Questions to ask a company during a job interview
Problem: Interviewers lie.<p>I once interviewed with a company that brought me into a new, shiny, well-appointed building on the corporate campus for an interview.<p>I did well answering their questions.  And they answered my usual questions correctly.  Stuff like &quot;Can developers here choose their own tools?&quot; and &quot;My title is going to be Lead Engineer, will I actually be a Lead Engineer?&quot;<p>After I was hired, I found out everybody uses Eclipse, no exceptions, and I was absolutely not going to be leading anything (I was basically going to be used like an overpaid junior engineer).<p>The best part:  &quot;Oh, you won&#x27;t be working in the new building...&quot; and was taken to an old, windowless, leaky, mold-smelling building with peeling paint and flickering fluorescent lights (think the opening scene from &quot;Joe vs the Volcano&quot;).  My office was a supply closet that was being converted into an office (by that I mean, &quot;we just pulled most of the stuff out of here, but otherwise just rearrange the furniture however.&quot;)  I was given an old 70s vintage desk that was too low, a sort-of broken chair, and a laptop and left to my own devices for three weeks while waiting for my new project to get started.  Then I was suddenly moved to even worse accommodations - a cubicle, which belonged to an employee who had recently died (his stuff was still there, and it was a month before anyone came to take it away).<p>I started looking for a new job about 2 days in.  Took me a year to find something else (I eventually had to move to a new city).