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10 Questions You Should Ask In A Web Dev Interview

Milecia on May 09, 2019

You've reached an exciting point in the job hunting process! The interviewer called to set up a date and time, you've practiced all of your answers...

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Periklis Gkolias • May 9 '19

Nice list. I would also add

What it is the training policy of the company? A company with no training policy or benefits, at least in the software sector, is completely worthless ( unless we are speaking for early startups where I can excuse them)

How do you handle absurd customer demands? You don't want to work with a company that has no idea how to push back

Austin Standing • May 9 '19 • Edited

A great resource for me is KeyValues. You put in the attributes you look for in a company, and it will filter down questions and details about how to use them to get the information you are looking for.

My favorite (I care about work/life balance):

What's the typical day, week, and weekend like in the life of an engineer here?

Shoutout to @lynnetye !

Lynne Tye • May 9 '19

🙌 Woop woop!

Glad you find Culture Queries useful, Austin! ❤️

Luke Duncan • May 10 '19

Love this Milecia! Great article and will definitely keep these in mind for the future.

I always like asking what the career paths are within the position.

E.g.

What are the considerations for a promotion within the company?
How are salary increases considered? (time based?, work based?, company projections based?)
What is the typical path of position xyz in the company after a few years?

It just gives you a good glimpse of what the next few months or years might look like for you professionally :)

Laurie • May 9 '19

These are great questions! I normally ask about training opportunities and on call. But the examples above are even more all-encompassing on those topics.

Nikos Kanakis • May 10 '19

Nice Article Milecia!

I would also add remote working, it's a huge plus for me :D

Salli Figler • May 14 '19

Great questions that really focus on the job and process. So often we are so excited to be in an actual in person interview that we hear the job requirements, know we can do them but forget to ask the hard questions related to how we are going to do the job to succeed.

Vinicius Kiatkoski Neves • May 10 '19

Reaaally nice!

Some people focus too much only on the tech side and forget about the rest which is extremely important.

I think it is also useful to ask things about:

Budget for training/conferences and so on, so you know how much they are willing to invest on you besides time for learning.
If you do care, it is also worth asking about open source. Do they embrace it? Is it part of the culture?

Thanks and definitely gonna save it!

Divyesh Parmar • May 11 '19

Wow currently I am working as Junior dev and I am giving more than 25 interviews in two weeks, I would say this is the most helpful list. I am facing much hardness but yeah it will earn me a good opportunity

David Wickes • May 10 '19 • Edited

My only question would be:

Do the developers own the process?

Michael Caveney • May 9 '19

I've almost certainly gotten stung before in phone screens for not asking enough questions, but some of these wouldn't have occurred to me. Well done, this is super helpful!