1. Do you have data?
2. Who will I report to?
3. How will my performance be measured?
4. How many other data professionals will there be?
5. Have the data been analysed before?
Great post from DC data community: http://datacommunitydc.org/blog/2013/07/the-top-n-questions-every-budding-data-scientist-should-ask-during-a-job-interview/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-top-n-questions-every-budding-data-scientist-should-ask-during-a-job-interview
Becoming A Data Scientist 