- Marriage: When the Panelist asks - “Are you married?” Some companies prefer bachelors since they ask for fewer holidays - and don’t come up with issues like - “my wife/kid is sick”.
- Termination: When you sense they’re hiring you to get an existing bunch of people terminated. Rare, but possible you’re being hired as a scapegoat for doing their dirty work.
- No Respect For Your Time: When hiring manager(s) don’t show up on time. Also, they’re not even apologetic. Imagine if that’s how they’re in interviews, how they’d be in office.
- Interns: When the company is majorly being driven by a massive workforce of Interns - working full-time hours - more than many full-time employees - at a meagre salary.
- Bond: When they tell you there’s a “Bond” / “Lock-in” you have to spend X years with the company no matter what. Run in the sun.
- Reschedule Challenges: When a recruiter is uncomfortable with rescheduling your interview. Inflexible hiring managers are at fault here more than the poor recruiters.
- Questions: When the panelists get frustrated with you asking questions when clearly they were the ones who asked if you had any questions for them
- Cleanliness: When you see filled garbage cans, uncleaned floors, unfilled coffee machines. If they can’t keep their office in order, they won’t be able to keep you in order too.
- Gut: When your gut / inner instinct tells you to. That’s way more than a good reason to consider since the ancient parts of your body are way smarter than the modern parts.
- Ambiguous Job Description: When the JD has1 or more of the following:
- We operate like a startup…
- Words like “Ninja”, “Rocketship”, “Rockstar”
- When the JD speaks more about the company than about you
- Weird titles: Digital Overlord (Website Manager), Digital Dynamo (Digital Marketing Executive), Dream Alchemist (Head of Creative), Chief Chatter (Call Center Manager).
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