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The Interview and Beyond
At the Interview | Handling Behavioral Questions Why Behavioral Questions As stated earlier, interviews usually start and end with “chit chat” or “soft skills ” This is a time to answer questions about your resume or general questions, and also an opportunity for you to ask questions This part of the interview is targeted not only at getting to know you, but also at relaxing you Be Specific, Not Arrogant Arrogance is a red flag, but you still want to make yourself sound impressive So how do you make yourself sound good without being arrogant? By being specific! Specificity means giving just the facts and letting the interviewer derive an interpretation Consider an example: » Candidate #1: “I basically did all the hard work for the team ” » Candidate #2: “I implemented the file system, which was considered one of the most challenging components because …” Candidate #2 not only sounds more impressive, but she also appears less arrogant Limit Details When a candidate blabbers on about a problem, it’s hard for an interviewer who isn’t well versed in the subject or project to understand it CareerCup recommends that you stay light on details and just state the key points That is, consider something like this: “By examining the most common user behavior and applying the Rabin-Karp algorithm, I designed a new algorithm to reduce search from O(n) to O(log n) in 90% of cases I can go into more details if you’d like ” This demonstrates the key points while letting your interviewer ask for more details if he wants to Ask Good Questions Remember those questions you came up with while preparing? Now is a great time to use them! Structure Answers Using S A R Structure your responses using S A R : Situation, Action, Response That is, you should start off outlining the situation, then explaining the actions you took, and lastly, describing the result Example: “Tell me about a challenging interaction with a teammate.” » Situation: On my operating systems project, I was assigned to work with three other 2 9 Cracking the Coding Interview
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Page 7 and 8: Table of Contents Foreword 4 Introd
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Page 26 and 27: Before the Interview
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