Phrases my interviewer said yesterday when interviewing me:

MommaP12

"We're a workaholic culture here.  It's not uncommon to get emails from your boss that you need to answer at 11pm on a Sunday."

After her asking me and me answering what I do in my spare time, my boss to be says: "I can't even think about what I do in my spare time since all I do is work now." 

The position was for a Director of New Products at an education company and I'm currently a Product Manager for an online company.  While I'd love to "move up" at a new company, the pay would be barely $5k more according to the impression I got from her and I would need to be a workaholic.  Ummm, no thanks, I'll just hope I get the 10% raise here that I asked for in July and was told may happen in February instead.

Meg41208

$5K is not worth giving up your life!

jc&cat

I would run away! If that is what they are TELLING you I'm sure it's actually worse. Wow.

leaner2009

Well, at least she's making it clear what her expectations are for the job.  She could have lied and said it was a place with work/life balance and then the first week on the job you'd find out the truth. It's nice to move up, but you have to weigh all the costs, not just salary.  Hopefully you'll get that raise!

nicmgen

Hey, at least they were honest but I would RUN as far away as possible!

MommaP12

jc&cat:

I would run away! If that is what they are TELLING you I'm sure it's actually worse. Wow.

This is exactly what I thought!  It has to actually be worse.  And I ran, I ran so far away... 

This "Stanford MBA" woman surely didn't know how to interview either.  Ugh.

FloF9

Yea! I'm with you - kick that position to the curb and move on.

aforst

That would have made me get up and run for the door.  No thank you.  Like pp's said, luckily she was honest and up front w/ you!

MissLinz

As a Recruiter, you don't want to talk down the position which is what they did. I am all for disclosing the ugly but that would make anyone run.

katydid2007

For an extra $5k - ha. Not in a million years. After taxes that number goes down too. If you look at it from a per hour perspective you'd probably be making significantly less than you do now. Run!

yellowcar

I Interviewed for a job like that once and heard stuff like that in the interview.  The naive idiot that I was thought, "oh, it can't be that bad...surely they are just exaggerating."  Nope, it was that bad, they were pretty much weeding out the dead weight.  Every single thing they told me in the interview that made me go turned out to be absolutely true.

I still worked there for 2 years because the pay was great. But it soon got to me.

jlw2505

OMG that sounds horrible and why in the heck would anyone accept that job based on the things she said.

Mysterious_Mama

run like hell.