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by bradleyjg 5232 days ago
I realize we are in a bubble, but trust me bubbles don't last forever. You need to think longer term. Ask anyone that was working in tech circa 2002.

The questions you should be asking are:

-How is the pay? What are the benefits like? What are the expectations for hours?

-Does my future boss seem like a person I can get along with? What about my co-workers?

-Does the company have a business model that makes sense (i.e. will their checks eventually start bouncing)?

-Am I going to be working with technologies that are in widespread enough use that I can get another job even after the bubble bursts (hint: you want technologies that are in use in "boring" corporate settings as well as start-ups)?

All of these are far, far more important than if they give you a fancy chair or MacBook Pros; whether they use SCRUM or XP; svn instead of git; etc.