writing, search for a job, being prepared for the interview, and working on the communication skills to not only land a job, but also to function as a team member.
Your tutorials about generics and oop are THE BEST. Any chance you could do more videos like that but cover data structures and algorithims? Btw your channel is awesome!!!
Great video thanks for this help. Really boosted my confidence in having to explain things in this manner rather than just stressing over technical parts of the interview, though also inportant.
The question he was answering was "Tell me about a time you failed at work, and what did you learn from it," so the whole point was to explain about a bad choice you made and what you learned. I had a junior dev on my team make the same mistake (pushing a change directly to prod) -- he felt terrible once he realized the consequence of what he had done, and he never made that mistake again.
I feel like you're really overthinking the behavioural part. Communicate your thoughts, be humble, have a discussion with your interviewer instead of trying to impress them with your knowledge, basically answer the question "would I want to work with this person".
Agreed. The video addresses an important issue and he makes many great points but one I wouldn't agree with is that "tell me about yourself" must be kept relevant to the field. Dropping in that you love basketball or playing games with friends isn't deviating from the purpose and can actually establish great side conversation if they share common hobbies with you
You guys have no idea what you’re talking about. Go and test this at big tech. You can have chit chat when it comes up organically, but not when asked the specific interview questions. If you say that you love basketball when asked to tell about yourself, the signal that the interviewer will get is that you can’t identify what information is relevant and what should be kept for hallway chat. Also that you are distracting.
You are so wrong. Not everything that comes out of mouth is called communicating thoughts. It's not about impressing, it's about saying the proper things which you probably do but at interview what you say matters.
@@KeepOnCoding It may have changed at some point, but they have behavioural and system design interviews as well. I used it for a bit and did a lot of interviews through recruiters from LinkedIn. The practice significantly improved my interviewing skills especially less technical parts. I initially was cold applying to a bunch of places and getting a few interviews that didn't go that well. After practicing a bunch and responding to recruiters on LinkedIn I got multiple job offers within a few weeks.
thanks, man. I really appreciate this content so much. I'm learning about how to learn in English and your video is gold to me. I need more like this. Greetings!
Love those behavioral interviews questions. How do you answer hypothetical questions? Such as " lets say you company is rolling out a few product, what would you do?"
Thanks for the video! Could you talk about your experience interviewing for an internship position? I'm currently applying to dev internships and would like an idea of what to expect.
Kudos... I wish I could find your channel lil earlier. I have been wanting this for so long. Would you help with few more questions, please? A Prominent job u did. Your answers are conveying a clear idea how should i craft mine to stand out among...
@@dronephone9934 Behavioral Interview Went well but I missed the mark on the technical one. Well at least I think that’s what happened. Employers don’t do a good job on giving feedback, even when requested. 😫
Summary: 1:40 tell me about yourself 3:50 tell me about the time you had to persuade someone at work. What did you do. 5:26 tell me about a time you failed at work. What did you learn from it?
Hey, I'm new to the channel here - I was curious have experience being either an interviewer, or on the committee for making hire / no hire decision. I ask this because I'm a little bit surprised with how you answered the last question, which focused on something technical you learned. In my opinion, it is more interesting to hear how someone failed to communicate, given that this is a behavioral interview. For example, mentioning that a project ended up delivered with sub-par quality because you didn't properly assess and/or communicate the amount of risk that a project had.
There's no way you haven't had any kind of conflicts in 14 years. Think about all the problems you've solved. Perhaps explain why solving these challenges has felt so smooth and conflict-less.
Funny - recommendations seems to be the ones that they know, not a solution for what's actually fit for the situation, the best resolution. I like implementing suggestions that are modular and scalable...maybe I'm just an old man...old school thinker.
I’m curious as to how you would answer “Tell us about a conflict with an employee or team member that you resolved on your own”. My current job hit me with that. I guess I got it right seeing as they hired me 😃
Does behavioral for sde need to be related to as least some technical aspects? Can I talk about my experience in a project when my role is not a developer
Make some programs and upload them to your github, so you can show off what you have worked on. It can be simple, just make sure it looks nice and is easily readable, you can and will learn stuff along the way while working. Neat code writting is a good indication. Also ad some projects you did while in college. You can also ad your bachelor/masters thessis. Since you dont have previous work experience, you can talk about those projects, how you decided on those with your profesors, if you worked with someone else on those projects say how you devided duties( writing code, solving a problem on paper, making sure everybody was doing their part and that everything works in the end. If your thessis was connected to the job, explain what your look on the problem is and what did you do that helps solve some problem or how it simplifies certain problems... there is a lot to talk about
Follow up. Just got a job that pays almost 3x more than my last one. We were talkinga about my position, my duties..bla bla bla and then got asked if i still am interested and what do i think about the position. Since i play guitar, i said that for me coding is like making music where you have lots of layers that sound okay but together they make harmony. Got the job the second i explained why i want to work on code there. So show love, enthusiasm, whatever you also like to do connect that with coding.
