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Questions Developers Should Ask In Interviews

Questions for Software Engineers

  1. How do you know what to work on each day?
  2. What do you use for revision control?
  3. What do you like about working here?
  4. Do you write unit tests?
  5. Do you have continuous integration?
  6. What do you measure?
  7. How do you find and fix bugs?
  8. What collaboration tools do you use?
  9. What frameworks do you use?
  10. When can we pair?
  11. When is your next deadline?
  12. How long does it take to set up a new development environment?

Questions for Engineering Managers

  1. When was the last time you wrote code?
  2. How did you become a manager?
  3. How do your engineers know what to work on each day?
  4. What is your team's biggest challenge right now?
  5. How do you measure individual performance?
  6. Do you do formal performance reviews?
  7. Do you do annual salary increases?
  8. Can I get some take-home material describing company benefits?
  9. Do you rank employees against one another?
  10. Do you do regular team retrospectives?

Questions for Leadership

  1. How are you funded?
  2. Are you profitable?
  3. What is your opinion on outsourcing?
  4. Tell me about the company culture.
  5. What assurance do you have that this company will be successful?
  6. Tell me about your reporting structure.

Source: https://medium.freecodecamp.org/how-to-interview-as-a-developer-candidate-b666734f12dd

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