“What would make you quit this job a year from now?”

“If you were an animal, what animal would you be?”

“How do you spend your weekends?”

Every founder and hiring manager has a set of off-script interview questions like these, the ones you don’t really prepare for.

Today, these questions matter more than ever. In a hiring process where CVs can be polished and prep can be automated, they are one of the few ways left to see how someone actually thinks, learns, and deals with uncertainty.

So what do founders really ask when they are trying to understand the person behind the CV? What does Vineeta Singh at SUGAR Cosmetics look for? Or Arjun Vaidya at Dr Vaidya’s?

In this episode of 90,000 Hours, we go inside the interview room to break down the questions founders actually care about right now and what they are listening for when you answer.