How to conduct Behavioral interviews
🎁 Behavioral Interview List of Questions included!
Intro
Behavioral interviews are a great addition to understanding the candidate deeply on their motivations and overall fit within the company's culture and mission.
The goal is to assess their previous experience and learnings. The focus is on learnings. We all have had previous bad experiences, the importance is on how fast did the candidate learn from them.
It’s important to note that this type of interview is not limited to engineering roles only. It can be used for a variety of different roles.
Let’s start with when to use behavioral interviews.
When to conduct a Behavioral interview?
Behavioral interviews can be conducted together in combination with other interviews, like:
Initial call,
Hiring Manager interview,
Cultural fit Interview,
Tech interview, etc.
They can also be conducted separately as a standalone interview. This depends based on the role that we are hiring for.
For Software Engineer roles (IC path), QA and Architecture roles
What works best for me is to conduct them as part of …