Brandon Southern is a senior leader at Amazon and former head of analytics at eBay and GameStop. He writes that its a terrible idea for companies to have employees interview their future managers.

For many businesses, interviews are conducted during the hiring process or when someone leaves the company. However, there are also benefits to interviewing employees at various points in between.

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