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Peter

Some questions that gave me good insights during my recent interviews:

  • What's the company's greatest challenge at the moment? Is it a scarcity of devs? Migration from tech A to tech B? Exploding user count?
  • What's the team's greatest challenge at the moment? Can be anything from having too few or too many senior devs to interpersonal difficulties. In any case, answers and follow-ups should give you some good insight.
  • What are some professional and private traits you're looking for in your new team members? This one seems to be hard to answer, because most interviewers and teams seem to not give this much thought. I've received answers ranging from typical HR-blabla to honest and well-thought-out professional AND personal skills. The most impressive answer I received (after several seconds of thinking) was "I seriously have no idea at the moment and thank you for making me think about this".