Nobody has mentioned this so this is all I have to add: Work/life balance (a.k.a. will I be expected to work 80 hours a week, or will I be fighting fires at 3a

Nobody has mentioned this so this is all I have to add: Work/life balance (a.k.a. will I be expected to work 80 hours a week, or will I be fighting fires at 3am on a regular basis.) Sadly sometimes they will lie and you don't find out what it's really like until you start the job. This happened to a friend recently. Despite setting expectations up front about hours, work/life balance, etc. the first week he started working there he noticed developers were fighting fires (and getting distracted) all day long and often at night/weekends. Luckily for this friend, he had another offer come along and he gave his new employer a choice: Let me help you fix this problem or I walk. "Well, this is actually better than what it used to be like." (He quit (a week after his start date,) and took the other offer.)