I've been toying with the idea of asking for a reverse interview. I get to ask about the challenges they've solved in great detail and how they dealt with potential and actual issues. They get to answer and decide to I know what I'm talking about.
Do it. You'll quickly find that their interview questions go out the window since you're demonstrating your knowledge obliquely: "Oh I've never really seen the benefit of docker for most architectures". Cue discussion on architecture, SaaS, devops, etc... I would far rather meet a candidate like this.
Is this not the whole point of the interview for you now anyway? For me, if I go in somewhere and get grilled for X hours and they deprive me of a chance to ask about certain aspects of the company, you can guarantee u won't take the job.
That's what I'm counting on. Most startups are sufficiently desperate for hiring that you can ask for things like "I'd like to grab coffee with the CTO" and they will do it (that seems trivial at a 10 person company, but I've heard it happen at 100+ person teams).
Where I am right now, I'm pretty happy just turning down the interview if I don't oblige.
