explaingit

perkfly/reverse-interview-zh

Analysis updated 2026-06-21

18,459Audience · generalComplexity · 1/5LicenseSetup · easy

TLDR

A Chinese-language list of smart questions job candidates can ask companies during technical interviews, covering team culture, work-life balance, salary, and tech practices.

Mindmap

mindmap
  root((reverse-interview-zh))
    What it does
      Interview question list
      Candidate asks company
      Chinese language
    Topics covered
      Team and culture
      Tech practices
      Salary and benefits
    Use cases
      Job interview prep
      Culture assessment
      Work-life evaluation
    Audience
      Job seekers
      Tech professionals
    License
      Creative Commons SA
Click or tap to explore — scroll the page freely

Code map

Detail Auto

An interactive map of this repo's files and how they connect — its source is parsed live in your browser. Click Visualize to build it.

filefunction / class

What do people build with it?

USE CASE 1

Prepare thoughtful questions to ask a tech company during a job interview to evaluate if it's a good fit

USE CASE 2

Assess a company's engineering culture by asking about their bug tracking, code review, and deployment practices

USE CASE 3

Understand work-life balance expectations before accepting a job offer by asking targeted questions from the list

USE CASE 4

Evaluate a startup's business health and stability by asking about its growth and decision-making processes

How does it compare?

perkfly/reverse-interview-zhopenai/evalsopenai/codex-plugin-cc
Stars18,45918,45918,460
LanguagePythonJavaScript
Setup difficultyeasymoderatemoderate
Complexity1/53/52/5
Audiencegeneralresearcherdeveloper

Figures from each repo's GitHub metadata at analysis time.

How do you get it running?

Difficulty · easy Time to first run · 5min
Free to share and adapt as long as you give credit and release any changes under the same Creative Commons 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 have a technical job interview next week with a startup. Based on the reverse-interview-zh question list, which questions should I prioritize to evaluate whether the company has good engineering culture?
Prompt 2
What questions from the reverse-interview-zh list are best for assessing work-life balance and overtime expectations at a Chinese tech company?
Prompt 3
Help me adapt questions from the reverse-interview-zh list to ask a product manager role rather than a software engineering role
Prompt 4
Which questions from the reverse-interview-zh list are most important for evaluating a company's financial stability and business outlook?
Prompt 5
Translate and adapt the technical practices section of reverse-interview-zh into English so I can use these questions at an interview with an international company

Frequently asked questions

What is reverse-interview-zh?

A Chinese-language list of smart questions job candidates can ask companies during technical interviews, covering team culture, work-life balance, salary, and tech practices.

What license does reverse-interview-zh use?

Free to share and adapt as long as you give credit and release any changes under the same Creative Commons license.

How hard is reverse-interview-zh to set up?

Setup difficulty is rated easy, with roughly 5min to a first successful run.

Who is reverse-interview-zh for?

Mainly general.

Open on GitHub → Explain another repo

This repo across BitVibe Labs

Scan in gitsafehub Deploy in gitdeployhub perkfly on gitmyhub

Verify against the repo before relying on details.