Design Hires Podcast Design Hires Interviews Tanner Christensen
Aug 10, 2022
48:28
Interviewing for Product Design roles can be challenging and stressful for both the interviewee AND the interviewer. As a candidate, one of the most important assets in your interview toolkit is the ability to tell a good story. And as an interviewer, knowing how to redirect interview questions in a way that truly probes candidates for the right skills can save a lot of time and company resources.
In this episode, Tanner and Nadia discuss how to prepare for Product Design interviews in a way that enables candidates to tell compelling stories and truly show their knowledge and experience - no BS necessary.
Here’s a look at our discussion:
- 0:33 - Tanner’s latest project: Shape.co, a tool that helps designers and hiring managers learn to interview well
- 3:52 - Creating a great hiring rubric to assess design talent
- 8:13 - Why experiential questions & storytelling matters the most during the design interview process
- 13:03 - The importance of asking questions to understand what interviewers are looking for as a preparation tactic
- 20:46 - How hiring managers can redirect questions to get the information they need from interview candidates
- 24:27 - Keeping up with your design portfolio outside of the interview process
- 26:47 - When to stop interviewing
- 30:41 - Asking questions during an interview to gain information about company culture
- 42:26 - When & how to give candidates feedback on their interview
- 47:21 - How to learn more about Tanner and connect with him
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