Questions to ask a prospective employer during a job interview
Sorry for being a bit snarky here, but I did chortle when "You might also note that Google does give all their developers root access to their own dev machines" (which is true) is followed by things like "Anything under 10 minutes is good" for running the CI pipeline (not true anywhere I've been at Google) or "The steps should be 'do a git clone...'" (also not true at Google).Being slightly less snarky, this is a very prescriptive list that includes questions which, were I asked them as an interviewer, I'd consider red flags. "Does this team or any of the related teams have a person who actively rejects proposals to improve the code base?" is a BAD question to ask in an interview. What answer could an interviewer give? Yes? No? It depends? An example: a junior engineer comes in, says we should rewrite the server in kotlin, starts working on it, then is shot down by a senior engineer. Is the senior engineer "actively rejecting a proposal to improve the code base"? Arguably, yes. Are they wrong to do so? Again, arguable. It depends. Code health is a means to an end, not the end itself...