Interview questions to ask your interviewer
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Interview questions to ask your interviewer
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#2I've found this repo https://gitlab.com/doctorj/interview-questions to be useful as well.
Re: Interview questions to ask your interviewer
#3I 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? Teams? Jira? Timesheets? Confluence? sharepoint? skype? etc
How locked down are the computers/network?
Am I able to use whatever development tools I choose without asking permission?
Why did the person before me leave?
Re: Interview questions to ask your interviewer
#4A question I like to ask, and have gotten some great answers to, is:
> If there was anything you could change about , whether or not it is in your control, what would it be?
It has been effective in getting an idea of some of the problems that might exist organizationally - it might not be the worst things, but there's always something.
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#5This is an awesome list! I always recommend every candidate I have interview with to ask as many questions as possible because with an interview both parties need to understand whether it makes sense to enter into an employment agreement or not.
Thanks to my questions I doged some bullets when I was on the other end. Trying to understand if the company is a good fit for you is as important as it is for them to check if you're a good candidate.
Re: Interview questions to ask your interviewer
#6I 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 :)
Re: Interview questions to ask your interviewer
#7I 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 :)
I like to ask what version of software they're running, and why. You might catch some change-adverse or bleeding-edge jockeys that way.
Re: Interview questions to ask your interviewer
#8I 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…
> Am I allowed to have side projects that I own?
> Does your insurance cover my preferred doctors? (obviously more of an email question)
Your contract specifies that and other answers to other questions. Don't ask your interviewer this question, the only thing he/she can do is rely to HR. Best ask HR directly.
> Why did the person before me leave?
It is unlikely you are ever going to get answer to that and even if you get it, it will have low value.
First, there does not necessarily exist a link between your position and the person before you. If you are a developer then it is more like a pool with new developers replenishing losses over time.
Second, a lot of people do not really know why they leave.
Third, even if they do know, they do not give truthful answer. They might be saying something like "I needed a change", or they might be rationalising it in some way, where in fact they just got a better offer from FB.
Fourth, as an interviewer you might not be privvy to that information officially.
Fifth, even if, by accident you got to know this information privately, I still don't feel ok passing private information especially one that can be basically gossip.
Re: Interview questions to ask your interviewer
#9I've found this repo https://gitlab.com/doctorj/interview-questions to be useful as well.
Cool! I've also used these:
https://github.com/lkostrowski/job-interview-questions-to-as... https://github.com/viraptor/reverse-interview
Re: Interview questions to ask your interviewer
#10I did some interviewing recently and took a bit of a different approach. I remember reading somewhere about the idea of taking interviews as a casual conversation to establish wants/needs instead of taking turns to interrogate. I just spoke with the people interviewing me like colleagues, talked about technology frankly, asked questions when they popped into my head, and it turned out pretty well. It wasn't calculated but rather the opposite - I just behaved like my normal self and ended up with an offer.