Career coach Chloe Spillane says skip the generic questions about company values. Instead, ask for concrete recent employee feedback, both positive and negative, and treat evasive answers as red flags. Reframe "what does success look like?" to "If you hired me, what would make you happy with that decision in six months?"
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I remember I would do first round interviews for 10+ people a day and I'd get to the end of the interviews and people would ask me the same shit over and over again. I'd be like, "Another question about our company values. Go and read the website, my friend." If you sit there and ask, "What's your company culture like?" They might be like, "Oh yeah, it's great. Like everyone loves it here." Instead, you should ask, "What's some positive employee feedback you've received lately and what's some negative feedback and what did you do about that negative feedback?" If they say, "Oh, well, we haven't really received any negative feedback lately," or "We don't feel comfortable talking to you about that," Red flag. Avoid. Run. Instead of asking, what does success look like in this role? Which is a good question, but a little bit generic. Maybe ask, if you were to hire me, what would make you feel happy in your decision 6 months down the track? I know this is controversial, but you also don't want to get to the end of the interview and say, oh, you answered all of my questions already. Because if you're really asking a pointed question that they're going to remember, they won't have talked about it. Guarantee. For more of this no BS, no filtered expertise, give me a follow or hit me up in the DMs on how I can shift you from being generic every person candidate to a candidate that stands out and gets the job offer.