Generate interview questions with the follow-up probes that catch a rehearsed answer

Write interview questions for the role and competencies below, for a single interview slot of a specific length. Every question needs follow-up probes attached, not just the headline question, because the headline question alone rarely distinguishes a candidate who lived the experience from one who prepared a polished story about it.

ROLE
Field Sales Manager, covering a 6-person regional team

COMPETENCIES TO PROBE IN THIS SLOT
Coaching a rep through a lost deal, managing a rep who's missing quota, and adapting a sales process across two very different regional markets.

INTERVIEW SLOT LENGTH
45 minutes including intro and candidate questions at the end

RED FLAGS THIS ROLE SPECIFICALLY CARES ABOUT
We've hired sales managers before who could talk a great game about coaching but had actually never run a real 1:1 skill-building session, just performance write-ups.

For each competency, write one primary behavioral question ("tell me about a time...") and then two or three follow-up probes that go after specifics a rehearsed answer usually skips: what exactly the candidate personally did versus what their team did, what the actual measurable outcome was, what they would do differently now, and what constraint or disagreement they had to navigate that a clean success story tends to omit. Order the questions so the total time fits the given slot length, allowing roughly 8-10 minutes per competency including probes, and note where to cut if the candidate's answer is already thorough and where to dig if it's noticeably vague. Where a role-specific red flag is given, include at least one question or probe designed to surface it directly rather than hoping it comes up incidentally.

COMPLIANCE CHECK
After the question list, review every question for topics that are illegal or inadvisable to ask in a hiring interview in most US jurisdictions (age, marital or family status, disability, religion, national origin, salary history where banned by local law) and flag any question that risks touching one of these, with a suggested rewrite that gets at the legitimate underlying concern without the risky framing. Do not silently omit the flag — even if you don't think a question crosses the line, if it is adjacent to one of these topics, say so explicitly so the interviewer can judge it themselves.

OUTPUT FORMAT
One section per competency (primary question, 2-3 probes, rough time allocation), followed by a Compliance Check section listing any flagged question, why, and the suggested rewrite.