| Yea these questions aren’t great but if you want to ask these type of questions a better version would be: - “Can you tell me about the last time an IC on your team turned an idea into a feature/product? What was the process?” This can pinpoint whether the manager has a record of helping their directs get their own ideas into the product. - “Tell me about the challenges you ran into in your last major migration, how did you decide what technical debt falls below the line?” All migrations end up being late due to unknown unknowns, but you probably want to learn a little bit about how they managed the situation and how they decided to cut scope to still meet the new deadline. Or you could go with something like “tell me about the first 6 months of your most recent hire.” The “6 months have gone by, what’s different?” Is just a bad question. If what you’re trying to figure out is how you’ll transition from onboarding to full team member why not just ask about that directly? Also if you wanna social engineer the interview with this type of strategy, you probably should ask questions that are less focused on what they will do for you and more focused on how you can impact the organization. |