explaingit

perkfly/reverse-interview-zh

★ 18,456Audience · generalComplexity · 1/5DormantLicenseSetup · easy

TLDR

A curated list of thoughtful questions job candidates can ask interviewers to evaluate a company before accepting an offer.

Mindmap

mindmap
  root((repo))
    What it does
      Reverse interview questions
      Candidate evaluation tool
    Question categories
      Day-to-day work
      Team and culture
      Technical practices
      Compensation and benefits
    Use cases
      Prepare for interviews
      Evaluate job offers
      Assess company fit
    Audience
      Job candidates
      Career changers

Things people build with this

USE CASE 1

Prepare a list of questions to ask during your next technical job interview to learn about the company's culture and practices.

USE CASE 2

Evaluate whether a job offer aligns with your priorities by asking about work-life balance, remote policies, and professional development.

USE CASE 3

Assess a team's technical maturity by asking about their testing, deployment, and bug-tracking processes.

Getting it running

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min
Use and share freely for any purpose, including commercial use, as long as you give credit and share any modifications under the same license.

In plain English

This repository is a curated list of questions written in Chinese that job candidates can ask during a technical job interview. The idea is a "reverse interview", instead of only answering the interviewer's questions, candidates use this list to ask thoughtful questions back to the company they are considering joining. The questions span many areas of professional life: your day-to-day responsibilities, the team's working style and size, the company's technical practices (such as how they track bugs, test code, and deploy changes), team communication, company culture, work-life balance, remote work policies, salary and benefits, and how the company handles conflict or difficult situations. There are also sections covering business health, holiday and leave policies, and professional development budgets. The readme notes that not every question applies to every role or company, and candidates should pick the ones most relevant to them rather than asking everything. It also includes links to related resources for further inspiration, and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. The content is largely translated from an English-language original, with additional contributions from the community.

Copy-paste prompts

Prompt 1
I'm interviewing at a tech company next week. Help me pick the most relevant questions from this reverse interview list for a backend engineer role.
Prompt 2
Use this reverse interview checklist to create a personalized set of 10 questions I should ask about a startup's engineering culture and practices.
Prompt 3
Based on these reverse interview questions, what red flags should I watch for when a company can't or won't answer them clearly?
Open on GitHub → Explain another repo

Generated 2026-05-18 · Model: sonnet-4-6 · Verify against the repo before relying on details.