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by asiando 1967 days ago
The blog you mentioned has interesting articles. Do you have by chance also something similar but for the person on the other side of the desk? I’d like to sharpen my skills to be interviewed. I’m the developer who never has questions at the end.
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Always have questions - interviewing is a two-way street. You want to find out what they value, (what's their quality vs speed tradeoff? etc.), and what sort of things they have problems with (possibly something you could solve to really stand out?)

Those are just the most basic and obvious ones. Maybe hard to think of on the spot, but you can think of others in advance and have them ready.

Thanks! That newsletter does have articles geared toward candidates as well, though a lot fewer.

The topic of what to ask at the end is one I floated around, but I didn't find it to be a priority. In an ideal world, the questions at the end wouldn't be part of the evaluation anyway, so it should be a time for you to ask whatever you want. Unfortunately, I'm sure interviewers do judge based on those questions, so if anyone has insight into what "good" questions are, I'd love to know.