Alexander Wang, developer and CEO of Scale AI, shared on Twitter some of the unusual questions IT executives like to ask candidates in interviews, whatever their position. It attracted attention with its publication Telegram-Product Management channel.
“Can you tell us about the hardest problem you’ve worked on?” Wang began by stating personally that the answer to this question is “an extremely effective filter for finding people he enjoys working with.”
A few other questions were also quoted: “If you could change three things yourself in your current company, what would they be?”, “What would you do if you didn’t have to earn and work?”, “Your favorite thing you created yourself?”
Among the questions were questions directly related to the IT field: “Can you tell us about a project you worked on as a team but failed?” and “What was the last digital product that you personally used or liked?”
As a result, Wang stated that they also like to ask the candidates about their hobbies outside of work: “What is the last nonfiction book you read?”, “Do you have a dream you want to fulfill?” and “San Francisco or New York?”
Previously, the results of a survey of two-thirds (75%) of Russian IT specialists were published accordingly. willing to pay for the interview in a foreign company, if this guarantees an advantage in employment.