The Front-end Job Interview Questions list (https://github.com/darcyclarke/Front-end-Developer-Interview-Questions) is pretty awesome. It gave me the idea to have a list of questions for prospective employers.

These questions cover employers who are large enough to have a dedicated development team. It should work reasonably well for both agencies and companies that are working on internal projects.

General Questions:

• How do you define front end development?
• What tools do you use for internal communication? (email,chat,irc)
• What is your telecommuting policy?
• How many employees are in the company?
• What department does the position report to?
  • How many people work in that department?
• How many hours do you expect in a typical day/week?
• What are standard business hours?
• What is the value of this position to your company?
• What equipment is provided with the position?
• Do you have a dress code?
• How many hours a week does a typical FED spend in meetings?

Clients:

• What percentage of clients are internal vs external?
• How often are clients in the office?
• Who is the primary POC for client interactions?
• Are FEDs expected to meet with clients?
• Do you send FEDs on sales calls?
• How do you handle difficult clients, in particular:

• feature creep / design changes
• "Make the logo bigger"

• Do you track hours?

• What tools do you use?
• How many client-billable hours do you expect per week?

Project Management:

• Can you describe a typical project life cycle?
• What is an average project size in terms of days/weeks/team members?
• How do you organize project teams?
• Do you use any project management software?
• Do you have dedicated project managers?

• If so, how many?
• Are they certified / what certification?

• What is your development methodology?

• If Agile, what is your sprint length?

• How often do you push code live?
• Do you use a bug tracking/ticketing system?
• What kind of seating arrangement do you have? (teams vs departments)

UX

• Do you have a UX team?

• if yes, can you give me an overview of your UX process?

• Do you do user testing?
• What's your current approach to mobile?

Design

• Are FEDs involved in the design process?

• if so, at what point?

• How many design comps are created for a typical project?
• What format do you use for design comps?

Coding Standards

• Do you have coding style guide?

• Spaces or tabs?

• What JavaScript libraries do you use, if any?
• What do you use for version control?
• Do you have a preferred CMS or development platform?
• What is your standard development toolkit?
• Macs or PCs?
• Do you do code reviews?
• Do you have a coder blog?
• Do you publish your code?
• Do you allow employees to publish code?

Programming

• What are the primary programming languages used?
• How many dedicated programmers do you have?
• How much time are programmers allowed to spend mentoring?

Quality Assurance:

• Do you have any dedicated QA software or hardware?
• How do you determine browsers/devices for testing?
• Do you collect metrics on site visitors and user agents?
• What percentage of a build is dedicated to QA?
• At what point in the build do you begin QA? (bonus for continuous or unit testing)

Bonus Questions

• What do you think about Google's 20% policy?
• Do you send employees to tech conferences?
• Do you ever bring in lunch/dinner during crunch times?