Figma interviews

“When it comes to portfolios, depth trumps breadth, so focus on the quality of your work and the depth of your storytelling—rather than the sheer number of projects.”

“If you have a project you want to include as one of your primary case studies but don’t have any metrics, you can still incorporate some ideas for how you would plan to measure success in your reflection.”

“Interviewers often love seeing exploratory designs and future visions.”

“They want to challenge your design reasoning, your choice in color, your research, and a million other things, to see what informed your decisions.”

“Why you did something is often more important than what you did because ‘why’ showcases your product thinking.”

“we took the list of qualities we wanted and used it directly in our interview feedback form in Lever (our recruiting and hiring tool) to prompt meaningful focused feedback rather than just an open ended text field.”

“Provide a brief intro, present the problem, lay out the objectives, describe the execution, then reveal the final design and measures of success.”

“Prepare to discuss specific details and decision-making processes related to your projects, including the reasoning behind your key decisions.”

“My view is that design is the new code. It’s the layer above. You have to make it so that your design is differentiated and you have to have a point of view.”