One of my stated goals for the internship was developing my interviewing skills, both behavioral and technical.
One crucial aspect of the TNT internship program is the mentorship that connects New Technologists to software engineers at Microsoft to discuss with different topics aimed at fulfilling our internship goals. During my first meeting with my mentor, I explained how I felt so uncomfortable with behavioral interviews. Although I had experiences to use for the behavioral session of the interview, my mentor and I used the mentorship sessions to practice sample behavioral interview questions to support my confidence in expressing my experiences. My mentor discussed the use of the STAR method to use in behavioral interviews and how to use it to stay organized during behavioral interviews.
STAR is an acronym for Situation, Task, Action, and Result of the experience. This method is widely used in behavioral interviews for interviewees to express their experiences to recruiters in an organized way. It highlights the experience, the role the interviewee had in the experience, and the result of working on that specified task.
To better prepare for the interview process's technical aspect, this week's Pizza and Personal development was focused on technical interviewing, where we had a university Recruiter at Microsoft give us a sample technical interview session. This session included building algorithms to solve different questions and test cases for the solutions. This session much prepared me for the next technical interviews.
For the remaining parts of the internship, I hope to continue networking with other software engineers at Microsoft to learn more about the recruiting process and better prepare for behavioral and technical interviews.
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