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Generally, you should ask questions to help YOU decide if the place is a good (or not) place to work at. Many people use the Joel Test as a guideline. As time g
by Tangurena 17y ago
Generally, you should ask questions to help YOU decide if the place is a good (or not) place to work at. Many people use the Joel Test as a guideline. As time goes by, you'll add your own questions to find things that went wrong/right at previous places.
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Since some questions aren't approprite, such as "do you have any psychopaths working here?" then you'll have to find some proxy questions that will help you decide if you're going to end up in a mental wood chipper at this place.
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- asimjalis 17y agoI agree that the Joel Test is a guideline. Some questions on it might only work for everybody. Consider, "Do you have a spec?" Some of the neatest teams I have worked on used index cards instead of a static spec and it worked really well.