• sumguyonline@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    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.

    1. 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.
    2. 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.
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      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.

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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.

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    “These ARE the important questions, though based on your reaction I don’t believe you are the employer to value a skilled employee.”

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        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

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          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.

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            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.

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          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.

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          “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.

  • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    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.

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      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.

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      Bingo. I wasted time with a huge, multi-day, multi part interview process with a huge local manufacturing conglomerate. Multiple interview panels over a week, and finally just got rejected because the first two panels I had sat in had no allowance to reject anyone. According to a friend that works there, “it tests how persevering you are”.

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      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.

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    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.

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    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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    Unpopular opinion: the candidate shouldn’t have asked any of those questions. Those are offer negotiations because you can trade off salary for parking etc.

    That first interview is a chance to be strategic and ask about growth in the department or development pathways/programs. I was always told that first you get the ring, then you negotiate the prenup.

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        Good point. On a callback I’d be all about expectations and details. That having been said I’m changing jobs this month and I still don’t know if there is a bike cage or showers at the the new place. But it wasn’t part of my decision criteria so I’ll find out when I start

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      Some of them maybe, but asking the working hours, the health insurance, and whether the company will wait or buy out the two months might be complete deal-breakers, and saves both sides time by asking up front (and for the first two, should have been offered up front prior to the interview, to prevent wasted time).

      It’s like being offended if, on a first date, one person asks if the other ever wants to have kids. If you know the long term potential is dependent on something, getting that question out there up front saves both parties, and anybody getting upset over it is scamming (getting them invested before being willing to discuss it). Same as not talking about general (not specific) payscale for the position, medical coverage, hours, or whatever until the second or third interview.

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    They’re important questions but lots of these are pay and benefit related. Usually I discuss that after getting an offer, and I think that’s what companies expect too.

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      eh, I’m hiring for my team right now and I have zero problem with these questions.

      I tend to bring similar things up myself at the end of the interview if the candidate doesn’t ask just because I don’t like wasting time down the line.

      we shouldn’t make people jump through a bunch of hoops to see if they fit the job itself without being willing to consider that they might not want to waste time on a work environment that won’t fit for them even if they could do the job.

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      No problem in anticipating them. But the OP might not be asking them to a person that is allowed to answer them.

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          Oh, it seems I’m getting thread-structure blindness.

          I only saw the person complaining that the questions weren’t answered. I didn’t notice the one bragging about not answering them.

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      I get it that pay is negotiable, but i would expect benefits to be based on general policy for all employees.

      And in a place like the US, whether you get healthcare or not is a huge deal. If the company cannot tell you that straight away, the HR just wants to waste everyones time.

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          As someone who lives in one of the two or three states where pay being listed in the job posting is now a legal requirement. Yes, ideally they should be. But our state just put this into law this year. And prior to that I think there was only one other US state with the requirement.

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            It’s a step in the right direction but still isn’t perfect because they’ll have huge ranges of salaries which are all made up and that is not in their budget. These make it into your filters but tell you nothing because of how unrealistic it is. Like $55k - $180k. When you get to the salary, they offer $60k and tell you that you’d need to be a god to get higher.

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    These are questions for after receiving an offer.

    The questions you should ask now would be along the lines of management style, corporate culture, and team dynamics. It’s the first few dates, not a marriage proposal.

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      lol no. If a company can’t answer what my work hours are gonna before we even have the first interview, I’m not wasting my time.

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      I disagree. They’re important for me to know if I want to keep pursuing this job opportunity or if I should stop wasting our time. I don’t want to do a second or third interview only to find out afterwards about all these factors. I could be out there interviewing for other jobs in the meantime, not in a second interview at this shitty company that doesn’t want to tell me how shitty it is until they’ve offered e the job.

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        I don’t see how answering any of these question in s straight forward and honest way would reveal if this company is shitty or not. Their ability to provide free parking is far an indicator of quality.

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        If you have market power, make sure you demand the terms upfront.

        People who have market power and don’t do it, are bootlickers

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      That’s how corpos want this process structured…

      Why should people waste their time to go through the dating process only to find counterparty is an idiot.

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        They can do that because they have the power. You only have power after an offer is made. Then leverage that power to get what you need.

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          That’s the reality and companies are abusing this process by making hiring process a dick sucking, boot licking hunger games style process

          It is disgusting

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            I don’t disagree with any of this, but I don’t know how this is connected to when it’s appropriate to ask these questions. What am I missing?

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              If worker are able to shift the power balance to where employer has to tell term of the employment on the front end, we would get abused as much during interview process.

              For example as middle age cuck, I don’t even talk to recurieter unless we agree on salary range that is acceptable to me. I am not wasting my time.

              Obviously entry level can’t do that but adults should be a lot hard on these corporate IMHO

              It is our job to the drive this. Boomers unwillingness to do this got us into this situation.

              But yes, as person on bad luck, young or otherwise unemployed, has to play the game how you outlined.

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                But most of these questions aren’t addressing issues at the level of salary range. #4 might be something like a benefit package. Those are important questions and are usually addressed early for a certain type of professional early in the process.

                But free parking? Work hours? Weekly activities? It not that these aren’t important to know, but most of these questions are either better addressed later or asked in a way that gets them to reveal their values.

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                Well, good luck organizing the union of the unemployed people. That’s not a category that is easy to gather.

                Or you can play the individual game, and save your power to use when it will have some effect on your ongoing life, instead of just some psychological comfort on the short duration of an interview.

                Yes, it sucks that you have to choose.

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          corporate shills:

          “they have the power”

          also corporate shills:

          “nobody wants to work any more”

          that’s bullshit. labour has, and always will have the power

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      To stay in the dating metaphor:

      Would you want the other party to be upfront about serious issues, or prefer to get to know that down the line?

      In dating terms these are topics like “do you have children from a previous relationship” or “i plan to move to a different state in a few months”.

      If you dont respect the other side enough to discuss these things right away, the relationship is destinend to fail.

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          Working hours, medical insurance, probation period and notice to current employer are all pretty damn crucial.

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            If #4 is medical insurance, sure.
            Probation period and notice to employer assume that you’ve landed the job and is presumptive to do so before the offer.
            #6 is good. Weekly acticities is a weird question, but indicative of something important.

            The rest are important after an offer.

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      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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      “What’s the career trajectory in the unit?” Which is a polite way of asking what happened to the last person. Another classic is if they are looking to sustain their current performance, make small improvements, or do an overhaul.

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    A lot of hiring managers are on power trips and forget that interviewees are not their employees. Also, the job description sucks if you have that many questions. Take it as constructive feedback if you’re a hiring manager. Hell, if you don’t like that many questions, you can even ask “Oh would you like a run down of benefits?” If you have none, you’re company is going to have a bad time hiring solid employees. Even if you’re a Dollar Store you should be ready with that rundown, unlike these idiots that expect no one to take bathroom breaks.

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    Interviewing is a two way street, and the employer definitely failed this interview

    That said, coming with a long list of questions of different importance without noticing that the interviewer isn’t on the same page is also a bit of a signal so the prospective employee didn’t do great either.

    A lot of these questions could be condensed into “What are the benefits like?” which is a great question to ask when they ask about salary expecations which often happens early on. If they provide very little in the way of benefits, raise salary expectations.

    The other questions are generally around company culture. You don’t need to ask all of them to get a good enough picture. If there are several interviews, spread them out. You can also ask them in a more open ended way like “What is the company culture like?”, “What do you like most about working here yourself?” or “What makes your best employees so good?”.