I asked two questions the last time I interviewed which are wholly unrelated to anything on this list, and they found me a place I was happy enough with that I

I asked two questions the last time I interviewed which are wholly unrelated to anything on this list, and they found me a place I was happy enough with that I haven't looked again in 5+ years. To engineers - how do you feel about management / the practice of management at this company, especially compared to other places you've worked? I was looking for an answer that indicated that management wasn't just where they put engineers who wanted a promotion, and also that the company's processes realized that management was a skill you could be good or bad at just like engineering. To managers - how is diversity on your team? The answer was universally some variant of "it could be better," but I got a lot of mileage from seeing whether it was a thing they were defensive about and whether they thought they actually could concretely make progress. All the technical stuff follows from whether the company has reliably competent managers who believe both that they ought to make things better and that they are realistically able to. There are other specific questions you can ask to answer it; I just happened to use these two (and I certainly have no idea if they're the best, but they did work). Every bad technical answer can be fixed by people who want to fix it; at the same time, every good technical answer can go bad without people who care to keep things fixed.