"We are all like a family here.. so nobody asks questions and just do as they’re told or else they go to the naughty corner!"
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Just don't go in the room alone with your uncle!
Heard a similar thing too many times
How tf is asking what hours I'll be working, if not listed in the application, not important? Can't work if I don't know when I'll actually be working.
In fact looking again why are they even having to ask them questions? Most of these seem like things that should be on the listing anyway.
parking is often not clear in larger cities where you'd have to pay for a spot in a garage. they may have spots, or you could be shelling out $200 a month like I had to.
Paying to go to work is wild
Even in medium cities it can be unclear, just lower priced. I paid 34/month to park in a lot they owned.
Toxic bosses need not post job offers. I would rather work at a McDonald's with a good mgmt team, than a small company with hiring expectations like this. I also refuse to shop at your business if you see your employees this way.
- Employers; answer the damn questions, then move on, what's important to you isn't going to matter to your job candidate, what's important to them is earning an honest days pay that will cover their expenses, and their responsibilities, like making sure to fulfill their requirements to their previous employer which is something you want them to do for you when they leave.
- If you can't pay enough that YOU could cover rent and a car payment off the pay, then you shouldn't be hiring, and if you can't treat your employees, and job candidates with respect, then you deserve to be a job candidate yourself instead of a business owner.
Toxic bosses need not post job offers. I would rather work at a McDonald's...
Oh you sweet summer child...
As someone who spent too many years in fast food the bosses there are extremely toxic, largely due to the fact that it is one of the easiest places to find some nieve replacement for the person who doesn't want to be on call 24/7 and work unpaid overtime.
They did say with competent management, which may be a fictional state.
How fucking dare that applicant ask what hours they will be working.
or if they will get insurance through work.
I feel like the answer to some of these questions would/should be answered in either the job application or the job offer. I get not wanting to wait for the job offer, but a company not offering that info is a red flag imo. Personally, I'd ask before signing the official offer, and not at the job interview. I'd also probably go for more general questions.
"What does a typical work day look like?"
"What is the overall compensation package?" Though this one can be a bit taboo
why the heck would someone want to waste time with an interview process if they don't know the most basic expectations and compensation? no, i don't think you should have to wait for an official offer to learn things like hours and benefits.
Based on the OP, they didn't have the answers to these questions when they accepted the interview. These should be presented by the business along with the job offer, or they'll come along with the job offer.
Yes, you'd expect so, however on average you'll be applying to 100 jobs per 1 interview, and if you get an interview with a company that doesn't list it, it's another 100 applications before one rolls around, might as well take the interview and ask.
"What is the overall compensation package?"
This should be discussed as part of salary expectations. In fact talking about the overall compensation is a recommendation to avoid giving a specific number when asked what salary range you are expecting. ("That depends on other compensation factors such as how much time off I get in a year and medical benefits coverage.")
Doing this got me an extra $1000 a year as my starting salary at my previous job when their medical benefits were not as good as what I had at the time.
And trying to get a feel for the workplace culture‽ Absolutely outrageous!!!
the workplace culture‽
Such a loaded phrase lol
On any jobs interviews i do, i always ask if the applicant has questions because they are interviewing us as much as we are them.
Yup. It's an interview. Not a viewing.
Maybe I'm crazy or out of touch, but I've never asked these questions... because all of them but #6 and #7 should have been in the information given out long before I even get to the interview. Two/Five should at least be addressed by someone selling the company to you during the interview.
Six could be worded a bit better, because the interviewer is already going to have to clarify with you what pressure and laid back look like to you, and seven is probably better once the negotiation starts after the offer is begun.
keep in mind, this wording is filtered through the hr fool's retelling.
This is important IMO. This is not the applicant's wording. This is how the HR drone perceived these questions, not direct quotes. We actually have no idea what the applicant asked, but we do know that this person is a clown.
One reason why finding a job is such a hassle. So many employers just want to interview people to hit a quota of "candidates reviewed" without taking any given candidate seriously.
You get a bunch of false positives in the search and waste time going through the motions with people who aren't actually in charge of anything.
Straight out of college I had an eight hour interview process once, for an IT job that paid $25k starting. Round after round of quizes and queries that ate up my whole day.
Then I got picked up by a boutique medical IT firm a few weeks later after two calls and a 30 minute walk in, for nearly twice the salary. When I got the rejection letter from the first people six months later all I could do was laugh.
I had a place tell me I wasn't selected almost exactly a year after I had spoken with them. I set a timer for as long as they had waited to send me that, and replied to it myself a year later.
Probably no one saw it or understood, but it made me chuckle.
My experience in engineering on both sides of the table is similar. As a hiring manager, my goal is to move as fast as possible because talented folks are going to be looking at lots of places and I need present the best option to them very quickly so I don’t lose them. I don’t fuck around with haggling or candidate pools; two, maybe three max interviews depending on the role and we’re rejecting or making the best possible offer we can. I picked this up from companies I have preferred to work at. I think massive enterprises get bogged down in their internal processes and procedures and red tape while forgetting the employee experience begins during the candidate experience. If I have to go through many rounds of interviews I can only assume working there will be miles of bureaucracy before I can do anything more than sneeze.
I am personally fine with the old onsite process where you’d go to the company and have a day or half a day of interviews with not only the team but the stakeholders as well. Post-COVID that turned into a remote onsite and slowly turned into weeks of interviews which I don’t like but is more flexible for serious candidates. When I was running those, each group had specific areas to cover so we got a good sense of the boundaries of your skills. You got to meet many people you’d work with and get a sense of how things run. Always practical, though, never any of that leetcode bullshit. Also always two way. You don’t just stare at a candidate; they need to understand you to make a good decision. And, most importantly, the scale is based on seniority/pay. I’m not going to spend more than an hour or two with a junior interview because it’s a fucking junior interview.
"These ARE the important questions, though based on your reaction I don't believe you are the employer to value a skilled employee."
I'm on the job hunt right now and I cannot stress enough how much I do not care what company leadership needs to tell themselves so they can sleep at night. All I need to know are the pay, the benefits, and if the job aligns with my interest
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Good thing the session was already wrapping up. I couldn’t take a candidate employer seriously after that.
I may take the job if I needed the money, but you bet your ass I’m jumping ship the moment I get another offer, and there won’t be any notice.
That interviewer should be fired immediately for not being intelligent enough to recognize more important questions when asked them. Whoever let that one into the corporation should be fired as well, also with immediate effect.
Exactly what questions would this person consider "more important"?
The obvious ones duh.
Should I be referring to you as sir or master?
When I bend over should I hold my cheeks open or will you do that?
Can I lick your boots before others so I can eat more shit?
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