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19 questions · ~4 minutes
Question 1 of 19Finances & Business Model
Can the founders clearly explain how they make money (or plan to)?
Question 2 of 19Leadership & Founders
How does the founder respond to pushback or bad news?
Question 3 of 19Culture & Operations
What's the company's relationship with the truth in sales and marketing?
Question 4 of 19Finances & Business Model
How transparent is the company about its financial situation?
Question 5 of 19Equity & Compensation
What does the equity offer look like?
Question 6 of 19Product & Engineering Culture
What's the engineering culture like?
Question 7 of 19Culture & Operations
How does the company handle work-life boundaries?
Question 8 of 19Leadership & Founders
What happened to the last person who left?
Question 9 of 19Equity & Compensation
Is your salary below market rate?
Question 10 of 19Leadership & Founders
Does the founder have relevant domain experience?
Question 11 of 19Culture & Operations
Ask the hiring manager: what are the three biggest unsolved problems facing the team right now? How specific is the answer?
Question 12 of 19Hiring & Team Health
What does the hiring process tell you about how they make decisions?
Question 13 of 19Finances & Business Model
Have they ever had a conversation about acquisition or exit that they're willing to share the shape of?
Question 14 of 19Equity & Compensation
What does the cap table look like?
Question 15 of 19Product & Engineering Culture
How does the team build and ship product?
Question 16 of 19Hiring & Team Health
Talk to two current employees outside of the interview process. What do they say when you ask them what they'd change?
Question 17 of 19Hiring & Team Health
How do they handle underperformance on the team?
Question 18 of 19Product & Engineering Culture
How does the company make technical decisions - who has authority and how are tradeoffs evaluated?
Question 19 of 19Leadership & Founders
Has the company had to make hard calls - cutting a product line, laying off people, changing direction dramatically - and how did they handle it?
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