I usually see 1 or the other in every 2nd company I interview for. What do you guys ? I have been interviewing a lot lately and came across this list on LinkedIn

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1. Red flags during the interview conversations 
2. Red flags on social platforms - Glassdoor etc 
3. Red flags on LinkedIn

What are some red flags while looking out for next company

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Hello people,
We are building a recruitment platform to make hiring easy and fun. Having worked with a recruitment startup, we weren't able to hire for our own team. Hire first, fire faster mode ON tha humara.

So, we found this gap mostly in the early stage startups who don't invest in their recruitment properly.

So can you guys please share your experiences with landing a job with early stage startups.

Rant about recruitment in startups

Generalist

What red flags or signs of 'incompatibility' have you faced in your interview campaigns

I recently saw a case in a product interview where the interviewer said - X is your goal, why are you concerned about Y check metric. That's a nope in my book.

Interview Red Flags

Product Manager

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How many folks here 100% refuse to share last salary and are adant that HR state their budget. How do you guys do it and also has it ever happened that you needed up losing a great opportunity coz of this???

Refusing to tell last salary

So I received a call from a recruiter for a PM role at Bharat Pe. What seems odd to me is that the recruiter messaged me on LinkedIn at midnight and called me today (15th August) to schedule for tomorrow. Is it a red flag? I mean who’d do office work at midnight or on a national holiday. Am I overthinking?
How’s the culture in general since all the drama that happened? Insights/Opinions welcomed.

Bharat Pe - Culture check

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In your experience, what are some tell tale signs during interviews about a company?

What are some ⛳️ during interview process?

Hi everyone recently i have went interview with eclerx for there client as goldmansachs [soft dev role] i was fine as they are giving decent hike on current . After clearing interview she asked me to give every document to release the offer.I was ok and then she started asking every document from joining bonus credit to each sem marks along with my name in that and residential proof or what not. I was little resistive but still gave it as she was mentioning its bank and compliance.

Today she mentioned she will release the offer knowingly i have to join the other org tomorrow. Now after reaching out couple of time she called back saying i had a call with super boss since pay is high i need to take one more client round.

I see the email she used was correct and the profile of both hr were fine on linkedin but the way she behaved while expediting on document part and later saying its ok if you don’t want to join. I smell something cooking.


Did this happened to you ? What do you think assuming supply of candidates are they preparing some database. Also what are the red flags you have seen these days

Job market & recruiter

Software Engineer

I’m not a big fan of 6 rounds of Dynamic programming, but, should easy interviews be viewed as red flags?
I recently landed an offer from a startup ( <50 employees ). They had only 1 tech round ( API development assignment ). Rest was talking to folks. Should I view this as a red flag?
Do you have any alternative experiences?

Is easy interview a red flag?

Enough negativity, what do you think are some green flags in a company that someone can look for before joining? 

For me, it is companies where interview doesn’t revolve around the interviewer questioning with a pre-defined answer in mind on some random DSA garbage they picked off Hackerrank. 

Someone who genuinely is interested in helping me understand the role, if I like the role and then spend time evaluating me on the work that I have done and quizzing me on that. It feels so refreshing to not be treated like a ChatGPT in an interview. 

A bonus point (and this is very rare) is an interviewing suggesting how to improve! So far, shockingly, I found this only with Infosys (2018) and Udaan (in 2017, I think). 😶

I might have gotten lucky with the panel in both places.

What are some Green Flags in a company?

What are some red flags you've noticed during job interviews that made you reconsider a potential employer?

I was going through the careers portal of this decently funded startup and they had opening for SDE2 Backend and Frontend both. 
But the discrimination they did between FE and BE just got me to nerves.
1. The BE role was just termed as SDE2 whereas FE role was termed as SDE2 - Frontend Engineer, Why?🤷‍♂️
2. Both the roles are of same level but the experience required for FE is 3years whereas for BE, its just 2years. A big Red flag about the culture 🚩 
3. For BE role they haven't wrote anything language specific (which is a good thing as they're language agnostic and focusing on the core instead) But for FE they've filled their JD with languages, frameworks and even fcking libraries.

All this together makes it a very risky bet for anyone looking for a SDE2 - Frontend Role. 
Passing this one and recommend everyone to look for such small red flags 🚩 which tells us alot about company.

Thanks
FE JD ⤵️, BE JD is in comments.

I rejected to apply at a company seeing their JD.

Not sure how many anime fans are here, but I was recently watching this new anime called “Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead”, which basically shows how a corporate employee is so fed up with his messed up job, that the first thought he has, when zombie apocalypse hits is, “I don’t have to go to work anymore!”, and he’s out to do things that he always wanted to.

Anyways, in the new episode, its shown how a toxic leader/boss/senior behaves. And man, was that so accurate!! 

It shows how these leaders make you work like hell, belittle you, and misbehave with you. Even if you think of leaving the job, they make you believe how hard it is to survive without your current job, and how the work you’re doing is nothing, and that you can be easily replaced. 

And in the end, after fucking up your mental peace, they will come and show a little bit of sympathy, telling they how they just push you for your own sake. Acting like some wise old “mentor you never had”.

And you know, what the worst part is, since all your colleagues are living in the same environment, since everyday you go through the same toxicity over n over, it becomes normal for u. Your brain adjusts, and it seems to think that this is how the world is. 

Moreover, if you are a fresher, and you don’t have any prior experience of work culture, you seem to believe thats how work life is, and will always be. 

I’m ranting this out, since i wasted around 1-1.5 years of my life in such startup, and it wasn’t just the time that was wasted, it also took my passion, my energy, my motivation and my goal with it. 

To all the folks who might be in a similar situation, I just want to say, I know it’s hard and I know you probably can’t leave due to some financial situations or other issues. But BELIEVE ME when i say that nothing in this entire world comes above your mental health. Save that first folks. Be selfish, saving others can wait!

Traits of a toxic workplace

How to know Company's work culture before joining?

It's become quite a norm for interviewers to jump out of the scheduled slot in between of the interviews, stating abrupt production issues. This is my second in the last 4 companies I've interviewed with. 

Is this normal?

Interview Jump Outs!

As a software engineer considering joining a startup or company, what are the essential questions you recommend asking HR or the CEO to gain insights into the company culture, growth opportunities, and overall work environment? And whether to join there or not. 

Please share your experiences or any red flag you noticed, would be very helpful for our community.

Thanks in advance

Things to enquire before joining a startup/company

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What is the one thing that you find about the candidate. And will lead to its rejection. 🥲

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