I have an interview on tuesday and I am going to keep it real with the tell me about yourself question, this was good, actually I am going to use the same template, even stating that my passion for software started with my internship which is kinda true lol. Thanks a lot max.
I would alove another video but for first time Job seekers. Like internships. And how the questions are diffrent and using School/project examples for the ansewers.
Getting an internship at AWS. That was when your passion started??? That is like I got Accepted to Harvard and then I read my first book in my senior year. ???
The interviewing process is making me rethink my desire to become a software developer. If I'm getting rejection after rejection from interviews, maybe the career just isn't for me?
Does anybody have any advice on how to answer the dreaded question of why do you want to leave your company? I think it's pretty obvious that you'd want to leave for two reasons one higher pay or two because you're not happy at your current job but those can't be the basis of your answer so how do you spend that into something positive for a behavioral round?
I killed my behavioral interview and tech assessment and initial screen with a new grad role for SAP. Now my technical round is Wednesday (coming up) and again, it’s a new grad role. I’ve never interviewed before either, so, any tips? Any things I should probably focus on more?
@@thatoneuser8600 I did pretty well but ultimately it being my first ever interview my rushing / buggy solutions didn’t cut it overall. But learned a ton!
Can you make another video on how to answer more behavioral questions, I have one for you: "How do you see yourself in 5 years?" it's hard because is too broad
Would you say it is a good idea to ask the interviewer before the interview how deep their knowledge of the used technology actually is (in order to adapt my answers)? Thanks :)
@@wchocolatestudios They said the position isn't ready to be filled because it's a new site and they are trying to recruit and it's in Michigan and I live in Ohio so I didn't take the offer for another interview because they couldn't give me an idea on when I would start and a lot of unknowns with the process of me moving. So not a good fit so I didn't take the second interview. I've been looking at other jobs especially government so hopefully I get a call back soon about that. Finding a job is a lot of work and the interview process sucks.
@lovingbritt Unfortunately, it just takes time. I’m in the same boat. Starting to look, but not a great time at this point marketwise. Hang in there! Keep doing your thing.
I mean, a potential problem with your Git mistake issue is that it's unbelievably rudimentary, basic stuff. If a candidate gave me that answer, I'd wonder why source control is new to them, unless they're interviewing for their very first role.
How you don't agree with what I just said? I know better, I have done this before! And don't tell me again that I smell, I wash my clothes now once per week, and they are clean!!
I'm from silicon valley and I'm about to graduate from CA uni. I've been applying to places but I don't have the personality trait of an average liberal democrat. I am pretty conservative republican and although I don't say anything that would hint it. I can feel that they can sniff it out during interviews and think "hes not one of us"...
Man your tell me about yourself is too long. I interview a lot of people and this way of saying it (in europe) is boring and will shift the focus quickly into details that we could not understand. It will not help. Say something personal as well. I think it’s good to mention this content is not relevant for all of the cultures.
What are some behavioral questions you've gotten?
Tell me about work-life balance.
"How are you as a person?"
"... well, I can be pretty insecure and antisocial, sometimes short tempered, and my best friends are dolls"
How do you answer these if you're interviewing for your first job and have never had any internships?
@@theMadZakuPilot Well I would say, think about a personal project which you worked with, it may be with a capstone project or time when you worked with your Friends
What about the famous why do you think you the best candidate for the job ?
It’s fine to talk about your dog in the “tell me about yourself” part. “…On my free time you can find me hiking and teaching fun tricks to my dog”. It makes you more personable and human. Sometimes it’s a reason to bond over a commonality with your interviewer.
He probably meant they went on a whole rant about their dog, this is like half a sentence about your hobbies which is fine
Sounds like "I'm single and I have no friends"
@@nathanhughes8354 lol
I love how you gave a real demonstration of how an answer should sound like and didn't just give a generic advice. Great job!
