15 Clever Questions To Ask Your Interviewer!

I appreciate you and your channel so much. Thank you.

I had an interview where the dude just flat out lied. The shift was supposed to be 7-3 with some overtime. I never got out at 3. I was constantly working 20+ hours overtime and this place had the highest turnover rate I've ever seen. I was hired on a Monday with 7 other people and by Friday I was the only person from that batch. They would just repeat the process every week. It was extremely physically demanding. After a month I was ripped. That was the only good thing about that job.

So I've never came out and asked any of these questions, but I do usually show up to interviews early and I talk to staff. And generally interviews for a doctor position go on for a while so we end up touching on these if you listen to people.

I asked 3 questions. What is your managing style, and what is the company’s culture like and how do you define success in the first 90 days. I got the deer in the headlights look. After a long, painful pause, someone else stepped in and said we are like family. They couldn’t get me out of the interview fast enough 😂

Thoughts on bringing up bad reviews for the company? Had an interview and was doing my research beforehand and saw MANY bad reviews about the property management company. Was going to bring it up but the interviewer was a third party person not an actual employee with the company so thought against. Is it appropriate to bring them up as an interviewee?

Often, the interviewer doesn’t even read your resume.

"What about my resume interested you?" I was so glad that I asked this question for a previous interview for a position with high salary offer. The interview replied that they were actually openly reviewing all applicants that fulfil the base criteria. However, throughout the interview, it was pretty much of a one-way interview (with template questions not specific to the job role) and I only had space to ask one or two questions at the end.

I feel that they were doing mass-screening just for data collection. And of course, I didn't go back for a second round.

Wow!! Great questions

This is how you weed out bad employers and toxic management.

Thank you so much with all your work and efforts on this channel! With your advice here I’ve finally managed to find a job even though many companies have declined my applications before, during different rounds of interviews. Your tips do work !

I've been in a few interviews where they try to dominate the entire interview not allowing you to ask questions. Even a few said, were the ones interviewing you. Needless to say I refused the offer haha.

I asked an interviewer "What about my resume impressed you enough to schedule today's interview?" and they flat out told me they hadn't read my resume until thirty minutes before the interview and made the decision solely on the personality assessment test I took a few days prior. I think they recognized their own red flag because I had a rejection letter before I got home from the interview.

Just want to poke in and say thank you!

I’ve been updating my resume for each job. I have been only applying to jobs I am truly interested in and in my ideal pay range. I just graduated with my bachelors this Saturday and had been applying to jobs since last month.

So far I just accepted an offer, and have 2 interviews this week and two more that I politely declined.

Your videos gave me so much insight! Again thank you!

This might be the single greatest vid on this topic, and I wish I found it…10 or 15 years ago. But life is what it is

Almost all of the interviews I went to the HR manager didn't know what the qualifications which were needed for a CNC machine operator. Some HR managers wanted a bachelors or master's degrees for a simple CNC machine operator position that was not posted on their website but was asked during the interview. Also, I have had interviews where they wanted 20 years experience on a one of a kind machine which I have never heard of before. At that point I told the HR manager that they needed to rehire the person they just fired because nobody will have any type of experience on that one of a kind machine tool & told her thanks for wasting my time & left. I also have had interviews where the wanted a machine operator to run the machine also know how to program, edit programs, make special fixtures, make special tooling, & how to fix the machine.I had one interview where I was placed in a team to determine a malfunctioning machine & what to do about it. All of the team wanted to shut the machine down instead of trying to find out what was going on. I left that interview half way through since the "regular team members" & supervisor didn't want to do anything about that machine. After starting with a multi-national aircraft engine rotating parts company, I started working very closely with a couple of engineer's in debugging new machine, parts, programs, & operations since I took copious notes then talking to the engineer on how to solve these problems. These engineer's only wanted me to work on these machines or parts & would not allow the other 2 shifts to run them because they knew I knew what I was talking about.

Thank you!

I passed the interview to get a drug test and background check, and I passed those as well; they called me three days later saying they didn't have an opening, and now they want me to do another interview

Great video and you're a real one for adding the questions to the description so I can add them to my cheat sheet ;)

Amazing insights!

Interviews must be a conversation. The last one I had the interviewers could not deviate from the question script—even to the point where they couldn’t answer MY questions. HUGE red flag and a super awkward hour. They wanted me but the answer was NO.

Loved this vid

excellent tips. i'll rewatch this before i start my next round of hiring.

