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Questions worth asking an interviewer

The end of the interview, when "no, I think you've covered everything" is a wasted move.

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Give me questions to ask at the end of this interview.

Produce four groups, three questions each:
1. **The work itself.** What I would actually be doing in month one, and how it is decided.
2. **How the team operates.** Decisions, review, disagreement, what happens when something slips.
3. **Honest risk.** Questions that surface why this role is open, what the last person found hard, what is not working yet.
4. **For the hiring manager specifically.** What good looks like at six months, in their words.

Rules: no questions answerable from the careers page, no flattery disguised as a question, nothing that reads as interrogating them. For each question add one line on what a bad answer would sound like, so I know what I am listening for.

Role and interviewer:

Making it yours

  • Paste your own material where the prompt asks for it. Everything above that line is instruction, not content.
  • Delete any rule that does not apply to you. A shorter prompt that fits beats a thorough one that does not.
  • If the answer comes back vague, add a line saying what you do not want. Constraints work better than encouragement.

Interviews. Preparing answers, questions and stories before the call, and the note you send after it.

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