Red Flags To Check In Your Design Interviews

I’ve recently stumbled upon Red Flags To Check In Your Design Interviews, a quick guide on how to work out if a team is right for you, and what it's going to be like to work in that company, or with that team. A great reminder, kindly put together by Morgane Peng, with a few useful pointers:

• Your interviewers aren't all recent hires.
• Design decisions aren’t made by managers.
• Designers aren’t expected to do non-design tasks.
• People seem to feel positive about their colleagues.
• There seems to be a proper onboarding process in place.
• Design process isn’t stale but evolves over time.

Wonderful points, and I would expand it a little bit to make sure the company has at least some commitment to design and UX, and an inclusive and supportive culture :

• The company is public about its values and beliefs.
• There is a well-defined design career ladder.
• There are regular 1:1-meetings and feedback sessions.
• There is a commitment to user research and UX.
• The environment seems to be inclusive, diverse and supportive.

Further reading:

• Questions to ask your product design interviewers, by Poyi Chen

• Questions You Should Ask to Avoid Working for a Toxic UX Manager by Vivianne Castillo

• Questions Designers Should Ask Before Joining a New Company, by Catriona Shedd

• UX Interview Questions You Should Ask, by Poyi Chen

• Questions to Ask When Being Interviewed For a Design Job, by Michael McWatters

• Questions to ask in your Head of Design interview, by Martyn Reding

• Interviewing Your UX Interviewer, by Jeremy Bird 🇺🇸🇧🇷

• Smart Questions to Ask in a Job Interview, by Amy Gallo

• Questions to Ask in a Job Interview, by Alison Green

Good luck with your interviews, everyone! 🌱