This is a YouTube video titled "Ask THIS in your next job interview" featuring Dave Gerhardt speaking about the importance of treating interviews as a two-way street. He emphasizes the need for candidates to also evaluate the company and team alignment during the interview process. The content was created in February 2024 and focuses on job interview strategies.
Interviewing really is a two way street, and people tend to forget that. They always just think that they're interviewing for the company, but at the same time they need to interview the company as well. Where is the company sitting today? All that's very important. I think during each interview you should always be asking similar questions to see if the team is aligned. Especially if you're getting into cross functional interviews. You want to ask something like, how do you find the culture here? What are the biggest goals that you see the team driving towards in the next year? I think it also is really illuminating to see if people are actually aligned on that and if teams have the same idea. Because a lot of the times you can get in and you know, the product team has a very different vision than marketing side of the house versus the engineering side, etc.