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What is your favorite customer success interview question and the best answer you've heard?

Christine Knific
mParticle by Rokt Senior Director, Customer Success - North America3y
Question: What does customer success mean to you? What is it, what is it not? Why it's good: It's open-ended, and gives the candidate a big opportunity to talk about C...
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Meenal Shukla
Zoom Head of Scaled Customer Success, Onboarding, Learning and Adoption3y
Almost did not want to answer this question because it would give it away. Haha!I ask: Has it ever happened to you that a very red customer is moved to your portfolio? Wh...
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Jessica Haas
Appcues Chief of Staff & VP of CX3y
Scenario-based questions are my favorite but I especially like this one as it breaks the ice and allows the candidate to show their personality & you can have fun wit...
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5461 Views
John Brunkard
Salamander Advisory Customer Success Advisor | Formerly Adobe, Sitecore, Red Hat, Symantec, Blue Coat, Intel, Dell, Dialogic3y
I have many different questions and always include some scenario based questions to see how they would handle those. Often I start with a very fundamental question along ...
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Jeff Cann
Limina VP of Customer SuccessTue
I'm a big fan of asking people about a professional area that they would like to improve in. For example, it could be;Presentation skillsImproving their use of AILearning...
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217 Views
Gary Johnson
Enable Customer Success Director2mo
I have two favorite questions I intentionally save for the end of an interview.They are less tactical and more personal. By that stage, most candidates have moved through...
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638 Views
Rox Fitzmaurice
Jellyfish Director of Customer Success7mo
I love asking candidates to share a time when they worked on a project or customer challenge that didn’t go as planned. People who take risks usually have a story or two ...
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569 Views
Rebecca Warren
Eightfold Director, Customer Success2y
I’ll share 2 questions – one is behavioral based, and one is situational. One of our core values is Extreme Ownership. I ask candidates to “Tell me about a time when you ...
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1313 Views
Caoimhe Carlos
Udemy Vice President Global Customer Success2y
One of my favourite CS interview questions is some variation of "Can you share a time when you received constructive feedback from a peer, manager, or cross-functional pa...
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1877 Views
Wynne Brown
Medius Enterprise Customer Sales3y
What problem have you solved in your work that you are most proud of?This is a great question for a few reasons:If they fumble for an answer, they haven't been reflecting...
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1287 Views
Ed Sowden
Splunk EMEA Director of Customer Success7mo
If you were successful in getting this role and were asked to organize a new joining activity with an unlimited budget for the subsequent new hire what would you organize...
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617 Views