Making Interviews an Accurate Job Preview
Offer Accepted Podcast with Shannon Ogborn, Ashby
Many teams want a better candidate experience, yet few build one that reflects the real work and the real product behind it. Tianna Johnson, Founder of People Culture Talent and former talent leader at Notion, Lyft, and GitHub, joins Shannon Ogborn to share how product-infused hiring creates clarity, excitement, and trust for every candidate.
She walks through how she introduced product touchpoints at each company — from Notion-built takeaways to real-world Lyft problem-solving to GitHub challenges that sparked early community buzz — and the results that followed. More substantial alignment, deeper conversations in final stages, higher acceptance rates, and long-term retention for new hires who truly understood the work they were joining.
Key Takeaways:
Define your north star.
Clear guidance on what you want to be known for shapes every hiring decision and keeps teams aligned.
Solve real problems in interviews.
Problem-based prompts drawn from actual product challenges reveal creativity, judgment, and long-term fit.
Create advocates through experience.
Even rejected candidates can become supporters when the process feels human, transparent, and connected to the product.