This is a list made of what I think are good questions to learn more about companies you're interviewing.

If you find these helpful, follow me on Twitter. - Updated in 2025 - here’s a cool place to ask these questions ;)

Meta - How to ask good questions

General

In general, keyvalues.io is a great go-to to find more good questions on the things that matter to you

Angellist: 99 Best Questions to Ask in an Interview

Tim Ferris - @Jason: Question to ask before investing

Data

Great list of good questions for any data project, by Jeremy Howard

TLDR:

• Strategy: What is the organization trying to do (objective) and what can it change to do it better (levers)?
• Data: Is the organization capturing necessary data and making it available?
• Analytics: What kinds of insights would be useful to the organization?
• Implementation: What organizational capabilities does it have?
• Maintenance: What systems are in place to track changes in the operational environment?
• Constraints: What constraints need to be considered in each of the above areas?

Twitter thread from Caitlin Hudon. How to ask a good data question? Some good ones:

What action(s) might you take based on the answer? - If none, you probably don't need to do the analysis.

• Who is it for?
• What question are you trying to answer or problem are you trying to solve?
• How do you want to receive the data (csv, xlsx, charts, etc.)?
• Over what time frame?
• Aggregated in what ways?
• Is this a one-time question or will it be repeated? How frequently?