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What do you ask when are applying to a job?

Facundo Soria on July 02, 2020

Lately, I've been doing some interviews and there is always a part where you have the opportunity to ask questions, I'm personally not a person who...
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Ben Sinclair • • Edited

To someone who would be my peer:

  • What's the biggest challenge you had to face when you started and how did the company help you overcome it?
  • What's your daily routine?
  • How often do things slip out of that routine and what causes it?
  • What's your favourite/least favourite aspect of the job?

To a manager:

  • Where do you see the company in 5 years?
  • What nagging thought is going through your mind, where later this afternoon you might have a coffee with $other_interviewer and say, you know, he was great, BUT

I have a habit of asking all sorts of questions that people probably would expect going the other way.

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Facundo Soria •

Wow!, I never thought to ask that sort of question to a manager but I think are awesome, I mean that could tell you so much about the person and how open is he or she. I'll use these for sure in my next interview!