As someone who's both conducted and been apart of hundreds of tech interviews, this is probably the best video resource explaining how behavioral interviews work (and should work) and expectations.
- *Be genuine* - Culture fit - Communication expressing idea - Collaboration - way to coordinate with people. best way keep you point always last. - Don't blame take responsibility - Is it positive contributor? - Reverse engineering dont logically tuned a answer be genuine - Sometime mixed answer good + bad thing. - Project is team work may be you are worked big chunk but don't forget give credits to the team - Resume should tell own story progression of jobs. - Remove I word and add Me and Team - Passion long:- running enthuse also applicable where you work - Critical points below - Be genuine - Thing crucially about you Career and company you trying to work and what you want next in you career. - Own you strength and weakness. - End asking Question.
This is the best video I have watched on behavioral interviews after having watched about 10 hours of material. The rationale of the advice and the friendly tone is just what makes it awesome. He is approaching the audience as a friend and a mentor rather that a marketer hungry for attracting ridiculous number of viewers. Thank you so much! This 1 hour was well worth it!
Thank you! After years of teaching myself and experiencing a lot of rejection in the last 8 months, I've finally got a tech job without any commercial experience and started a new career path that I've wanted for a long time. Your realistic approach to interviews certainly helped me get there. Kudos!
Found this video today, it's a gem no matter how old this is. You have a vey much high experience and you shared it with others, this means it's highly recommended to watch for anyone.
You're doing God's work. Please, make more these type of videos about any content related to IT, actually I would love to see any type of video from you. The delivery, the usefulness and the actuality of topics are outright outstanding.
One thing about reverse engineering questions -- I think calling it that is a bit of a misnomer. This whole guide IS about reverse engineering the questions. Reverse engineering the questions is essentially knowing that the questions are looking for signal on communication, collaboration, your passions and verifying your history. With that knowledge, I've reverse engineered the questions to answer them with this framework in mind and making sure my answer showcases all those things. What you actually mean is that you shouldn't lie and think that the questions are trying to trick or mislead you in a way. You shouldn't take massive credit for things or not be self critical. However, I think it's okay to embellish a few details (there is a limit though), because the interviewer obviously cannot verify this.
You sir are truly a blessing in disguise. I must really thank you for this video. I took your advice/pointers before my behavioral interview with a big tech company. Guess what? I made it through!
I watched a few videos before watching this. Every other video was suggesting to put on a show in front of the interviewer, so hearing some one advising to be genuine was such a big relief!
Hello! I commented before and I watched your videos multiple times. I just wanted to stop by again and say thank you for this video. I just received two offers today and would not have gotten through them without your advice. Just having that sincere, honest, humble and genuine passion for learning kind of attitude will go a long ways :D
Best video I have seen on behavioural interviews. Not trying to give out a cheatsheet, but describing what you should expect and what the interviewers are trying to get from it. Thanks for the advice!! TL;DW: Be genuine
most sexiest & by heart interview tips talked...really enjoyed it !! Now I feel more relaxed about being yourself, genuine and smash it like feeling. Thanks a ton for your efforts !!
Thanks for the video, it is excellent. As someone who is from a different culture and came to a different country, I had to play by the rules described in the local HR articles. For example, they mention that saying "I want this job because it pays well" is not perceived well in the US companies. So I had to come up with some bullshit which was perceived well. It did help me to get high paying jobs in well known companies. Sometimes I got myself into a situation when I hated my job. But generally, I'm pretty good at doing my job and have never been fired (that just means I've never got impacted by a major layoff and never badly screw up anything personally). So for me it is just a matter of getting through the interview playing by the rules of not well known me culture. I am trying to be brutally honest on my interviews now, it is not an easy thing to do after all :) Most of the time I hear back - thank you for your straight talk, but thank you. I do hope it will finally get me into the right place in my career though.
This is amazing, and I’m glad I made time to watch the whole thing through! I’m currently prepping for a recruiting coordinator interview for Airbnb, and this video totally affirmed why I want so badly to be in recruiting. Please do more!!
