Day 44: Behavioral Interview Retro

I did a behavioral interview with the hiring manager today. Overall a good interview. The biggest issue - blue tooth headphone! Turn off my cellphone during an interview! There were so many calls during the interview. Man, I can’t believe that was the biggest issue.

Turn off cellphone

Turn on Do Not Disturb

questions:

What’s the most diffcult project?

What’s your company’s code review process?

How do you deal with a coworker that is diffcult?

How do you manage when there are multiple things to do? - follow up what do you when there are multiple equally important things to do?

What do you do when your boss is unavailable?

well done:

- Write out answers to some of the most asked questions

- Did a mock interview to practice - got some feedback

- Some of the answers were engaging - because they were stories, to the point, and explained the situation, actions, and outcomes.

areas of improvement:

- Technical issues - I need to prepare to deal with that before the interview

- Speak slower and more clearly

- Prepare by writing out the story structure of my past experiences - for the STAR format is pretty good. It seems like that is what every company is using - situation, tasks, action, result

my Impression of the company:

- Great onboarding process - basecamp 3 days, an overview of current services, daily standup, talk with four team leads to better understand the department vision, buddy that will help you for the first week to set up, one-on-one with the team lead every week.

- Manager’s management philosophy - transparency & value-driven decision making - I should have pushed for examples.

- Diverse culture

- Concepts to look into, micro-services front-end architecture / scalable frontend

- Learned about accessibility in gaming. That is so interesting, also what a great way to explain the challenges for blind and sightless players.