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Yes this is pretty common in my area (finance in London). Especially in the HR interview which is sometimes called a competency interview. You will get question
by bloat 10y ago
Yes this is pretty common in my area (finance in London). Especially in the HR interview which is sometimes called a competency interview. You will get questions of the format "tell me about a time when you persuaded your manager to do something", or "tell me about a time when you had a conflict with another team member."
The interviewer generally expects a STAR format answer to these questions. Typically the candidate would come with two or three good stories in mind, and be able to tailor them to the particular question - many good workplace "war stories" would fit one or more of these sorts of questions if you emphasize different aspects.
- pekk 10y agoSo interviewees are supposed to read "how to interview" books to know that they should generate a STAR format answer? What does this have to do with being able to do a job?
- pquerna 10y agoI don't expect a candidate to have STAR response out of the box at all. I would ask each part of STAR, directly to the candidate. The goal is to actually understand what the candidate did, less what "we" did. - Tell me about a time there was a production outage? - What was your role in the team? Were you on call? - [ questions about what happened ] - How was it fixed? What was your part in this? - What did your team change afterwards? - How do you think about production outages now based on this one?
- bloat 10y agoIn my experience the recruiter gives the candidate enough coaching to know the format. I couldn't say how it might work for other routes.