Ace Your
Behavioral
Interview
117 carefully curated questions across 14 categories, each with STAR method templates — designed for engineering managers and technical leaders.
How to Use This Guide
AI-Assisted STAR Responses
Cursor Claude Code
This repo includes a built-in AI skill for Cursor and Claude Code that turns your rough notes into a polished, first-person STAR response — written directly to your private _response.md file. Run it again on the same question to add a second story.
create STAR response for @q01_prioritize_tasks.md — my notes: [your rough notes]
Categories
14 topicsLeadership & Management
Assess your ability to lead and manage a team effectively.
Technical Leadership
Assess your ability to make sound technical decisions and lead engineering efforts.
Process & Project Management
How you manage software development processes and ensure timely delivery.
Hiring & Team Building
Assess your ability to build and grow a high-performing team.
Metrics & Performance
How you track team and project performance with data.
Behavioral & Situational
Understand how you handle real-world challenges and past experiences.
Culture & Values
Assess alignment with company culture and how you build team values.
Conflict Resolution
How you manage interpersonal and professional conflicts.
Customer & Business Focus
How you understand the intersection of engineering and business outcomes.
Scenario-Based
Hypothetical questions to assess how you handle specific challenges.
Communication & Influence
How effectively you communicate across audiences and influence without authority.
Change Management
Your ability to lead through organizational or technical change and drive transformation.
Remote & Distributed Teams
Effectively managing teams that are geographically distributed, remote, or hybrid.
Mentorship & Career Growth
How you invest in the growth and development of individuals on your team.