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jvns / interview-questions.md
Last active November 3, 2024 03:54
A list of questions you could ask while interviewing

A lot of these are outright stolen from Edward O'Campo-Gooding's list of questions. I really like his list.

I'm having some trouble paring this down to a manageable list of questions -- I realistically want to know all of these things before starting to work at a company, but it's a lot to ask all at once. My current game plan is to pick 6 before an interview and ask those.

I'd love comments and suggestions about any of these.

I've found questions like "do you have smart people? Can I learn a lot at your company?" to be basically totally useless -- everybody will say "yeah, definitely!" and it's hard to learn anything from them. So I'm trying to make all of these questions pretty concrete -- if a team doesn't have an issue tracker, they don't have an issue tracker.

I'm also mostly not asking about principles, but the way things are -- not "do you think code review is important?", but "Does all code get reviewed?".

@wasade
wasade / sub
Last active September 7, 2017 22:01
Light weight mechanism to submit a job to torque based cluster. Logging is implicit, and all logs and standard out/err automatically placed in the current working directory.
#!/usr/bin/env python
r"""Cluster submission
Light helper script for submitting jobs to a cluster. For instance, to submit
a job that calls the command hostname, just use:
$ sub hostname
Additionally, you can specify the name of the job: