What’s your Red Flag?

[Anonymous]

During a job interview.

[Anonymous]

Low energy interviewers.
Interviewers who have not read your resume.
Young interviewers (under 30 and I am over 40).

[Anonymous]

Running way behind. It’s rude to make a candidate wait. Shows a lack of discipline and respect for others’ time.

[Anonymous]

A disorganized process.

Needing more than three rounds of interviews or more than one reschedule.

Inability to articulate the career path associated with the role.

[Anonymous]

I once had an interview that was nothing but red flags. 10 minutes late, she didn’t turn her camera on (not a malfunctioning, she just said she would t turn it on), the job listing said the candidate needs to identify with the company values in ALL CAPS - I had a hard time even finding them on the website. When I asked about what they do to promote these values, she stumbled and got aggressive because she apparently didn’t know or they didn’t do anything about them. So why did they put it in all caps in their job listing? IDK.

[Anonymous]

When they barely ask you questions

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Running way behind. It’s rude to make a candidate wait. Shows a lack of discipline and respect for others’ time.

This is so true. I just have to reply. Do they do this on purpose to see who really wants the job and sticks around? I dunno. It happened to me once -- I left after waiting 30 minutes and told the receptionist "if you guys are interested you have my number." They never called back, but I don't care. I wouldn't want to work for such a rude, f*cked up outfit like that anyway.

[Anonymous]

Interviewer was five minutes late and took a client call during the interview. Stupidly, I took the job, and she was terrible to work for.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Low energy interviewers.
Interviewers who have not read your resume.
Young interviewers (under 30 and I am over 40).

x100000

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I once had an interview that was nothing but red flags. 10 minutes late, she didn’t turn her camera on (not a malfunctioning, she just said she would t turn it on), the job listing said the candidate needs to identify with the company values in ALL CAPS - I had a hard time even finding them on the website. When I asked about what they do to promote these values, she stumbled and got aggressive because she apparently didn’t know or they didn’t do anything about them. So why did they put it in all caps in their job listing? IDK.

The values thing sounds like an HR requirement for all job ads. I'd assume the interviewer doesn't know or care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I once had an interview that was nothing but red flags. 10 minutes late, she didn’t turn her camera on (not a malfunctioning, she just said she would t turn it on), the job listing said the candidate needs to identify with the company values in ALL CAPS - I had a hard time even finding them on the website. When I asked about what they do to promote these values, she stumbled and got aggressive because she apparently didn’t know or they didn’t do anything about them. So why did they put it in all caps in their job listing? IDK.

The values thing sounds like an HR requirement for all job ads. I'd assume the interviewer doesn't know or care.

Maybe they don't know but they should care. I would have asked the interviewee what they found and try to relate that to working there from my experience. Anyone should be able to do that.

[Anonymous]

All the stupid MBA student type questions. So last decade.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A disorganized process.

Needing more than three rounds of interviews or more than one reschedule.

Inability to articulate the career path associated with the role.

This. Scheduling so many rounds and holding off the hiring process is a surefire way to lose the best candidates in your pool to other organizations who are better at making a decision.

[Anonymous]

The worst job I ever had had really high employee turnover. They couldn’t keep stuff because the boss was insane and also was pushing people to do things that were unethical and possibly illegal. In retrospect, I realize that a red flag is one everyone who interviews you has been there less than a year.

[Anonymous]

Staff not stuff