If you're a venture-funded startup or a publicly traded company, do all engineers get equity allocation? (Buying equity in a publicly traded company at 5-20% below the market value, also known as ESPP does not count) If you're a private, non-venture-funded company, do engineers get *generous* profit sharing (aka amounts that are typically at least 15-20% of annual salary)?

Do you have one for all teams, and do engineers regularly contribute to it?

Do engineers work directly with other individual contributors (ICs) like other engineers, designers, PMs, data scientists etc? Answer "no" to if they are expected to go through e.g. (project) managers instead of direct communication.

Are they both part of the everyday development process?

Do you have CI in place? When engineers finish coding, does the code either automatically get pushed to prod (through CD), or can engineers manually trigger this step?

Do you follow an internal open-source model, where any developer can read and contribute to any other codebase - with appropriate code ownership in place?

This assumes engineers go oncall. When engineers are oncall, are they expected to focus on oncall-related work over product work? Is oncall health measured in quantitive ways? Does fixing an unhealthy oncall have priority over any product work?

Are most engineering managers technical - meaning have a background of having done software development at some point in their career?

Do you have a career ladder, with levels, and expectations at each of the level defined? (For places that have 10 engineers or more)

Do you have parallel IC & management career paths that run up to a level or two above the entry-level engineering manager role? For places over 30 engineers.

When above 30 engineers: do you have at least two of the following three:  a) 360 performance reviews (where directs also give feedback to managers) b) Peers giving feedback to each other c) Company-wide surveys collecting workplace feedback, and acting on this.  When smaller than 30 engineers: do you encourage a culture where you give constructive and direct feedback to each other to improve?

Do you have at least two of the following three: a) Professional development stipend for books/trainings b) Recognizing time taken to do learning as a a good use of work time, and encouraging this. c) A mentorship program within the company.

Feel free to add color to any of the above answers, or more context on the team or company.

Note: this form won't give a "score". Your score is the number of questions you reply "yes" or "mostly yes" to.