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Don’t ask Googleable questions in interviews! You can do better. I have the biggest (internal) eyeroll 🙄 when a candidate asks me: How many people work at your company? or: Where are your offices located? Or even: What do you do as a company? It shows me the candidate has spent zero time researching the open position makes me question their desire to be employed here. How can you want to work for a company if you know nothing about them? Instead, there are much better questions that you can ask. Questions should generally 1) give an opportunity for discussion 2) be answerable only by someone with deep knowledge about how the company functions. 💡Questions you can ask at any company: → In a given week, how much time do you spend in meetings, on average? → Who is your ideal customer/client? → What’s the team structure? Do people move from team-to-team or are they generally static? → How many projects do you work on at a given time? 💡Questions you can ask at any tech company: → What is your technology stack? → Do all teams use the same stack or is it more up to the team? → Is there an on-call rotation for devs and/or is there a dedicated ops team? → What bug tracking system do you use? Are you happy with it? → Is time given to prototype hackathon/R&D-level ideas? 💡Best questions (showing some research): → I noticed your competitor, XXXX, released a new feature YYY. Are you prepared to release something similar? → In your blog post, you mentioned you’re investing more in XXX technology. Why did you choose that instead of YYY. #interviewtips #interviews #techinterviews

Ian Hess

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Is composure in communication a job skill for the position you are hiring for? Respectfully, I have a hard time with the showing of excitement requirements. The company has money. I would really like to be paid. Does it have to be more complicated than that?

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