Amazingly dense and solid suggestions on the topic that is very abstract and hard to grip. Really appreciate your sharing what the other side hears and feels about. Please make more episodes!
This was absolutely amazing !. I always had a tough time understanding what I did wrong in a behavioral interview. This video is pure gold ! Time to introspect
I usually skip around with UA-cam videos, but not with this one. Thanks for the helpful detail. I have an interview coming up and this was so well thought out.
This video is a hidden gem @Jackson! Thanks so much!!! I totally agree with you about being Genuine, whether it's for behavioural interviews or for relationships!
Absolutely loved it! I don’t remember if I have even watched so long on UA-cam. I binged watch both system design and this episode back to back... Both of them completely worth the time and clears out a lot of apprehensions I had! Thank you for sharing them...
Thank you for the most clear guide on approaching these kinds of interviews ! Now I understand the main reason I didn’t pass this interview 2 years back at a company. And that part at 12:50 really resonates with how I answered these questions
How often are you told not only that it's okay to be yourself, but that it's absolutely essential to be authentic? Love the message and massively enjoyed the talk. Thanks for making this!
Thank you for covering so many aspects with relatable anecdotes. I would probably have to re-watch it to fully get the essence and importance of behavioral interviews.
I was actually provided with this video link from one of the tech giants for interview preparation.I get why they suggested it because of your experience in the field. I am very grateful to you as now I will know how to tackle the interview and excel it. Thanks!
I wish there were more of your videos. Your explainations are excellent. They're right to the point and exactly what someone who's attempting to get into this field needs to hear. I hope that the break between uploads is more because you're busy, and not that you're no longer making videos.
thanks, brother, today I had an interview and I fellow as you said "be yourself and speak the truth, and I followed "I really feel great, whether I may select or reject that doesn't matter now. but this was a great experience to know myself as the real me. thanks, brother for such great teaching
Hey Jackson, thanks a lot for making these videos available. This one was pretty nice because it got me thinking about my failures and mistakes I made (not something I think about that often). Thanks, dude!
I agreed with everything until right at the end. Asking what programming language you're working in is probably THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION if you don't know. Heck, it can shape your entire career's prospects. Every employer wants one year longer experience than the actual life of the technology. If you take your time jumping on the latest thing you're behind forever. And it's not just any latest thing, but you have to discern its potential longevity also. Of course any developer worth their salt can adapt to any language or tech, but a lot, indeed most companies, are hiring for direct experience and usually its right there in the job listing. That the company hasn't settled on a common tech, or have their own home grown language is a sure fire way of throwing your coding career away. Hard to imagine a world where this is not the case. What a lovely place that would be. Is this guy so senior, or in management, it no longer matters? My 25 years of dev experience disagrees.
Dude, thanks a lot for taking the time to put up these videos. They help me a lot for my interviews. Thank you and please do more ! I am sure, it will help a lot more people! New channels take some time to snowball into more. Thanks!
Just wanna say a big thanks for this video. I really appreciate the honest and genuine advice you have put into this. I love your channel and I hope you continue making videos every now and then. (:
That was a really great video on behavioral advice. I could not stop once I started watching. I have been trying to collect some good advice on behavioral, yours was the best. It made me really think about my story.
this is my first time to see a video on your channel i was just searching for a behavioral interviews and man i am so happy that i watched this video thumbs up you're really amazing.
I wish you make more videos. But these are also good if there are other priorities in life. Thanks a lot. These also inspire for my upcoming interviews and motivate for preparation.
This is so helpful and lots of great wisdom. I'm going through many interviews and sometimes wonder why last interview didn't go well. After watching this video, I think I have some ideas. THANK YOU!!!
I interviewed 50 people last year, wow so you have great perspective, great advice and a coherent explanation here. I imagine it would be awesome to work with you. Hopefully I'll get to hear more of your thoughts through another video at some point. Thanks for this!
