Guides
Interviews
An interview is a fit conversation with a timer. Bring a clear read of what you give, the world you work best in, and the cost of putting you in the wrong one.
Do not perform a type
Interviewers do not need your animal, your world, or your way named out loud. Jargon is a tax they did not ask to pay. They need to hear what you actually do, in rooms like theirs, and what happens when the fit is wrong.
Translate. Motive becomes the contribution: 'people rely on me to hold the standard when everyone is ready to ship.' Size becomes the context: 'I do my best work when the goal is visible and the feedback is fast' — or 'when the work has to last and the people are not abstractions.' Personality becomes tempo: how you decide, how you talk, how you recover.
Tell the cost honestly
The strongest interview answer is often the 'less suited' paragraph, said without apology. 'I can do long consensus processes. The cost is that my speed gets read as impatience, and I spend the job managing how I come across.' That is an adult sentence. It lets them choose you with their eyes open, which is the only choice that lasts.
If you hide the cost, they will meet it in month two and call it a surprise. That is worse for everyone.
Questions worth asking them
Ask about the actual work of the first three months, not the values poster. Ask who owned the last difficult decision and how it landed. Ask what happens to people who move faster — or slower — than the room.
You are interviewing the Size of their world. A Summit shop that says it wants care, a Keep that says it wants disruption: listen for the gap between the poster and the week. Your portrait is useful here as a detector, not as a speech.