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:office: List of questions I might ask during an interview for a software developer job

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# Questions To Ask During An Interview As a Developer

These are the questions I might ask during an interview, depending on the information I already have, the company, and everything else. I won't ask every single question, and neither should you. Life is too short.

This was, at the beginning, an aside to [this article](https://thevaluable.dev/find-best-software-developer-job/), on my blog. It grew as the time went by.

Some questions don't necessarily reveal what I want to hear, and it's on purpose. If you want to know my stand on things, you can still read my [blog](https://thevaluable.dev/). Most of the time, I focus more on the business / people / culture / processes. To me, it's where things can go eerie quickly.

## Position

* If you hire me, what would be my immediate responsibilities?

## People

### Company Culture

* How would you describe the company culture?
* How do you know if a developer is productive and valuable for the company?
* What's the balance between firefighting and project work?
* Do you think that soft skills (like communication, time management, or being able to adapt) are more important than technical skills?
* What do you do avoid developer turnover?
* Do you think diversity matters in your teams?
* How do you ensure diversity in your team?

### Control & Micro Management

* Is every developer allowed to deploy in production?
* How do you understand code ownership?
* Are there any performance reviews?

### Training

* Do you allocate resources for employee training?

### Feedback

* Do you have any established feedback process (1-to-1) between managers and developers? 
    * Between the developers themselves? 
    * Between the teams?

## Technologies

* What's the tech stack of your codebase?
* What do you use on the infrastructure level?
* Why do you use `<insert-the-technology-they use>`?
* Can developers choose their development environments (OS, computer, IDE)?

## Business

* Why are you hiring?
* What is the vision of the company?
* How will the company look like in 5 years? 
* Do you focus on a percise target demographic?
* How do you get feedback from you users?
* What are the biggest challenges your business is facing?
* Are there domain experts who can explain some aspect of the business to the developers?

## Teams

* How many developer teams do you have?
* How may developers do you have in each team?
* Do you have product managers? Product owners?
* Are the developer teams autonomous?
* Do you have cross-functional teams?
* Are developers usually working alone on their projects?
* How do developers share knowledge in the team?

## Processes

### Agile

* Do you use SCRUM? Can you describe the process?
* Do you use Kanban? 
* What do you think about pair programming? Is it a common practice in the company?
* What do you think about code review? Is it a common practice in the company?

### Tests

* Are you writing unit tests / functional tests / integration tests ... ?
* What do you think about TDD? Is it a common practice in the company?

### Documentation

* What does good documentation mean to you? 
* Are the codebases well documented?
* Are the features in the applications you're building well documented?

### CI / CD

* Do you have a CI pipeline?
* Do you do Continuous Deployment (CD)?
* How often do you deploy in production?
* What do you prefer: small tickets you directly deploy in production when they're done, or bigger tickets?

### Requirements

* Who is writing the requirements for new features?
* Do you have kickup meetings with domain experts, managers, and developers, when you want to add a new functionality?
* Is it possible, for developers, to change the requirements?

## Quality

* Are you aware of your application's MTTR (Mean Time to Restore), the time you need on average to fix problems in production?
* Do you have a QA team?
* Does the QA team test manually, or do they run automated tests?
* Do you have agile ceremonies, like daily stand up?

## Working Place

* Do you allow home office?
* Do you allow remote work?
* Do you work in an open office?
* Are developers isolated or is everybody in the same offices?
* Can I visit the offices?

## Schedule

* Are the work hours flexible?

## Deadlines

* Who schedules the deadlines? How?
* Are estimations considered as hard deadlines?
* Is it possible to change the scope of the tasks if it's clear that the deadlines are too short?
* Do you think a "healthy" amount of pressure on developers is necessary for them to do their best work?

## Legacy Systems and Complexity

* Do you consider part of your codebase as legacy? Why?
* Do you have some practices or processes to avoid technical debt?
* Does the management know the cost of complexity in the codebase?
* How do you reduce the entropy in your codebase?

## Holidays

* How many days of vacation do we have?
* Is it possible to have unpaid sabbatical? (months)

## Trial Day

* Can I do a payed trial day to get to know each other better?

## To ask to the IT team If Trial Day

* Would you refer this company to a friend?
* What would you change in this company?
* What the most interesting things you've worked on here?
* Are deployments stressful? Why?
* Why do you stay in this company?

# Sources

* [Reverse interview](https://github.com/viraptor/reverse-interview)
* Many others I forgot

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