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Interview questions FROM candidate TO company

HR Process /

  • Why is the vacancy open? Is this a new position or has someone previously held it?
  • What's the main problem company is trying to solve by filling this position
  • What are the recruitment steps?
  • What’s the documental employment basis? How do we manage the docs?
  • How do we handle payments? Do I send invoices?

Process /

  • What are the day-to-day processes?
  • How do you plan new tasks? How do you estimate them? What about deadlines management?
  • How do I get new tasks? What are my zone of responsibility for a task?
  • What happens when tickets are done?
  • Do I have all requirements right away? (Design, functionality, ...)
  • How do you manage development lifecycle? Who does delivery? Who supports releases in a long run?
  • Who are the product's consumers? How do you receive their feedback?
  • What will be my priorities for the next few months? What do you expect from me?
  • What’s your onboaring process?
  • Do you practice mentoring?
  • When do meetings happen?
    1. Which time? Which timezone?
    2. Which time am I expected to be online?
  • How do you estimate performance?
  • Do you do time tracking?

Technologies /

  • What are your in-house solutions?
  • What’s your QA process? Are there testers? Automated or Manual? Do developers write tests? What sorts of tests?
  • Are there code-review process?
  • What is your development environment?
  • How does deployment works? What’s about CI/CD? Do you have established release cycles?
  • Do you have legacy-codebase? What are your relationships with it?

Team /

  • Can you describe your perfect candidate for this role? What are his skills and experience?
  • Who is in my team? Are there other FE developers / BE developers / designers / managers/ analytics?
  • How does the team solve conflicts?
  • How do we do we agree on all tech questions?
  • How do FE developers and designers collaborate on UI/UX decisions?
  • How would you describe your team’s spirit?
  • Do you participate in any out-of-work activities?
  • Who are heroes at the company? Why?

Company /

  • Do different teams in your company interact with each other? Can say there is a community?
  • Is it possible to switch between projects inside the company?
  • Is it possible to switch between roles inside the company?
  • Does the company organise meet-ups or conferences? Does the company send employees to outer events?
  • What perks your company offers?

Personal growth /

  • What self-development opportunities the company offers?
  • Do you have personal growth plans?
  • How do you get promotions? How do I raise my salary?

Onsite / Remote / Relocation /

  • Can I be relocated? What’s about relocation package? Does it include:
    1. Visa sponsorship?
    2. Relocation bonus?
    3. Rent help?
    4. Onboarding support?

Business /

  • What stage of development is the product currently in?
  • Who are your customers/stakeholders? How they provide the development with new stories?
  • Are you profitable?
  • Do you have plans to expand?
  • What are the next priorities for the business?
  • What is the company's last big achievement?

Other /

  • Tell me about one best thing about your company?
  • Tell me about one thing to improve?
  • How is life/work balance?
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