Did you ever get the type of interview question that asks for your opinion on what that company could do better or what you would change about XYZ product?<\/p>\n
As I\u2019ve asked that question to someone I\u2019m interviewing and have been asked that question as the person being interviewed, I’m always interested to see whether the answer comes across as positive or negative.<\/p>\n
And I still debate in my head about which one is “better”.<\/p>\n
Don\u2019t get me wrong, when I\u2019m interviewing someone I don\u2019t want them to be all pie-in-the-sky and disingenuous and say everything is perfect and we should just keep doing what we\u2019re doing (too positive), but when I\u2019m answering the question and going into detail about things I would change I can\u2019t help but to feel like I\u2019m too negative.<\/p>\n
Once, an interviewer from Amazon asked me how I would change a particular category at Amazon. Instead of commenting on the actual things that were implemented (both ideal and not ideal), I described how I would try to make the category better through entirely new services and offerings.\u00a0 In this case I felt like it was a win-win because I wasn\u2019t necessarily critiquing something that existed but it was something to improve overall. Maybe it wasn\u2019t perfect, but it seemed to work at that moment.<\/p>\n
What\u2019s your strategy when answering those types of questions?\u00a0 What do you prefer to hear when you\u2019re asking those questions?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Did you ever get the type of interview question that asks for your opinion on what that company could do better or what you would change about XYZ product? As I\u2019ve asked that question to someone I\u2019m interviewing and have been asked that question as the person being interviewed, I’m always interested to see whether […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,6,7],"tags":[18,16,88,91,90,89],"class_list":["post-1262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-career","category-development","tag-career","tag-development","tag-interview","tag-negative","tag-positive","tag-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1262"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2726,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1262\/revisions\/2726"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mattwkane.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}