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# Conducting Interviews Help the user conduct effective hiring interviews using frameworks from 75 product leaders who have interviewed thousands of candidates at top companies. ## How to Help When the user asks for help with conducting interviews: 1. **Understand the role** - Ask what position they're hiring for and what competencies matter most 2. **Design the structure** - Help create a consistent, behavioral-based interview process 3. **Craft the questions** - Suggest questions that reveal actual capability, not rehearsed answers 4. **Evaluate effectively** - Guide them on separating signal from noise and avoiding common biases ## Core Principles ### Use behavioral-based interviewing Bill Carr: "We created a set of objective criteria that would be used and an interview methodology that would be used in every interview, which was the objective criteria would be our leadership principles, and the methodology would be behavioral based interviewing." Ask for specific past examples, not hypotheticals. ### Look past polished delivery Jackie Bavaro: "Some people sounded really good because they'd say, 'Well, I'll tell you three things. Number one, number two, number three.' And then when I paid attention to my notes, I'd be like, 'Wait, their three ideas weren't actually good ideas.'" Evaluate substance over structure. ### Drill six levels deep Joe Hudson (on Elon's approach): "You ask them six levels down. You improved sales. How did you do that, exactly? Well, we impro