One of the bigger challenges with telling stories to break into a FAANG+ environment related to culture fit is how to help candidates understand what is the norm within FAANG+ cultures. Things like what communication tactics are expected, under what circumstances do you bring up conflicts, which risks to take with customer experience vs business results, etc.
To help candidates with this, I've been toying with the idea of "mythos over logos": helping candidates categorize and understand the admittedly mythologized stories of tech companies and letting those stories guide responses instead of trying to instill in them some set of rules which can only be applied to specific circumstances.
Oooh, I love where you’re going with this. Yes, that “translation” is so important. Making your experience legible to an interviewer is hard when you haven’t been in a similar company!
Amazing high quality content as usual. These days I find that CARL is superior to STAR, the reflections/learning aspect is especially important regardless of level.
Love all this!
One of the bigger challenges with telling stories to break into a FAANG+ environment related to culture fit is how to help candidates understand what is the norm within FAANG+ cultures. Things like what communication tactics are expected, under what circumstances do you bring up conflicts, which risks to take with customer experience vs business results, etc.
To help candidates with this, I've been toying with the idea of "mythos over logos": helping candidates categorize and understand the admittedly mythologized stories of tech companies and letting those stories guide responses instead of trying to instill in them some set of rules which can only be applied to specific circumstances.
Oooh, I love where you’re going with this. Yes, that “translation” is so important. Making your experience legible to an interviewer is hard when you haven’t been in a similar company!
Amazing high quality content as usual. These days I find that CARL is superior to STAR, the reflections/learning aspect is especially important regardless of level.
Agree! STAR stories feel pretty robotic to me, and the distinction between S and T is blurry. Kudos to Austen for pointing me in that direction.
Thanks a lot for explaining a topic that it's rarely discussed in Youtube/Linkedin.
P.S.
Liked the subtitle "Mastering the neglected interview type"
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