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Behavioral & Soft Skills

Senior-level interviews: ownership, communication, conflict, and leadership.

STAR Framework

  • • Situation
  • • Task
  • • Action
  • • Result (metrics!)

Ownership

  • • Taking initiative without waiting
  • • Reliability & follow-through
  • • Proposing trade-offs
  • • Incident handling mindset

Leadership (No Title)

  • • Mentoring & onboarding
  • • Code review quality
  • • Raising standards with empathy
  • • Influencing without authority

Conflict Resolution

  • • Disagree & commit
  • • Align on goals, not ego
  • • Data-driven decisions
  • • Escalation as last resort

Communication

  • • Explain complex things simply
  • • Set expectations early
  • • Write good tickets/specs
  • • Stakeholder updates

Top Questions

  • • Tell me about a failure
  • • Handling pressure & deadlines
  • • Disagreement with a teammate
  • • Biggest impact you delivered