That’s what happened to me! I was bewildered that they were sooo eager on me. Right away I knew I made the wrong decision, and I regret it everyday as I become more and more burnt out.
My personal red flag is when an employer says they are like a family. I’ve made an agreement with myself that if they say that during the interview I’m ending the interview immediately.
I interviewed with a place yesterday and they said this along with "We know it has a stigma attached to it but we really are a family in the sense that we always ask each other how we can help"....they rescinded an offer because I let them know about upcoming vacation time.
Here is a red flag that typically shows after you accept the job, a boss is nice to you but nasty to others. Sooner or later they will be going after you next. Also, a company that is desperate to hire you, run… Run
So true. Same experience I lasted 3 weeks. Manageress was desparate to impress Senior Management. Luckily it was a temp role. Also another staff member left!
For sure! My former boss was like that and when it was my time she didn't hold back. She loved yelling at me in private and in front of staff. After the second time, I told her about it and she said that I deserved to be spoken to that way because she has been patient with me which was a lie. On the spot I resigned and exited stage left.
A conversation with my daughter the other day reminded me of this. I had interviewed at a company many years ago for a technical position. I went through all the interviews, spoke with the hiring manager, HR, one of the team members, and ultimately was offered the job. I thanked them for the offer and said this is great, just for formality if you could please send me an offer letter to outline what we’ve agreed upon we can move forward. The hiring manager then went ballistic, he started accusing me of not trusting him and all sorts of horrible things. I just sat there quietly and when he was done I said “I am not accusing you of anything, I’ve always asked for an offer letter in every position I’ve ever taken and if this is a point of contention I’m really sorry”. He said he would give me the letter after I gave him a formal acceptance, I said I hope you have a secondary candidate lined up because there’s no way I can do this. I walked away from that without a single regret. That was just the red flag of all red flags to me.
That’s so dumb! He really went through all that just to lose his shit for providing documentation on everything you guys talked about? He couldn’t have quickly drafted an agreement? That’s just psychotic behavior lol
@@luanminitti1177 and that is precisely why I turned down the offer. If this is how quickly my potential boss can go from courting me to yelling at me in what should be the honeymoon phase then heaven help me if I made a mistake when I worked for them.
I don't have a problem giving a verbal agreement that we are on the same page, but I still expect a written offer before formally accepting the position.
My last offer, the manager said to me "we think you are mature enough to do the job". I thought that was an extremely strange thing to say. I literally lasted 4 hours and one meeting with the director and managers. That place was so obviously toxic, but they hid it well until i was in the office. The other staff did look at me like i was fresh fish.
???? Explain yourself better. Lasting 4hrs is supposed to be hard ? Plenty of people can do it. Why is a compliment a red flag ? Do you mean they had trouble finding anyone good and everyone ran away ? The way you put your information is hard to follow to understand why.
Did they also openly brag about the body count of new hires "not making the cut"? I hate places like that. I'm never sad to hear or read about their demise.
I was told, after being with the company for 3 and a half years with two master degrees, that once I was 35 I’d be ready for moving into a supervisor position. I rolled my eyes in my head. I was already interviewing to get out of the toxic environment. Then they hired someone completely unqualified for the job as my supervisor. I was out as soon as I could.
Oh god. 😢 I’m currently in that situation. I hope I’ll make it through for another few months cause I need this to work. Even tho I can tell I’m already drained 😅
I got an interview the same day I applied. Then 24 hours later they were making me an offer. I said I needed time to make sure that it was a good fit. Please email me the offer and they said they could not send the offer unless I was going to accept. It all felt too rushed and pressured.
I’m a surgical nurse and was interviewing for a position at a large hospital in New Orleans. One of the comments they made was that I would be able to work as much overtime as I want. This is a huge red flag for a facility that is grossly understaffed. Do to this and the ridiculous low ball offer, I declined the position.
My naive self thought that was a good opportunity overtime Lol. Im glad im hearing from a person in medical field. I want to learn the red flags and scams that medical facilities do.
All these red flags are useful if you're actually given this information. Most of the time toxic companies won't admit to having staffing issues or unrealistic expectations. I've been on interviews where they were very careful to make sure other staff members weren't around so you couldn't ask them questions. Most of these things reveal themselves once you're in the office.
