job interview questions

Workflow
 - what are your workflow best practices/ ALMs / SDLCs?
 - do you have a continuous training refresher?
 - how important is onboarding?
 - do you have a center of excellence?
 - how difficult is it to find information from other teams?
 - are you more self service or approval oriented?

The Position
 - how much is experience important?
 - how much is knowing the ins and outs of your specific technology important?

Technology
 - do you release open source projects?
 - do you use more open source, more home-grown tools, or more for-pay products?

AWS
 - how much of the infrastructure is elastic?
 - what tools for deployment / configuration management?
 - how is budget/cost managed per product?
 - regulatory requirements?
 - public or private cloud?

Culture
 - how do you try to reinforce your culture?
 - how do you allow culture to grow/change?
 - how often do you have meetings? Stand-ups?
 - how many remote workers?
 - vacation?
 - how is process formally documented, verified, measured, improved?
 - how is critical but not-immediate work planned so it doesn't fall off radar?

Operations
 - how do you currently balance toil vs project work?
 - how often do your engineers get called?
 - how much of your infra is immutable?
 - what kind of computing models?
   - serverless?
   - microservices?
   - containerized?
   - bare metal?
 - ticketing systems?
 - asset management?
 - why use puppet/chef/ansible? why not focus more on immutable/atomic?
 - secrets management?
 - policy management?
 - how tightly integrated is security with product?
 - how much infrastructure is not yet HA & multi-AZ?
 - how much is not yet version controlled?
 - managing runbooks and operational knowledge?

Development
 - what workflow or methodology is used?
 - integration?
 - deployment?
 - dev environment?
   - containerized?
 - languages used? Frameworks?

General
 - How do you share information between teams?
 - How do you get teams to adopt new workflows, policies?