What types of questions can be answered behaviorally?

Any non-technical question can, and often should, be answered behaviorally. Examples:
  • questions starting with “Tell me about a time when you… [e.g. failed, dealt with conflict, faced a challenge]”.
  • Introductory / general questions; for example: Tell me about yourself, Why you, why this company, why this role; what’s your weakness
  • Open ended questions: how do you [prioritize, learn, help people develop their careers etc..]
  • Hypothetical questions: how would you deal with [conflict inside your team, ambiguity etc.. ]

Key behaviors:

  • Conflict & Influence
  • Prioritization & Speed
  • Failure Questions
  • Vision / Strategic Thinking
  • Results / Outcome Orientation
  • Customer Obsession
  • Elevator pitch. Why this company.
  • Strength and weakness
  • .. and more

This training program, at its core, is a bunch of videos designed to help you excel in behavioral interviews. Over time, more features were added:

  • Stories dashboard: a place where you can add your stories in a structured format, filter them by behavior, score etc..
  • Ability to evaluate your stories using AI reports on things such as behavioral fit, length, strength etc..
  • Quizzes to test your knowledge while (or after) going through the videos; or quizzes to help you improve your listening skills
  • The script of the videos (text) in each section as a recap.
  • New sections such as employer, and candidate interviewing techniques
  • More (notable) examples from exceptional people are constantly added
  • Sections are also constantly being adjusted to both add new trends and trimmed to save you time
  • Flexible access (6, 12 months or unlimited)

Any role

First, throughout my career, I've worked in both technical and non-technical roles.
Second. My experience coaching people for all major job categories has taught me an important lesson: anyone applying for such jobs should be able to qualify if an answer, including its depth, is for them. Some stories will be for mid-level roles while others will be for principal (advisory) roles, while others will be for sales.
While it is true that many of these stories are from IT, I picked examples from a variety of industries and roles.

Why buy this training?

This content is biased towards benefiting the candidate, on what connects with success in job interviews.
  1. Minimize risk of surprise by covering a broad range of behaviors and scenarios, specific to behavioral interviews.
  2. Examples from exceptional candidates who succeeded in their careers. Improve your listening skills through a variety of examples & quizzes
  3. AI done right; who passes interviews using AI? Very few people do; many more fail them because of AI; others capitalize on hooking you up on AI features which actually degrade your performance
  4. Time is something most candidates don’t have; this is why the training has been trimmed from 9 to 6 to 3 hours (over 5 years)
  5. Engagement triggers via regular YouTube videos

Meta's core values linked to key sections in the training program

At Meta, core values aren’t just words on a piece of paper. They’re what guide our actions, communication and decisions every day.

  1. Move fast
  2. We build and learn faster than anyone else. Acting with urgency, we don’t wait until next week to do something we could do today. We continuously work to speed up our highest priority initiatives by methodically removing barriers that get in the way. It’s about moving fast in one direction together — as a company and as individuals.

    Sections in the training: Prioritization & Speed, Ambiguity & Decision making (section 1, section 2), Failure Questions

  3. Build awesome things
  4. We push ourselves to ship things that are not just good, but also awe-inspiring. We’ve already built technologies that are useful to billions of people. In our next chapter, we’ll focus more on inspiring them as well, in everything we do.

    Sections in the training: Customer Obsession, Deliver Results
    Aditional behavior: High Standards (sample questions in the training)

  5. Be direct and respect your colleagues
  6. We create a culture where we are straightforward and willing to have hard conversations with each other. At the same time, we are also respectful and when we share feedback, we recognize that many of the world’s leading experts work here.

    Sections in the training: Conflict & Influence (section 1, section 2)

  7. Focus on long-term impact
  8. We emphasize long-term thinking that encourages us to extend the timeline for the impact we have, rather than optimizing for near-term wins. We take on the challenges that will be the most impactful, even if the full results won’t be seen for years.

    Section in the training: Vision & Strategic Thinking
    Aditional behavior: Ownership (sample questions in the training)

  9. Live in the future
  10. We build the future of work that we want, with an in-person focus designed to support a strong, valuable experience for our people who work from the office, and a thoughtful and intentional approach to where we invest in remote work. This also means being early adopters of the future products we build to help people feel present together wherever they are.

    Section in the training: Learning & Innovation
    Aditional behavior: Curiosity (sample questions in the training)

  11. Meta, Metamates, me
  12. We are stewards of our company and our mission. We have a sense of responsibility for our collective success and to each other as teammates. It’s about taking care of our company and each other.

    Sections in the training: Conflict & Influence (section 1, section 2)

Pricing

Select the scenario that best suits your needs.

6 months

$299

  • scenario: “one-off” interview; note: acess to the stories dashboard is perpetual.

1 year

$399

  • scenario: multiple applications within a year for this and other companies with similar interview processes (all high performing companies use behavioral interviews)

lifetime

$500

    scenario: long-term approach to interview prep with any company (on request, it includes access to any other training program)