Re:Show HN: Help job seekers by letting them ask employees a...
by dclowd9901 on Thursday March 28, 2013 @01:33PM
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To your first point, employers will generally utilize happier, fresher employees to do interviews for this very reason. It's easier for them to be happier about their company :)
So even though it's probably genuine enthusiasm, it's still engineered.
-You can't always trust those answers since the person doing the interviewing may be in the happy employee camp and not see as many problems as somebody in a different part of the company.
-You also might be lied to if they desperately need somebody to accept.
-It may undermine you to ask questions like: "What are the actual hours?", "How long is lunch?", "Is being late big deal?", "Is vacation easy to get approved?", etc.