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Leveraging CARL Method in Behavioral Interviews

How to crush your next behavioral interview

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Welcome back to Path to Staff! This week, we have a guest post by

Austen McDonald
, author of Mastering Behavioral Interviews. Austen is a former Senior Manager at Meta – he’s conducted over 1,000 interviews and trained 100s of interviewers.

I’ve been a fan of using the STAR method in interviews, but as an interviewing expert, he shares something even better. The CARL method.

Without further ado, here’s Austen.

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A guest post by
Austen McDonald
Behavioral Interview Enthusiast and Former Senior Software Engineering Manager at Meta. Author of Mastering Behavioral Interviews. In 9y at FB, I supported 200+ engineers across multiple teams and chaired the iOS and Android hiring committees.
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