I really appreciate the effort you had put to cover everything in detail. Good job . I definitely liked last important points you mentioned Be genuine ,think critically .. I never had thought about this before
Thanks so much! I am preparing for the behavior interview, ang get really frustrated about how to tune my experience to align with the companies culture. It is a great relief to get the advice from you that being geunie is the most important thing.
I want to thank you a lot for all the advice you gave. But, there are two things which I'd like to comment: 1. At 39:04 your advice is to accept "agressive" communication. I'm not sure if you realize how bad that can sound without further details. I hope you only referred to those who cannot take criticism at all. Not to bosses who scream at their employees. 2. At the end, you said it's bad to ask what coding languages and technologies the company use. I disagree. If the reason is to actually find out, that shows interest into the position and passion. I've been in interviews, where I realized the HR person had trouble understanding Java vs JavaScript.
This channel is really different from all others I have seen so far. Couple of his videos have really helped me. I am not sure how to make him do more videos
Thank you so much for this video. It really helps me to better understand the behavioral interviews as a college grad. Look forward to your new videos!
Just wanted to leave a comment to say I really enjoyed this episode. I appreciate your candor and I think your best videos are the ones where you let your personality shine.
Thank you the episode. good things to definitely keep on mind while interviewing. especially being genuine and honest. It takes away a lot of pressure during interviews.
Last year: watched this video to prepare for interviews.
Now: watching this video to learn how to conduct interviews.
That's how useful this video is
What's the matter to have those questions then? 😂
This reads like a LinkedIn post lol
As someone who's both conducted and been apart of hundreds of tech interviews, this is probably the best video resource explaining how behavioral interviews work (and should work) and expectations.
- *Be genuine*
- Culture fit
- Communication expressing idea
- Collaboration - way to coordinate with people. best way keep you point always last.
- Don't blame take responsibility
- Is it positive contributor?
- Reverse engineering dont logically tuned a answer be genuine
- Sometime mixed answer good + bad thing.
- Project is team work may be you are worked big chunk but don't forget give credits to the team
- Resume should tell own story progression of jobs.
- Remove I word and add Me and Team
- Passion long:- running enthuse also applicable where you work
- Critical points below
- Be genuine
- Thing crucially about you Career and company you trying to work and what you want next in you career.
- Own you strength and weakness.
- End asking Question.
Absolute GOLD, even after 4 years!
Even 7 years after
@@chingizt3106 Even after 8
This is the best video I have watched on behavioral interviews after having watched about 10 hours of material. The rationale of the advice and the friendly tone is just what makes it awesome. He is approaching the audience as a friend and a mentor rather that a marketer hungry for attracting ridiculous number of viewers.
Thank you so much! This 1 hour was well worth it!
I know the advice is as simple as "be yourself" but I loved so much all the information in between. Thanks a lot for this video.
Thank you! After years of teaching myself and experiencing a lot of rejection in the last 8 months, I've finally got a tech job without any commercial experience and started a new career path that I've wanted for a long time. Your realistic approach to interviews certainly helped me get there. Kudos!
Found this video today, it's a gem no matter how old this is. You have a vey much high experience and you shared it with others, this means it's highly recommended to watch for anyone.
Hours and hours of material for interviews and none gave me the depth I found in this. Great video! So well explained
You're doing God's work. Please, make more these type of videos about any content related to IT, actually I would love to see any type of video from you. The delivery, the usefulness and the actuality of topics are outright outstanding.
This is the MOST useful video about the interviewing I've seen so far. Thank you very much Jackson!
One thing about reverse engineering questions -- I think calling it that is a bit of a misnomer.
This whole guide IS about reverse engineering the questions.
Reverse engineering the questions is essentially knowing that the questions are looking for signal on communication, collaboration, your passions and verifying your history. With that knowledge, I've reverse engineered the questions to answer them with this framework in mind and making sure my answer showcases all those things.