Hello B. Recently interview for a job in my field. I used your questions within the first 15 minutes. Used arch story as described in The Utlitmate Bootcamp. They were taking notes very fast. B. left the interview feeling great. The tone was positive. Followed everything in the Bootcamp. You know your stuff sir. Keep it up.

Most companies won't be able to answer these questions because they are not self aware enough as employers to know what they want.

What's the best way to check a company for layoffs?

What's your take / comments if you see the same position that you went for interview a few days ago is republished for hiring on the company website? Is that an indirect sign that I didn't make the cut for the next round?

Genius questions! Bravissimo!

One that has worked well for me is "what duties are not listed in the job announcement?" Interviewers respond very well to it, often excitedly. After they list them I comment on my skills related to each additional duty.

Where do you look to find out if a company has recently laid people off?
I’ve seen it in the news sometimes for large companies like Microsoft or Meta, but not so much for small to mid size employers.

I can’t even get anyone to respond after sifting through the ghost jobs

Gloss over red flags. Yep, i'm guilty.

Thank you so much for this video. These are great questions

I keep a sticky note with questions to the interviewer and the interviewers are always surprised that I have well-thought questions for them.
Which implies that it’s rare for interviewees to ask questions during interviews

Great questions! Thanks

Ive decided im going to start asking the hiring managers scenerio questions like " a new employee was just hired at xyz company. He/she is new to the industry. What training process is in place to everage the employees current skills in their new role ? "

be „dumb , discret and qualified“. Too genial assertive alpha people are regarded as dangerous of course .

Recruiter here - holy crap Brian I thought I was great at prepping my candidates with questions but these questions make me realize that there’s even more room to grow. Great job!

if you can try to throw in a question or 2 right it in the middle of your anwers, it's better,
cos at the end of the interview the RH employee can be exhausted asking you questions and having to
do that several times a day on other candidates.

It's possible that this can backfire you, some RH employees will tend to think you're kinda of a smartass
or some kind of liability in the sense of being too "probey", nosy or pushy and maybe not the best fit,
or will just blacklist you out of spite or professional immaturity, which is an indication of toxic RH,
but a toxic RH is kind of the norm today, at least in my field and in my country,

so tread carefully... In work in south america, and latins tend to be
very sanguineous and strong tempered persons, not having a lot of emotional intelligence, plus most south american
countries have a past of military dictatorship which shaped generations in their totalitarian way of
behaving and getting away with it. This of course will cascade into the vast majority of the companies I have either
worked for or gathered feedback from colleagues working on other companies. Trust me, the global culture
that the company wants to have and be known for does not necessaritly translate into the actual culture practiced
in local regions.

No matter what's written on paper, local culture will always trump over the actual culture the company wants to be know for.

The question about why the position is open is the only thing which I ask in every interview. Depending on the role, other things may not be relevant, but that's always of interest. They aren't likely to come right out and say certain things, like if there are unrealistic quotas which are essential to meet. Some things, like if the previous employee was removed from the company for some type of misconduct, they also aren't just going to say much about that (which would be completely appropriate, such things would be confidential). The previous employee might have just left because of getting a better job elsewhere, but even that can go in different ways (it's one thing to have an employee find a higher level job somewhere else and leave for it, it's quite another for the employee to leave because compensation is way below market average and they're leaving for a company which pays more appropriately... the interviewer also wouldn't just tell you that either).

That question is right to the point of where hiring process is

No one cares about those videos, explain us what's happening on the job market, and in the companies.

A friend who's worked in HR taught me years ago what types of questions to ask. Glad I had this in my arsenal.

How exactly is this economy unstable? It's quite stable by most objective measures.

Perfect timing, I was preparing for the questions to be asked in my interview.
Qs- “If the [Role] fails to deliver as per expectations, how does the company look at it and what steps are taken to improve that?”

Would it be good to ask that?

Excellent questions but some may flag you as problematic. Employers seek blind allegiance with hiring someone that with STFU and work. I do ask these questions, and those jobs rarely if ever hire me, they tend to be a 1-2 year engagement.

I probably could have asked all those questions for my last last job (contract gov job) and have been much better off, but I didn't. I discovered about a month into the job that I was the 5th full-time programmer in that position over two years; predictably I lasted about 8 months before being fired for substandard work. I did turn in a fairy complex project (as the sole programmer), certified with unit tests at every level (which they did not and will never do), along with one-click database wipe-and-reseeding (absolutely critical for testing and table updates).

My next job interview afterwards I did ask most of these questions, and I think it really helped. Otherwise you think you're doing great only to discover you just got fired.

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