Follow up Questions to ask the Interviewer
Posted on February 14, 2023 • 3 minutes • 454 words
At the end of an interview, when a recruiter asks if you have any questions, you should definitely ask several follow-up questions. These are some questions that should be asked to the hiring manager to get a little more insight on the team. IR can be a stressful job so the fewer surprises you have the better. Here is an example of questions to consider asking.
- What does success look like in 90 days? How would I be set up for success? Describe how that would look like?
- What tools do you use at the company to help with IR?
- How big is your team and who is the longest tenured person on the team? How long have they been there? What are your boss’s career aspirations?
- What are the on-call expectations? Describe to me how they are set and who is chosen to be on call?
- Imagine that there is a major incident. Describe to me what that looks like?
- What does the training budget look like on a year to year basis?
- What kind of threats are you worried about and how are you tracking these threats? Describe how the different cyber teams are working together to track these threats.
- How many endpoints do you have? What percent of the environment is Windows, Mac, cloud, and Linux?
- What is the average number of alerts that you get in a day? What is the ratio of false positive to true positive alerts?
- How does purple teaming look like at the company? How do tabletop exercises look at the company?
- What does collaboration with the different cyber teams look like? Are there going to be opportunities for shadowing other teams?
- What percentage of your job is IR work?
- What does a typical IR analyst’s day look like? Describe the steps that analysts will take from initial intake of the incident to containment.
- Tell me how the greater cyber org is structured. Who is going to be your boss’s boss and how long have they been there?
- How long has the IR been a part of the company? Does it have external contractors? If it does, how are their roles different? Describe the relationship between the contractors and the FTE.
- How is the success of the IR team measured at the company?
- What is the reason for this job opening(s)?
- What does company culture mean to you?
- How have you viewed upward movement throughout your company?
- How do you handle changes (within the org, within the company, withing the job)?
- When was the last layoff cycle?
- What have you done to challenge yourself?
- What has the company done to challenge you?
- What was the biggest shift your company made that you did not agree with?