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The last few jobs I've had have proved to be somewhat disappointing. What I realized | |
after a few months was that it was mostly my fault for not asking the right questions | |
In a way a job interview is really for both parties. Not only do they have to think | |
that you fit in, but you have to think that you'll enjoy working there. Here's a | |
pretty long list of questions to pull from. Or you could ask them all, up to you. | |
General Questions: | |
1. What is the dress code? | |
2. What are the normal business hours? | |
3. What are my immediate supervisor's hours? | |
4. Do you offer benefits? | |
5. What is the waiting period for benefits? | |
6. What is your policy on working from home? | |
7. How much vacation/sick time would I get? | |
8. What is the average employment length? | |
9. What is a typical day/week like? | |
10. What is an atypical day/week like? | |
11. Would I be working in a cubicle? | |
12. How many people are in the department? | |
Technical Questions: | |
1. What version of ruby/rails are you currently running on? | |
2. Do you plan to upgrade? | |
3. How closely do you follow ruby/rails conventions? (MVC, db schema, etc.) | |
4. Do you work as a team? | |
5. Does code get reviewed before it can be committed? By who? | |
6. How much test coverage do you have? | |
7. What is your deployment strategy? ie.. shell script, capistrano, CI | |
8. Do you use git? svn? other? | |
9. Do you have a development strategy? What is it? | |
10. Do you have a regular release cycle? | |
11. What platform would I be developing on? Mac? Linux? ... Windows? (shutter) | |
12. Would I be able to bring my own computer? | |
13. In what state do you see the application in 6 months, 1 year, 5 years? | |
You probably get my point. Make sure you know what you're getting yourself into. And | |
remember, just as you are putting your best foot forward, so are they. Not that they are | |
intentionally deceiving you, but they probably won't naturally offer this information. So | |
it's up to you to find out. |
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