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Behavioural interviews · free guide

You can do the job. Let me tell you why your answers are not landing.

The behavioural round decides more loops than the technical one, and it is the round people prepare last. I have sat on hundreds of hiring loops at Microsoft and Amazon. Start with the free guide: one real answer pulled apart, then rewritten.

Read the free guide Or go straight to the book — $9.99

20 yrs

In tech, starting in 2006 at age 21

6 yrs

In security engineering, where I lead today

<8 yrs

Engineer to Principal Engineering Manager at Microsoft

$10M

Saved by one Azure program I built and led

If any of this is you

The problem usually isn't the work. It's the evidence.

  • You can do the job, and you freeze on “tell me about a time…”.
  • Your answers are completely true and still score badly.
  • You got rejected after a full loop and nobody told you why.
  • You are senior on paper and keep getting levelled down.
  • You have three stories and stretch them over every question.

Choose what you need

Where are you stuck?

Reading gives you the method. Saying it out loud, timed, is what shows whether you can use it under pressure. Start wherever you actually are — these are alternatives, not steps.

Most people start here

1:1 Session

45 minutes, one-to-one

Forty-five minutes on whatever is actually in your way. Bring the real situation — the loop next week, the offer on the table, the resume that is not getting callbacks — and we work on that rather than on coaching in general.

$149

Book a session

What people bring

  • A behavioural loop you are preparing for, with real teardowns of your answers
  • Your resume, read the way a recruiter and a hiring manager actually read it
  • An offer on the table and how to negotiate it
  • A promotion case, or why the last one did not land
  • Whether to take the job at all

It is one session, whatever you bring to it. If you would rather talk first there is a $9.99 discovery call, but that is for deciding whether I am the right person, not for working on your answers.

In their words

What people say afterwards.

“Thank you so much Gurpreet for being such a great listener and an equally good and articulate speaker — and for helping me understand technical concepts in easily understandable, digestible bits. Gurpreet is not someone who says "do as I say". He is someone who says "do as I do", and talks from experience.”
“I really found the session very helpful and effective. The suggestions you gave to overcome my confidence issues make a lot of sense. I am looking forward to the next session as discussed.”
“I felt amazing after the session. I am so grateful for all the practical solutions you have given to set my career in the right direction. Would love to have a session again.”

Your answers are better than you think.

They are just missing the evidence an interviewer can write down. Start free with one answer taken apart, and if it is useful the whole bank is $9.99.

Read the free guide Or buy the book — $9.99

Would rather work through your own answers with me? Coaching is here.