8 Questions You Should Ask Your Interviewer To Prove How Smart You Are

(condensed from a Business Insider article)

Q: What are some of the problems your company faces right now? And what is your department doing to solve them?

Q: What type of employee tends to succeed here? What qualities are the most important for doing well and advancing at the firm?

Q: I noticed that you teach a night class at NYU School of Continuing Education. How long have you been teaching, and what are some of the things that you’ve learned from the experience?

Q: What are your plans for combating Japanese competition in the full-size pickup market?

Q: Who would I be reporting to? Are those three people on the same team, or are they on different teams? What’s the ‘pecking order’?

Q: I read your CEO’s letter to the editor in Business Week. How did his insights about the emerging Hispanic market impact your Hispanic subsidiary? Did they end up winning a lot of new business as a result? Continue reading “8 Questions You Should Ask Your Interviewer To Prove How Smart You Are”