- "What does success look like in this role in the first six months?"
- "What's the team structure, and who would I be working most closely with?"
- "What's the biggest technical challenge the team is dealing with right now?"
- "What does the on-call rotation look like? How is the team protected from burnout?" (only for SRE / LiveOps)
- "How does the team make technical decisions? Architecture review, RFC process, something else?"
- "What's the deployment frequency to production? How long does a typical change take to go from commit to prod?"