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interview Qs
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| Qs to ask | |
| How does the engineering culture differ from the overall company culture? | |
| What were some of the biggest changes on the team in the last 6 months? | |
| How did your team come to use your current framework(s)/tech stack? | |
| Did they consider other options? | |
| How did they evaluate tradeoffs between them? | |
| What is the build process for the company products? | |
| Single shell script? Executable? | |
| What is the most common reason engineers have left this company? | |
| How do you prevent meetings from overwhelming an engineer’s schedule? | |
| What is your process for writing post-mortems, and are they shared publicly? | |
| How does product management work? | |
| How do you decide what products people work on? | |
| How much say do engineers have over what is built and how it's built? | |
| What project will I first work on, and what metrics will determine success? | |
| How often are engineers expected to provide status updates on a project? | |
| Can you walk me through your development process, from a ticket or task to code on production? | |
| Who sets deadlines and what happens when people fail to meet them? | |
| If company is B2B, ask how many clients they have or who is their largest driver of revenue. Reason why: | |
| A lot of sensible stuff already mentioned. Some will probably disagree with me but my stress levels improved a lot when I switched from employers that had a B2B model with a handful of clients that had enough power to squeeze deadlines and make changes when they please using money (or the lack of potential payment) as leverage compared to a B2C model where employees had real control over the direction of their in-house projects. I don't think it's enough for the business to have a B2C model though it actually needs to be profitable and an expanding team is a more positive sign than a contracting one. |
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| product teams are much more valuable when people understand each other's disciplines | |
| Qs to ask | |
| What is the purpose of the product | |
| what are the goals of the product | |
| how will we know we're successfully | |
| who are the users of the product | |
| what problems are we solving for them | |
| what tasks are critical for users to accomplish |
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| How does this role contribute to larger company goals? | |
| What particular achievements would equate to success at this job? What would success look like? | |
| What metrics would you use to measure success in this role? | |
| How do you deliver negative feedback? | |
| Can you give me some examples of the types of projects I may be working on? | |
| What is the biggest challenge the team has faced in the past year? | |
| In the recent past, how has the company acknowledged and rewarded outstanding performance? | |
| Why did you decide to work at this company? | |
| What is the next step in the process? When do you think you will be making a decision? |
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