When interviewing for a software developer position, below are some of the questions that are helpful to ask. These should help to guage the company's tech prowess and direction. Below I have listed the questions in loose order of importance. The Curiosity section are less important questions that are not as critical for which to get answers.

Questions

Important

1. Would I be supporting legacy software (old tech) or building greenfield products (new tech)?
2. What is your emphasis on work-life-balance (9-5, weekend work)?
3. Does your team test your software (unit, integration, end-to-end, TDD)?
4. Do you allow for innovation/training time in a regular work week?
5. What software do you use for agentic AI (do you write code manually)?
6. Do you have a dedicated designer/design team?
7. How do you plan the architecture for new application features/components?
8. How much time do you spend each day/week in meetings?
9. Do you provide hardware (Mac/PC, Monitors, test devices)?
10. Will there be any leadership opportunities?
11. Do you use Agile methodologies (scrum, kanban, product owner, project manager, etc)?
12. What is your git workflow (trunk-based, git flow, feature flags)?
13. What is your background in development (for team lead)?
14. Do you have different environments for the front-end/back-end (dev, staging, qa, prod, etc)?
15. Do you have a current app in production and what is it written in?
16. Do you have ceremonies (backlog refinement, sprint planning, retrospectives, demos, sprint reviews, etc)?
17. Do you manually review your code?

Curiosity

• What do you do for DevOps (CI/CD)?
• How do you measure ticket size?
• Do you have coding standards?
• How do the designers work with the development team?
• Are there different experience levels on your team (Junior, Senior, Principle, Architect, etc)?
• How much time do you spend working on production issues?
• Do you do pair programming?