Home-court and away-court interview questions fail to calibrate PM candidates
Shishir Mehrotra · a16z Podcast | How Founders Hire a VP of Product · Jan 2, 2019 · at 9:51
Shishir Mehrotra explains why asking product management candidates to solve hypothetical neutral-ground problems reveals true ability better than asking about their past firm or the hiring firm.
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“The home court question, you're spending your whole time trying to figure out, well, what does he want to hear? He probably thought about this way more than I have. And so you're not really getting a great calibration. On the other side, you can't separate this person from the rest of the whole company that was around them doing this thing. So I think it's really important to ask neutral ground questions.”
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