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My two most important questions don't appear to be on here. "What has employee turnover looked like?" This is the biggest signal to me, a lot of businesses hir
by willcipriano 4y ago
My two most important questions don't appear to be on here.
"What has employee turnover looked like?" This is the biggest signal to me, a lot of businesses hire and are unable to retain anyone after the honeymoon period wears off. If you can't keep employees I'm not interested. They also can't really lie about this since once I join the team git blame is going to give away that they had lots of previous employees working on the project who are no longer here.
"What would my on call expectations be? Would you expect to reach me out of hours?" They cover monitoring and on call but not as directly as you need to. Devs may not have a explicit on call rotation, but many orgs have implicit on call expectations. Asking directly like this can make the implict explicit. I need to know this to set a price. "We expect you to jump in when there is an issue so we need to be able to reach you" is 24/7/365 on call in effect.
- bbarn 4y ago> "What has employee turnover looked like? I prefer to ask "What's the average tenure on my team, and how does that compare to the rest of the company?"
- dennis_jeeves1 4y agoGood questions. >Asking directly like this can make the implict explicit. I need to know this to set a price. You are sure to be rejected in 99% of the cases, lol. But that's the point, correct?
- willcipriano 4y agoI mean if they aren't talking 200k or more I'm not doing 24/7/365. I haven't found you need to at below that.