Interview Process
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Cool: Asking 'when I call your manager' prompts more honest interview answers
“When I call Sally, What is she going to say about, you know, your biggest strengths? And what is she going to say about your biggest development errors? And just shifting that from when, from if, like if I call versus when I call. People shift what they say. T…”
De Milliano: Team buy-in meetings for executive hires shouldn't have veto power
“And then step three is, you know, let's say they kind of get past that is, okay, now get in buy-in from the rest of the team. That shouldn't be a, like, a decision-making forum. That's more of a, hey, I want you guys to, like, meet this person and get a sense …”
Norton: Modern PM interviews are like SAT prep and test interview preparation
“I actually feel like maybe the pendulum swifted way too far now, where it's like the interview process is so structured. You know, everyone's doing all these mock, they know exactly what questions they're going to get. And it's SAT prep, right? Everyone's like…”
Deconstruct recent achievements to interview candidates for problem-solving speed
“Usually it's about asking one what the most impressive thing is that they have done recently, and then working back into their process for how it is that they figured out that that was the right thing to work on and how they figured out what the solution was.”