Requesting code sample from potential employer?
hga: Good idea!  And for the right company, they'll be impressed that you're doing your due diligence on them.I haven't done exactly this (hey, I made some of my best (but most painful money) working on wretched code bases), but I've done this sort of thing when helping my company decide whether to partner with another.If you've got enough experience looking at code bases, you could ask them to let you at a terminal with one of their experienced engineers at your side.  15 minutes of that could convince me the code base was worth dealing with (obviously, it can take considerably less time if not :-).