Re:Questions to ask a company during a job interview
by jiveturkey on Monday September 09, 2019 @11:05AM
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> Problem: Interviewers lie.
Exactly what I came here to say, albeit quite a bit softer.
Without having had the benefit of reading TFA yet, the problem is that you are never asking "the company" questions. You are asking your interviewer questions. Their answer, like all non-sociopaths, will be internally true or mostly true to themselves[+], but be colored.
The mitigation for this is that you have to ask every interviewer the same few questions.
[+] Read any book on how to suss out liars and you'll see that everyone who is not a sociopath, has many "tells" that they actually cannot resist. ie, normal people are uncomfortable with lying.
Exactly what I came here to say, albeit quite a bit softer.
Without having had the benefit of reading TFA yet, the problem is that you are never asking "the company" questions. You are asking your interviewer questions. Their answer, like all non-sociopaths, will be internally true or mostly true to themselves[+], but be colored.
The mitigation for this is that you have to ask every interviewer the same few questions.
[+] Read any book on how to suss out liars and you'll see that everyone who is not a sociopath, has many "tells" that they actually cannot resist. ie, normal people are uncomfortable with lying.