Cross Functional Teammate Interview

45 minutes

Conversation to evaluate ability to work with engineering and product.

Participants

PM & Engineer (ideally from team they’ll join)

Competencies

• Culture Fit: Communication / Collaboration and Humility
• Business Fluency
• Technical Fluency

Example Questions

Communication

• What has worked best for you when communicating design decisions to non-designers?

Facilitator

• How have you bring non-designers into your process?
• Have you facilitated workshops? If so, what value do you see in them?
• How have you made sure what you’ve designed is implemented correctly?

Humility

• How do you approach getting early feedback on your work?
• How you handle a situation where a teammate has a different opinion than yours?

Results Driven (Business Fluency)

• How do you know your designs have been successfully received by users?
• How do you prioritize your designs when under constraints, such as time and feasibility?
• When do you stand up for your design vs changing it to realistic pressures?

Reference

• https://uxdesign.cc/bringing-your-best-self-to-product-design-behavioral-interviews-597a68111f12
• https://medium.com/snapdocs-design/how-to-prepare-for-an-awesome-product-designer-interview-at-snapdocs-4da5f98d2eb8