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17Standard Hero Behavior

Learn a good approach to Job Interviews using a combination of Behavioral Questions and Behavioral Tests.

 

Ten years ago, I published a blog post called “100 Interview Questions for Software Developers.” I made that list with a friend in an attempt to have better questions for the Job Interviews that I did at the time as a development manager at a software company. It turned out that I was not the only person who needed inspiration for interview questions. Half a million people have flocked to the article since I published it, and 10 years later, it is still the best-viewed post on that blog. Software developers from the other side of the planet told me that they had been interviewed with questions from my blog post, which makes me feel both proud and sad.

In hindsight, I must admit that the questions were not very good. They were all knowledge-oriented questions. It’s easy to prepare for knowledge questions in Job Interviews, even for people who are not particularly good at the job they are applying for. With enough preparation, I’m sure I could do well on a knowledge test about vinology, though I never drink any wine. There is a difference between what people say versus what they do. For this reason, some people wonder why companies still put so much effort into traditional Job Interviews when a good amount of research has revealed that interviews ...