How to look out for red flags in interviews or just in general for companies?

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Always, always, always listen to and trust your gut.

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This!!! I’m not superstitious or anything, but my gut has never failed me so far 👍🏻

A disorganized interview process.

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Caveat though is bifurcate the recruiter issues from the hiring team, ie if recruiter is great but case study is disorganized red flag, if recruiter sucks don’t worry about it

Make sure to interview the manager. Ask about turnover in the department and why the last person left. Ask how long the last few people have stayed. Ask why this position has created. Ask about upward mobility

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This is pretty well known at this point but if a job says they are like a family, they will emotionally destroy and leave you needing therapy.

Going forward with interviews, I will be asking to talk to someone that the hiring manager already manages to get an idea of how they lead.

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Asking about your current salary

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This. I don't play this game anymore.

I ask for the range of the position. If I get pressed back, I say that my expectations are the national average.

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Take home assignments and other unpaid "work trial" activities that take more than an hour. I find a lot of these to be unreasonable, and some of them generate new ideas that the company will take and use on their own for free. I don't work for free.

Companies that take a reactive approach and say yes to everything any customer wants. You'll be fighting fires everyday since the company has no boundary on what they will and will not allow/commit to.

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Would you refuse to do the protect is they ask? If so, how would you address the issue?

Ask them why the role is open and what happened to the person prior. Ask them about your project managers personality.

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Ask specifically what the company/team is working on right now and ask for specific examples and dig a little bit into that. What projects are they working on, what challenges they have, why they need more people to solve those challenges.
If you just ask about what your job will be or what the company does, they will always sugarcoat it. They might tell fantasy stories about what they want to do in the future, or about "cool" things they did in the past.
The keyword is "right now". In a tech interview, ask the interviewer about what they were working on today/yesterday.
It's a huge red flag if the answers are different from the job description. They might mention cutting edge tech in the job description, but in reality most of the employees work on ancient legacy systems.

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