Probably the best video I've watched on cracking behavioral interviews, much appreciated!
Ah man, this would have helped for last interview.
A good way to tackle competency based questions like these is the PSMO - Problem, Solution, Method, Outcome. Be concise, stick to the point and don’t waffle on.
Cool video with some useful info 👍🏼👍🏼
This is also called the STAR format - situation, task, action, result.
1:43 Tell me about yourself
3:50 Tell me about a time you have to persuade someone at work, what did you do?
5:26 Tell me about a time you failed at work and what did you learn from it?
7:08 Takeaways from the video
Your introduction example help me prepare for an interview and I got the job!
awesome stuff, I have an interview on Monday with one of FAANG's, this Helps.
would love some more of this.
Good luck!
How was it?
@@ritikgautam7342 Got rejection in 4th round
@@jaatharsh LMAOOOOO
@@sniff4643 bruh
it amazes me that people spend tens of thousands of dollars a year, on a college degree and they do not prepare you for skills like this that are required for getting a job. ALL aspects required to get a job should be part of the curriculum, from resume writing, search for a job, being prepared for the interview, and working on the communication skills to not only land a job, but also to function as a team member.
HEY. Thank you for making this video. I followed the intro and got the job! Thanks a lot man. I love you
Your tutorials about generics and oop are THE BEST. Any chance you could do more videos like that but cover data structures and algorithims?
Btw your channel is awesome!!!
Great video thanks for this help. Really boosted my confidence in having to explain things in this manner rather than just stressing over technical parts of the interview, though also inportant.
Thank you! This is the most relevant behavioral interview advice I've seen. I have an interview coming up. This is really helpful. Subscribed!
did you get the job?
Very nice video! I like how it focuses on the approach to the subjects, instead of giving canned answers like other tutorials.
Cheers!
Just in time. Thanks!
This is big, an often a weak point for many. Thank you for sharing, love the content.
3-rd example - if I would heard about pushing to master, then this would be an enormous red flag.
The question he was answering was "Tell me about a time you failed at work, and what did you learn from it," so the whole point was to explain about a bad choice you made and what you learned. I had a junior dev on my team make the same mistake (pushing a change directly to prod) -- he felt terrible once he realized the consequence of what he had done, and he never made that mistake again.
still an enormous red flag
I feel like you're really overthinking the behavioural part. Communicate your thoughts, be humble, have a discussion with your interviewer instead of trying to impress them with your knowledge, basically answer the question "would I want to work with this person".
Agreed. The video addresses an important issue and he makes many great points but one I wouldn't agree with is that "tell me about yourself" must be kept relevant to the field. Dropping in that you love basketball or playing games with friends isn't deviating from the purpose and can actually establish great side conversation if they share common hobbies with you
You overestimate some of us
You guys have no idea what you’re talking about. Go and test this at big tech. You can have chit chat when it comes up organically, but not when asked the specific interview questions. If you say that you love basketball when asked to tell about yourself, the signal that the interviewer will get is that you can’t identify what information is relevant and what should be kept for hallway chat. Also that you are distracting.
You are so wrong. Not everything that comes out of mouth is called communicating thoughts. It's not about impressing, it's about saying the proper things which you probably do but at interview what you say matters.
I found using pramp and just doing lots of interviews to be really helpful for improving my behavioural interviews
Yep!!
I thought pramp was all coding
@@KeepOnCoding It may have changed at some point, but they have behavioural and system design interviews as well. I used it for a bit and did a lot of interviews through recruiters from LinkedIn. The practice significantly improved my interviewing skills especially less technical parts. I initially was cold applying to a bunch of places and getting a few interviews that didn't go that well. After practicing a bunch and responding to recruiters on LinkedIn I got multiple job offers within a few weeks.
Short sweet and to the point. Wish every TH-camr followed this formula.
dude thank you so much for this video. really helped me a lot.
thanks, man. I really appreciate this content so much. I'm learning about how to learn in English and your video is gold to me. I need more like this. Greetings!
Thanks bro for these examples! Continue coding
Love those behavioral interviews questions. How do you answer hypothetical questions? Such as " lets say you company is rolling out a few product, what would you do?"
then we need to tell hypothetical answers , Simple
Amazing video, super helpful. Thank you! 👍🏾
Great information and please doing more behavioral ones. Thanks !
