Become Better Interviewer
12 weeks · 4 milestones
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Review the last 5 interviews you have conducted — hiring interviews, user research interviews, or journalistic / investigative interviews. For each, reconstruct (from memory, notes, or recordings) and rate three criteria: question quality (did your questions surface information you could not have predicted in advance?), listening depth (did you follow up on the most revealing things said, or stay on your script?), and bias minimisation (did you lead the interviewee toward an answer you already expected?). Write a 150-word diagnosis of your single most consistent interviewing weakness.
Proof required
Submit your audit: notes or reconstructions from 5 real interviews with three-criterion ratings (question quality / listening depth / bias minimisation, each 1–5) and a one-sentence specific observation per criterion per interview. Append a 150-word diagnosis naming one recurring weakness with evidence from at least 3 of the 5 interviews.
What gets checked
- 5 real interviews you actually conducted — not hypothetical or reconstructed without any contemporaneous record
- Bias minimisation ratings are differentiated — all 5 rated 5/5 on bias minimisation is statistically implausible for most interviewers and should prompt deeper examination
- Diagnosis names a specific pattern (e.g. 'I ask closed questions that confirm what I already think' or 'I interrupt before the interviewee finishes their most interesting answers')