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Cheat Sheet

0. Tell me about yourself.

Keep it under one minute and adjust the details to fit your experience and the specific role. 

  1. What I work on
    • Started career over 10 years ago working on cg rendering and pipeline engineering in Anim/VFX/Games Pipeline before transitioning to 
      • Tech Art for CG Rendering and Synthetic Data Pipelines 
      • Software Prototyping for Minimal Viable Products for AI, AR, and Interactive Installations 
  2. Current Goal and Connection to Position:
    • Working with a team on challenging problems at the intersection of Creativity and Engineering 

1. Tell me why you will be a good fit for the position. 

Why do you want to work for X?

What are you looking for next role?

  • Working with a team on challenging problems at the intersection of Creativity and Engineering to launch impactful experiences 
  • Increasing Scope beyond individual contributor to work with cross functional partners and customers to aid product roadmap

2. How do you handle multiple stakeholders in cross-functional team?

Work with someone with larger scope (Director/Manager) to understand the politics and Mission Objective (bigger picture)

  • Career Cold Start Algorithm: 25min of tell everything I should know, 3min biggest problem, 2min of who to talk to.
    • Repeat until no one is left
  • Radical Candor: Show someone that you Care Personally while you Challenge Directly, without being insincere
  • Make a Priority Matrix (P0-P4) and KanBam Board (Request, Doing , Done).