[autarch]

I've been maintaining my own list of questions for quite a few years. I added some based on this post and the discussion here on HN.

Here's the full list - https://gist.github.com/autarch/6e7e25e85db62a359f91aa090033...

There's a few that are very specific to my future travel plans and my height, but the vast majority are potentially useful for everyone.

Note that my goal is to _get answers to these questions during the interview process_. I do not expect to sit there and ask _all of them_ in a single interview. In my experience, quite a bit of this comes about naturally. For example, I'll often find out about their dev process, tech stack, tools, and so on from the technical questions they ask me, and the conversations those questions lead to.

But my goal would be to have satisfying answers to all of these by the time I'm making my decisions about whether to accept an offer.

[djhn]

I'm sorry, your height?

That piqued my interest enough to look through your questions. They are all great, but I didn't find anything related to height and can't think of any I would personally ask. (Ergonomics? Business class travel?)

[autarch]

One of the questions is this:

> How is work travel handled? Will it be an issue if I want a somewhat more expensive seat for legroom?

I'm 6'7" (200cm), so flying in a regular economy seat is horrible for me. I want to make sure the employer won't balk at me paying extra for an exit row or premium economy seat.

[djhn]

I see. Fair question. I might adopt this if I'm ever applying for jobs that require frequent travel.

[autarch]

For me, even visiting an office once or twice a year by plane is enough to make this important. I also have knee issues. I really can't tolerate being jammed into a regular economy seat for any length of time.

I would also note that premium economy is usually 30-60% more than an economy seat. Typically this amounts to maybe $150-300 per trip, so I'm not asking for a huge amount of money here!