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🗓️ 21 June 2022
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0:00.0 | And on the other side, what are questions that I ask when I'm an interviewer? |
0:11.7 | I'm most focused on ensuring that you can think in a logical way and you can think your way to an answer. |
0:19.3 | Like you don't need the right answer right away. |
0:21.4 | I just want to be able to see that you're able to go through that thought process and be dynamic and, like, humble throughout it. |
0:27.7 | Sometimes I'll ask questions like, tell me about a time when you had to trade off between speed and quality. |
0:33.8 | Or tell me about a time that you had a difficult deadline that was approaching. How did you |
0:39.7 | organize? How did you get stakeholder buy-in? Things like that. I'll also sometimes ask questions |
0:44.4 | about like, how would your teammates describe you? Do you think they would describe you accurately |
0:48.7 | to get a sense of what they're like and how they think? And so remember that interviews are two ways. |
0:53.4 | Like they really want you to |
0:55.0 | contribute equally, right? And so I've seen situations where folks are so focused in getting |
1:00.2 | their experiences across that they forget to engage in some of the questions that are a little |
1:05.0 | bit more future focused. |
1:22.4 | Yeah. focused. We have all heard the phrase, follow your passion, and everything will fall into place. |
1:27.4 | But I also can't help what to think of another very popular phrase, which is, some things are much easier said than |
1:28.2 | done. You're listening to Unsweet and Unfiltered the podcast, episode 12 of season four. |
1:34.0 | I find it funny that when I was younger and I was asked, what do you want to be when you grow up? |
1:38.2 | My response was one that was very confident and he came with no hesitation. |
1:42.2 | Mind you, I was only five years old at the time. |
1:44.5 | But if you were to ask me this same question today, |
1:47.1 | I would be confident in saying I actually don't know. |
1:50.0 | Now, this isn't to say it's a bad thing to not be able to pinpoint what it is |
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