“Leave Immediately”: 30 Netizens Discuss Red Flags To Be Aware Of When Attending A Job Interview

treat it as an opportunity to practice your interview skills: you're there anyway, so you might as well waste their time interviewing someone who isn't going to take the job, and develop your own skills while you're at it

Very good to know.

Actions speak louder than words, haha

Great! So i can show up late in the morning

At least in the U.S., this is illegal... but it does happen. If it happens to you, find out which government agency oversees labor violations (it varies from state to state) and consider it your duty to report your employer's crimes.

Yeah, nah, I don't volunteer at 'for-profit' organisations - if there's that much work on be better managers and hire more people

"That's great because I myself really hate watching the clock. Of course that means I may show up at 10 and leave at 3, but I'm glad to hear that we're all on the same page."

I once applied at a private school what would give you the salary schedule before the gave you the application. It saved them a lot of paper and interview time.

This should be higher

I accepted a job at Expo that was going to run for six months. Job was advertised as $12 per hour. Once we started training we found out that we were going to get training wage, $9 that would last for five months before getting the advertised wage. Luckily I found a higher paying job.

Friend applied for a teaching position at a private school, was upfront about her salary requirements, had an interview, was called in for an in-person meet and great and tour of the school, went very well. A few days later they offered her the job quoting a salary that was 10K less than she stated up front.

We want the maximum for the minimum!

"( And we'll do our best to not even pay you that much, if we can help it. )"

Boy, is that retail to a T!

"We're like one big family here, and once you've attended a few domestic disputes you'll soon see the resemblance." - Sam Vimes (roughly)

Never specified what kind of family. Can be a toxic one where members are under someone's thumb.

When the interviewer claims the company is like a family, he/she means a dysfunctional and toxic one.

I already have a family and that one is more than enough. I definitely don't need another one.

Shows a complete lack of respect for your time, and there's a good chance that's how you'll be treated if you get the job.

I think it depends on communication. Being left to wait without a word is one thing, being told 'I'm running late, can you wait x minutes or can we reschedule' is another.

In one interview there were several other candidates and we were all waiting I a reception area. All the other candidates were called through one by one until I was the last one remaining. After about 20 minutes the receptionist disappeared and I was left there completely on my own. I couldn't see another member of staff anywhere. I ended up phoning the company on my mobile and telling the person who eventually answered that I was in reception waiting to be interviewed. Somebody eventually came down and said that i must have been forgotten about and i couldgo up for the interview. I told them not to bother and that I'd changed my mind about working for their company anyway.

Keep in mind, the panel may be composed of people that you will not work for (i.e. the may have panel composition requirements, such as a women, a minority, someone from outside that department) so you may be judging a position on false assumptions. Just FYI

Not EVERYTHING you read on the internet is false, lol.

Why even show up after you read those reviews?

Nobody wants to work *at abusive jobs, anymore.

Nobody ever WANTED to work, but you got to eat and live somewhere.

My daughter just got hired on as a grocery cashier. She has another job but wanted to fill in her spare time. She absolutely loved it. Within her first week, while still a trainee, they called her a couple of times on her days off and asked her to cover someone else's shift. She thought that was not a good look for this store, but she agreed and did it. She's been on time. She's reached their metric requirements within her second week (like they have to scan a certain number of items within a certain time frame.) She was doing great and, like I said, absolutely loved it. Last week she had to call out due to sickness. She was very sick and not someone you'd want touching your groceries. She missed two day and those ran into her scheduled days off. So, she had five days to rest. She goes in on her next scheduled day and they fire her. The kicker? They're short on cashiers and claiming no one wants to work. Yes they do! You just want robots who don't get sick.

This works for finding new places to live as well

A landlord once told me that she can tell what kind of tenant (a prospective renter) will be by looking at how they keep their car. If the car is neat and tidy, that usually indicates they will take good care of the apartment. If their car is messy, that's telling, too, and that's a red flag to the landlord

what do the employees cars have to do with the job?

Oh well, I guess I would not fall into the "most folks" group then

That's more red flags than a parade in Moscow.

Ummmmmm YES you do!!!

I was once asked to sign a release that would prohibit me from suing them if they harmed me by making FALSE statements against me. Needless to say I did not sign it.

I had an interview where they asked if I was a Redskins, Broncos or Cowboys fan. I said I'm from Minnesota so I am loyal to the ones that always choke. Then we talked about the virtues of bacon. I got the job, but it was the strangest job interview I've ever had.

Illegal question

I had an interview with a finance company. Suddenly, the interviewer (middle-aged white guy) said "You look like a liberal. Are you a liberal?" his voice dripping anger and contempt. I didn't say anything, went through the motions of the rest of the interview, then got-outta-there.

That’s an excellent question!

I hate these kinds of questions as a job seeker, so I probably wouldn't ask them of the person doing the hiring (who often aren't even the people I'd be reporting to, anyway).

Sorry, Bucko, I already have 2, a windows and a Linux. Between those 2 I'd be able to manage.

Nope

I'm afraid I need money to live so it's higher on my scale than fun, but I'd absolutely love it if you provide a fun work environment

Had a guy tell me the job wasn't "for people interested in money". Yeah, you're paying 15 bucks for one hour a day, that's not paying my bills.

"We've had trouble filling this position." "So I assume that you're going to raise the advertised salary."

There's no reason I should ever have to interview with anyone except my immediate management more than twice, and it should happen within a week. Either you want to hire me or you don't. I got kids to feed and put a roof over their heads; I don't have time (or the patience) for your b******t.

Some companies (Microsoft certainly USED to do this and may still) had multiple interviews if you were likely to work across/with different departments. However it could have been handled better with a panel of one representative per possible team, not several from one team. Multiple interviews waste time and potentially a candidate ideal for one or two teams gets blocked by a third team. That just hurts the company as a whole.

Amazon, Google and big tech in general disagree (it's awful)

When they give a range but then say they cant go higher than the middle of the range is a big one

Interviewing for a position and the guy says "I think you'll do well here as long as you can handle all the (slur)." When they called with an offer, I declined.