I wish I knew how to detect a toxic boss with anger issues...I had a really bad job. I lasted less than a week, because they boss was so verbally abusive. They insulted my clothes and my personality and just everything. They'd explode on me for the littlest things and said I was stupid. But during the interview, they acted totally pleasant. You'd never have known they had anger issues. They were the total opposite during the interview. But, one thing is that they really pursued me so I'd accept the job. They contacted me multiple times and wouldn't leave me alone. I do wonder if that level of desperation was a red flag.
I had a boss like that and now I ask these kinds of questions: *Why is the position open? *What are your benchmarks for success? *What type of communication style/relationship do you like to have with your direct reports? If they are are awful, they may vent about why they fired the person. If they have unreasonable expectations, they may offer unmeetable benchmarks. They may say that they don't have a communication style, they just tell people what to do. (All of these have happened once to me!) Usually, the really awful ones can't fake empathy and emotional intelligence and asking questions that require either will expose them pretty quickly.
There is a concept called "love bombing" where an abuser showers a new partner or potential new partner with love to get that person within their grasp/into a relationship/deeper into a relationship. After that is when the boundary pushing and abuse starts. I think the relentless pursuit of you as a candidate can be such an indicator. It could also be that they have a bad reputation among the industry and really are desperate for people to work for them. Either way, if the pursuit of you as a candidate seems unprofessional, it probably is.
@@jaredlash5002 yup “love bombing”, having single “personal” meetings and “future faking” are boutique lures of an amazing workplace. Everyone should window shop work, seriously.
Good advice. Additionally, if you are beyond you first interview, I would ask your direct report manager or director, questions like, "how long have you been here?", "what do you like about working here?", and "what do you not like about working here?". If your potential manager gets aggressive or redirects and refuses to answer, and is not interactive, or gives you a glare and ignores your question, or suggests, "I'm interviewing YOU, now is not the time for this"...major red flags!!...the toxins are already flowing your way...politely thank them and leave. There are many poor quality employers, not all large profitable corporations are quality places to work and contribute. Thank you for your ongoing advice! Great work channel 👍
@@iAlwaysSpeakTheTruth I agree that there's toxicity in most workplaces. My attitude is not about not having any (ideal, but maybe not attainable in my industry), but how much and what kind I am willing to deal with.
@@christinamorales6887 Good for you. A job is not worth getting sick over with headaches or constant harassment from micro managers, many of which just look for reasons to criticize and never create a team environment. Get unstressed, then best wishes finding a job with better management and a better corporate philosophy. Good luck.👍
Completely agree. I asked those very same questions of a department head/hiring manager who was interviewing me for an auditing position with a county here in Texas that shall remain anonymous. I could see her backbone stiffen. It was pretty clear to me, based on her body language, that she resented me interviewing her. I wasn't particularly impressed with the position, the organization or the people whom I had met, but her reaction put the ball definitely in the "Fuck this place" court. BTW, I had thoroughly researched the potential employer (a county government) and had learned that only a few years earlier a disgruntled employee, who had been fired (sounded like he was set-up to me, from what I was able to glean) ambushed and MURDERED, in BROAD DAYLIGHT, the county attorney who had maneuvered his termination. Then, with the assailant's identity still unknown, he murdered the county sheriff and his wife IN THEIR OWN HOME!!! This guy's "reign of terror" lasted something like a year. When they finally caught him, it turned out he was renting a space at a local storage facility where he kept his getaway car. In that rental space he had set up a rudimentary chem lab and was developing EXPLOSIVES. This guy wasn't done with the three victims. He was intending to take out even more people!!! I had driven something like 180 miles for that interview and when the hiring manager/department head reacted the way she did to my questions, I brought up the murders, just to make her feel uncomfortable....which succeeded quite nicely, I might add. Of course, I never heard back from the county regarding my application, but by the time I was done with the interview I didn't want to hear from them ever again.
I interviewed for a job in a warehouse. Turns out that they'd forced their employees to work 16 hour days, 6 day weeks for over a month and 80% of them quit. I just straight out told them I'm not working 16 hour days.
