1. What sort of technical exam do you use to screen programmers? 2. What do you do to make your programmers lives easier? 3. What percentage of the developer’

1. What sort of technical exam do you use to screen programmers? 2. What do you do to make your programmers lives easier? 3. What percentage of the developer’s time is spent in meetings versus uninterrupted coding time? Interesting questions, but I prefer to not beat around the bush: 1. What will I be building? 2. What will you pay me? If the answers to these 2 questions are right, I don't care that much about anything else. If they're not, nothing else matters.