What are red flags in an interview process?
Efri · 1 min readVagueness about the role. If three interviewers describe the job differently, nobody's decided what it is, and you'll be the one absorbing that.
Badmouthing the person who left. You'll be the next person they talk about that way.
Rushing you. Exploding offers, pressure to decide in a day. Confident employers don't need urgency.
Disorganisation. Rescheduled repeatedly, interviewers who clearly haven't read anything, no clear process. That's how they run everything else too.
Nobody can answer what success looks like in six months. Means there's no plan and you'll be judged on a moving target.
Endless rounds. Beyond four, it usually means indecision at the top, and that doesn't stop after you join.
Everyone seems tired. Trust that. People can't hide it well.
Unpaid work that's obviously real work. A test is fine. Three days of actual deliverables isn't a test.
They won't discuss money until the end. Usually means the number is bad and they're hoping you're invested by then.
One of these is normal. Three is a pattern.