Category Archives: interview

What Are Your Favorite Interview Questions?

Posted on March 26, 2013 by johanna

I have an article coming out soon in the next Prag Magazine about some questions to never ask in an interview. I thought I’d let you know so you could warm up your fingers to quick click on the magazine. … Continue reading →

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Are Your Interview Questions Selling People on Your Organization?

Posted on January 21, 2013 by johanna

Your interview questions and your auditions should sell people on working for you. It’s that simple. You don’t need to sell people on working for your company. When I teach interviewing, that’s what I teach. And, every single time, my … Continue reading →

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Hiring Managers: Asking About Integrity

Posted on January 7, 2013 by johanna

I once said that Integrity is the Most Important Requirement in a Manager. I still believe that. But you can’t just ask, “How much integrity do you have?” That’s a leading question. Or, what if you are a company like … Continue reading →

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Interviewing for an Agile Project Management Job

Posted on September 27, 2012 by johanna

Now, say you are looking for a job as an agile project manager. Some people might say that’s a crazy job. But hang in there with me for a minute. Imagine you have two or three teams, larger than two … Continue reading →

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Interview Questions for Project Managers

Posted on September 25, 2012 by johanna

If you are looking for a project manager, what questions might you ask? Well, it might depend if you are agile, or geographically distributed, or how large a project or program you have. All of those pieces of your context … Continue reading →

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Three Interview Questions That Might Not Reveal Anything

Posted on July 25, 2012 by johanna

Jeff Haden, over at Inc, says that these three interview questions reveal everything. You are supposed to go down the person’s resume and ask them about each and every job they have ever had. The questions are: How did you … Continue reading →

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Answer Questions, Yes. Housekeys? No

Posted on March 22, 2012 by johanna

There’s an article in the Huffington Post about asking candidates to turn over their Facebook login credentials, so the interviewers can see their “private” pages. If you provide your login credentials, your private Facebook pages are no longer private, are … Continue reading →

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Many Bad Hiring Practices and Alternatives

Posted on March 21, 2012 by johanna

When I teach interviewing, I teach these approaches to interviewing: Let the behavior-description questions sell the candidate on the company. Don’t try to “sell” the candidate on the company or the people. It sounds like a used car salesperson or … Continue reading →

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Asking About Lean Experience on Teams

Posted on December 1, 2011 by johanna

When Matthias Bohlen interviewed me for the OOP conference (see my post about the podcast for the OOP conference), he asked how to interview about lean experience. How do you ask potential team members about knowing their WIP limits or … Continue reading →

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Pairing, Observers, and Interviewing Candidates

Posted on June 13, 2011 by johanna

On the Scrumdevelopment list, there was a thread about interviewing candidates. I didn’t see the thread until too late to be useful. But I have comments and thought I would share them with the greater community. A poster said, We … Continue reading →

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