Ask HN: How do detect a crappy boss / toxic environment when interviewing?

Re:Ask HN: How do detect a crappy boss / toxic environment w... by cylinder on Thursday April 07, 2016 @03:03PM (#11449722)

If they ask you to come back and make a "presentation" to a group (i.e. work on a project and come present it, non-technical role), run. Especially if they don't pay you for your time.

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Re:Ask HN: How do detect a crappy boss / toxic environment w... by grkvlt on Thursday April 07, 2016 @11:53PM (#11452475)

Here's some negative anecdata on this: our company (a smallish startup, doing open source application management in the cloud) has an awesome management team, and we ask every engineer to give a short talk, with slides, about some relevant interesting subject. This has definitely been a great way of finding good candidates who fit well.

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Re:Ask HN: How do detect a crappy boss / toxic environment w... by cylinder on Friday April 08, 2016 @11:22AM (#11455296)

You should still pay for their time.

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