Wednesday, August 08, 2012

Checklist Before You Join a New Company

Sometimes I browse the job sites to find out companies for better opportunity. When a job circular seems good, many questions pop up in my mind. Often, I can manage someone familiar working there and I get to know about that particular company.

I think it is a good idea to have a checklist for this. Here it goes!

PROJECT:

1) How many projects are currently going on?

2) What is the average age of the projects?

3) Which technologies does the company work with?

4) How important is the project (for which recruitment is going on) to the company?

5) What are the application domains of the ongoing projects?

6) What is the average experience of engineers working there? I mean years of experience for most of the engineers.

WORK CULTURE:

1) How do you think the company provides a good learning opportunity for an engineer?

2) Do you feel sportive at office? or it feels like a conventional office (everyone working at his desk, no adda, few brainstorming among colleagues)?

3) How many hours do you "actually" need to work a day, on average? I mean, productive hour.

4) How frequent is overtime?

5) How frequent is working on weekend?

6) Do you feel that your job is secure?

7) How friendly is the relationship among the engineers?

8) How cooperative is the relationship between engineers and management?

9) What do you think a unique quality of the company that sets it apart from the other companies in the market?

10) Do you follow any software development process? If yes, what is it?

REMUNERATION:

1) What is the salary range for a fresher?

2) How many times in a year do your company give salary increment?

3) What is the average percentage of increment?

4) Is project bonus a regular phenomenon?

5) What are the other benefits?

2 comments:

  1. Its better if you mention some threshold. It
    may be useful. Suppose "How many times in a year do your company give salary increment?"
    Ans: 2 times is ok.

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  2. Thanks for your feedback.

    I did not want to disclose my preference, actually. So my preference (threshold) was not mentioned.

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