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Interesting co-workers is a big one. Very hard to vet before accepting a job, however. You won't know how uninteresting they are until after you start.
by OpenDrapery 10y ago
Interesting co-workers is a big one. Very hard to vet before accepting a job, however. You won't know how uninteresting they are until after you start.
- nunez 10y agoYES. This is impossible to gauge during an interview or even within the first week on the job. The only way to de-risk this is to have known the team members for some time prior to working with them (hence Buffer's bring-your-own-team experiment).
- mikekchar 10y agoTo some extent you can at least gauge management's attitude to hiring in the interview. Are they hiring anybody they can get? Or are they being choosy? If the latter, what is it that they are looking for? Do you feel confident that they can discriminate and find those people? Some questions I recommend asking are: What attributes are you looking for in candidates? Have you ever hired someone and wished that you hadn't? How do you resolve that problem? What are the best attributes of the people on the team for which you are hiring? During this interview process, you are obviously trying to make sure I'm a good fit for the team. How do you normally recognize this? The last question is quite cheeky because you can then change your behaviour to what they are looking for ;-) But the main thing you are trying to discover is: Have they thought hard about their team composition and do they understand what it is they want? Do they hire all the exact same people (good if you like that kind of thing, but potentially very boring)? Have they thought about the difficult problem of recognizing the attributes that they are looking for?