Group Dynamics: Tell me about a group project you have worked on with many contrasting opinions involved.
- This is a softball, and a great opener. Listen to how they talk about the group, the issues that arise, and how they assisted in the resolution.
- One of the greatest areas of deficiency in engineers candidates is their ability to manage group dynamics effectively. While in the perfect world we would all be building products happily and harmoniously, people are inherently flawed and there are typically personality conflicts, personal challenges, and all sorts of other "people" stuff involved with a successful launch.
Prioritization: Pick a simple mobile app (e.g. a music player) and pick 5 features you want to include (e.g. social sharing of the song they are listening to, a 5-star rating system). I then ask them to prioritize which gets built first and why.