Career: Nailing the Behavioral Interview

Master the behavioral interview process with insights from tech leaders at Microsoft and Yelp. This course covers interview prep, storytelling techniques, key competencies, and mock interviews.

About This Course

When interviewing for your next software engineering role, being a good developer can only take you that far. You might think that during the interview process, the only thing that matters is how good your code is or how good your architecture answers are, but the truth is, most developers fail to get their next job because of the behavioural part of the software engineering interview. The good news is that you can prepare for the behavioral interview and ace it every single time. In this course, Nick Cosentino, a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft and Ryan Murphy, a Software Engineering Manager at Yelp, will use the knowledge that they gathered throughout the years during hundreds of interviews they conducted to make sure you are ready to pass your next interview.

Course Curriculum

6h 2m 9 sections

Welcome

02:28 Free preview

What will you learn in this course?

02:50 Free preview

Who is the course for and prerequisites

02:17 Free preview

Teaching style

01:32

What are they and why do they matter?

08:02

Common interview formats

09:36

Key competencies

11:19

Myths and misconceptions

12:54

Research and company specifics

10:10

Crafting good stories

15:10

Personal SWOT analysis

12:30

Practice

11:11

Remote interviews

08:22

Onsite interviews

10:43

Introductions and first impressions

07:12

Interview etiquette

09:14

Selecting Your Stories

10:12

Handling difficult questions

11:44

Body language and key physical signals

14:15

Tips and tricks we use to keep the interview moving

10:41

Key signals we are looking for

11:17

Warning signs

14:33

Red flag deal breakers

05:59

Problem-solving abilities

13:40

Teamwork and collaboration

10:52

Leadership

08:45

Communication

13:49

Customer focus

14:59

Other competencies

07:45

Mock interview 1

12:10

Interview analysis 1

08:48

Mock interview 2

12:28

Interview analysis 2

06:46

Mock interview 3

06:03

Interview analysis 3

03:28

Following up and Thank you's

08:06

Self reflection

08:07

Do your research

09:43

Conclusion

01:30

Course Details

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Duration

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Meet Your Instructor

Nick Cosentino

Nick Cosentino

Nick Cosentino is a Principal Software Engineering Manager at Microsoft and a .NET content creator. He manages the teams responsible for deploying the hundreds of services supporting the Microsoft365 suite of products to serve users across the planet. Nick brings his unique experiences to the Big Tech world having worked at a startup that scaled from a handful of employees to hundreds before it went public.

Nick runs a software engineering and dotnet-focused blog as well as a YouTube channel called Dev Leader. While he enjoys solving complex problems with software solutions, Nick is passionate about reducing barriers for people to get started on their software engineering journey.

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Ryan Murphy

Ryan Murphy

Ryan Murphy is an experienced Engineering Manager at Yelp, content creator, writer and speaker. He currently leads the teams responsible for all the infrastructure behind reliable and safe purchasing. His career has typically seen him either working on trading platforms at large financial institutions or implementing scalable infrastructure behind advertising.
Ryan’s goal is to level-up the next generation of software engineering leadership, where there is currently little on offer for training and learning those new skills.

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