- “Is there a chunk of your office/company that would be described as weird nerds with intense interests?”
- “Do you have diversity statistics for both your organization as a whole, as well as specifically the team I’ll be joining?” and if I don’t like the answer, “Are you committed to improving those statistics in the next year?”
- “Does the team have a unified work style, or do engineers use their own preferred work style?”
- “How would you describe the camaraderie on the team?”
- “Is there anything that successful members of this team do?”
- “Are there certain events or activities that are core to fitting in with the team, e.g. team summits, ping pong, happy hours?”
- “Would you say that people on the team are friends with one another?”
- “How does the team like to support members who are dealing with a medium-length illness or going through a family emergency?”
- “What is your organization’s COVID prevention strategy?”
- “Outside of pager duty, at what time should employees snooze their notifications for the night?” and “How many employees are generally working late?”
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