Regarding compensation. I was always taught, and I believe I have heard you say something to the same effect in another video, that discussions about pay and compensation should be deferred to later in the hiring process. Several years ago, I was interviewing for a business analyst/project manager opportunity with a local electrical utility co-operative which serviced one of Washington, DC area's sprawling suburban/semi-rural commuter regions. The position and company were located in a town about 35 miles outside of Washington, DC. About half-an-hour's drive to the north, in the high-tech corridor of Reston (the DC area's Silicon Valley where you will find companies like Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Booze-Allen-Hamilton, SRA, SAIC, etc.), the compensation package for such a position would run somewhere in the $90k-$110k range. However, despite the fact that the position required not only strong technical, cognitive learning, organizing, critical-thinking, training, psychology and very, VERY strong inter-personal skills in addition to a sound and thorough grounding in the organization's business processes (basically, the incumbent had to possess the skills of an operations manager in addition to knowing the internal business processes for the finance and metering departments), the company felt that rural rates applied, which were incredibly non-competitive (of course, I didn't know this at the time). At the end of over a month's in-person interview's and telephone conversations, we finally got around to talking compensation. The compensation offered was "54". I did some quick math in my head and calculated that an hourly rate of $54 an hour worked out to around $110k a year, which was perfectly acceptable. I was just about to accept when my more suspicious nature kicked in. Why are these people offering me a fair rate, I wondered. A voice in the back of my head said "Ask them to clarify if they are talking hourly wage or annual salary". The HR hiring manger said they were quoting annual salary. FIFTY FOUR THOUSAND A YEAR for a project manager's position? I nearly dropped the phone. That amount is SO low that it's actually offensive. Basically, they were telling me one of two things: either 1) they were utterly clueless of the project's technical requirements and complexity or 2) they thought I was a fucking idiot who would work pro bono. As mentioned, I was utterly shocked. I composed myself, thanked them for their time and consideration, told them that the compensation package wasn't anywhere near to being in the same ball-park, let alone league, of what I considered fair and hung up. So the morals of the story are 1) Be sure to talk compensation sooner than later so that YOUR time isn't unduly wasted (fuck THEIR time) and 2) if you've done your homework and know what a reasonable compensation amount should be and they really, really low-ball you, walk away. Don't waste your time negotiating. Walk.
I think you should atleast get a general idea of the pay and benefits before going further along. No point in wasting your or the company's time if not even close to being on the same page for pay.
Growing up I was taught the same thing as well. I recently went back into the job market and after wasting my time with two interviews only to be completely underwhelmed by the offer, I've let go of that practice. Twice I've been offered roughly half the expected compensation. Companies have no issue with wasting ones' time and I no longer allow them to. I try to only apply to posting with compensation listed. If the job interests me enough I will still apply but when they call for an interview I ask about salary first.
Good one! I went through a similar experience. I applied at a tech company here 3-4 years ago and I knew they paid 30 an hour as they said so in their ad. I didn't get an interview. A year later the same job came up. I applied again. This time I was selected for an interview. Then a follow up interview. Then an interview with their entire "team". We never discussed salary because I thought I knew what it was. Finally I was told I had been selected and they'd be sending an offer letter. 30/hour isn't great for what I do but it was a tough economy. Their "offer" was for 5 bucks/hour less. I just replied to the email and told them to get stuffed...nicely of course. :) I learned, like you, to never assume. What a colossal waste of my time and emotions. I marked them though and will never apply for them again. There is an interesting story behind how they went from 30 to 25/hour but that's for another time.
oh gawd yes. I had something like this happen about a year ago. They asked me about my salary requirements in the first interview, I told them what I currently make but also specified that of course that depends on the nature of the role and that if they expected me to do lead/managerial work in addition to devving of course I would expect an increase in salary. We had THREE more interviews, and in the last one they threw down the most disgustingly lowball offer it was all I could do not to laugh uproariously or punch them (I had mixed wishes to do both!) Seriously, it was a 37% pay cut from what I was already making, and just slightly above the rate for a fresh graduate in this city. I'm a very senior dev with decades in the field. It was indeed offensive, and it did also show how clueless they were. I managed to keep a smile on my face when they said we could talk about salary again in another round. AS IF!!! They simply could not grasp or accept that I was not willing to continue "negotiations". Complete asshats. Just remembering it makes me mad all over again :D
I recently received a job offer without speaking to a recruiter, hiring manager, or a team lead. I applied for the job and two days later completed a HireVue recorded and written assessment. I received no call or email from anyone from the company; however, 3 weeks later I received an exploding job offer (24 hours to accept). I withdrew my application because it just did not feel right accepting a job and not ever speaking to a live person regarding the expectations of the job. I really needed the income but it just felt off, thankfully, I received another job offer and accepted the offer. I spoke with a recruiter and the hiring manager and the expectations of the role, salary/benefits, and company culture were discussed in the 2nd interview.
