For early startups, these are important:
- Are you profitable
- If not, how long is your runwayQuestions to ask a company during a job interview
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Re: Questions to ask a company during a job interview
#12I would change the part:
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Do you use source control?
Do you test code?
Do you use bug tracking?
Do you use CI/CD?
```
to
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How do you use source control?
How do you test code?
How do you perfrom bug tracking?
How do you solve CI/CD?
```
For really good companies asking if they test code seems insulting :P
Re: Questions to ask a company during a job interview
#13Interviewing the interviewer has been THE best way to get the job. It just oozes a confidence that you already know you're good enough to get the job, and you're trying to figure out if they are good enough for YOU. Figure out questions before hand that describe the type of good working environments or fixes for bad ones that you've had in the past. The interviewer will quickly shift and try to sell the position to y…
If I run out of questions to ask the candidate during an interview, asking if they have any questions themselves is a great way to find out even more.
I’m tempted to say that the questions they ask carry more weight for the final result than the ones that I did.
Re: Questions to ask a company during a job interview
#14Why doesn't the interviewee ever ask the interviewer a whiteboard or puzzle question, "to see how you think?"
I do, and I have excluded companies for the wrong answers. Why would you not? You're taking the risk of wasting a few months until you find out that the fit is poor.
Can you give an example?
Re: Questions to ask a company during a job interview
#15I would change the part: ``` Do you use source control? Do you test code? Do you use bug tracking? Do you use CI/CD? ``` to ``` How do you use source control? How do you test code? How do you perfrom bug tracking? How do you solve CI/CD? ``` For really good companies asking if they test code seems insulting :P
Great suggestion. Feel free to edit the readme :-)
Re: Questions to ask a company during a job interview
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
I do, and I have excluded companies for the wrong answers. Why would you not? You're taking the risk of wasting a few months until you find out that the fit is poor.
How has that gone over? Did you get interviewers to refuse the question?
Answering puzzle questions when I’m the interviewer seems like slightly embarrasing, but also great fun since you’re not so worried about failure.
Re: Questions to ask a company during a job interview
#17Why doesn't the interviewee ever ask the interviewer a whiteboard or puzzle question, "to see how you think?"
Because unless you are some sort of celebrity engineer, "interview is a conversation between both parties" is nonsense.
Company is interviewing the candidate not the other way around, no matter what we like to think.
Edit: Sorry I should've clarified. I am specially referring to companies that don't really have to care about your feelings towards their interviews. FAANGs for example. They simply don't care and there are million others who are willing and happy to go though whiteboarding. They just don't have to put up with your stuff.
Ofcourse you have leverage when you are interviewing at your local java enterprise shop. But who cares about those jobs, pointless to interview them with your smartass questions, we all know they are pretty much all the same more or less.
Re: Questions to ask a company during a job interview
#18Why doesn't the interviewee ever ask the interviewer a whiteboard or puzzle question, "to see how you think?"
Because unless you are some sort of celebrity engineer, "interview is a conversation between both parties" is nonsense. Company is interviewing the candidate not the other way around, no matter what we like to think. Edit: Sorry I should've clarified. I am specially referring to companies that don't really have to care about your feelings towards their interviews. FAANGs for example. They simply don't care and there…
This was true in my first job out of college. After that I definitely was interviewing the company. I've had the fortune to always be interviewing while having a stable job so I never needed the job I was interviewing for and it's wise to be picky if you can afford to be. There's a lot of risk associated with changing jobs and I do what I can to either minimize that or at least know what it is. I've said no to two companies. One because I got a better offer and another because I didn't want to do the kind of work they were doing which was really only evident after going through their sample project.
Re: Questions to ask a company during a job interview
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
How has that gone over? Did you get interviewers to refuse the question?
Answering puzzle questions when I’m the interviewer seems like slightly embarrasing, but also great fun since you’re not so worried about failure.
Also gives both parties a chance to work together potentially, but with less pressure.
Re: Questions to ask a company during a job interview
#20Why doesn't the interviewee ever ask the interviewer a whiteboard or puzzle question, "to see how you think?"
I don't because I think those kinds of questions are just not good signals.