Thank you so much. Your video helped me with my recent interview
Thanks for the video! Could you talk about your experience interviewing for an internship position? I'm currently applying to dev internships and would like an idea of what to expect.
Kudos... I wish I could find your channel lil earlier. I have been wanting this for so long. Would you help with few more questions, please? A Prominent job u did. Your answers are conveying a clear idea how should i craft mine to stand out among...
I have one in 1 hour lol, just in time! Great Vid.
Good luck! Hope you crush it!
@@KeepOnCoding Thank you 🙏
@@hroman_codes what happened ?
@@dronephone9934 Behavioral Interview Went well but I missed the mark on the technical one. Well at least I think that’s what happened. Employers don’t do a good job on giving feedback, even when requested. 😫
Great content bro, thank you
Thank you so much for this video.
two years old but still gold
Summary:
1:40 tell me about yourself
3:50 tell me about the time you had to persuade someone at work.
What did you do.
5:26 tell me about a time you failed at work. What did you learn from it?
more of this please!
i am about to go into an interview, and yes behavioral interview questions are my worst nightmare
this video was shared by my meta recruiter as prep material haha :)
This is really helpful! Thank you!
I love this, keep it coming! 😍
the way you explained is lit 🔥
Thanks sir. I can follow through your answers and understand. I will copy this format.
please make more of these interview videos
Hey, I'm new to the channel here - I was curious have experience being either an interviewer, or on the committee for making hire / no hire decision.
I ask this because I'm a little bit surprised with how you answered the last question, which focused on something technical you learned. In my opinion, it is more interesting to hear how someone failed to communicate, given that this is a behavioral interview. For example, mentioning that a project ended up delivered with sub-par quality because you didn't properly assess and/or communicate the amount of risk that a project had.
Thanks for the tips man 🙂
Any tips for a software engineer with 14 years experience who has never had a conflict at work?
There's no way you haven't had any kind of conflicts in 14 years. Think about all the problems you've solved. Perhaps explain why solving these challenges has felt so smooth and conflict-less.
Thank you so much !
Funny - recommendations seems to be the ones that they know, not a solution for what's actually fit for the situation, the best resolution. I like implementing suggestions that are modular and scalable...maybe I'm just an old man...old school thinker.
I’m curious as to how you would answer “Tell us about a conflict with an employee or team member that you resolved on your own”. My current job hit me with that. I guess I got it right seeing as they hired me 😃
What was your answer? Hahaha
@@SourceHades fr
Thanks for sharing! :)
Does behavioral for sde need to be related to as least some technical aspects? Can I talk about my experience in a project when my role is not a developer
I would like to see more like this
How do you answer these if you're interviewing for your first job and have never had any internships?
Make some programs and upload them to your github, so you can show off what you have worked on. It can be simple, just make sure it looks nice and is easily readable, you can and will learn stuff along the way while working. Neat code writting is a good indication. Also ad some projects you did while in college. You can also ad your bachelor/masters thessis. Since you dont have previous work experience, you can talk about those projects, how you decided on those with your profesors, if you worked with someone else on those projects say how you devided duties( writing code, solving a problem on paper, making sure everybody was doing their part and that everything works in the end. If your thessis was connected to the job, explain what your look on the problem is and what did you do that helps solve some problem or how it simplifies certain problems... there is a lot to talk about
Follow up. Just got a job that pays almost 3x more than my last one. We were talkinga about my position, my duties..bla bla bla and then got asked if i still am interested and what do i think about the position. Since i play guitar, i said that for me coding is like making music where you have lots of layers that sound okay but together they make harmony. Got the job the second i explained why i want to work on code there. So show love, enthusiasm, whatever you also like to do connect that with coding.
Interviewer: "so tell me a little about yourself"
🧠: well... Tbh I never gave it much thought
STAR format answers, even if not required.
Thank you so much bro
I have an interview on tuesday and I am going to keep it real with the tell me about yourself question, this was good, actually I am going to use the same template, even stating that my passion for software started with my internship which is kinda true lol. Thanks a lot max.
That shit is easy, they like to ask about conflicts though - already blaming you for being in one, in a way
I would alove another video but for first time Job seekers. Like internships. And how the questions are diffrent and using School/project examples for the ansewers.
Your master branch was not protected? That would be a followup
hi thanks alot for this video it help me nail the behavioral interview
Getting an internship at AWS. That was when your passion started??? That is like I got Accepted to Harvard and then I read my first book in my senior year. ???
