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import json
import sys
import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET

try:
    fileobj = open(sys.argv[1], "r")
except IndexError:
    fileobj = sys.stdin

with fileobj:

zpencerq

Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

• I am zpencerq on github.
• I am zpencerq (https://keybase.io/zpencerq) on keybase.
• I have a public key whose fingerprint is 593A EFE8 A6BC 4C49 8631 9D40 0A0B E749 B530 FD48

To claim this, I am signing this object:

zpencerq

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?".

zpencerq

class Pipe(object):
    def __init__(self, value):
        self.pipe = []
        self.value = value

    def __getattr__(self, name):
        if name == 'get':
            return lambda:reduce(lambda x, y: y(x), self.pipe, self.value)
        self.pipe.append(globals()[name])
        return self