A lot of these work culture and life and tech questions can be backed into.
My series of questions when I get the chance to talk to an engineer on the team I'm interviewing for is just this, "What's a normal day at work look like for you? Not a fire drill day or anything crazy. Just walk me through what you think of as your routine."
And once you can get that conversation going, you can pretty easily suss out the answer to very many questions in the article without coming across as even really asking questions, let alone seeming like a special snowflake.
Some questions can be more direct than others. But I think many of them can be figured out through a healthy conversation in the interview process.
If you can't engage someone in that kind of a conversation someone ought to be seeing some red flags.
My series of questions when I get the chance to talk to an engineer on the team I'm interviewing for is just this, "What's a normal day at work look like for you? Not a fire drill day or anything crazy. Just walk me through what you think of as your routine."
And once you can get that conversation going, you can pretty easily suss out the answer to very many questions in the article without coming across as even really asking questions, let alone seeming like a special snowflake.
Some questions can be more direct than others. But I think many of them can be figured out through a healthy conversation in the interview process.
If you can't engage someone in that kind of a conversation someone ought to be seeing some red flags.