Behavioral Interview
Tips to get better
These are from SPCOM223, still need to work on those:
- Get better at using intonation in my speech
- Better use of various hand gestures (and the right one) to elevate my speech
- Better use of pauses. Being comfortable with silence.
- Get better at making the audience laugh (using comedy)
- Get better at reading the audience
Introduction List 2-4 projects, and in quantifiable terms talk about the problems you tackled and the results that you achieved.
Portfolio = first impression Presentation = make it stick
Interviews:
- Don’t speak negatively about past experiences, be super passionate and excited about them
General Tips for passing interviews
Top companies are not going to ask you these stupid questions:
- “What is your biggest weakness?”
- “Do you enjoy working in a team?”
Different companies look for different things. However, some general traits:
- Strong communicators
- It’s not just about solving the problem. It’s about being able to communicate your thought process clearly with the other individual
- How to practice this? Mock interviews with me for example
- Fast and correct problem solvers
- We love it if you can write clean and correct code fast
- Strong technical understanding of the topic
- Depends on the company, but topics could be specifics about the language (what is your favourite C++ feature) to more general OS questions / robotics. Really depends on the role that you are interviewing for.
The best way to interview prep is to look at the description of the job posting. The “What You’ll Do” and “What You’ll bring” sections of the posting literally tell you what they are looking for in a candidate. Prepare accordingly.