All this is very True, interviewed for a manager position at a college. The salary when I asked them was 45,000. It sounded very low to me, this is New York. But I wasn’t working at the time so I took it, plus they told me I would get 2 remote days a week. Thought better something than nothing. As I start come to find out the company is in dire financial trouble. People in high positions quitting left and right. Coworker tells me they haven’t had a raise in 6 years! Plus they have me doing things outside my job description because we’re a “team” who is short staffed. Then they cut my 2 remote days to 1, a few months after I started. Don’t ignore the signs of a lowball offer.
Counterpoint: Sometimes the cause of High Turnover is.....High Turnover. People get stressed by the constant changes and are being overworked due to the company being understaffed or having people above/around them that don't have the required experience to help them acclimate to the new position. It becomes a real death spiral.
Good point. That can be stopped, but the people who are actually anchored there (normally higher ups, or some click-ish group of a few) might hold the position that creating that effect is what keeps them in the job.
The one part I'm missing is, how this is a *counter* -point. You're right that 'High Turnover' can be self-sustaining, but how does it make high turnover any less of a red flag? (The solution to this, would be hire more people/lower the workload while fixing this, but the fact they still have 'self-sustaining-high-turnover' implies they aren't doing this)
Barring that your would-be co-workers and manager/supervisor give you honest answers to your questions. From personal experience, there are times where they will withhold information or flat out lie about the job and company/agency's workload and expectations.
One more I've noticed: if the pay or conditions are too good to be true, or the hiring process was just too easy... Also, I had an employer where an entire department resigned simultaneously (quality assurance!) And the head of finance position was filled 4x in a little over 1 year and everyone left during the trial period!
I had 3/4 of thoes on my new job, LOL, I nearly quit after 6 months, but I'm still there a year on LOL, good points; High turnover, coworkers saying "well you'll find out", and 2 previous guy's lasted only 2 months in my position !
Asking who the manager would be and being told they “didn’t know yet” who the manager would be is a BAD sign. My success will be based on how good the manager is and how well they are doing in the organization.
I once took a job where the new boss told me he was retiring two days into me working there. The next day the guy that was taking over told me about all the stuff he was changing immediately. I told him I would finish the week to give him a few days to get one of the other interviewees in place.
Red flag for me today. After me sending multiple thank for interview emails to hiring managers and recruiters. I received a salary offer 12k ZERO pto, benefits are going away next year. They did even call me to offer it to me. They emailed me 12k too low. I passed. 3 more interviews scheduled this week. On to the next one.
I'm 50, spent over 20 yes in care sector in the UK,, had to change jobs to Ill health, got a interview for inbound customer services , no selling, turned up on the day of interview with other candidates only to be told the job spec was now outbound sales, also did a pychological test which ascribed you a colour and a set of personality traits, I was the only one who results came out different, needless to say didn't get job, but I should have walked when they changed the job spec on interview day
Within 10 seconds of the video, you stated something not feeling quite right. Yes, that feeling is that of a bait and switch tactic. Dealt with that 2 years ago. Hired for one thing and ended up being tasked with all kinds of crap I wasn't remotely certified for. Of course they fired me within 3 weeks for "refusing to work." Whatever. I found something far better within a week and have been there since.
I was in a manager position that expected me to keep books and records from 1.5-2 years back and supervise 2 people who are oblivious to how things should go in a lab. I'm not going to lie that was great pay but a total B.S. job. I was told that I was going to have help and the person above me had my back...all total B.S. 1. Major red flag I learned: if they say their going to have your back don't believe it especially when they consistently blame the person that was in the same role before you; who was probably told the same thing.
Had so many red flags for the job I’m at now, but I was 7 months jobless and it was the first and only offer I had. Financially, I was in a bind and had no other offers so I took the job. I regret much but at least I have a job.
@@kennygordon70 Oh god. 😢 I’m currently in that situation. I hope I’ll make it through for another few months cause I need this to work. Even tho I can tell I’m already drained 😅 Fingers crossed my new job offer per 1 May is a good one 🤞🏽
@@fizahaque I feel having other things of a positive nature in your life helps give a sense of perspective and aids coping. I also feel adopting robotic mode helps whilst at work and keeping in mind this is not forever. Roll on May I guess! 😄
I remember accepting a job for an employer and within the first week of working found out a lot of people left prior to me being hired. Shortly after I found out it was a toxic workplace and I ended up leaving shortly afterwards. Another experience I went to an interview in a dodgy part of town, in what looked like a dodgy empty office and the person who was meant to interview me was late leaving me waiting 20 minutes alone. I got up and left my time is precious. Person tried calling to find out why I didn't turn up to which I had to tell the manager I wasn't happy being kept waiting at the time expected to meet.
