questions-for-the-employer.md

List of the questions for the employer

Working environment

• What hardware are you using (laptops, 2 monitors, etc.)? Can I choose it for myself?
• What OS are you using? Can I choose it for myself?
• Do you have standing desks? Can I have one?
• What is your tech stack?

Working agreements

• Do you allow to work partially or fully remotely?
• What types of employment/agreement do you offer: B2B contract or permanent employment?

Good practices

• Do you use issue tracking system? Which one?
• Do you use Continuous Integration Server? Which one?
• Do you use Version Control System? Which one?
• Do you use Static Code Analysis?
• Do you have project code style defined?
• Do you pratice code reviews?
• Do you practice pair programming?
• Do you practice clean code principles at work?
• How long does it take to setup the project? Is it hard?
• Do you have any onboarding process? How long is it? How does it look like?
• Do you have any tech debt? Do you track it somehow and trying to reduce it?
• Does project has any OS-specific dependencies (e.g. to Windows)?
• Do you share knowledge at work and willing to help other team members when they're stucked?
• Do you have any internal knowledge-sharing community (e.g. internal tech talks, etc.)?
• Do you have any regular knowlege sharing meetups or tech talks?

Daily work

• What do you do in case of "fire" (e.g. fuck up in the 4 AM on production)?
• Do you work overtime? Is it required or optional? Is it paid?
• What will be my potential scope of the responsibilities?
• Who will be my direct boss?
• Do you use any time-logging systems?

Benefits

• Do you have any additional benefits (except for salary)?
• Do you have any integration trips?
• Do you have any educational budget for the trainings and conferences?
• Do you allow to attend trainings and conferences (as an attendee or speaker)? Are you covering cost of it?

//TODO: review it and add more questions, check JOEL score