10 engineering questions
For corporate
- 1
What is a piece of the system you are afraid to touch?
- 2
Which of these is the real state of our tests?
- Solid
- Fine on the happy path
- Flaky and ignored
- Somebody else's problem
- What tests
- 3
What is the best piece of code or design on this team, in your view?
- 4
What do we build that nobody uses, and why do we keep it?
- 5
What technical debt are we pretending is a feature?
- 6
When did you last ship something you were embarrassed by, and what pushed it out?
- 7
What is a review comment you wanted to leave and did not?
- 8
What would you rewrite from scratch if you were given a month?
- 9
What do product or business people not understand about our work, and have we ever explained it well?
- 10
What is the incident you still think about?
Try answering these at the same time
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