Interviewee name, title, LinkedIn and/or Twitter links and/or other ways to contact. (if s/he wants it) Some additional information about you.
What kind of products / services does your company develop / maintain? (web based, mobile, desktop, on-site appliance, embedded, hardware, etc.)
Number of engineers:
Are there any remote engineers? (If yes, how does that work out?)
What are the most common tools that engineers use?
Which languages do engineers code in?
Which operating systems do you use?
Which databases do you use?
What are the development environments? (OS, editor, Vagrant? Docker?)
What is the system architecture? (Monolith, Microservices, Mix, etc...?)
Do you use "the cloud"? What kind of cloud infrastructure do you use?
What "Agile practices" do you employ? (Daily stand-up, Sprints, Retrospectives, ...)
What does DevOps mean in your company? (Do you have a dedicated developer experience/developer tools team?)
Is anyone on-call? Who? (Developers, DevOps people, ...?)
What is the development process like? (The lifecycle of a piece of committed code, branching strategy. How do developers cooperate?) Could you describe the process from commit/check-in to deplyment?
Do you practice pair-programming? Mob-programming?
Do you have code reviews? How often? What is code review like?
How is testing done? (Manual QA? What kind of tests do you run? How long does a test cycle take?)
How is code released / deployed? (How often? Who can do it? Do you have staging environment? Deployment circles?)
What is an average day-in-the-life of someone on one of the engineering teams?
What are the biggest pleasures and challenges in your job?
What was a major problem you as an engineering organization have encountered in the last year and how did you solve it?
Any disaster you could share with us?
What makes your company a special place to be an engineer?
What else would you like to tell people interested in the work at your company?
