1. Check out their toilet if it's on-site.
2. How does the team do requirement analysis? Do they have a dedicated business analyst team or you guys have to do it, or no one is doing it and everyone is fighting for his own tickets?
3. Does the company HR/Admin send light-heart newsletters every once for a while?
4. How tight is discipline monitored?
There was a company, that to save money, had cut the hot water in the restrooms.
Another company visited to discuss having said company provide provide their IT as a service. This was long before the AWS et el. Both companies were Fortune 100 at the time.
The visitors, made the mistake of going to a restroom that was not in the executive suits area. They inquired about the lack of hot water.
The deal, which was hours from complete, fell apart.
If that company treated their employees so poorly, how can we expect them to treat us....
Yes visit the toilet to see if they care or just provide lip service.
This! It’s a distillation of the whole group you’re dealing with from top to bottom (pun intended.)