What you actually mean is that you shouldn't lie and think that the questions are trying to trick or mislead you in a way. You shouldn't take massive credit for things or not be self critical. However, I think it's okay to embellish a few details (there is a limit though), because the interviewer obviously cannot verify this.
You sir are truly a blessing in disguise. I must really thank you for this video. I took your advice/pointers before my behavioral interview with a big tech company. Guess what? I made it through!
Congrats!
I watched a few videos before watching this. Every other video was suggesting to put on a show in front of the interviewer, so hearing some one advising to be genuine was such a big relief!
The best material on behavioural interview for engineers I've ever seen. So much valuable information, zero nonsense.
Thank you, kind person 🙂
The best guideline for behavioral interviews. Hands down. Fantastic job. Thank you thank you thank you.
By far one of the best episodes
Hello! I commented before and I watched your videos multiple times. I just wanted to stop by again and say thank you for this video. I just received two offers today and would not have gotten through them without your advice. Just having that sincere, honest, humble and genuine passion for learning kind of attitude will go a long ways :D
Fantastic talk, With no noisy background music. Thank you for creating this.
Best video I have seen on behavioural interviews. Not trying to give out a cheatsheet, but describing what you should expect and what the interviewers are trying to get from it. Thanks for the advice!!
TL;DW: Be genuine
most sexiest & by heart interview tips talked...really enjoyed it !! Now I feel more relaxed about being yourself, genuine and smash it like feeling. Thanks a ton for your efforts !!
Thanks for the video, it is excellent.
As someone who is from a different culture and came to a different country, I had to play by the rules described in the local HR articles. For example, they mention that saying "I want this job because it pays well" is not perceived well in the US companies. So I had to come up with some bullshit which was perceived well.
It did help me to get high paying jobs in well known companies. Sometimes I got myself into a situation when I hated my job. But generally, I'm pretty good at doing my job and have never been fired (that just means I've never got impacted by a major layoff and never badly screw up anything personally). So for me it is just a matter of getting through the interview playing by the rules of not well known me culture.
I am trying to be brutally honest on my interviews now, it is not an easy thing to do after all :) Most of the time I hear back - thank you for your straight talk, but thank you. I do hope it will finally get me into the right place in my career though.
One of the best I've watched. A great service to anyone looking to keep progressing in their career. Thanks, Jackson.
Sincerely one of the best youtube videos I've ever watched with respect to the quality and honesty of the content.
This is one of the best resources I have came across regarding behavioral interviews.
This video is absolute gold!
Extremely helpful pointers, and neat examples. You spoke genuinely and thoughtfully. I took notes.
This is amazing, and I’m glad I made time to watch the whole thing through! I’m currently prepping for a recruiting coordinator interview for Airbnb, and this video totally affirmed why I want so badly to be in recruiting. Please do more!!
Amazingly dense and solid suggestions on the topic that is very abstract and hard to grip. Really appreciate your sharing what the other side hears and feels about. Please make more episodes!
This was absolutely amazing !. I always had a tough time understanding what I did wrong in a behavioral interview. This video is pure gold !
Time to introspect
Thankyou very much. With tons of advisers on you tube I found your’s the most authentic one
I can't remember last time I was so excited for something to come out. easily my favourite youtube channel
This is by far the best video I have ever watched on behavioural interviews. Thank you
This is probably the most useful youtube video I've seen discussing Behavioural Interviews
I usually skip around with UA-cam videos, but not with this one. Thanks for the helpful detail. I have an interview coming up and this was so well thought out.
This video is a hidden gem @Jackson! Thanks so much!!! I totally agree with you about being Genuine, whether it's for behavioural interviews or for relationships!
Absolutely loved it! I don’t remember if I have even watched so long on UA-cam. I binged watch both system design and this episode back to back... Both of them completely worth the time and clears out a lot of apprehensions I had! Thank you for sharing them...
