Questions to ask potential employers

* How long do you expect it would take me 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?
* What's the longest tenure of a developer at this company?
* How long has the top quarter of the developers been here?
* What fraction of the developers have been here less than 6 months?
* How long does it take to do a complete deployment?
* How large are PRs? For a "big" PR, how many lines of code? How long is it open?
* About what fraction of their time are developers given (implicitly or explicitly) the freedom to explore?
* Do you pay for conferences?
* How do you define success and growth for your individual developers?
* How often does my manager have 1:1s with their reports?
* What kinds of topics are usually discussed in 1:1s?
* How often do you have major outages? What constitutes a major outage for you?
* Do you have a defined process  for the aftermath of an outage?
* What's the lifecycle of new development, from somebody's idea to deployment?
* How do you balance shipping new features and maintaining the codebase?
* How often do 2 devs work together for more than 15 minutes? 3 or more devs?
* How do you like to track tasks?
* Do you do agile/scrum?
  * How do you decide what to build?
  * What are your swimlanes called? 
  * How do you know when something is done?
* What project management software do you use?
* How many repositories does an average engineer touch?
* How often do you do lunch and learns, or other semi-formal knowledge sharing?