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What questions to ask a recruiter during phone screen?

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Software Engineer at Taro Community5 months ago

I feel a bit lost when asking questions to recruiters. It's simple for HM bc you can ask technical questions or about the role/team. But not sure how to approach asking questions to recruiters?

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    Tech Lead @ Robinhood, Meta, Course Hero
    5 months ago

    I'll cover this in my upcoming behavioral interview course (I'm filming it now!), but here's my go-tos:

    1. "What's the biggest challenge facing the company right now?"
    2. "What's the favorite way that you've grown here?"

    At a high-level, just ask questions about the company overall and their personal development. There's a ton of good space outside of the technical realm. In fact, I think asking technical questions is a bad use of time even when doing behavioral rounds with engineers/engineering managers. Choice of technology generally isn't that indicative of company quality, it's more about the culture and the quality of people.

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      Software Engineer [OP]
      Taro Community
      5 months ago

      Update: I asked these questions and the recruiter was pretty excited to answer the second one. He was like oh this is a great question!

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      Tech Lead @ Robinhood, Meta, Course Hero
      5 months ago

      I love it - That's awesome!