Know the team
What the team is doing/tech stack
The manager
- like work experience, how long he worked in this company and team, management style, tech talk
The team members
- how diversity is the team, team members tech blog/talk
- We can get this info from recruiter, friends, or linkedin
Know the interview
How many rounds of interview
Whether all (on-site) interviews will happen in one day
Whether decision maker(manager) is there
- In rare cases, some companies wants to have 2 rounds of onsite-interview, then if goes well, do the remaining on-site interview on another day
- Ask recruiter whether they can arrange all interviews on same day
The interviewers
- Diversity of the interviewers
Reject it kindly if it doesn't match your expectation/skills, as for most companies, you can interview for just one team. If it fails, you have to wait till next year.
Ask Interviewer
How many coding questions will be asked
- Some interviewers/companies like to first ask some simple coding question then move on to a difficult one.
- In this case, you want to finish the first one quickly so you have time to work on the next one.
What the team is doing/tech stack
The manager
- like work experience, how long he worked in this company and team, management style, tech talk
The team members
- how diversity is the team, team members tech blog/talk
- We can get this info from recruiter, friends, or linkedin
Know the interview
How many rounds of interview
Whether all (on-site) interviews will happen in one day
Whether decision maker(manager) is there
- In rare cases, some companies wants to have 2 rounds of onsite-interview, then if goes well, do the remaining on-site interview on another day
- Ask recruiter whether they can arrange all interviews on same day
The interviewers
- Diversity of the interviewers
Reject it kindly if it doesn't match your expectation/skills, as for most companies, you can interview for just one team. If it fails, you have to wait till next year.
Ask Interviewer
How many coding questions will be asked
- Some interviewers/companies like to first ask some simple coding question then move on to a difficult one.
- In this case, you want to finish the first one quickly so you have time to work on the next one.
