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by Maida Lakin

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Oct 23, 2026 Education & Learning

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I'm a hiring manager at BigTech. I've run 1,000+ interviews (100+ this year), and I've coached people through behavioral rounds on the side for 10 years. With layoffs, a lot of good people are back on the market. Most of them can grind the technical rounds. Where they struggle is the hiring manager, cross-functional and peer rounds: they can't translate their own work into what this specific role needs. Fixing that takes three things: Preparing your stories, Preparing answers to...