The Art of Asking Questions
summary
Practical checklist for interviews and team reviews: prepare specific questions about how the company adopts new libraries (Scala 2.13, Dotty, Java 8), development process, metrics and onboarding; use real artifacts (stack traces, PRs, minimal reproducible examples, Stack Overflow posts) to test collaboration and clarity. Data point: 14% ask no questions, 18% ask five or more. Maintain a personal brand, document a reusable set (100-question blog post), and prefer questions that reveal reasoning and tradeoffs over brainteasers.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction and setup
- 2:13Personal journey and struggles
- 7:37Interview as two-way process
- 13:45Power of asking questions
- 19:39Interviewer’s questioning techniques
- 24:17Feedback and reasoning behind decisions
- 30:21Creating a questioning culture
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