Interview Questions

A collection of original and linked interview questions that I like.

If you’re interviewing for a product role and looking for questions to ask the individual interviewing you, read John Cutler’s post.

I like these questions as they touch on important aspects of the individual’s fit for a position and organization.

Tell me about a time you’ve worked with other teammates to achieve something you are proud of? (1)
How would your teammates describe you? (1)
How do you resolve conflict within a team? (1)
Tell me about how you’ve collaborated with other members of the team to complete a user story? (1)
When working on a team, what’s easiest and hardest for you? (2)
Who are your favorite teammates and why? (4)
How do you work with (name another department)? (5)
Tell me about the teams. (1)

Tell me about a time you were given an ambiguous assignment. What was the ask and how did you go about removing ambiguity? (1)
Tell me about a time when a feature did not pan out, for whatever reason. Knowing what you know now, what would you have done differently? (1)
How do you put the customer first? (1)
Tell me about the last time that you encountered a rule in an organization that you thought made no sense. What was the rule? What did you do and what was the result? (2)
How do you articulate a future, and how do inspire your team to build that future? (6)
If you were to change anything about the project, what would you have done differently and why? (6)
Walk me through a time where you figured out what to build. How did you get to the decision to move forward? What was that process? What was the outcome? (6)
Walk me through a successful major project you were heavily involved in, and tell me about your role throughout the project. (6)
Describe a project that wasn’t successful. Who’s to blame? What would you do differently? What did you learn? (1)
When and how did you promote a product idea to gain buy-in with the various teams and stakeholders? (1)

What are some good practices you do while developing features? (1)
How do you approach refactoring and iterative development? (1)
How do you evaluate and decide on using technology choices? (1)
What are some challenges and opportunities when working with front-end frameworks? (1)
Where do you feel the balance of automated and manual testing should be? (1)
What product are you most proud of launching? What did you learn from launching it? (1)
How do you prioritize your backlog / feature requests? (5)
How do you decide when a service should be outsourced or built internally? (5)
How do you monitor performance and measure success? (5)
What’s the technical debt like for the product or company? (7)

Tell me about how you iterate on development to deliver features, modules, or products? (1)
What makes a good user story? (1)
Tell me about how you like to participate in refinement? (1)
Tell me about how you go about breaking items up into achievable chunks of work. (1)
How do you approach trade-offs during development? (Examples being feature functionality, technical debt, bugs fixes, scope, etc…) (1)
Can you describe your current agile environment? Are there changes you would like to see made to make it better? (1)
What are some of the differences between B2C and B2B and B2B2C, specifically as they relate to planning and adoption activities? (1)

Are you a happy person? (1)
How do you contribute positively to team and organizational culture? (1)* Describe the work environment in which you’ll most effectively contribute? (1)
What new things have you tried recently? (2)
What do most employees do for lunch? (3)
Can I take an office tour? (3)
How does this role fit into the overall company goals? (3)
What are the growth opportunities like? (3)
How do they embrace diversity and inclusion? (3)