CTO interview questions

THE RIGHT QUESTIONS TO ASK A CTO CANDIDATE DURING THE INTERVIEW

GENERAL QUESTIONS TO ASK CTO DURING INTERVIEW Please tell us about your current employment and responsibilities? Describe your biggest career accomplishments in the last 5 years? What has attracted you to apply for a position in our business? What do you plan to achieve professionally and personally in the new position in our company? Describe please what are you passionate about in your work? What challenges do you face in your current position? Who from your colleagues or bosses have inspired you in your career and why? Describe the difference between good and outstanding CTO? Can you name three highlights of your career journey? How do you balance work time and the amount of responsibilities?

STARTUP CTO INTERVIEW QUESTIONS FOR CULTURE FIT AND BUSINESS VALUES What is your vision for our management/hiring process/business model? What changes would you integrate? What books do you like and why? Please describe the work culture that is the most effective for you? What are the best and the worst things about working in your last position? What was the most successful team-building event you’ve participated in? What are three of the most essential factors for you to be successful in the CTO position? How can you characterize your communication style with your colleagues? How did you handle your last mistake on the job? What principles are crucial for healthy work culture according to you? Do you take professional risks and how do you decide in this regard?

CTO TECHNICAL INTERVIEW QUESTIONS What is your technical background? Can you make predictions about the culture of technology for the next 10 years? How do you follow technology news? What are your main resources for staying on top of the industry? How do you decide on the platform and coding language for future projects? What are your criteria? What technological improvements have you introduced in your current position? What improvements into the technological processes and systems do you vision for our company? How do you evaluate the efficiency of the technological process? What experience do you have with a particular technology (AWS, Azure, AI, etc)? What criteria do you consider when deciding on integrating new technology into the company’s work? Tell us about your involvement in development projects. Do you delegate tasks or do them yourself? If you delegate, tell us how you evaluate the efficiency of performance?

QUESTIONS REGARDING LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT STYLE ON INTERVIEW WITH CTO What skills and experience are you looking for when hiring a development team for the project? How do you decide on developing deadlines?Tell us about your system of evaluation of processes’ efficiency? What tasks will you start with in our company? Describe what would you do if you spot a decrease in the developer’s performance? How do you address the situation? How would you describe your management style? Do you follow a particular methodology on the workspace, like Agile, for example? Tell us about the most valuable lessons you’ve learned from your previous boss? What challenges does the democratization of the IT industry put on CTO? How do you plan the development budget? What criteria do you start with? How important data security is for you? What are the measures you will implement to improve it in our company?

QUESTIONS TO FIGURE OUT BEHAVIORAL PATTERNS How would you describe a good working day of CTO? What was the biggest professional change you went through? How did it impact you? What do you value in teamwork and what was a recent positive experience? Tell us what would you do in case of a conflict with another C-level executive? How would you resolve it? Have you ever worked closely with someone difficult to get along with? What approach did you take? How would you resolve a conflict in your development team? Tell us about the most challenging project you’ve taken part in? How do you react in case the situation goes not as you’ve planned? What are your tactics to motivate the development team? Do you have any questions for us?