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Anne -dot- Robotti -at- radisys -dot- com wrote:
>
> Bruce, I see what you mean, and I guess
> I'm either going to be showing my age or
> my inexperience here, because I've never
> interviewed with an HR department or
> representative.
I doubt it's inexperience - just the luck of the draw.
But even the fact that you're talking with a boss instead of an HR
person can tell you something. Depending on other circumstances, it
could indicate a small company, a hands-on approach, or a paternalistic
attitude.
> I'd
> never take a job (again) without seeing the
> person I was working for and the space I'd
> be working in.
Of course, even that can let you astray. In retrospect, I think that one
reason I took a job a few years ago was that the office had a 20th
storey view of Vancouver's Burrard Inlet and the North Shore mountains.
I won't say that was my only reason to take the job, but it certainly
made the job easier - especially since I managed to get a seat at the
window :-)
By contrast, I once interviewed at a place that could only be described
as a cubicle gulag. The room had a low ceiling and two rows of cubicles.
The cubicle partitions were at least two meters tall, and covered in
some dark material. The aisle in the middle of the room was barely three
feet wide. Just walking down the aisle to the interview room was a
soul-deadening experience. I went through the interview, then
immediately phoned the headhunter and said that I wouldn't take the job.
It would have been like working in a submarine. And, from what I found
out later, working with the writing manager in that company would have
been like being a bit play in The Caine Mutiny.
--
Bruce Byfield 604.421.7177 bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com
"And the court gave them justice
As justice is given by well-mannered thugs."
-Geoff Pearson, "If They Come In the Morning"
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