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What are the key questions you like to ask and why? How would the proper answers to your questions look like?

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  1. Lizzy Masotta
    Lizzy Masotta

    Shopify Senior Product Lead | Formerly Salesforce, Google, Nest, Cisco Systems • 3y

    What are your greatest hits? You really can’t avoid the “tell me about yourself” question in any interview you do and every candidate should be prepared for this question. I like to put a twist on this question and ask “What are the greatest hits of your resume?” Translation: Instead of giving me a chronological detail of your career experiences, tell me about the most impactful things you’ve done. It’s a great way to test how candidates synthesize information on the fly. Surely they prepared fo ...Read More

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  2. Brandon Green
    Brandon Green

    Buffer Staff Product Manager | Formerly Wayfair, Abstract, CustomMade, Sonicbids • 3y

    I like to ask two types of questions: (1) behavioral-style questions, which prompt the candidate to use specific examples from their past experience, rather than hypotheticals, to describe how they handled a particular situation; and (2) exploratory case-style questions, to see how a candidate thinks through an abstract problem.  It's worth noting that for the case questions, I don't love the classic Google approach of wild, out-there questions that are irrelevant to the real world. I much prefe ...Read More

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  3. Sailaja Kalle
    Sailaja Kalle

    Gainsight Director, Product Management • 2y

    Asking the right questions can help find the information we seek.

    Few tips

    1. Think about what you want to know

    2. Creating open ended questions to what we want to know is important. However, the art is also to keep the questions specific

    3. Allowing answers to come through and asking follow up questions.

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