These people couldn’t help but notice a few glaring red flags during their interviews, though, and they helpfully clued the rest of us into them.
For example, a few people got asked no-no questions. One person was literally asked if they have children! Hate to break it to that interviewer, but you most certainly cannot do that in America. You can’t ask a candidate what their age is, and it’s advised that interviewers don’t ask candidates when they graduated college, either. There are numerous factors about a person’s identity that are supposed to be left out of the interviewing process, yet some interviewers flout the rules.
Other people noted that if a job interviewer tells you you’re going to be wearing multiple hats, and that you should like working in a fast, ever-changing environment, that should also give you pause. It signals that management isn’t very good at maintaining a solid working environment for their employees. It means that when a manager calls out, several people will be trying to do their jobs for them. Offices like this can be exhausting to work at — they do things like asking the tech guys to fill in for the receptionist all day, or demanding that the accountant fills in for the head manager for the entirety of a maternity break. This can make it so that good, qualified employees are ripped away from what they’re actually good at, and put them into roles that they don’t want to do. It’s not a respectful way to treat a candidate with a specific set of skills. If you spot this in the interview phase, before you ever get onboarded, you might just save yourself a lot of hassle.
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