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by djb_hackernews 3362 days ago
The problem with this test and the Joel test is an employer can check all of the boxes (essentially do you follow modern software practices that were revolutionary 20 years ago, and are you "Agile") and it can still result in a toxic or less than optimal environment.

I did like the questions around OSS and sharing expertise. I'd like to see more questions that address recruitment anti patterns (diversity, agism, disclosing previous salary, etc) and tech organization anti patterns (an actual career path on par with management, non transparent equity grants, etc)

Like, what would the questions be if even, say, Google didn't look so good if it answered them.