You’re ready. You can handle any software engineer interview questions that are thrown your way — or so you think. If you focus solely on the technical aspects of the interview, even the best software engineers can be caught off guard by behavioral interview questions for a software engineer position.

In this article, we’ll dive into how to ace the parts of the software engineering job interview that have nothing to do with your technical skills. Keep reading to learn how to prepare for a software engineering interview.

How to Prepare for a Software Engineering Interview: the Basics

Here are some tips on how to prepare for a software engineering interview from App Academy’s Technical Career Coach Manager, Mark Rodriguez:

1. Consistency is Key

It’s better to take a day off to recharge than to constantly put off studying or working on a project. It can be helpful to make a plan about how you want to tackle your work and stick to it.

App Academy’s Coach Cory provides the following analogy to show how this can be useful:

It’s a lot like sports: by the time game day comes