“Do you have any questions for me?” Every interview includes this final segment. And most candidates ask something. But very few use it well. What you may not realize is that this moment is not a formality. It is part of the evaluation. And in competitive hiring environments, it can quietly decide between two equally strong candidates. I’ve seen this happen firsthand. In a previous role, I helped with hiring for a product position. After all the interviews, the team gathered

Most candidates struggle with the same problem during product or design interviews. They start an app critique and run out of things to say within ten minutes. Then they wonder, how is anyone supposed to talk about an app for forty five minutes? The truth is, the actual critique only takes about twenty minutes. What fills the rest of the time is your thinking, your perspective, your storytelling, and your ability to connect product decisions to user needs and business outcome