How Successful Software Engineers Answer 'Tell Me About Yourself' In Interviews

In this video we explore how to answer "Tell me about yourself" questions in Software Engineer Interviews including an example of how I actually answer this in my own interviews.

Original blog post with all links: https://hamy.xyz/blog/2025-05_tell-me-about-yourself-swes

Chapters

00:35 - How to Answer "Tell me about yourself"
04:55 - My Elevator Pitch

Links:

- My 2025 Job Search as a Senior Software Engineer - Results, Timelines, + How I Study for Interviews - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4sUmDaYyXM&ab_channel=HAMYLABS
- How to find a fulfilling career - no matter what you're into - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0IG8XQMGKU&ab_channel=HAMYLABS
- 66 Companies Hiring Remote Software Engineers in the US in 2025 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uiggzQBsZc&ab_channel=HAMYLABS

About me: I'm Hamilton - a Technomancer building Simple Scalable Systems.

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