According to your previous message, after all these questions... you'll be out the door ASAP! :))

Vlad

>heehee, I got this down pat... last time around I asked more questions of the employer than they did of me.
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>1. Do you use any commercial or custom frameworks? If so, how long as the framework been in use and how many apps are in production.
>2. Do you support legacy apps? If so what's their history and projected life span.
>3. Do you subscribe to any technical magazines or publications for VFP?
>4. Do you having a annual training budget, if so what does it entail.
>5. How many employees doing the same thing as me? What's the average amount of time employees last here? What's the longest amount of time anyone on the current staff has been here?
>6. Do you use 3rd party products/developer tools?
>7. Platforms your app(s) run on?
>8. Types of development? - client/server, 2-tier, distributed, desktop, web enabled, backend data sources?
>9. What is the company's mision statement and client practices? (IOW, how aggressive are they and how well do they treat their customers)
>10. Do they do strictly contract work or any commercial software?
>11. Development standards and best practices they adhere to whenever possible?
>12. Where (market wise) do they expect the company to be in 2 years? 5 years?
>13. Has any of the other developers been published or recognized in their specific field of expertise?
>14. How does management or chain of command work?
>15. How much money do they typical invest per year in software/hardware upgrades?
>16. Do they subcontract out any work?
>17. Growth - how many new hires in past year and projected for next year?
>18. Do they have any corporate accounts or preferred vendors they deal with regularly for software/hardware? (If they dont pay their bills, they dont have corporate accounts and tend to be cheap in all other areas)
>19. What was the cost of living increase percentage given for the past 2 years?
>20. First annual raise limited to cost of living or is a performance increase possible?
>21. Speaking of 1st raise... when am I eligble?
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>< g > and thats just off the top of my head...