Re:Ask HN: Best place to look for remote jobs?
by emilburzo on Thursday December 29, 2016 @09:52PM
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These are actually quite good.
I never thought about teasing the red flags, but it makes more sense than just asking directly.
You could publish a list somewhere, I think a lot of people would find these valuable.
How did they work for you in practice?
Best/worst reactions to them?
Re:Ask HN: Best place to look for remote jobs?
by dasmoth on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @04:41PM
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>>> * Who reads your team's pull requests? (worst answer is "nobody", 2nd worst answer is "the team").
What's the best answer you've heard for this one?
Re:Ask HN: Best place to look for remote jobs?
by crdoconnor on Wednesday December 28, 2016 @05:01PM
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Something involving not only the team reviewing each other's code but somebody with the power to hire/fire (i.e. the answer "I will").
* What hours did you and your team work in the last month? (anything that indicates long hours are frequent is a red flag, not because long hours are intrinsically bad (though they are), but because it's usually being used as a proxy for measuring productivity).
* What is your policy on remote working? Who do you have remote working currently and under what circumstances? ("no remote working" is ok for me if there's a non-bullshit reason but YMMV).
* Who is currently your best or one of your better developers? How did you come to that conclusion?
* What characteristics do you look for in clean code vs. technical debt-laden code? How do you handle and plan for paying down technical debt?
* Who reads your team's pull requests? (worst answer is "nobody", 2nd worst answer is "the team").
* Have you read any of my code? What did you think?
I'm usually not looking for a perfect answer to all of these questions, just avoiding the companies that give an impression of widespread systemic dysfunction in their answers or a manager who is clueless.