What is your favorite customer success interview question and the best answer you've heard?
mParticle by Rokt Senior Director, Customer Success - North America • 3y
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...
6309 Views
Zoom Head of Scaled Customer Success, Onboarding, Learning and Adoption • 3y
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...
2023 Views
Appcues Chief of Staff & VP of CX • 3y
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...
5461 Views
Salamander Advisory Customer Success Advisor | Formerly Adobe, Sitecore, Red Hat, Symantec, Blue Coat, Intel, Dell, Dialogic • 3y
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 ...
1470 Views
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...
217 Views
Enable Customer Success Director • 2mo
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...
638 Views
Jellyfish Director of Customer Success • 7mo
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 ...
569 Views
Eightfold Director, Customer Success • 2y
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 ...
1313 Views
Udemy Vice President Global Customer Success • 2y
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...
1877 Views
Medius Enterprise Customer Sales • 3y
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...
1287 Views
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...
617 Views
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