Interviews by role
What each role’s interview loop actually tests
Sergei Skrylkov, Founder, Trippi · facts checked against the product on 2026-09-30
A job title tells you little about the interview. A product manager’s loop is built around a product sense round and a stakeholder story; a DevOps loop around an incident; an SDR loop around a role-play. Each page below walks through one role’s loop round by round, lists the questions specific to it with what each one tests, and works through one of them.
Eight roles
Product manager
Product sense, a metric that dropped, and an engineer who says no — the PM loop, round by round.
Data analyst
SQL said out loud, an A/B test that looks too good, and a stakeholder who wants forty metrics.
Frontend engineer
The event loop, a component built live, and a page that loads too slowly.
Backend engineer
Idempotency, a schema change on a huge table, and the incident you were paged for.
DevOps engineer
A crashing pod, a full disk at 3 a.m., and a pipeline for twenty services.
QA engineer
Test a login page, a flaky test in CI, and severity versus priority.
SDR
A mock cold call, an objection you did not expect, and “sell me this pen”.
Customer support
An angry customer played by a team lead, a refund outside the policy, and a writing test.
How these pages relate to the rest of the site
The rounds themselves — technical, coding, system design, behavioural, case — each have their own page, and the role pages link to them instead of repeating them. The stages of the process — recruiter screen, hiring manager, panel, final round — are covered separately too. A role page is the map; the round and stage pages are the detail.
By round
What a technical, coding, system design, behavioural or case round asks for, and what Trippi Cue shows during it.
By stage
What the recruiter screen, the hiring manager, the panel and the final round are each checking.
What Trippi Cue does across these loops
Trippi Cue is a Chrome extension for interviews in Google Meet, Zoom on the web and Teams on the web. It listens to the call’s tab after you click its icon, shows each line with a translation if you want one, and puts up a short card when a question is asked of you. It hears speech only: it never reads your screen, your code, a whiteboard or a shared document, and it does not hear your own voice. For the rounds where the work is on the screen, the value is keeping the spoken question in front of you while you work.
FAQ
About the role pages.
Why these eight roles?+
They are the roles whose interviews most often run on browser video calls with an English-speaking panel, and where a second-language candidate meets the most role-specific vocabulary.
Is my role going to be added?+
Only with its own content: its loop, its questions and a worked example. A page made by swapping the job title would help nobody.
Do the role pages replace the round pages?+
No. A role page shows which rounds you will meet; the round pages explain each round in detail.
Does Trippi Cue know which role I am interviewing for?+
Only if you tell it in the note before the call. The note is what makes the card about your role rather than a generic answer.
Read next
Know the loop before the first round.
Trippi Cue is in the Chrome Web Store. One click on the icon when the call begins, and nothing before that.