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Behavioural interviews · free guide

You can do the job. Let me tell you why your answers are not landing.

The behavioural round decides more loops than the technical one, and it is the round people prepare last. I have sat on hundreds of hiring loops at Microsoft and Amazon. Start with the free guide: one real answer pulled apart, then rewritten.

20 yrs

In tech, starting in 2006 at age 21

6 yrs

In security engineering, where I lead today

<8 yrs

Engineer to Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft

$10M

Saved by one Azure program I built and led

If any of this is you

The problem usually isn't the work. It's the evidence.

  • You can do the job, and you freeze on “tell me about a time…”.
  • Your answers are completely true and still score badly.
  • You got rejected after a full loop and nobody told you why.
  • You are senior on paper and keep getting levelled down.
  • You have three stories and stretch them over every question.

On your own time

Everything I know about the behavioural round, written down.

Mastering the Interview

112 behavioural interview questions, each answered in full STAR format across four tech disciplines — program management, product management, product marketing and software development.

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Most people start with the 30-minute session at $49. If you would rather talk first there is a short discovery call, but it is for deciding whether I am the right person, not for working on your answers.

In their words

What people say afterwards.

“Thank you so much Gurpreet for being such a great listener and an equally good and articulate speaker — and for helping me understand technical concepts in easily understandable, digestible bits. Gurpreet is not someone who says "do as I say". He is someone who says "do as I do", and talks from experience.”
“I really found the session very helpful and effective. The suggestions you gave to overcome my confidence issues make a lot of sense. I am looking forward to the next session as discussed.”
“I felt amazing after the session. I am so grateful for all the practical solutions you have given to set my career in the right direction. Would love to have a session again.”

Your answers are better than you think.

They are just missing the evidence an interviewer can write down. Start free with one answer taken apart, and if it is useful the whole bank is $9.99.

Read the free guide Or buy the book — $9.99

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