Hey guys, I’m headed on-site for the final round half day of interviews next week. What questions/line of questioning can I expect from engineering and PM?
PM: What do you expect to get from PM in each stage of the design process? / What kind of PM do you like to with with? How do you prioritize features when there's a deadline approaching? Engineering: How do you decide to use an existing UI component or creat a new one? At what point of the design process do you involve engineering? Describe your hand off process. How do you deal with remote engineers?
This was super helpful - thank you!
Recommend them that having an intro design presentation for everyone would be a more effective way to cut down repetition so you can have a more detailed 1-1 in each interview.
What company? If it’s Amazon, expect a litany of behavioral questions and be prepared to give a lot of details. If it’s another company, harder to say. Facebook didn’t ask me any behavioral questions, just a lot of general past experience inquiries. It really depends. The more you can speak to handling ambiguity, working through disputes, working to disconfirm your existing beliefs, and showing technical acumen, the better.
Thank you! Facebook is one of the places I’m interviewing (though still at the past work / app critique call stage)
When tech people talk about designers, do they mean people with art degrees or computer software degrees?
It’s both (and many other backgrounds too) I suppose. Generally the “product Designer” title in tech is used to describe folks who are designing technology / software products
Designers in tech come from every major under the sun (especially older designers). Keep in mind ux design as a popular job role wasn’t really a thing until very recently. New grads might have interaction design /graphic design backgrounds from art school, however.
Many designers have a behavioral degrees or CS - art is a fine degree but makes it harder to speak to the level of systems thinking needed at Facebook. There are teams that are solely UI but it’s less common.
I would expect some behavioral questions about your experience working with eng and PM. Like what was the dynamic like, how did you handle disagreements, what was challenging or successful, etc. Good luck!
Yay thank you! Any insight on any technical questions?