Interviewed three PM candidates this week. The bar keeps rising, which is great, but it also means longer hiring cycles.

One thing I’ve changed in my interview approach: I now spend more time on the “tell me about a time you were wrong” question. How someone handles being wrong tells you more about how they’ll work with a team than any case study ever could.

The best answer I heard: “I was so convinced we needed feature X that I pushed it through despite engineering concerns. It shipped, barely worked, and we had to roll it back. I learned that strong opinions need to be held loosely.”

That’s the kind of self-awareness that makes someone great to work with.