Red flags I saw while doing technical interviews
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Red flags I saw while doing technical interviews
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Re: Red flags I saw while doing technical interviews
#2I was hoping this was red flags from the interviewer side. Yeah I'm hoping a blog will give me some feedback.
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#3Why is the font on this article so hard to read? Maybe it’s not the font, but the weight. I had a hard time reading it and stopped part way through.
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#4Why is the font on this article so hard to read? Maybe it’s not the font, but the weight. I had a hard time reading it and stopped part way through.
font-weight: 300 is a bit light.
Bump it up to 500!
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#5"Not Enough Clarity about your Role" - Like the author mentions, this can definitely signify that the role is not important. The other thing I've noticed over my career is that it could be that the role involves "grunge" work (awful oncall shifts, doing backend work when you want to do only frontend, etc). Companies hide behind cool titles/department names/etc, promising whatever you want to hear to get you in.
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#6I can identify with the red flag where they try to pressure you to accept the offer in a short period. This is also called an exploding offer. I had a place do that to me and I ended up turning the opportunity down.
Re: Red flags I saw while doing technical interviews
#7Why is the font on this article so hard to read? Maybe it’s not the font, but the weight. I had a hard time reading it and stopped part way through.
font-weight: 300 is a bit light. Bump it up to 500!
Open Sans (which it looks like it is) is a perfectly decent humanist font. But he uses the extra-light weight and a fairly small font size so it's pretty hard to read. Unfortunately, this represents a lot of typography in 2020 pretty well.
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#8Great list. For big companies, I'd also add looking out for tenure in the management chain that you'll be reporting into (although this information can be a bit tough to get). Walking into a musical chairs situation above your head may land you in a position where gravity lands you in harms way.
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#9These red flags are the norm in the last decade that I have been interviewing in SV. Issue is that everybody is in the game to further themselves first and foremost rather than helping the company or the candidate. I have talked to many colleagues and managers who are only looking for people that can be "used" to get them promoted and this mindset shapes how they interview candidates.
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#10I can identify with the red flag where they try to pressure you to accept the offer in a short period. This is also called an exploding offer. I had a place do that to me and I ended up turning the opportunity down.
On the other hand, there often needs to be a time limit, or else they will be too late to make an offer to the runner-up (when the leader turns it down). I am not sure what a 'reasonable period' is.