Today’s guest is Austen McDonald, former hiring committee chair at Meta, and author of the book, “Mastering Behavioral Interviews.”
Austen, in his career, conducted more than 1,000 interviews and coached more than 200 engineers, and is here today to tell us everything about why behavioral interviews are more important than ever and how to run them right, as a candidate and as a recruiter.
So let’s dive right into the action.
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🥇 Interview Summary
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It’s the 10-minute takeaways of what we talked about, with timestamps to the relevant video moments, for those who don’t have time to sit through the 1-hour chat.
Here is the agenda for today:
🎙️ Why behavioral interviews matter more than ever
🔍 The question behind the question: signal areas
🎯 The big three questions & how to nail them
🛠️ Building your story catalog & delivery framework
🤖 AI’s impact on hiring and what interviewers look for now
⠀Let’s dive in 👇
