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It's now up to all the actors to find a way to make this work.
Concerning asking tricky question, you can do it the Google way ( How many frogs does it take to build a space elevator ) but even they decided to stop these kind of questions or take a lot of time and find something your candidate can work on, even if the technology is known to him, seeing how fast he can appropriate himself the codebase is really a good way to judge your future new recruit potential
As for the outside of class hour part, as far as I know it's not 'outside class hour' literally but more reserved hours for non standard class activities ( back in my time that's were I was first taught English which was not a 'standard' class ). Besides, in primary school you only have one teacher, which means most of them will not be half decent at teaching CS, relying on volunteering teachers and/or parents seems like the good way to present CS to young children.
In the end I believe the point of CS lectures at such a young age is not to actually teach people programming but more let them know that this field exist, how it basically works and light the spark for some students. I've seen a lot of people when I was in engineering school going 'Ho my god I wish I had knew about CS before, would have saved me a lot of time' ( And some going the other way ). Having these kind of revelation 10 years before can only be something positive .
The french government wants to add non compulsory computer science in primary school ( age 6 to 10 ) where the lessons are up to the teacher.
For secondary school ( age 11 to 15 ) programming will be added to the schedules, these lectures will probably be made by math and technology teachers.
Personal opinion :
While this is a nice step forward, I really fear the teachers will lack formation resulting in poor lectures made just to follow regulations ( and squeeze some extra hours ).
As said in another comment, ask them how they value the equity by bargain, can you raise your wage and take no equity or have more holidays.
A last thing : Try an do some maths, like if you could get +1k/year how high must the exit be for the 0.5% equity to be worth more than the wage raise.
In tech companies it's quite common to have a period of 'inter contract' between two missions where you can do trainings or even self training. Is the video game market hostile to this kind of organisation or has it just not been tested yet ?
This is an interesting time for the browser / web framework duo, I wonder what would happen if chrome/angular become really faster but anotherBrowser/angular ends up having poor performance due to chrome specific features. Will developers turn to a more evenly supported framework to avoid performance issue or will the other browsers be forced to ensure good performance to avoid being considered as "slow" because of angular apps ?