How Do You 'Vet' an Employer?

Not-to-desperate asks: "There is lots of info around on interviewing when hiring but what about the other way around? What do you look for in an employer? Are the any 'minimum requirements' that should be met? Obviously if you haven't got a job at all, getting hired is the main criteria, but what if you're jumping ship so to speak? I'm thinking of stuff like better salary, work conditions, type of projects, possibility of on the job training, and so on."

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We know what you are doing:

[AtariAmarok]

"One question that could be asked, Can I go meet the people I would be working with?"

Ahhh. So the real purpose of this interview is to try and get free plane tickets to Mumbai....

One of the few I RAN away from

[Mycroft_514]

was after I foundout who I was replacing. We had worked together about 10 months earlier at another employer. He called me later that night and told me why he was leaving and to tell me not to take that job.

The big thing is to get a feel for whether or not the company is even going to be ther elong term.

In 2000, I was sent to a site as a consultant. Within a few weeks it became really apparent how screwed up they were. I got out of there while I could control the exit. A year later, they laid off over 2000 people (which accounted for more than the entire rest of the IT staffs in the rest of the city). Three years later, adn the IT in the area still isn't back up to what it was.