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   nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 22:54:00 JST nixCraft 🐧

   During a job interview, what are some less obvious signs that might suggest the workplace isn't a great environment (red flags)?

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     Simoto 🏴‍☠️ (mrsimoto@kafeneio.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 22:54:05 JST Simoto 🏴‍☠️

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     @nixCraft they don't have a Fediverse account 😝

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     Alda Vigdís (alda@topspicy.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 22:54:40 JST Alda Vigdís

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     @nixCraft 1. "Unlimited Paid Time Off", which is not unlimited in practice and means that you get far less during severance. Peer pressure means that you may actually take less time off or put in work during those days.

     2. There is a strong ideological foundation and a perhaps even a "creed".

     3. The founder-and-CEO was considered a wunderkind 20 years ago and still thinks he can program or have opinions on deep technical aspects.

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     Alda Vigdís (alda@topspicy.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 22:54:46 JST Alda Vigdís

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     @nixCraft 4. The company is originally US-based and claims to offer several benefits to its employees which turn out to be the legal minimum in your own country.

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     Alda Vigdís (alda@topspicy.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 22:55:07 JST Alda Vigdís

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     @nixCraft The workplace claims to be inclusive to those with different backgrounds than computer science but the recruitment process involves:

     1. Calculating Big-O without specifying the operations that are available or other CS concepts and terminology.

     2. A low-paid or unpaid trial process that ranges from 1-12 months, resulting in a financial or mental health breakdown and then love bombing at the end of the process (read any books about how cults actually work)

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     Alda Vigdís (alda@topspicy.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 22:55:32 JST Alda Vigdís

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     @nixCraft The company is owned by a large well-established group of companies. The website says "we may be owned by Arbeitsfabrik AG but we're like a startup in spirit".

     Turns out it is an LLC that is being sold off soon and none of the employees have access to the benefits provided by the parent company.

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     Alda Vigdís (alda@topspicy.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 22:55:43 JST Alda Vigdís

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     @nixCraft There are shareholders and hundreds of employees but the founder-and-CEO owns things like trademarks, domains names and even encryption keys.

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     usbs-usa (usbs_usa@glasgow.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 22:55:50 JST usbs-usa

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     @nixCraft ask the interviewer if they used all their #PTO last year

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     rhold (rhold@norden.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 22:55:51 JST rhold

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     @nixCraft kicker / foosball table

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     Dingo (electric_gumball@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 22:56:01 JST Dingo

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     "We're like a family"

     Nope, nope all the way out of that right now.

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     Karna (karnasubarna@mastodon.world)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 22:56:04 JST Karna

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     @nixCraft

     1. The interviewer's attitude towards the interviewee.

     2. Whether the questions being asked are intended to assess the interviewee's knowledge level, or to humiliate them.

     3. Presence or lack of professional curtsy.

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     Gental Giant (gg12@techhub.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 22:56:07 JST Gental Giant

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     @nixCraft they highlight there culture as a benefit to try and pay you less then market rate. Ask the last time the interviewer received a raise did it match inflation?When was the last time they where promoted? What does that process look like? Request a clear job description if it has vague language and seems to span multiple job roles then run they will gaslight you into doing multiple roles.

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     Asheville Charlie (avlcharlie@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 22:57:59 JST Asheville Charlie

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     @nixCraft
     When you see a little cringe after asking when was the last round of layoffs..

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     Olap (olap@mastodon.world)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 22:58:09 JST Olap

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     @nixCraft stationary and IT equipment. Penny pinching starts there, and it affects everything

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     Jurjen Heeck 🍋 (jurjen_heeck@mastodon.nl)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 22:58:11 JST Jurjen Heeck 🍋

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     @nixCraft "How well do you handle stress?"

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     Sascha Presnac 🙄🤦‍♂️ (paladin@mastodon.online)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 22:58:22 JST Sascha Presnac 🙄🤦‍♂️

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     @nixCraft Do they have "people" working for them or do they have "human ressources"?

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     T Alex Beamish (talexb@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 22:58:27 JST T Alex Beamish

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     "We're really short-staffed right now."
     "A new person is going to have to hit the ground running."
     "A couple of key people have left recently, so we have to hire replacements fast."
     "We've been too busy shipping code to worry too much about documentation."
     "Sorry, we're in the middle of an incident right now."
     "The code's self-documenting."

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     fedefricoo (fedefricoo@fosstodon.org)'s status on Monday, 16-Sep-2024 22:58:39 JST fedefricoo

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     @nixCraft here's my take based on personal experience:

     - The company requires you to immediately sign the contract
     - The team is self organizing without any standard base