I've been through the Sony Pictures interview process twice now, different roles, different years. The behavioral part stuck with me enough that I wanted to write it up. This was the 45-minute hiring manager round in the virtual onsite.
The themes that kept coming up across both experiences:
Collaboration with non-technical people. Every version of this I've seen had at least one question like: tell me about a time you worked on a technical project where the key stakeholders weren't engineers. They care about this. Sony Pictures is a studio, not a tech company. The engineers work alongside producers, content licensing teams, legal, marketing. If your entire career has been in tech-only environments it's worth thinking about your best example of translating between worlds.
Handling ambiguity. Questions framed around moments where requirements were unclear or changed mid-project. Not just 'what did you do' but what decisions you made when you had incomplete information. They wanted specifics: what information were you missing, how did you decide to proceed, what would you have done differently.
Scale of impact. They asked about my largest-scope project both times, and what specifically my contribution was versus the team's. They push past surface answers. If you say 'we built a system that handled X' they'll ask 'and what was your personal role in that?'
Culture fit / staying power. There were indirect questions about why a tech person would want to work in entertainment. Sony Pictures seems to be aware that pure-tech candidates sometimes treat media companies as stepping stones and they'd rather hire people who are genuinely interested in the domain.
On values: the vibe I got was: collaborative, low-ego, okay with ambiguity, interested in media and entertainment as a domain (not just as an employer), and able to communicate across disciplines.
I didn't get a strong sense of a formal values framework like Amazon's leadership principles. More relationship-driven screening than principle-driven. Prepare strong STAR stories and make sure at least one or two of them touch on stakeholders outside engineering.