My suggestion as a candidate remember that you are also in charge of interviewing the company you are applying for. Joel Spolsky had "The Joel Test" and it was

My suggestion as a candidate remember that you are also in charge of interviewing the company you are applying for. Joel Spolsky had "The Joel Test" and it was written decades ago This author tries to revise it: https://dev.to/checkgit/the-joel-test-20-years-later-1kjk https://dev.to/checkgit/the-joel-test-20-years-later-1kjk The interview is often seen as a one-sided interaction you are on the "I hope they like me", and the company is like "can they do the job?" when in my experience you should treat more like a date: do we have similar tastes, what we have in common, where we differ, can we make this relationship work? I don't think your expectations are too high, it's just that you as a professional can work at most into what, 35 companies during your entire career? If you stay at most 1 year on each company. That sample simple is very small and not indicative of the industry. Improve how you select your next job.