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How do you feel out these low meeting companies during the interview? For a while I had 2 jobs (one contract, one regular) last year, both at the same time, and
by icedchai 5y ago
How do you feel out these low meeting companies during the interview? For a while I had 2 jobs (one contract, one regular) last year, both at the same time, and there were soooo many useless meetings with one of them. Real, actual work was about 25% of the time.
- froaway4job 5y agoYeah I've run into that issue before. Most companies think they have a good meeting culture, but it's doubtful. Here are my tips: - Ask about the number of set meetings they have and the cadence. (daily standup, planning, retro, demos) - If you're comfortable and have a good vibe with an individual engineer ask to see their schedule (hit or miss but most individual contributors I speak to have no problem with this) - Emphasize that you are leaving your previous company due to an overabundance of meetings, that will get them to open up about their meeting culture a bit more - Ask about the following: what is their onboarding schedule, what does a regular week look like for this role (including meetings), does this role have a firefighter/on call schedule
- icedchai 5y agoThanks. I complained about there being too many meetings at my current gig. Then I actually got invited to more of them! It's absolutely bonkers how many meetings some of these companies have.