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Hey guys, I have upcoming interviews with Amazon, Square and maybe Netflix (in talks with recruiter)... I have around 6 years of experience and currently work as a backend engineer and use mostly NodeJS and AWS in my day to day tasks. I started out as a Data engineer and moved into backend development and mostly learnt things on the go. The thing that scares the shit out of me are the behavioral interviews!! To give you some context, in my day to day tasks, I am assigned a ticket which can be a small feature or a bug fix and I move on to the next task. But when I take a look at the behavioral questions like "tell me a time when you solved ...","tell me a time when you made a decision ...", I feel like I have nothing to offer and I am hit with a severe imposter syndrome. I am by nature an introvert and also have an issue with stammering, which exacerbates under stress and embarrassment. This situation scares me so much as Netflix/Amazon are notorious for their behavioral questions, and I am even considering pulling back (but deep down I still want to give it a go as I am good with LC & competitive programming). Let me know if any of you have faced such similar issues, and how you were able to gather data points from your day to day work to navigate these behavioral questions. PS: face similar issues when I get hit up by men or on dates, but that's a complete different story, lol!! TC: humble 136k !! #interview #behavioralinterview #engineering #software #swe #sde #amazon #netflix
being senior is more about clone yourself. you need to be a good communicator, a good story teller. being able to distill your experience is gold. note your experience down if you’re not doing yet and try practice communicate them to use STAR pattern. if you have never experience any of the questions, it means you are not push yourself enough out of comfort zone.
I don't think I would be considered for the senior positions. They would see right through me during the behavioral. But yeah, I agree I am scared to get uncomfortable and just have a "follow the herd" mentality. Hearing this hurts but helps!
There is an archetype for coding machine / fixer. You still need some communication skill to demonstrate in behavior round.
Join the discord channel for day1coach. Wealth of info there for your situation.
Thanks for making this post OP, I am exactly like you. My personality is quite conflict avoidant so I feel the impostor syndrome when it comes to behavioral interviews.
You can overcome Impostor syndrome with practice. You have all 14 leadership principles on Amazon, that’s enough to prepare and practice with your friends. Try to pick those positions of responsibility at your current job, you’ll have all the answers for yourself. It’s okay to mess up, as that’s a question too 😜. With experience you’ll overcome your impostor syndrome. At the same time, your small features or bug fixes may indeed have involved some degree of “when you made a decision...“, “when you solved...”. You don’t need to downplay it as it was a big task for you at some point. Behavioral is usually your challenges and how you overcame it, not what the wider org thinks. If you have no time to execute such responsibilities, for the work you did, read the design docs, talk to tech leads, just build a story around it. This is very risky, because in companies like Amazon, it may show up in your incoherent responses over multiple rounds, and it wouldn’t fit your story. But if you practice enough with your friends, you’ll learn the art of over-stating what you did and it will help you out.
Thank you for giving me a different perspective. I tend to be trapped in my head and seldom reach out to anyone. Maybe it's time to hit up some people and ask questions and not think it's all stupid.
Where can I find a list of these STAR-type behavioral questions so I can practice?