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1. How does budgeting work with your group? Who controls the budget they get?
2. How are priorities set on the team?
3. Who is the customer of your team, not your company but your team specifically is it sales, ops, finance, etc?
It comes from the idea that if you can discover the incentives you'll be able to deduce a lot more about the position.
I would add Am I allowed to have side projects that I own? Am I allowed to contribute to open source from work? ie bugfixes for libraries we use. How many meetings are there in an average month? Does your insurance cover my preferred doctors? (obviously more of an email question) How strict are the requirements in whatever tracking software we use (jira,rally, etc) How many required programs are there? Outlook? Slack…
My go-to question is: Am I able to use Linux? This tells you a lot about the company. I avoided some Windows-only jobs in the past :)
Feel free to check them out. They also include questions to ask the recruiter. I hope they can be of use.
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My go-to question is: Am I able to use Linux? This tells you a lot about the company. I avoided some Windows-only jobs in the past :)
I've avoided jobs that are Mac only. Life is too short.
As a hiring manager, I'm usually one of the first people new candidates speak with (perhaps right after briefly talking to a recruiter). Generally, I want to make sure candidates have all this information within the first interview or two. These days, I tend to open my interview with an opportunity for the candidate to ask any questions about the role and company that weren't answered by the recruiter.
I also try to leave time at the end, but I find that there's often so little time at the end, that it's better to start with any questions.
I would add Am I allowed to have side projects that I own? Am I allowed to contribute to open source from work? ie bugfixes for libraries we use. How many meetings are there in an average month? Does your insurance cover my preferred doctors? (obviously more of an email question) How strict are the requirements in whatever tracking software we use (jira,rally, etc) How many required programs are there? Outlook? Slack…
My go-to question is: Am I able to use Linux? This tells you a lot about the company. I avoided some Windows-only jobs in the past :)
My startup is mostly Windows, but that's because we're doing AAA game development and still have some tooling that is Windows only at this stage.
I find that with WSL2, I can do everything I need. A fair bit of my day is spent in emacs.
Great list of information anyone should know before accepting an offer. As a hiring manager, I'm usually one of the first people new candidates speak with (perhaps right after briefly talking to a recruiter). Generally, I want to make sure candidates have all this information within the first interview or two. These days, I tend to open my interview with an opportunity for the candidate to ask any questions about the…
Some folks are surprised by this and I often have to help them along, but that's cool -- it is a bit different.
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My go-to question is: Am I able to use Linux? This tells you a lot about the company. I avoided some Windows-only jobs in the past :)
Really depends on the sort of "windows-only" jobs you're thinking of. My startup is mostly Windows, but that's because we're doing AAA game development and still have some tooling that is Windows only at this stage. I find that with WSL2, I can do everything I need. A fair bit of my day is spent in emacs.
I was hoping you were going to follow that up by saying you're working on a robot to clean vertical glass.