You Have One Story. You Need Four Versions.
Learn how to tell the same project story four different ways depending on what your interviewer values.
Let me show you something.
Say you led a project that shipped two weeks late, but with way better quality than expected. Good story, right? Here's how to tell it four different ways:
To someone who values speed
"We had a deadline problem. I made the call to cut the admin dashboard and ship the core product on time. We added the dashboard back in the next sprint."
To someone who values quality
"We caught a critical bug that would've tanked the user experience. I pushed back on the timeline to fix it right. Worth it."
To someone who values leadership
"The team was burning out. I went to leadership and reset expectations. We shipped two weeks later, but the team stayed intact."
To someone who values business impact
"The delay cost us $50K, but the quality bump drove 23% better retention. Net positive by month two."
Same project. Same facts. Four completely different stories.
This is what interview prep should actually be: not memorizing your stories, but learning which version of your story this specific interviewer wants to hear.
How do you know which version? You research them. Their LinkedIn posts. Their talks. What they've built. What they complain about. All of that tells you: does this person worship speed, or craft, or leadership, or metrics?
Then you tell the version that lands.
Write down your three best stories. Then write four versions of each—one for speed people, quality people, leadership people, metrics people.
Now you're not hoping. You're aiming.
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