Thank you for the most clear guide on approaching these kinds of interviews ! Now I understand the main reason I didn’t pass this interview 2 years back at a company. And that part at 12:50 really resonates with how I answered these questions
How often are you told not only that it's okay to be yourself, but that it's absolutely essential to be authentic? Love the message and massively enjoyed the talk. Thanks for making this!
Greate Job! Probably the first youtube video I sat through for an entire hour without pausing.
Thank you for covering so many aspects with relatable anecdotes. I would probably have to re-watch it to fully get the essence and importance of behavioral interviews.
I was actually provided with this video link from one of the tech giants for interview preparation.I get why they suggested it because of your experience in the field. I am very grateful to you as now I will know how to tackle the interview and excel it. Thanks!
Best video on this topic I've seen so far. Thank you, Jackson, so much for putting your time on to this.
"Best video on this topic I've seen so far. " Agree!
thank you. this video literally prevented me to do so many mistakes that I would've done otherwise
This is a really qualified video for an unqualified engineer. Gold.
one of the best videos about interviewing process in tech. that would've been so exciting to be interviewed by someone like this guy
Really glad I stumbled upon your channel, I think a lot more people than your current 1900 subscribers would love to hear some of this advice
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I have seen this video many times and still like seeing it
I wish there were more of your videos.
Your explainations are excellent. They're right to the point and exactly what someone who's attempting to get into this field needs to hear. I hope that the break between uploads is more because you're busy, and not that you're no longer making videos.
thanks, brother, today I had an interview and I fellow as you said "be yourself and speak the truth, and I followed "I really feel great, whether I may select or reject that doesn't matter now. but this was a great experience to know myself as the real me. thanks, brother for such great teaching
This was extremely helpful for my interview, thank you!
I would pay to hear you talk, so glad you've created this channel and talk so freely about your experience and give advice.
Just watched 15 minutes so far and loved this video. Really helpful.
such a great video! watching this for the third time and learning new things each time
Hey Jackson, thanks a lot for making these videos available. This one was pretty nice because it got me thinking about my failures and mistakes I made (not something I think about that often). Thanks, dude!
I agreed with everything until right at the end. Asking what programming language you're working in is probably THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION if you don't know. Heck, it can shape your entire career's prospects. Every employer wants one year longer experience than the actual life of the technology. If you take your time jumping on the latest thing you're behind forever. And it's not just any latest thing, but you have to discern its potential longevity also. Of course any developer worth their salt can adapt to any language or tech, but a lot, indeed most companies, are hiring for direct experience and usually its right there in the job listing. That the company hasn't settled on a common tech, or have their own home grown language is a sure fire way of throwing your coding career away. Hard to imagine a world where this is not the case. What a lovely place that would be. Is this guy so senior, or in management, it no longer matters? My 25 years of dev experience disagrees.
Awesome video - its great to have people like you in this world to share your knowledge, wisdom, and sincere honesty. Love the humor.
Thanks Jackson, this is the amazing video, pure gold.
Really helpful. I enjoyed your discussion. You put some real example and scenario.
Really appreciate Jackson.
Thank you
Dude, thanks a lot for taking the time to put up these videos. They help me a lot for my interviews.
Thank you and please do more ! I am sure, it will help a lot more people! New channels take some time to snowball into more.
Thanks!
giving so good vibration. how you're speaking its quite amazing to watch.
This is very useful and loved the way you have articulated it with kindness. Please add more videos!!!!
Just wanna say a big thanks for this video. I really appreciate the honest and genuine advice you have put into this. I love your channel and I hope you continue making videos every now and then. (:
That was a really great video on behavioral advice. I could not stop once I started watching. I have been trying to collect some good advice on behavioral, yours was the best. It made me really think about my story.
This video is full of amazing insights! It made me think long and hard about what I want to achieve with my life.
this is my first time to see a video on your channel i was just searching for a behavioral interviews and man i am so happy that i watched this video thumbs up you're really amazing.
Thanks... Now I know why I failed my Amazon interview two years ago.
