For everyone but especially @hiring managers: what questions do you ask/what are you looking for when hiring for a user research position? I’m preparing for an upcoming interview with a startup that I’m super excited about (currently has ~500 employees). It’s a senior role and the first dedicated UR role in the org. I’ve prepared a big list of questions already (looked at some great Medium posts etc) but any extra feedback or insights about how to prepare is appreciated! 🙏
- want to hear that you won’t want to spend too long synthesizing findings or creating precious artifacts. - want to hear how you helped a company navigate out of a bad business decision and towards a good one. - tell a story about how the leadership asked for x but what they really needed was y - share a few surprising findings while talking through your past work - examples about how you improved efficiency or decreased cost of your methods
If you're the most senior UR person you can pretty much drive the conversation however you want. But things related to past projects, thought process, are reasonable to expect. Past experience in quantitative vs qualitative research, observational vs intervention studies, etc.
Thanks for this! Can you clarify what you meant by “intervention studies”? I’ve actually only seen this in a healthcare context (I’m coming from an enterprise background) and would be curious to know more about how you’ve seen this applied in a B2B or B2C context.
Or by “intervention study” did you mean something like A/B testing, or something more along the lines of behavioural quant analysis?