2 min lesson
Your questions and your narrative
Write one closing question that signals seniority and one to avoid and say why each lands the way it does.
Step 1 of 3
Walk in with five questions so two survive the conversation. Closing with “you covered everything” reads as disengagement and the questions you ask are themselves a signal of how senior you think.
Aim your questions at the seams of the system you'd own. Generic curiosity (“what's the culture like?”) wastes the slot. Questions that assume the gateway is partly unbuilt and probe where it breaks signal that you'd own the hard problems rather than ask for a comfortable seat.