In any interview process candidates are evaluated for their soft skills - communication, storytelling, experience leading and working in teams, conflict resolution and more.
A behavioral screening can be as short as 15 minutes, though experienced candidates are expected to have great content to share to stretch an interview to 45 minutes.
A framework on how to think about this is provided in the draft podcast episode Narrativa Personal.
The challenges in this section are supposed to be recorded on video, reading the question aloud and answering it.
- Tell me a bit about yourself
- Why are you interested in this position?
- One of our core values at the company is X. Can you tell me about a time you went out of your way showing X?
- X can be Ownership, Customer Obsession, Empathy, Technical Excellence, Resilience, Focus on Impact, Be Bold.
- Work Experience stories
- Sometimes you don’t agree with leadership. Can you tell me about a time you had disagreements with your managers or the company's direction? And what did you do about it?
- Sometimes a coworker or a direct report is not performing as expected, and it’s starting to be detrimental to the company roadmap or teamwork. How would you deal with this situation?
- What was the hardest technical challenge you ever faced?
- Can you tell me about a time a project you lead failed?
- Do you have any questions for us?
- Ask questions for Deel
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- Ask questions for AirBnb
- Ask questions for 1Password