- Q: How many nights/weekends have you worked in the past 6 months?
- Q: How many vacation days did you take last year, approx?
- Q: How many hours of meetings do you have per week?
- Q: How many women or under-represented minorities (e.g. black and/or hispanic) are on your team?
- Q: How many steps between you and the CTO?
- Q: When was the last time you shipped something to production?
- Q: How does code go from
git committo prod? - Q: If you had a magic wand, what would you change at $COMPANY?
- Q: Tell me about a time you disagreed with someone in your reporting chain
- Q: When something breaks in production, what happens?
Here’s a big list as well: https://github.com/tBaxter/questions-for-employers#the-interview-process
For HM:
- What does success look like for your customers for someone in this role?
- What are the key accomplishments you’d like to see in this role over the next year?
- What is the one thing I absolutely must get right the first year?
- How does the company support continuing education?
- Do you stack-rank employees? Can you tell me how your stack ranking process works?