How can you tell if the company youre interviewing with is rotten on the inside?
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Re: How can you tell if the company youre interviewing with is rotten on the inside?
#2My two favourite questions to ask at interview are:
1. Tell me about a time things didn't go to plan and what you did about it afterwards?
2. Do you enjoy working here?
Of the two, the second one gives me the most useful signal. Every business has difficult times, so the first usually isn't too hard to answer, and they can gloss over stuff. The second one is more personal. Nobody can say no to that one. It's the way they say yes that's interesting.
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#3> This is a GREAT one: “As a white man, I’d ask what they’ve done to find qualified women and minorities for the role I’m interviewing for.”
I can't help but feel that asking questions during an interview that encourage the interviewer to hire someone who is not you, is a bad strategy for actually getting the job.
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#4> This is a GREAT one: “As a white man, I’d ask what they’ve done to find qualified women and minorities for the role I’m interviewing for.” I can't help but feel that asking questions during an interview that encourage the interviewer to hire someone who is not you, is a bad strategy for actually getting the job.
Yeah this one works both ways all to well haha. Mah boi probably realizes it too and that's why he's asking it.
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#6> This is a GREAT one: “As a white man, I’d ask what they’ve done to find qualified women and minorities for the role I’m interviewing for.” I can't help but feel that asking questions during an interview that encourage the interviewer to hire someone who is not you, is a bad strategy for actually getting the job.
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#7They like to move their managers around to give them experience with different aspects of the company. This means ambitious managers do short term things to make themselves look good which really screws IT.
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#8Depends. If you identify as a minority and want to exploit that, these hints are great.
Also it might identify companies that have such great profits that they can easily afford spending money on being exploited.
OTOH, this might exclude a lot of great companies specifically in niches with heavily skewed university alumni gender quotas, such as engineering in some countries. Be especially careful if this company then has lots of MBA types as leaders, because it is easier to get diversity hires with that background, instead of engineering background...
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#9I'm not sure the diversity stuff helps. People who look different can still be dysfunctional.
For me the big one is whether people in the interviews have the same mission. I went to an interview with a large investment bank where a friend turned out to be one of the interviewers. I thought highly of him, so naturally I thought his colleagues would be similar. He gave me the speil about what he does, sounded reasonable.
Then his five teammates spent an hour each with me, and they had 5 different stories about what the team does. They didn't seem to know that other teams in the same firm did the same thing and were in the news about it. Every single person gave their own version of how they fit in the team.
In the end the MD gave me a grilling about some totally irrelevant stuff, and then gave his version of the team.
I didn't proceed with the job. Caught up with my friend, and the MD is gone, along with most of the team. Friend is in another division. Another friend joined and left the group, which is yet another red flag.
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What exactly do you mean by "pronouns person"? Do you enjoy misgendering people on purpose? Because that's one way the company interviewing you can tell that you're rotten on the inside.
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Popehat%27s%...
Popehat's Law of Goats
He who fucks goats, either as part of a performance or to troll those he deems has overly delicate sensibilities is simply, a goatfucker.
He claimed he was just pretending to be racist to trigger the social justice warriors, but even if he is telling the truth, Popehat's Law of Goats still applies.