What is the STAR method?
A way to answer behavioural questions with a clear story: Situation, Task, Action, Result. Spend most of the time on your actions and finish with a measurable result.
Which stories should you prepare?
- A big win with a number
- A conflict or hard trade-off
- A failure and what you changed
- Leading without the title
- A fast learning curve
- A time you improved a process
Six strong stories cover most behavioural questions. Screenpass asks for these during onboarding and maps them to each role’s likely questions.
What should you ask the interviewer?
- What does success look like in the first 90 days?
- What’s the hardest problem the team is facing this year?
- How do decisions get made between product, design and engineering?
- What made the last person in this role successful?