This was amazing. I just watched again since I have a behavioral interview this afternoon. I took plenty of notes and feel ready to go. Thanks again.
The best channel I have visited! Thank you man.
I wish you make more videos. But these are also good if there are other priorities in life. Thanks a lot. These also inspire for my upcoming interviews and motivate for preparation.
This is so helpful and lots of great wisdom. I'm going through many interviews and sometimes wonder why last interview didn't go well. After watching this video, I think I have some ideas. THANK YOU!!!
OMG you dont know how glad I am when I found your video. This video is all I want to prepare for interviews
thought provoking and brilliant advice. A great demonstration on how to come across in a genuine way
One of the best videos I have ever watched. Please come back and make more videos!
I interviewed 50 people last year, wow so you have great perspective, great advice and a coherent explanation here. I imagine it would be awesome to work with you. Hopefully I'll get to hear more of your thoughts through another video at some point.
Thanks for this!
I really appreciate the effort you had put to cover everything in detail. Good job . I definitely liked last important points you mentioned Be genuine ,think critically .. I never had thought about this before
Thanks so much! I am preparing for the behavior interview, ang get really frustrated about how to tune my experience to align with the companies culture. It is a great relief to get the advice from you that being geunie is the most important thing.
Really really excellent lecture. Thanks very much for sharing valuable knowledge & tips.
I want to thank you a lot for all the advice you gave. But, there are two things which I'd like to comment:
1. At 39:04 your advice is to accept "agressive" communication. I'm not sure if you realize how bad that can sound without further details. I hope you only referred to those who cannot take criticism at all. Not to bosses who scream at their employees.
2. At the end, you said it's bad to ask what coding languages and technologies the company use. I disagree. If the reason is to actually find out, that shows interest into the position and passion. I've been in interviews, where I realized the HR person had trouble understanding Java vs JavaScript.
This video is full of red flags and based on a super outdated mindset of workaholic culture
As soon as video started I hit 👍 button and subscribed. THANK YOU!
Worth Watching an hour .... Denfintely useful !!!
Wow this is a great episode! I'm a UX designer and this helped me greatly. Thank you!!
Amazing video, it's been 6 years but it felt super helpful, thanks for your time and effort!
What an excellent video on such a difficult topic. Every word is relatable and so apt. Thanks.
Just watching this gives me anxiety
truth hurts
then you may suck ;) be genuine
Thank you for your insights. Very valuable information for not only this industry but to being honest in life!
Thank you for following your own advice here - being extremely genuine! Great video!
I'M BEGGING YOU!!!!! PLEASE KEEP MAKING THESE TYPE OF VIDEOS! .... or not.... XD
This channel is really different from all others I have seen so far. Couple of his videos have really helped me. I am not sure how to make him do more videos
@@panky905 This guy may just want to share really helpful things, other than making money out of them.
This is gold. Thanks UA-cam recommendation engine..
Great video, the best on the subject I found so far. Thanks a lot!
Thank you so much for this video. It really helps me to better understand the behavioral interviews as a college grad. Look forward to your new videos!
Most useful video I've ever seen about interviews.
This is the best video about behavioral interview. Thank you !! ❤
Just wanted to leave a comment to say I really enjoyed this episode. I appreciate your candor and I think your best videos are the ones where you let your personality shine.
Really loved your video. Couldn't find anything better than this.!! plzzzzzz add more videos!!
Thank you Jackson, this is the most important advices on behavioral interviews I got, really helpful and insightful! Learned a lot from you. ;)
I feel so much better about my interview tomorrow, thanks mate.
Excellent video and one that I can relate to from personal experience as an interviewee. Thanks!
0:33 'I know what you are thinking: But I'm a coder, I'm coding. I don't do people things." damn you get an instant SUB right here! : DDD
Mmmmm. I believe that when Passion and Achievement are couple in just the right way, you get a truly unstoppable combination.
Thank you the episode. good things to definitely keep on mind while interviewing. especially being genuine and honest. It takes away a lot of pressure during interviews.