Bait and switch is something a couple of my friends have seen with recent job offers, particularly in the title in the offer is lower level than what was discussed in the interview.
I had to go through 4 months without salary info. Now unless it is in the ad or mentioned during the 2nd interview, I am not going to continue the process.
The problem though is that a billion dollar company can afford to low ball you and have you decline but you may not be able to afford to decline the company. That's part of the game. They know that they have infinite money and you don't.
What's sad is that I was trapped in a company with each & every one of these red flags. And to add insult to injury, the CEO of the company was too narcissistic to admit to the toxic culture & clean house!
If it seemed too easy to get the offer, that's a red flag. Oh, and one time I was offered a position, and I asked for slightly more money, and a week off in a few months for a vacation I had planned beforehand. The office manager said she would talk to the owner of the company, and didn't think it would be an issue, but a few hours later, she called back saying the owner now "wanted to take a few months to think about it, and maybe revisit hiring for the position down the road" in effect rescinding my offer. I was mad at the time, but it turned out to be a major bullet dodged, after researching the owner and hearing more about him, he's a bit of a quack, who honestly once tried to sue someone because they were having lunch and she told him she was "considering giving him shares of stock in her company." The judge basically laughed him out of the courtroom.
Don't renegotiate a low-ball offer. I was able to push the number back up after they threw out a crappy offer, knowing and having previously agreed to my salary requirements. That was the first of several very sketchy flip flops, and I'm looking again for a new role.
Great video! I was offered a position that I wasn't completely thrilled about but I was recommended and they told me they were desperate to fill the position. Since I wasn't that desperate, I thought I had some bargaining power but when it came down to salary, my offer was over their "capped" salary and they weren't willing to negotiate. I know what the job entails and I know it was worth what I offered so you just answered my question! Thank you!
Had an interview a couple years ago for a position in IT program management. I have been doing this for years, so when I was asked; "how would you set up and run our program management processes", I could only ask, "wait, you don't have processes set up already?"...Not a start up or new business. No chance I'm going to be the one to blame for their lack of management and governance.
My first job out of college I didn't have an interview. I was a returning intern. I stupidly accepted the offer without meeting my boss as I had met him as an intern and I thought it would be fine. The boss and team I ended up on was a terrible fit for me. I wanted to do software development, the role ended up being a systems administrator with a tiny bit of software development. The boss was a nice person but an awful manager- he just wasn't paying attention. I had no peers / senior developers on the team to learn from. It set my career behind by 2 years. It wasnt aligned with what I wanted. I didn't insist on an interview because I didn't think of it as an option. I learned my lesson the hard way. You are interviewing them as much as they are interviewing you.
1st Red flag had interview over teams, future Mangeress her camera wasnt working. Flag 2 when I joined she became a totally pain and was trying to cover up her incompetence. Two staff have left already!
I worked in a place where I addressed some concerns with my employer (I was thinking of leaving, but if the problems were addressed, I might have been willing to stay). My boss said that there was nothing he could do about it. The next day, I gave notice. My boss wanted to keep me, by agreeing to fix all the problems I addressed the previous day, the ones he said that he could "do nothing about". This was a red flag, and I left, because if he only wants to deal with the problems in order to keep me, he doesn't really care enough to begin with.
I got a friend who did his research and found out he's being culled by as much as 31% in salary. He was talking to a recruitment company who we think made critical mistakes in advertising the details of the job. What's the best way to cut off the middle man?
My red flag- I was invited to a competitive interview. What I mean by this is that two of us were being interviewed together, at the same time, for the same position. We were sitting next to one another and expected to basically demonstrate to the boss that we were the better fit. Only one would be hired, and we had to sell ourselves better than the other person. This was the 'final' interview- we had already gone through two rounds. After answering the initial questions, I thanked them for their time and left. The other person was still there pitching themselves. Setting up a potentially contentious situation that has nothing to do with the job itself was just too manipulative. I am happy that I didn't get that offer. It was an entry level professional salaried position at a major corporation.
Great video! Perhaps you can also do a video that addresses how a privately held company keeps growing but does not trust their employees. In other words, "Everything" has to be run by the top person (owner) before anything gets accomplished. Even middle management cannot make a decision without consulting the top-brass. This translates into a very clandestine environment where improvements and needs are delayed, ignored or just squashed totally without any recourse or dialog. Middle managers are leaving the company as they cannot illicit "change" or have their input valued. Thanks!
