Title: I’m starting a new job this month at a medium-sized software company (in business one decade, approx $150ARR, has received multiple rounds of funding, looking to IPO, ~500 people).<p>I accepted an offer and I was asked to join four to five calls with vendors ahead of my start date. This felt like “work” to me since each call takes prep and led to follow-up calls. Having not yet worked in the role, I’m also lacking context on the business problems leading us to chat with these vendors in the first place. To be frank, it feels very unnecessarily rushed which is ringing some alarm bells.<p>My new boss says it’s not really a big deal to ask me to join these calls before my start date. I suggested we either move my start date up ahead of the calls I was asked to join or I invoice for my time ahead of starting. He scoffed at both but mentioned “they’d take care of me” with “maybe an extra vacation day”. Vacation time at this company is “unlimited” so I don’t really see that as a perk.<p>I should mention the reason he’d like me to join the calls is that I will be using the tool from the vendor we select. It’s nice to be consulted but it doesn’t feel right to be asked to join work calls without being compensated. I wouldn’t push this angle but I also suspect it’s illegal.<p>My boss has also made several comments about the work I’ll be doing that have sounded very uneducated on the subject matter. I am walking into this job with the understanding that education will be a piece of my job but it was a surprise to learn the level of maturity of my boss’s understanding.<p>There have been other things that have felt unprofessional. IT mailed me my computer just before Christmas without talking to me, making me feel like I had to spend an extra day waiting on a FedEx package instead of hitting the road for holiday travel.<p>They promised an email on a certain date with my login credentials for my work email address and it didn’t arrive. HR has scheduled on-boarding Zoom sessions with our personal email addresses, exposing our personal emails to everyone else in the cohort starting on the same day (20-30 people).<p>Am I overreacting when I think about these signals? I guess the best I can do is get in there and see what the job is like, but all of these have combined to make me feel less than great about joining this company.
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