Team & values conversation

The final conversation is with potential teammates and research or eng leads and it's more common for senior hires. It's a read on how you think and collaborate in a flat, talent-dense team where ideas get debated hard and decisions get made fast.

Use this stage map to decide what evidence belongs in each round. Memorizing the order is the shallow version. For every stage, prepare one artifact, one story and one question that shows how you reason in the role.

• They screen for spirited debate without ego: can you disagree, update when you're wrong and still ship together.
• They check that you've actually read their research and formed your own opinions about it.
• It's mutual - your questions about their open problems and how decisions get made signal how you'd operate as a peer.