At my current company, every hire had to be ran by the CEO. Fortunately, we just went through a merger so we don't have to jump through that particular hoop anymore.
imo, there is a tug of war between employee who wants to do the least amount to be paid while employer who wants to squeeze the most out of their employee. and its a game and the employer having the upper hand will use many tactics to trick the employer to be more loyal.
I made this mistake. Accepted an offer that I shouldn’t have because….it was an offer! Not all of these were apparent in the interview process but, almost all of these have cropped up since I started. Now I’m one month in and looking for a new job, having to explain in interviews why I’m leaving after a month 😢.
I got a software engineering job offer that included an unspecified “onboarding period” where I got no benefits and earned only a monthly stipend which was thousands less than the salary. I ended up taking another offer that included a signing bonus and higher salary
Something that's become a red flag for me, on what is often advertised as a "second shift" position: "your end time is whenever the work is done". While it does mean, in theory, that if you get your work done early, you can leave early, I have found it means "be ready for overtime. Maybe a little, maybe a lot, but you're gonna be working overtime." I left a position because while the shift was nominally "3:30 to midnight," we regularly couldn't complete our assigned work until 2 am or sometimes we even had to keep going until 7 am when first shift arrived! And the day I managed to wake myself up early enough after my last of those 7 am nights, to go turn my badge in and quit, the HR manager asked me, "Are you sure about this?" as if I hadn't the night before been literally wanting to die.
I have interviewed for and accepted two jobs where the companies were going through Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Both were challenging opportunities which provided significant growth. Good list of things to research or be aware of in your video. Thank you for the helpful content.
Here's my contribution to the list of red flags: Your interviewers' boss comes in the room and they give each other looks that say, "Oh, s--t." This happened during an interview I had once, and was alarmed but I took the job anyway. And regretted it. Then regretted it some more. And some more after that. 'Nuff said.
Good advice. I applied for a company and their pay rate was decently reasonable $28-32/hr for a cnc position. However, they want to lower my pay since I lack CNC programming experience like mastercam. However, it was never enlisted on the indeed job position. So something is fishy with this type of company. What kind of tactics are they using?
It's highly unlikely you are going to be making above mid $25+ if you lack programming experience. If you have any conversational (Prototrak, Mazatrol etc) experience be sure to mention it.
Oh, that's the classic "Bait and Switch" tactic for catching under experienced and over talented applicants in their net. "We'll have some other things to go with the duties we listed, but won't be paying more for those skills." "We're a team/family here, we work hard and play hard." LIARS.
Oh my goodness - my mom just accepted a new position a few months ago. 1) Finds out Fay one she’s managing 2 people. Like wtf. And 2) Two weeks in her boss decides to leave, get a new job. So she’s in the middle of training and her boss is gone and other directors don’t want to learn how to file mandatory grant compliance reports. I was like gah! I felt for her. Don’t take a job out of desperation or if anything doesn’t add up.
I only work hourly with paid overtime jobs. I have not and do not play work politics and do what I was hired to do and have no time to for coworker crap. Leave me alone to do my job! To say, "I do not play well with other children!".
Yea this was my first job out of college. Just absolutely trashy and unprofessional people. I lasted 5 months. A couple months more than most. My next job had these signs too but I was there for two and a half years. My new recent job is my first “normal” position that didn’t have these red flags. It felt weird for it to have structure and development. 😂
If you discover that you were lied to or given incorrect information about anything in the interview process/offer it's legitimate grounds to withdraw immediately. I withdrew from a new job earlier this year when I was told on my first day that the info about insurance coverage I was given in the interviews was incorrect and the company didn't have the type of health coverage I was intending to take. It could very well have been an honest slip-up and not deliberate deception, but frankly that's not my problem and I bailed. (luckily my old job was willing to take me back)
The “Co-worker Negativity” can throw you off. I worked in healthcare as a respiratory therapist for 42 years, and it seems to be a requirement that we all have a dark sense of humor. Hospital administrations are pretty much the same everywhere, with some being worse than others. A dark sense of humor can get you through the red tape, suffering and death that you see daily. It might have to do more with the quality of the dark humor. Is it obviously a defense mechanism, or is it a fatalistic acceptance that there is no way out of their situation?
I know someone who got a job offer that read "Your compensation during the initial four (4) weeks of your training period will be a base guarantee of a minimum of $800, paid weekly; please note that compensation is contingent on the fulfillment of your assigned duties, in accordance with the orientation and onboarding packets." She is an entry level worker and recent college graduate so this is an entry level job. The letter said nothing about the salary after the 4 week training period which was the first red flag. She decided not to accept the offer for multiple reasons. Thoughts on what kind of position this was?
