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<ahref=https://angel.co/blog/what-startups-really-mean-by-why-should-we-hire-youtarget=_blankrel="noopener noreferrer">What Startups Really Mean By "Why Should We Hire You?"</a>.
Having been interviewed by smaller companies (though not exactly startups), the questions and
subtexts are the same. There's often a question behind the question that you're actually trying to
answer, and I wish I spotted the nuance earlier in my career.</p>
<p>Let me also make note of one more question/euphemism I've come across:</p>
<h2class="anchor anchorWithStickyNavbar_LWe7"id=how-do-you-feel-about-production-support>How do you feel about production support?<ahref=#how-do-you-feel-about-production-supportclass=hash-linkaria-label="Direct link to How do you feel about production support?"title="Direct link to How do you feel about production support?"></a></h2>
<p><strong>Translation</strong>: <em>We're a fairly small team, and when things break on an evening/weekend/Christmas
Day, can we call on you to be there?</em></p>
<p>I've met decidedly few people in my life who truly enjoy the "ops" side of "devops". They're
incredibly good at taking an impossible problem, pre-existing knowledge of arcane arts, and turning
that into a functioning system at the end. And if they all left for lunch, we probably wouldn't make
it out the door before the zombie apocalypse.</p>
<p>Larger organizations (in my experience, 500+ person organizations) have the luxury of hiring people
who either enjoy that, or play along nicely enough that our systems keep working.</p>
<p>Small teams have no such luck. If you're interviewing at a small company, especially as a "data
scientist" or other somesuch position, be aware that systems can and do spontaneously combust at the
