How do you guys prep questions to ask the interviewer? Any good/thoughtful questions you can share?I am interviewing for an FP&A role at bulge bracket. I always struggle when it comes to “do you have any questions for me?” part.

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I normally ask what is something I can do immediately joining to be effective. What's some milestones they'd like to see accomplish in 30-60-90 days.

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That’s when get to dig into the details of the role, team and how to find out how the hierarchy is laid out. Or I ask the interviewer questions about themselves and how they got into their role.

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Play to their vanity, ppl love to talk about themselves.

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Do deep research on the company/industry. Ask smart questions that relate back to what you will be doing in your particular role. Show you can play ball while having an interesting conversation.

Ask what do they like most about working at the company and what is a challenge for them.

Listen - ask questions on the back of their brief bio if interesting.
Take advantage of current environment, covid - ask what are their top priorities of the group on the back of Covid and let takeaways.
Agree with asking q on role - not surface level or q that can be addressed by jrs, so do some research on the role and maybe tailor it to to the company assuming they might have been recent events, diversification of biz lines that could impact role from an opportunity standpoint going forward.

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