Checklist for projects which try to hire me

Non-Technical

• How many people are in the team (devs, designer, tester)?
  • If more than 10: alert How is work coordinated, are there sub- or super-structures?
  • If 10 or less: What is the concrete focus of the team, what are its responsibilities?
• Is diversity something that is considered in hiring processes?
• How many of the team members are non-cis-male?
• If there is more than one team: How are the teams working together on global or cross-team tasks?
• Are there regular developer meetings where current topics are discussed?
• What agile methodology is followed? How is this reflected in daily processes?
• Are there retrospectives on a regular basis? If not: alert
• Is there an agile coach or scrummaster? If not: alert Was there ever one? When?
• Who decides what the team should do? How is the process for bringing tasks into the team?
• Who decides about technologies or technical questions?
• Does the project have a defined due date and a fixed feature set? If yes: alert
• In which phase is the project currently? If shortly before expected/guaranteed shipping date: alert
• Is remote working possible? If yes: Under what conditions (VPN/repository access, communication)?
• Are there explicit UX-people involved in the design process?
• How is the interaction between design and implemention?
  • If design is "ready" (alert), were people involved who are implementation experts (developers)?

Technical

• Is the product responsively designed?
  • If not: alert Why?
  • If yes: What does this mean, device-based breakpoints, design- / element-dependent breakpoints …?
• Which JavaScript framework is used? And why was it chosen?
  • If Angular: Which version? If <2: alert
  • If React:
    • Which state-management is used (React, Redux, MobX …) and why?
    • Is there a separation between presentational and logical components? If not: alert
• Is SSR deployed/planned? (Not "Some HTML is somehow rendered" but real Server-Side-Rendering in JavaScript on request) If not: alert
• Is the overall coding style more object-oriented or more functional?
• Is there mandatory unit testing? If not: alert
• Is there test coverage measurement?
  • If yes: How is the coverage? Are there certain exclusions from the coverage?
  • If not: Why?
• Are third-party dependencies updated on a regular basis?
• How is CSS managed? Less/Sass, CSS-in-JS (which one) …
• Are there certain accessibility standards followed (WCAG) or, if not, is accessibility a present topic in the project?
• Is there a living style-guide? If not alert , if yes:
  • Third-party or self-made?
  • Is it the Single Source of Truth for all elements? If not: alert
• Is there a continuous integration server?
  • Which operating system?
  • Does it build separately on every repo change?
  • Are there feature-branches which the developers can push and then get built? If not: alert
  • Is it uncritical to push a failing feature-branch? If not: alert
• Is there a system for code reviews (Github, GitLab, Upsource)?
• Are there performance measurements (rendering time, loading time, memory usage …)?