I'd treat the specific questions here with a grain of salt but directionally the emphasis on making sure you inform yourself about the things you care about is

I'd treat the specific questions here with a grain of salt but directionally the emphasis on making sure you inform yourself about the things you care about is good. I wouldn't expect that asking questions of the prospective employer is the best way to inform yourself about a lot of things though. A lot of devs for example could use some advice about options, how they work and what the tax consequences are when you receive or exercise options. Your prospective employer really can't give you this advice in any credible way - you need to seek it out independently and do your own research. Some of the specific questions are not great depending on cultural context. For example if someone joining my dev team asked me to pay to ship their car somewhere I'd ask them why they needed a car to code. But I'm in London, where having a car has marginal/negative utility versus being essential in other places. On the equity side, if someone asked these questions I'd know they don't understand equity. What would really help is to see the cap table so you get liquidation preferences etc but you're not going to get to see the cap table most places if you're just going for a dev job. As it is, he says you might not get told the strike price on your options, which in many/most countries your employer would be legally obliged to tell you as it's part of the valuation of your comp for tax purposes.