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Your questions for them
Name the parts in "Your questions for them" and give the practical job of each one.
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Your questions are graded. In a flat, talent-dense room, what you choose to ask reveals how you think about the work and a careless question can undo a strong loop. The bar is to ask things only someone who did the homework would think to ask.
Aim your questions at the seam this role lives on: how design and engineering actually meet, where the polish line gets drawn and what the hardest open interaction problem is right now.
- Collaboration
- How do design and engineering actually work together day to day here? Where does a designer hand off and where do you two build side by side?
- The polish line
- How does the team decide something is done? Who draws the 90-to-100 line and what gets cut when the timeline is tight?
- The hard problem
- What is the hardest interaction problem the team is wrestling with right now, in agent UIs, inline diffs or Tab prediction?
- Ownership shape
- Walk me through how a feature goes from idea to shipped to supported. How attached does the original owner stay?
- The design system
- How mature is the component library and how much of the work is extending primitives versus inventing new ones for novel interactions?
Each question maps to a real part of the role and shows you understand it.
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A question that signals vs one that costs you
Interactive diagram. Tab through its regions; each focused region shows its detail in the panel below.
Same slot, opposite read - the question you choose is itself graded.