Twipped/InterviewThis
InterviewThis
InterviewThis is a comprehensive library of interview resources and checklists designed for software engineers to evaluate prospective employers. It provides a curated question bank and evaluation frameworks to help candidates assess both the technical and cultural aspects of a company during the hiring process.
The project focuses on vetting employers across several core domains, including engineering culture, technical environments, and company policies. It offers targeted inquiries for analyzing developer workflows, on-call and infrastructure expectations, remote work conditions, and intellectual property rights.
Additional evaluation areas cover organizational values, diversity, employee benefits, and project management practices. The resource also includes tools for auditing technical stacks, hardware standards, and quality assurance processes to clarify job responsibilities and performance metrics.
Features
- Employer Vetting Frameworks - Provides a comprehensive framework for candidates to vet a prospective employer's technical standards.
- Interview Question Banks - Ships a curated bank of technical and cultural questions for software engineers to ask prospective employers.
- Responsibility Analysis Prompts - Provides prompts to help candidates clarify performance expectations and professional growth opportunities during interviews.
- Evaluations - Determining a company's policies on equipment, communication tools, and timezone expectations for distributed software engineering roles.
- Intellectual Property Inquiries - Targeted inquiries to determine ownership rights for side projects and code created outside of work hours.
- Engineering Workflow Assessments - Identifying how a team handles project management, code reviews, and continuous delivery before accepting a job offer.
- Employer Evaluation Frameworks - Provides structured prompts to assess the age, quality, and documentation of a company's codebase and pipelines.
- Employer Evaluation Questions - Supplies curated questions to assess work-life balance and management styles.
- On-Call Evaluation Checklists - Provides a series of questions to determine system observability, incident alerting, and developer on-call expectations.
- Policy Assessments - Questions to determine a company's stance on using, contributing to, and releasing open source code.
- Technical Proficiency Assessments - Offers a set of targeted questions to assess the quality of developer hardware and tooling standards.
- Environment Evaluation Guides - Offers queries to identify the quality of developer hardware and tooling for linting and style enforcement.
- Engineering Workflow Assessments - Probes for assessing company version control, branching strategies, code review standards, and continuous integration and delivery workflows.
- DevOps Maturity Assessments - Offers a framework to evaluate a company's DevOps maturity, observability, and on-call practices.
- Technical Culture Audits - Includes a framework for auditing a prospective employer's engineering culture and team values.
- Company Diversity Assessments - Specific queries to determine the demographic composition and inclusivity of a workforce across various identity markers.
- Employee Benefits Inquiries - Specific queries to determine company policies on insurance, parental leave, and professional development funding.
- Remote Work Models - Provides guides for evaluating the tradeoffs and conditions of various remote work models.
- Quality Assurance Practices - Offers guidance on evaluating a prospective employer's quality assurance processes and production readiness criteria.
- Career Development - Questions for developers to ask potential employers.
- Interview Preparation - Questions to ask interviewers to evaluate a company.
- Technical Interview Preparation - Curated list of questions to ask interviewers about company culture.
