Interview Structure and Guides

Interview Structure

While there is no definitive answer to the “correct” number of interview rounds, here’s what we recommend to our partners, post resume screening.

Interview Round	Assessing For	# of Panelists	Example
Initial Phone Screen	High level fit/alignment to job specifications	1	Template Link
Technical/Domain Interview	Technical fit/alignment to job specifications (Deep Dive)	2	Template Link
Core Values Interview	Behavioral attributes, alignment to org values and culture	2	Template Link
Leadership Round	Alignment to broader organizational needs + any recommended areas to probe further following previous interview rounds	1-2 (Include Hiring Manager if they were not included in previous rounds)	Template Link

Interview Guides

We recommend using structured interview guides, where the interviewers ask a predetermined set of questions in a specific order to all candidates. Structured interview guides can help organizations make more objective, fair and predictive hiring decisions while also improving the efficiency and legal compliance of the hiring process.

Interview guide examples

Refer to these sample interview guides across a variety of common digital service roles and interview rounds.

Initial Phone Screen

• Initial phone screen guide

217KB

[organization] _ Phone Screen Interview Guide.docx

Technical / Domain Knowledge

• Head of Front-End Development

• Head of Product Management

• Head of User Experience

• Head of Back End Development

• Head of Operations

• Head of Quality, Analytics, and Infrastructure

1MB

Technical Interview Guides.zip

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Core Values Round

• Core Value interview guide

221KB

Core Value Interview Guide _ [candidate name].docx

Leadership Round

• Leadership interview guide

219KB

Leadership Interview Guide _ [candidate name].docx