how to answer
“Do you have any questions for us”: the answer is never no
from the job pls team · practice guide, not a script
what they’re actually asking
The interview does not end when they run out of questions. It ends when you run out, and this section is scored: “no questions” reads as no interest, and a generic question read off a list reads as homework. What lands is a real curiosity, asked like you mean it, which is a spoken skill exactly like answering. People practice their answers for hours and then improvise this part.
what interviewers listen for
- Genuine curiosity: a question you actually want answered, about the business or the team, not the perks.
- Homework showing: the best questions could only be asked of this company, by someone who read up.
- Listening: did anything from THIS conversation make it into your questions, or were they frozen in advance?
the common failure
“No, I think you covered everything.” Second place: the recited list, five generic questions in a row with no reaction to any of the answers, which lands as a box being checked. Both failures come from the same place: treating this section as the outro instead of the last scored answer of the interview.
build your answer (yours, not a sample)
We don’t hand out sample answers — memorized scripts collapse under follow-up questions, and interviewers can hear them. Instead, excavate your own material:
- Write one business question you would genuinely defend caring about: a bet they made, something they shipped, a thing you would want to know before joining.
- Write one team question about how the work actually happens: what the first 90 days look like, how the team decides what to build, what separates good from great in this role.
- Hold one slot open for the conversation itself. The best question is often “you mentioned X earlier, can you say more about that?” Practiced flexibility beats a frozen script.
now practice it out loud
Asking is out-loud work too. Say your two questions as a take; most people trail off at the end, which converts curiosity into filler. The retake's one fix: land the question mark. A question with a firm ending is the difference between sounding interested and sounding done.
“Um, no, I think you've pretty much covered everything, actually.”
“Earlier you said the team is moving content in-house. What is the first thing you want the person in this role to own in that shift?”
Practice this out loud with a coach in Messages. Text “Do you have any questions for us?” to your coach as a voice memo, get one specific fix, and say it again—better.
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