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Yes, just about every interview will have 1-2 star style interview questions looking for an example of one of the leadership principles. In a tech interview tha

Yes, just about every interview will have 1-2 star style interview questions looking for an example of one of the leadership principles. In a tech interview that might be 7-20 minutes of an hour. The non tech portions will focus on the lps more. These questions are a great way to do focused experience questions. It's definitely harder for really junior people to have lots of examples here than someone with 5 years but I scale my expectations way down for interns. But having any experience helps. I'll take examples from anywhere. I actually find the sheltered rich kids are worse at this. Some of them can literally only list their student projects when I ask for a disagree and commit example. But if you worked retail like target or Wendy's you'll have many examples. One of my mentees put themselves through college working the alumni guilt we donations line. We got solid examples across the board in a few hours. I do also find going and finding these examples also helps you for other job interviews as they're just your interesting experience points

hgsgm 4y ago
Those sheltered kids spent their whole lives Disagreeing and Committing to their schooling and arts/athletics training regimen. They just didn't see it in that light.
- grogenaut 4y ago
  Those would be good examples if they had them. And many do. There's many opportunities to show individual response to situations through highschool, on sports, etc. Run the bake sale, organize tshirts, etc. I just want folks who have taken ANY initiative in their lives really at the intern level. Or had ANY real world experience. Where they've come up with an idea, talked to people about it, tried it and seen the results. But in general the expectation I have for experience that a intern will have is pretty low. Basically if they have one relevant experience they're at average. If they've done anything else they're going to ace that section. Less experience... I'll lean more into the code. Generally take it really easy on interns as it is their first real job. Now for the LP questions on people with 3/5/10/15 years of experience, I've had folks with 10 years of experience with literally no examples of disagree and commit. I had one who was apparently a professional yes person. They straight up told me they would be uncomfortable bringing up any issues to their bosses with any of their boss's ideas. I ended the interview early.

hgsgm 4y ago

Those sheltered kids spent their whole lives Disagreeing and Committing to their schooling and arts/athletics training regimen. They just didn't see it in that light.

grogenaut 4y ago
Those would be good examples if they had them. And many do. There's many opportunities to show individual response to situations through highschool, on sports, etc. Run the bake sale, organize tshirts, etc. I just want folks who have taken ANY initiative in their lives really at the intern level. Or had ANY real world experience. Where they've come up with an idea, talked to people about it, tried it and seen the results. But in general the expectation I have for experience that a intern will have is pretty low. Basically if they have one relevant experience they're at average. If they've done anything else they're going to ace that section. Less experience... I'll lean more into the code. Generally take it really easy on interns as it is their first real job. Now for the LP questions on people with 3/5/10/15 years of experience, I've had folks with 10 years of experience with literally no examples of disagree and commit. I had one who was apparently a professional yes person. They straight up told me they would be uncomfortable bringing up any issues to their bosses with any of their boss's ideas. I ended the interview early.