dongsurfer:

today I had an interview, and when the interviewer asked if I had any questions, I actually managed to come up with the most bomb ass question on the spot! So I figured I’d share it with y’all.

Asking good questions at the end of an interview will make you look awesome, and remember – YOU are also interviewing THEM to see if you should work there.

So since there were two interviewers, and both of them would be my bosses (one direct, one indirect), I asked this:

“How do you help dedicated employees develop themselves and their careers, not just when they are doing well but also when they are struggling?”

The answers were incredibly enlightening and told me all I needed to know about their management styles.

One interviewer said “you have to work really hard to get promoted. average people [here] who stay in the middle of the pack do not get promoted but people who bust their ass (sic) and ask for stretch goals will get promoted”

This told me that she only even bothered with employees that performed very well in specific categories and were willing to do extra work without being compensated for it in the hope of getting promoted. AKA a HUGE red flag! I absolutely don’t want to work for someone like that. And her example didn’t even work for the department I was interviewing for…

The second said “I work with employees by doing [basic required training] and [required] monthly one on one meetings.”

So while she at least answered my question, all she told me was that she does the bare minimum required of her. She didn’t describe anything outside of the work that she absolutely has to do as a manager – work that isn’t even so much for my development as to keep managers accountable. So…not really impressive.

Neither of them gave any examples of employees that they had gotten promoted, or helped through difficult times, or anything like that. So they failed my interview and I won’t be working there, because I specifically told them the whole reason I was considering switching to a different job was because I wanted to be more supported by my managers 🙃🙃🙃