1. What problem is the company/team trying to solve? 2. What are the special challenges? For example, ultra low latency or scalability or porting a monolith to

1. What problem is the company/team trying to solve? 2. What are the special challenges? For example, ultra low latency or scalability or porting a monolith to microservices 3. Technology stack (does it match with my experience? what can I learn? hotter and newer not always better imho) 4. The language used in the post After this, I usually try to find out as much as I can about the company. It helps a lot if the company has an engineering/team blog.