You can ask anything you want. Prefixing your questions with "I want to know what I'm getting into before I bet my family's well-being on it" is a great way to

You can ask anything you want. Prefixing your questions with "I want to know what I'm getting into before I bet my family's well-being on it" is a great way to start. When I was interviewing, I asked literally anything I wanted to know, and people in general responded really well. If something is confidential, they'll tell you, and you can try to refine the question to something they can tell you. I brought a small notebook of questions to interviews and referred to it to make sure I didn't forget anything important. Nobody seemed to think this was weird. Blog post I wrote about this: http://jvns.ca/blog/2013/12/30/questions-im-asking-in-interviews/ http://jvns.ca/blog/2013/12/30/questions-im-asking-in-interv...