Know your worth.
If their asking price is too low, ask what career track is like, so you can discuss how you can achieve the level you want.
- Signing bonus?
- Base salary?
- Equity?
- Total compensation?
- What are you prioritizing for?
- Choose a team for growth
- How will this help your spiritual growth?
- Do you have any devops?
- Do you have any SRE?
- Vacation policy?
- Sick leave policly?
- Maternity/Paternity leave?
- How does the company dogfood their own product?
- How integrated is the company?
- What are meeting policies like?
- What are the laptop policies during meetings?
- How do you handle exit interviews?
- What can you learn from your new colleagues?
- Do you do lunch meetings?
- Do you have lunch at your desk?
- Does the team go for lunch together?
- How do you integrate new employees?
- What tooling do you have?
- What tools do you have for onboarding?
- What tools do you have for feedback?
- What tools do you have to manage momentum?
- What tools do you have for measurements and metrics?
- What tools do you have for effectiveness?
- How do you schedule time for building tooling?
- Is tooling an after sight?
- How much time do you spend on your tooling?
- How long will onboarding take?
- How many reponsitories do you they have?
- How many lines of code?
- What programming language do they use?
- How do they maintain the language?
- What tools do they have to maintain the language?
- What tooling has the team built?
- What is your plan of attack?
- What are your companies best practices?
- How fast can you learn the context?
- How do you easy onboarding?
- How fast do you teach the require processes?
- Ask how do people collaborate?
- How well is collaboration done across teams?
- How big is the team? Larger teams have much larger communication overhead.
- Where does the company have momentum?
- What momentum does the company have?
- How do I best deliver feedback?
- What platforms do you have for feedback?
- Do you have an employee engagement survey? CultureAmp
- How is feedback managed?
- What needles are you trying to move?
- How do you measure your metrics?
- What is the team excited about?
- What processes do you have to deploy code in to production
- What bottlenecks are you facing?
- How do you release those bottlenecks?
- How do you balance delivering business value and managing technical debt?
- How do you reduce the technical debt?
- Do you have monitoring/alerts?
- How is knowledge shared? Presentations/Demos/Repositories
- How "open" is the company?
- How is feedback managed?
- How well do the executives steer the company?