What online resources do you recommend for researching these types of flags? (Ex: competitors, company’s financial issues, high turnover, company issues, etc.)
True! We all have to be aware if the offer is good and benefits us and employer. Otherwise this can be a nightmare.. Maybe not for the company but for us pushing career goals way into the future if we are not paying attention. Great video thanks a lot for the effort!
Continue to be the lighthouse of truth sir. Being let go without being told. I learn something each day sir. I have seen sir with certain startups I have interviewed with.. Keep it up.
Can you do a job offer about temp to hire basis? I am new into all that, never accept a temp to hire position as now. Wonder if anybody has any tips and thank you in advance.
I wish I had known some of thia stuff in these videos during my yeara in the job market. Now just thankful to be retired and not having to deal with it.
I had a hiring manager call me to set up an interview and said we had to do it offsite because people in the office can not know. I asked him if i got the job what kind of environment would i be walking into day one. No thanks
Love all your videos so far and your tips have helped me with my interviews. Could you please do a video on how to handle a situation when you have multiple job offers after nailing the interviews with 2 or 3 companies? Better yet, if it one of the offers stand out but the offer that you have to reject is one that you have previously worked for/applied for and got offered a couple years ago!
Omg I just had to turn down 2 job offers because they had almost all red flags that you spoke about. Low salary despite of me being clear about my expectations, unrealistic expectations from me and demanding to do major changes within the company to save their clients. It was like I had to build their company from the scratch. I hope my next job offer will be finally from a normal company.
So at my current boss I'm not sure if I should take this as a red flag or not. But my boss knows nothing about what I do Only me and one other person in a different branch are trained to do the job I do in the whole company. My boss keeps telling me replacements for steel i need is so expensive. The fact he's telling a new guy about the company's finances a tiny bit and that they don't wanna spend 500$ on equipment i need to do my job. Makes Mr think that's a red flag because from my perspective I really don't give a dam how much that costs and I really don't care to find a cheaper alternative because that's not my job or what the company spending costs are i really don't care. So is that a red flag or something im just ovetthinking
I just passed one year at my company this past week. I'm in a fairly good place now, but when I started it was a different story. The HR Director who sent me the onboarding information wasn't responding to my emails, and the day I started I found out that the Controller who extended the offer to me was leaving that week, which (I thought) was going to put me in the position of having a new boss who wasn't even the one responsible for hiring me. Turns out, the HR Director hadn't responded to my emails because she abruptly resigned, so this was not a good look so far. In the midst of Covid, almost no one was around the office to explain anything to me either. Things were mostly resolved when I had a sit-down with my new boss a week or two in. It turns out that *she* was the one who pushed for me to be hired, so that immediately made me feel better about my new place in the company. I later found out that the reason why the old Controller left is because *he* wanted to go with a different candidate but everyone else overruled him (plus he had a lot of personal life stress).
I was getting interviewed at this very big food company. I ask them whats the turn over rate on this position and interviewer face turn sour. After i follow up the question all his smile and being friendly behavior went away. 😂😂 No i didnt get the job.
I had a red flag at one job but still took the position. Wrong move. Two employees asks me what facility I would like to work in. I told them and they made comments to each other but I heard them. I asked them what is wrong with that facility. They said nothing. I ended up quitting after 3 days of working there. It was bad.
I’ve had two bad interviews at two different companies with people who sent up red flags. The other people were always fine. But I just realised these two people both in their career worked at the same organisation at one point. And it’s a small one. What are the odds?
Sometimes, you can't afford to be "paid what you are worth" because you need a job ASAP. Some people have families to support and bills and mortgage to pay.
I also didn't take a job because I had a chat with an employee that was previously in the role I was applying for. He made it sound like I was going to be a "bad cop" - by telling folks how bad their code sucked. I spoke with the rest of the team about that concern and they told me that's how the team was before new management - the new direction was more about assisting others to be the best engineers possible according to industry best practices. Yeap - sign me up. It turned out to be one of my favorite roles of my career.
Ooh…I just took my dream position, second week in I was asked to “help” another department for a few weeks. Six months later I’ve been handed full responsibility of the project without any engagement and currently struggling to get back to the role I joined the company for. Big lesson, don’t agree to change project, location and role to help someone else out when they don’t define what you’re there for.
