What To Ask At The End Of The Interview
Last Updated: 2023-09-19
High Level
- Ask about company/team culture.
- Ask about a product/project.
- Ask about the challenges.
- Ask about personal growth opportunities.
- Ask about the interview process or ask for feedback.
Example Questions
- If you were to not offer the job to me, what would be the reason?
- What are your expectations for this role during the first 30 days, 60 days, year?
- If I were offered this position and joined your company, how would you measure my success and what could I do to exceed your expectations?
- How Could I Help Your Company Meet Its Goals?
- What Excites You About Coming into Work?
- Can you tell me more about the day-to-day responsibilities of this job?
- What do you think are the most important qualities for someone to excel in this role?
- Describe the culture of the company.
- Where do you think the company is headed in the next 5 years?
- Who do you consider your top competitor, and why?
- What are the biggest opportunities facing the company/department right now?
- What are the biggest challenges facing the company/department right now?
- What do you like best about working for this company?
- What is the typical career path for someone in this role?
- How do I compare with the other candidates you’ve interviewed for this role?
- What are the next steps in the interview process?
- What’s your typical work day like?
- What’s the process of taking an idea you have from an inception and shipping it to production?
- What fraction of your time is spent building new things versus maintaining old ones?
- How do product / business / engineering decisions get made at the company?
- What’s one thing you really like about working at the company and one thing you’d like to improve? What’s being done about the thing you’d like to improve?
- What are the core values of the company, and what are some examples of how they’re reflected day-to-day?
- How would you describe the culture of the company?
- How did this particular product feature get designed and launched?
- Why did you decide to launch this particular version instead of this other one?
- How has the product evolved since launch based on user feedback?
- What’s the most unexpected lesson that you’ve learned on the job?
- What is the onboarding or mentoring process like (if any) for new hires?
- What opportunities have you had to work with different people and projects during your time at the company?
- How is knowledge across projects documented and shared at the company?
- What are the biggest obstacles to this company becoming massively successful?
- What are the current priorities and focus areas at the company?
- Where would I be able to add the most value?