I bundled these up into groups and wrote some thoughts about why I ask them! If these helped you, I'd love to hear about it!! I'm on twitter [@vcarl_](https://twitter.com/vcarl_) or send me an email [carl.vitullo@gmail.com](mailto:carl.vitullo@gmail.com) # Onboarding and the workplace https://blog.vcarl.com/interview-questions-onboarding-workplace/ * How long will it take to deploy my first change? To become productive? To understand the codebase? * What kind of equipment will I be provided? Will the company pay/reimburse me if I want something specific? * How will you know if I’m doing a good job? * How often do two developers work together on a single task? Three or more developers? * How many of the developers have been here less than 6 months? * How many developers have been here 2 years? 4 years? # Development and emergencies https://blog.vcarl.com/interview-questions-development-emergencies/ * How long does it take to do a complete deployment? * What is a big pull request, in lines of code or files affected? How long is it open? * How many repositories would I touch to make routine changes? * How often do developers have to make simultaneous changes across repositories? * How often do you have major outages? What constitutes a major outage for you? * Do you have a defined process for handling an outage? * Would I be expected to be on-call? * What does your on-call process look like? # Growth https://blog.vcarl.com/interview-questions-growth/ * About what fraction of their time are developers given (implicitly or explicitly) the freedom to explore or learn? * How do you define success and growth for developers? * How often do you do lunch and learns, or other semi-formal knowledge sharing? * How often would my manager have 1:1s with me? * What kinds of topics are usually discussed in 1:1s? * Do you pay for conferences? # Project management and prioritization https://blog.vcarl.com/interview-questions-projects-prioritizing/ * How do you balance shipping new features and maintaining the codebase? * What's the lifecycle of new development, from somebody's idea to deployment? * How do you track tasks? How are those tasks created? * Do you do agile/scrum? * How do you decide what to build? * Do you have "swimlanes" in your task tracking? What are they called? * How do you know when something is done? * What project management software do you use?