Was recently in an interview with a large company where I had a panel interview. One of the interviewer's was late, I found out that they had already replaced two people so far in this position this year and the salary was considerably low. Something else that seemed off about the interview was that their interview questions seemed a bit off. I'm well experienced in this particular career and have even worked with some of the employees from this organization with clients of mine in the past and the people conducting this interview just didn't seem well informed on the program, which seemed odd considering that they claimed to have been involved with it for 10+ years. Overall it was just a strange interview.
I was super tempted to quit on my first day with a major health insurance company in Florida. The director told me she expected everyone to work at least 45 hours per week or more and then proceeded to list all the ways I could get fired - including inserting a USB drive into my computer. That was an intense first day. Actually, I was part of a group of 5 new hires and one didn't show up the next day. However, I stuck it out - mainly because I was hourly so the crazy hours was music to my ears. In my 11 months on contract, I routinely hit 70+ hours per week. Of course, there is no way in heck I would convert to fulltime there.
@@SteveChickensHoca-qo5gf Hourly consultant. Initially, it was really good - 70+ hours a week - rolling in the money. But, then the work dried up and I was just reading manuals and tech books until work would pick back up again - which it never did for my project.
My now-ex boss (he was fired) left things in a shambles. His boss is now just finding out about the destruction he left. And he wasn't an "out there" person. He mainly stayed in his office. Had a calm demeanor. Etc. That was the problem. People lost motivation because he was a milquetoast, so the inmates ran the asylum. Now big boss has to clean it up. I hear it's a train wreck. And talk about a negative coworker atmosphere. You could cut the negativity with a knife. My ex coworker talked to me about coming back now that he's gone. Ehhhhh...I do still have 3 more interviews to do.
wow!! if I had only seen this video before being hired to a company I just lost my position... the first 5 flags are so accurate to the things I didnt pay attention to! a boss that was waaayyy off in her behavior, a revolving door every month my god! why couldn't I have seen this before! felt like I was the one to be blamed and tried fixing everything and wondered why it didnt work, against all odds thank you for that video(for future knowledge)
I just got an offer for a higher position in the same company with an unspecified transition period. Not to mention my boss verbally told me the transition could take 3-4 months. That screams red flag to me. I have reason to believe my boss is lying and it could take longer than 3-4 months. I’m considering applying to other places as then I’ll be able to potentially get a higher salary and switch on a 2 week notice. The 3-4 months seems like a waste of my time compared to the standard 2 week notice
I always try to get a preview of ALL documents/agreements/contracts they expect me to sign. You'd be surprised what weirdo or outright unreasonable things they'd want you to accept.
Good practice. Has a job once where the manager said he didn’t have the time to draft my offer letter and contract (due to a major project and him leaving soon). Told me to talk to owner myself. I’m like, you should at least give me something instead of me going in blind. I left.
I started a job two weeks ago. Day 2 my supervisor resigned leaving me as the sole point of contact in the region. Rushed training and I want OUT NOW! Haven’t heard from the director or any other team members in my first two weeks
All of these except the very last point are red flags about the interview process and company, NOT the offer or offer letter. I thought this would be more specifics to the actual offer letter
I would like to add one more red flag, if the pay and benefits are higher then what think they should be. Let me explain, I was working as a consultant for a multi divisional company and the division I was at was being sold to an overseas company. They offered me a full time position with a 20% pay increase and 5 weeks vacation, day one plus some worthless stock options (but it sounded good). I knew that this would be a short job stay because they really needed me for the transition to their systems from the current ones. I felt that I had little to loose because one way or another I would be looking for a new job and I figured that the change over would take at least two years and I would NOT change my life style based on the new salary. The job lasted 2.5 years and I had some nice vacations but I knew it going in. I find your videos very informative.
@@fizster In the US two weeks was starting vacation going to three after a few years so 5 weeks was completely out of the question. Even when I had worked for other overseas companies US divisions, they used the US 2 week standard. Thank you for asking.
@@CodeBallast yes, I know this the case outside of the US but 2 weeks is the general starting vacation sometime after a year. Your vacation policies and healthcare are strong points for your country as well as many others in Europe. I should have said this happened in the US and I enjoyed visiting your country on my many trips overseas.
I will say this, I thrive in chaos, I love challenges. But I've come across something very strange, a company with a broken website and they won't even tell me where I will be working... there are a lot of other red flags but those two stand out to me, especially since it's such a 'prestigious' company... I need the work but I just don't know about this. 😭
