I would like to know if people have already asked back some technical questions to your interviewer. Saying something like Well, you asked me a bunch of technical questions, and now, do you mind if I ask you some? If I am going to join your company, we will work closely together and I want to make sure my I respect the skills of my coworkers like they respect mine....Doesn't it sound arrogant? I am curious to have your opinion or experience (as the interviewee or the interviewer, of course).P.S: throwaway account as I dont want that people who know me know I am preparing interviews.
Asking back technical questions during the interview (as the interviewee)
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Well, you asked me a bunch of technical questions, and now, do you mind if I ask you some? If I am going to join your company, we will work closely together and I want to make sure my I respect the skills of my coworkers like they respect mine....Doesn't it sound arrogant?Yes, it does. But there are other ways to get that information.Ask to look at the codebase. Say something like I'd like to see the best and the worst part you can think of.Engage them in conversation, use lots of terms that lesser developers wouldn't understand.Mention bloggers and authors, see if you get a blank expression.Ask them about the technology stack and ask for reasons behind various decisions, compare the frameworks they use with the ones you've used.Sometimes you can impress as much by the type of questions you ask as the type of questions you answer. I once had a junior developer come in with an A4 sheet full of questions. They were the right questions to ask. They showed a deep (for a junior) knowledge of the right and wrong ways to do things. He was offered the job.I wouldn't ask someone to code up a method to display the Fibonacci sequence. But then I also wouldn't ask that as an interviewer. It's a waste of time and teaches me nothing about the person.