Mini-Talk & Discussion "Interview Your Employer"

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A developer-focused talk about how to evaluate a prospective employer during the job interview by asking concrete questions about the project. It outlines which topics to raise (architecture, team practices, delivery), the order to ask them, what clues to watch for (e.g., promises of microservices that are actually a half-finished monolith), and how to interpret the answers.

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1. 0:00Interview your employer
2. 1:05Why ask questions
3. 3:13Key question blocks
4. 4:35Salary and terms
5. 6:03Project and scale
6. 9:16Code age
7. 12:04Team composition
8. 13:08Career growth
9. 14:32Documentation role
10. 15:39Architecture pitfalls
11. 17:44Tech stack decisions
12. 18:51Access to architect
13. 20:20Coding standards
14. 22:09Development process
15. 22:30Code review impact
16. 23:11Code review returns
17. 23:52Sprint length
18. 24:14Version control
19. 24:58Release management
20. 25:40IDE and access
21. 26:22Onboarding and deployment
22. 27:24Infrastructure and testing
23. 28:48Testers role
24. 29:09DevOps tasks
25. 29:52Training policy
26. 30:54Team and product growth
27. 31:17Organizational nuances
28. 32:24Corporate culture
29. 33:28Summary and contacts
30. 34:10Mock interview
31. 37:00Code age questions
32. 41:57Team size
33. 43:00Architect influence
34. 47:53Onboarding practice
35. 51:45Testing organization
36. 56:16Training and growth
37. 59:23Task setting
38. 1:00:06Product and team planning
39. 1:02:11Resume review
40. 1:05:28Q&A on technique
41. 1:07:34Time limits
42. 1:09:22Answer mistakes
43. 1:12:10Interview prep
44. 1:15:39Leaving unsuitable
45. 1:17:44Interview tactics
46. 1:20:55Ending interview
47. 1:22:42Interview necessity
48. 1:27:14Avoiding prep traps
49. 1:30:03Question levels
50. 1:32:10Self-introduction
51. 1:33:55Salary negotiation
52. 1:35:40Prescreening tactics
53. 1:40:36Stating salary range
54. 1:43:47English and market
55. 1:45:11Conclusion

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