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[-] justcallmelarry@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 2 months ago

Would love to see a company list their cons during the interview process…

[-] wizardbeard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 2 months ago

I had one that kind of did. Looking back I think it was a clever way of seeing if I was a good fit based off my reaction.

It was the end of the interview and he asked if I had any questions, and I pulled the "turn it around on them" play and asked him what he enjoyed most about his job/working there. He was going to be my boss.

He said "every day I get to work on something new". With the magic of far more experience now, I understand just how much that's a blessing and a curse. That idea excited me at the time, and it was the attitude needed for the position.

Now I prefer to have that opportunity available, but I have to be able to deep dive into a smaller subset of things and ignore the churn sometimes to stay sane long term.

Working with something new every day in a tech support position just means something new is breaking every day, and there's not enough time to become well versed in much of it.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago

We're highly incompetent and all of the other teams that rely upon us hate us.

[-] Obi@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

See that's when I'd be thinking "I can fix them"

[-] stringere@sh.itjust.works 1 points 2 months ago

I've been looking for that team all my career. I always seem to be on the "competent and held accountable" team.

[-] bitchkat@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I kind of had one a few years before covid because they were butts in the seat with strict office hours. They asked up front if that was an option. A lot of things sucked with policies but it did have a decent work life balance. Walk out the door exactly at 5pm and never check email remotely.

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