PericlesTheo

Usually, in behavioural questions, a candidate is asked about a time that x happened and how they reacted in order, or when they led a project in order to quantify leadership qualities.

Unless the candidate is really unprepared, most people would have read about these sort of questions and come up with some template answers. Now, it's up to the interviewer to ask further questions to get a better understanding but I'm wondering if people approach this in a different way.

As a side note, leadership qualities in my mind have nothing to do with seniority.

I will be joining a small seeded startup as a CTO in the next couple of weeks. What are some of the things you wished you knew /did early on? Looking for advice mainly in culture (both tech and product) and hiring. Anything else of course is truly welcomed.