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Mastering Behavioral Interviews: The Guide to Storytelling in Tech is a career and interview-preparation guide by Austen McDonald, a former Meta engineering leader and hiring committee chair. Addressed primarily to software engineers, product managers, designers, data professionals, and technical leaders, it concentrates on the behavioral portions of hiring processes at large technology companies. Its premise is that technical competence alone does not communicate level, judgment, or leadership potential; candidates must make those qualities legible through well-chosen accounts of their work. Rather than treating behavioral preparation as memorizing generic answers, the book frames it as an exercise in understanding evaluation signals, selecting relevant evidence, and delivering a coherent narrative. McDonald presents the Decode-Select-Deliver framework, a story structure called CARL, and a preparation process based on identifying experiences across a career. The guide also addresses failures, conflict, ambiguity, difficult interview dynamics, senior-level interviews, and transitions into big tech. It is therefore positioned as a specialized practical manual, not a broad survey of job searching or technical interview practice.