Negotiation / Deciding

Salary Negotiation

Know your worth.

If their asking price is too low, ask what career track is like, so you can discuss how you can achieve the level you want.

Understand your compensation

  • Signing bonus?

  • Base salary?

  • Equity?

  • Total compensation?

Market Rates

  • Interview with other companies to better calibrate Market Rates

Deciding

General

  • What are you prioritizing for?

  • Choose a team for growth

  • How will this help your spiritual growth?

  • Do you have any devops?

  • Do you have any SRE?

  • Vacation policy?

  • Sick leave policly?

  • Maternity/Paternity leave?

  • How does the company dogfood their own product?

Integration

  • How integrated is the company?

Meetings

  • What are meeting policies like?

  • What are the laptop policies during meetings?

Exit Interviews

  • How do you handle exit interviews?

Colleagues

  • What can you learn from your new colleagues?

Socializing/Integration

  • Do you do lunch meetings?

  • Do you have lunch at your desk?

  • Does the team go for lunch together?

  • How do you integrate new employees?

Tooling

  • What tooling do you have?

  • What tools do you have for onboarding?

  • What tools do you have for feedback?

  • What tools do you have to manage momentum?

  • What tools do you have for measurements and metrics?

  • What tools do you have for effectiveness?

  • How do you schedule time for building tooling?

  • Is tooling an after sight?

  • How much time do you spend on your tooling?

Onboarding

  • How long will onboarding take?

  • How many reponsitories do you they have?

  • How many lines of code?

  • What programming language do they use?

  • How do they maintain the language?

  • What tools do they have to maintain the language?

  • What tooling has the team built?

  • What is your plan of attack?

  • What are your companies best practices?

  • How fast can you learn the context?

  • How do you easy onboarding?

  • How fast do you teach the require processes?

Collaboration/Communication

  • Ask how do people collaborate?

  • How well is collaboration done across teams?

  • How big is the team? Larger teams have much larger communication overhead.

Momentum

  • Where does the company have momentum?

  • What momentum does the company have?

Feedback

  • How do I best deliver feedback?

  • What platforms do you have for feedback?

  • Do you have an employee engagement survey? CultureAmp

  • How is feedback managed?

Metrics

  • What needles are you trying to move?

  • How do you measure your metrics?

Excitement

  • What is the team excited about?

Processes

  • What processes do you have to deploy code in to production

Miscellaneous

  • What bottlenecks are you facing?

  • How do you release those bottlenecks?

  • How do you balance delivering business value and managing technical debt?

  • How do you reduce the technical debt?

  • Do you have monitoring/alerts?

  • How is knowledge shared? Presentations/Demos/Repositories

  • How "open" is the company?

  • How is feedback managed?

  • How well do the executives steer the company?

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