Personally, I'm okay with working overtime, as there are some jobs that are simply cyclic in nature, and you have periods where things come up that need to be dealt with. At my current job, I submit papers and posters for conferences, and so I end up working longer hours both to finish the presentations / posters and to get the software done to that I'm going to be talking about.

I'm also not so keen on the project plan aspect -- some of the best projects I've worked on have been done without planning, because we got it done under the radar without management getting their hooks into it and trying to make it more than it really needed to be.

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That being said, I think that what it comes down to is that we have to remember that as part of the interview process, you need to size up the potential employer to determine if they're the type of place that you'll want to work. If you're miserable at the job, it doesn't do you or the company any good; but every person has their own pet peeves, and what may be a great job for one person may be hellish for someone else.

The last two interview I had were rather odd, as the last one was for my own job (long term contract, but a new company won the contract), and the time before that it was for a government agency and my first question was "where's the job?" and I didn't see a point in continuing after they told me. For the last one, here are the questions I had typed up to ask them, that were primarily based on areas where I had run into problems in the past:

In reply to Re: Interview Counterattack: "Show me a project-plan" by jhourcle
in thread Interview Counterattack: "Show me a project-plan" by locked_user sundialsvc4

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