Behavioral: Calibrating Your Depth to the Hiring Manager

Context: HR Screen for a Software Engineer role.

Describe a time you intentionally avoided showing off deep expertise and instead matched the hiring manager’s direction during an interview or stakeholder meeting.

Include:

1. How you read their cues (verbal, nonverbal, time constraints) and calibrated your approach.
2. How you decided what depth to provide.
3. How you still demonstrated value and credibility.
4. The outcome.
5. What you would do differently next time.