Tips when interviewing

It is important to ask questions to find out more about your potential employer, the team you’ll be working with, their culture, etc.

Ask questions

The interview is bi-directional. Don’t hesitate to ask all the questions that you think are important to you.

Meet the team

It is important to have a feel of the team you will be working with.

What’s your role?

Seek precise answers about what your role would involve. For instance, is it strictly backend work, full stack, devops?

Workflows

Find out what workflows are being used. For instance, what is the workflow used for submitting code changes. Does it invlove pull requests, peer reviews?

Find out about wich colloboration tools are used.

Development environments

What’s the devlopment environment like? Does the team have one? Is the team well prepared to welcome new comers?

Best practices

Is there a culture of following best practices. For instance, does the team follow some kind of coding conventions such as PEP8 in Python.

Testing

Find out about the testing layer, is continuous integration used?

Conflict handling

How are conflicts handled?