Questions and tips to find the good company as a web developer

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Before the interview

• If there are coding tests, how long do they take?
• Can I do the coding tests on a computer?
• If everything goes well, can I do a trial day in your company?

During the interview

Position

• What would my immediate responsibilities be?

Company

• How would you describe the company culture?
• Do you feel there are any skills currently lacking on the team?

Workflow

• Are you writing unit tests and/or functional tests for your softwares?
• What do you think about TDD?
• What do you think about pair programming?
• Do you do Pull requests?
• Do you have product managers? Are they product owners as well?
• Do you write documentation?
• Do you have a QA team?
• Are developers usually working alone on their own project?
• Do you use Continuous Integration?
• How does the QA team is testing? Manually? Using automated tests?

Schedule

• Is home office authorized? Under what conditions?
• What about the work hours? Are they flexible?

Deadlines

• Who decides the deadlines? How?
• How do you define a senior developer?
• How do you do to know if a developer is productive and valuable for the company?

Business related

• How do you take feedback for you clients?
• What the biggest challenges your business face?

Technologies

• I saw you are using <technology>. Why?
• Can we choose to work with MacOs, Linux or Windows? Do you impose the OS/tools we work with?
• What the balance between firefighting and project work?

To ask to the IT team

• What the most interesting thing you worked on?
• What would you change in this company?

After the interview

• Can I visit the offices?

Feedbacks

• Give feedback about the interview via Email
• Ask for feedback via Email