I’ve been hiring people for almost 20 years. These are some questions I think we should ask more often:
- What grinds your gears in the design industry?
- Tell me about a time when you had to give difficult feedback someone
- Tell me about a time when you encountered an ethically murky situation. What did you do or avoided?
- Are you a detail oriented person or a big picture person? How do you deal with working with someone who is the opposite?
- What made you quit your last job?
- How do you bounce back from negative feedback?
- What is the hill you will die on?
- What do you need to see your boss’s boss’s boss do to feel confident in your work environment?
- What do you need to hear from your line manager to feel heard?
- On a scale of 1 to 10, how important is being a designer to your sense of self?