Interview Storytelling

This post is inspired in a video from A Life Engineered that gives many advices about telling good stories. He also explains how STAR model is more like a linter than a way to structure your story and compare it with U-shape model. This is also a fast cheatsheet, I won’t talk about any of these topics in depth.

General Tips

  • Present yourself very quickly
  • Do your homework and bring questions to the interviewers
  • Talk about what you’ve done, not your team
  • Challenges may be compatible with the level you aim
  • Anchor your status and show that you can handle challenges of your level
  • Show your career progression and growth mindset
  • Have a good story to tell about your journey in programming

U-shape

  • Stablish status about yourself
  • Explain the challenge and then deep dive into it
  • Introduce obstacles
  • Climb until the situation is proportionally better than how it started
  • Make sure that you have an imperfect solution

STAR Model

  • Describe a situation
  • Explain the task that you had to complete
  • Describe the actions you took
  • Show the results op your efforts

Most Frequent Questions

  • Challenging project/task
  • Improvements in your team
  • Successful projects
  • Handling feedbacks
  • 3 strengths and weaknesses