Behavioral and Leadership Round
Stories from your own work, with enough detail to hold up under follow-up questions. Every level gets this round, and at Staff and above it often decides the offer.
Start a Session
Set a level to tune the cards. Cards you rated Shaky come up more often.
How It's Graded at Each Level
- Junior
Clear stories about learning fast, asking for help, and owning a mistake.
- Mid
Ownership of a feature end to end, a disagreement handled well, and a result you can measure.
- Senior
Projects you led, conflict you resolved across teams, and people you helped grow.
- Staff
Direction you set without authority, a bet you made and defended, and how you changed the org around you.
- Principal
Strategy across years and teams, how you shaped the company's direction, and calls you got wrong.
Drill Types
- PromptsA prompt with a rubric, red flags, and follow-ups to grade yourself against.About 5 min a prompt
- Story BankWrite your stories once, map them to the questions they answer, and drill them.About 10 min a story
- Staff StudioProject deep dives, design doc critiques, and strategy calls for Staff and up.25 min a critique
Read These First
All Behavioral PromptsCommon Mistakes
Telling the team's story
Say what you did. The interviewer is hiring you.
A result with no number
Latency, revenue, hours saved, or incidents avoided. Pick one and know it.
One story stretched to fit
Keep six to eight stories ready so each prompt gets a story that fits.
Matching Mock
Mixed Timed Drill
A timed set that includes behavioral prompts, with a report at the end.