wouldnt call these rude necessarily, but definitely among the anti-patterns I've experienced: - being coy about pay. "lets hop on the phone!" "it will be compe

wouldnt call these rude necessarily, but definitely among the anti-patterns I've experienced: - being coy about pay. "lets hop on the phone!" "it will be competitive!" "well we're just about to get a big funding round and when we do..." "well first we'll need you to jump thru hoops A,B,C... and maybe after that we might tell you..." - in general, wanting to tell me things in a call vs a quick concise async email - in a call, they repeat things already conveyed on their website and in the job description, which I will already have read - no job description/profile (though this can be overlooked sometimes if its truly a broad profile, effectively "smart people who ship, and are nice, and sane") -"requiring" me to do coding tests or challenge projects despite me having mounds of public evidence that I'm a real programmer, and not my 1st rodeo - compounding the above by having the gall to assume I'll gladly spend my valuable free time doing that for them, for 0 pay - saying I can work remotely but NOT from my state (I'd be free to move to a different state and then be allowed to work from my home. what the---?) - my pay will not be private, in the interests of "transparency" -- ok, lets go ahead and make sure every employee and shareholders total financial picture is public, in that same spirit, goose and the gander, etc. no thanks - putting their end on speakerphone - notorious for cutting out speech sounds and worsening audio quality. forcing any part to have to say "what?" or ask to repeat is irritating and makes folks sound a little dumber than otherwise -- just say no, folks. we live in an age of crystal quality telephony audio if we simply choose to use it could add dozens more. again, not sure I'd call any single one "rude", but definitely lots of folks out there who don't seem to think or care about their impact on others. curse of more life experience and care is you increasingly encounter bigger gaps between how things "should be" vs how they are?