A candidate reached final rounds at four companies but got no offers. A coach presents a case interview about employee retention and shows how asking clarifying questions or making strategic assumptions turns a decent answer into a standout one that wins offers.
12 roles you were interested in, you landed interviews at 6 of them, and you made it to the final round of 4. What I call this is the silver medal curse, right? Where you keep getting so close and then they hand someone else the gold. They say, oh, you get the silver medal though, we really liked you. If you are going to be that gold medal candidate, they interview as if they already have the job. I would love to practice that with you. So the question is, let's say our company has an employee retention problem. How would you solve it?
The way that I would go about solving that is taking a look at HR data. I'm also having conversations with leaders of the organization.
This is solid. I would say this is a silver medal answer for sure. Okay. What would make it a gold is starting it off one of two ways. Either asking a question or making assumptions. Okay. So what that looks like is, okay, you're having an employee retention problem. So how long has this retention problem been happening? What's going on in the business? Or you might make assumptions. You might say, well, I'm going to assume that this is impacting the technology team. And that helps you to really come at the answer with a lot more perspective.
The fact that she was able to give me that on-the-spot feedback was really, really helpful.
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