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Editor’s note: Most interview techniques are about how to deal with the various questions that the interviewer may ask. This article is translated from First Round Review. The original title is The 40 Best Questions to Ask in an Interview — How to Go Deeper Than “What’s the Culture Like?”. The article shares dozens of startups Before the end of the job interview, the founders and management of the company asked the question “Do you have anything to ask me?” The questioning skills, I hope to inspire you. This is the first article in this series. It is mainly about the company’s development and priorities.

When it comes to interview suggestions, many people turn to hiring managers for advice. We have also published many articles on interview experience and suggestions before, among which the most popular is the series of “40 Favorite Questions Founders Asked During the Interview” published last year.

Last year’s articles received a very high click-through rate and received a lot of wonderful feedback, and some even became the main reference for interviewers when selecting suitable candidates. We are very pleased to see that inviting those founders to share with us their favorite questions during the interview, especially the reasons for asking questions and answering skills, seems to resonate with many readers.

This further confirms our hunch that even though we have learned a lot about interview questions, everyone still seems to want more resources in this area.

On the other hand, from the perspective of job seekers, everyone seems to have the same needs. As a candidate, interview preparation may feel like a job that you can never finish. Whether it’s resume polishing, recalling important experiences from your career, or understanding the company’s background, and learning about interviewers on the LinkedIn platform, there is always a lot of work you can do. In short, you are eager to get relevant advice to help you deal with the interview successfully.

In this article, we will mainly focus on the “Do you have anything to ask me?” that the interviewer (the founder) asked the applicant before the interview was over. One problem.

For this, the important thing is how to ask a series of good questions so that you have the opportunity to discover important information related to job opportunities. At the same time, this is another opportunity for candidates to prove to the interviewer that you are the best candidate for the position.

However, most of the time, candidates do not stand out in this link. Many people tend to focus on the preparation of other links and spend most of their time preparing for the most common questions that the interviewer may ask.

In the end, the questions you may ask are more of the same questions, such as “Why did you join the company in the first place?” “A day in your company What is it like?” Wait.

In the best case, these questions will allow you to hear some interesting anecdotes from the interviewer. In the worst case, you may only waste precious time, asking only some “quick” questions, rather than trying to understand important information related to the new position and the new boss.

Since we are always looking for strategies and suggestions to fill existing gaps, we also spent more than a month with some of the most thoughtful founders in our network I got in touch with startup leaders and asked them to express their views on the question “What questions should candidates ask during the interview?”

In this process, we pay special attention tostify;”>In this regard, Anna Binder, the head of human operations in the team collaboration software Asana, has adopted a methodical response, combining dozens of potential “dispensable or best-of-breed” factors The list is reduced to a list of five “must have” factors.

“For career management, you must be proactive, attentive, and consciously approaching it. Many people will have a way I compare it to a teenager Dating mentality, that is, as long as someone likes you, you will be very excited, regardless of whether you like the other person.Let yourself always be aware of the’five must haves’ and you can become the CEO of your career .”she says.

In view of this, we have divided this series of questions into eight categories:

• Company development and priorities: What is the company’s development prospects? What is the biggest obstacle to achieving this goal?

• Company culture and values: What is the specific way the company conducts various tasks?

• Diversity, Equality and Inclusiveness: What practical measures has the company taken to put diversity, equality and inclusiveness in The company’s core position?

• Employees’ professional experience and development: What factors determine whether employees can successfully grow within the company?

• Founder fit: For candidates seeking a job in a start-up company, how to assess whether the company’s founding team is capable of dealing with the future Bumpy road?

• Get along with your boss: Can you and your boss work in harmony? Will they dial in kindlyext-align: justify;”>Jake Fuentes, co-founder and CEO of data analytics company Cascade, took a slightly different approach to this question: If the company is in If the bank fails in the next 18 months, what do you think is the most likely cause? Or, if the company achieves breakthrough success, what is the most critical factor?

  

  Jake Fuentes, co-founder and CEO of data analysis company Cascade

  Fuentes said that he found that this two-sided approach can reveal the true risks and opportunities of the company. At the same time, more importantly, it also allows you to understand whether the company’s leaders maintain a clear understanding of these aspects.

  2. What last failed projects have your company tried recently?

  For this question, when asked by Jeanne DeWitt Grosser, head of revenue and growth for Stripe Americas, an online payment solution service provider, It is not entirely focused on the actual failure “what”.

  Any veteran with entrepreneurial experience knows that you may find a lot of coal before you successfully find that diamond. On the contrary, you should dig out the “why” it failed, and how your potential employer would respond.

  Can the interviewer answer honestly? Or is it trying to paint in a better direction? Can the company reverse and correct its mistakes? The interviewer’s answer should also clearly clarify the lessons learned from it and how to share it from top to bottom within the companyCome.

  When Max Mullen, the co-founder of Instacart, an American grocery delivery platform, once sat in the interviewer’s position, an applicant posed this question to him: In the development of Instacart, what was the best and worst day (or week)?

  “As an interviewer, you may have been answering the same questions, but a difficult question like this can make you pause and let you in a shorter period of time Think about the answer to the question.” He said.

  If the candidate has the courage to raise a problem that might test the interviewer, this is actually a good sign. I hope they can raise such in-depth questions after joining the company.

  3. What are the key financial indicators that your company is trying to optimize?

  “No matter what the company’s product or service is, I don’t think there are many candidates who can ask questions about the business itself.” Stripe’s document business leader David Nunez ( David Nunez) said, “This question can provide a good insight into the company’s health, understand what the company’s priorities are, and at the same time reflect that you as an applicant sincerely want to understand this situation.”

  4. Which three most important customers has your company acquired? What are the three most important customers lost?

  We really like this question raised by Max Branzburg, vice president of product at Bitcoin company Coinbase. This question requires the interviewer to provide a specific answer. It is not an overly whitewashed marketing rhetoric: “You can really understand their performance in the market, which aspects are doing well and which aspects are not doing well.” Branberg said.

  The key to this is to dig further into the follow-up questions: What measures are they taking to replicate their greatest success? What are the most valuable lessons learned from failure?

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