The ultimate guide to behavioral interviews. Developed by FAANG engineers. Use real-world questions, video recording, and structured strategies to get interview-ready in just a few hours.

Many times, it’s not your technical competency that holds you back from landing your dream job, it’s how you perform on the behavioral interview.

Whether you’re a software engineer, product manager, or engineering manager, this course will give you the tools to thoroughly prepare for behavioral and cultural questions. But beyond even technical roles, this would be useful for anyone, in any profession.

As you progress, you'll be able to use Educative's new video recording widget to record yourself answering questions and assess your performance.  By the time you’ve completed the course, you'll be able to answer any behavioral question that comes your way - with confidence.

Grokking the Behavioral Interview

# Sample Questions

We have crafted some sample questions (below) for you to try your hand at. While you work on answering these questions, it is important to remember that you should be creative as well as practical. Stretch the limits of your reality, but not the bounds. Look through the questions and then click on the video widget to get started. Once you have finished answering each question, refer to the rubric to self-assess.  

- Your team is giving a presentation in two hours and one member just called in sick. What do you do?
- If you had to choose between a work environment that was always in chaos and one in which nothing ever changed, which would you choose?
- If you inherited so much money that you never had to work again, how would you spend your time?
- If you could create a fictional company to make the world a better place, what would that company do?
- Imagine that you are the product manager for a consumer device that just launched, but 20% of the devices are breaking in the first week from normal use. What do you do?
- Describe how you would handle a situation if you were required to finish multiple tasks by the end of the day, and there was no conceivable way that you could finish them.


Try your hand at answering these hypothetical questions!

Why Prepare?

Preparing/Homework

Patterns for Behavioral Questions

Interview Etiquette

Conclusion and Quizzes!

Practice: Answering Hypothetical Questions

Sample Questions #