The interviewing process is making me rethink my desire to become a software developer. If I'm getting rejection after rejection from interviews, maybe the career just isn't for me?
It’s unfortunate it has come to this. We have to act like robots and respond with canned answers instead of being genuine.
Keep going. Don’t give up
Does anybody have any advice on how to answer the dreaded question of why do you want to leave your company? I think it's pretty obvious that you'd want to leave for two reasons one higher pay or two because you're not happy at your current job but those can't be the basis of your answer so how do you spend that into something positive for a behavioral round?
I don't care, I'll talk about my cat if I can. If they don't like it envy speaks itself
Lol
I have an interview for the Amazon Data Analyst Position tomorrow.
today i faced two questions,
1) Tell me the time when you have to work with harsh coworker ...
The behavioral portion is something I wouldn't need to think about, the technical questions.... yeah I'm dumb 🤣😂
I killed my behavioral interview and tech assessment and initial screen with a new grad role for SAP. Now my technical round is Wednesday (coming up) and again, it’s a new grad role. I’ve never interviewed before either, so, any tips? Any things I should probably focus on more?
How did it go ??
Yo give us an update
@@thatoneuser8600 I did pretty well but ultimately it being my first ever interview my rushing / buggy solutions didn’t cut it overall. But learned a ton!
@Tanner Barcelos what was the coding problem ?
Does anyone have suggestions for a video like this for a recent graduate without very much experience working in a team? Thank you.
@2:00 really useful stuff to answer tell me about yourself
Thank you
Can you make another video on how to answer more behavioral questions, I have one for you: "How do you see yourself in 5 years?" it's hard because is too broad
Great way to answer "Tell me about yourself." I will copy your way of answering the question. Thank you
If only interviews are easy like in the Ted movie :((
Would you say it is a good idea to ask the interviewer before the interview how deep their knowledge of the used technology actually is (in order to adapt my answers)? Thanks :)
🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩🚩
5:42
Idk but I like this guy in the video
that's it ! nice video for me thanks 🏴
0:18 .....attac
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That was great :), can you please make a system design video, and your experience with system design interviews, that'd be awesome
Coding with mitch the DSA version.... just joking
Everything else I pass!!
5:40 is really cringey xD.. Seriously though, you should have policies on your branches preventing you from pushing without a PR
Ha ha it’s a sign of bad devops process.
I'm so scared I have an interview today for a software engineer position 😢
How did it go?
@@wchocolatestudios They said the position isn't ready to be filled because it's a new site and they are trying to recruit and it's in Michigan and I live in Ohio so I didn't take the offer for another interview because they couldn't give me an idea on when I would start and a lot of unknowns with the process of me moving. So not a good fit so I didn't take the second interview. I've been looking at other jobs especially government so hopefully I get a call back soon about that. Finding a job is a lot of work and the interview process sucks.
@lovingbritt Unfortunately, it just takes time. I’m in the same boat. Starting to look, but not a great time at this point marketwise. Hang in there! Keep doing your thing.
Who pushes to master branch 😆?? I'm definitely hiring anyone who says that
how to talk like a robot when answering questions. xD. jk jk
The words coming out are great man ..top class
But what happened to your expressions
I failed these all the time !!
👍👍👍
are "technologies" = programming language?
I'll have to answer myself now. NO. Technologies refer to things like programming languages, frameworks, tools etc.
I mean, a potential problem with your Git mistake issue is that it's unbelievably rudimentary, basic stuff. If a candidate gave me that answer, I'd wonder why source control is new to them, unless they're interviewing for their very first role.
Well fuck lol
How you don't agree with what I just said? I know better, I have done this before! And don't tell me again that I smell, I wash my clothes now once per week, and they are clean!!
The first answer was shittttt
I'm from silicon valley and I'm about to graduate from CA uni. I've been applying to places but I don't have the personality trait of an average liberal democrat. I am pretty conservative republican and although I don't say anything that would hint it. I can feel that they can sniff it out during interviews and think "hes not one of us"...
Don’t talk politics.
Pushing to master... yikes
Man your tell me about yourself is too long. I interview a lot of people and this way of saying it (in europe) is boring and will shift the focus quickly into details that we could not understand. It will not help. Say something personal as well. I think it’s good to mention this content is not relevant for all of the cultures.
dude you look so tired...