The ONE question I always ask the job interviewer.

You should be asking questions when you're in a job interview too. Here's one that I always as the interviewer.

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[TimHunold]

this is an opportunity for them to lie to you before you even start.

[mrmurdx]

I asked that and was fed bullshit so i passed on the job.

[KamalaTheClown]

I cannot stress this question enough. Listen to not only what their answer is but how they answer it. If it’s a hard question for the interviewer to answer or squirms around the answer and/or gives you many “unmm’s”, those red-flags had better be up and on full alert.

[XMattingly]

It’s a great question to ask but more often than not, it’s not the interviewer’s first rodeo and they’ve already got a bullshit answer queued up. I’ve run across too many that “fast growing” really means “rapid employee turnover”, “we promote from within” might be a highly political office that routinely grants “micro promotions” to offset low quality work/pay/perks, etc. I could go on, but it’s generally my feeling that at that inflection point in the interview process, they’re well aware of what you’re asking and will say what they need to “polish the turd”, as the saying goes.

[subzeroX]

I remember years ago during an interview I asked this exact question... The interviewer eventually let on "I need someone to put out fires" and I was like yeahhhh no thank you.

[aram]

They could answer anything they like. Usually the answer is that they are intensively expanding blah blah blah. And only after you've joined do you find out that before you there used to be a guy named X who quit because he had a hard time bearing with his immediate manager, and soon you realize it explains a lot about your hard time as well. ;)

[kishredbird]

The one question I always ask is "how would you describe the culture here" because I wanna know if im walking into a place where ill get in trouble for talking to someone for 10 seconds or if it'll be chill and nice and nobody nagging me or management giving me sass

[samuel]

Lol most times I've asked this question they say it's a new position that's been created and I've always felt that it's a lie... only on a few occasions have they answered by saying the person left the organisation for another opportunity

[leeboriack]

If possible ask them to give you a tour and say hello to everyone possible and ask how long they have been there. Lots of newbies might mean high churn.

[lpettigrew]

I always ask this question right out of the gate. Always!

[scoobiesnatches]

Tbh I’ve never encountered an answer to this in my interviews that hasn’t been a red flag.

[AncientTrogloxene]

This question is useful only in this way if the interviewer's response is truthful.
If the interviewers response is not truthful, and you can discern it is untruthful, that response may be even more revealing.
How often have you received less than truthful responses?

[Propfaqs]

You can ask that about a romantic partner, a home for sale, a dog or cat for adoption. A GREAT QUESTION!

[grim_]

But... usually you have a chance to ask questions at the *end* of the interview. By that point it's a bit late to mold your behavior accordingly, no?
Maybe there's more than 1 round of interviews (it's likely actually), but then the person in the early rounds probably won't know anyway. Especially, if it's a recruiter.

[futureforecast]

That’s the question you’ll never get the true answer.

[cpKL]

"We have a need to grow our team for a thriving business"

Is code for

"The consultants we hired in Chennai gave us such a shitty codebase that it is requiring us to hire a bigger development team to fix the problems they created before the next fiscal year before our investors find out that we hired the same team that killed 300 people in that Boeing 747MAX crash"

[ineedjesusatalltimes]

My Manager lied to me and said that many people get promoted from my current position but he lied so when they say that always have option B so when you find out it’s bs just quit on the spot

[rikadew]

I asked this question and they lied to me. Didn't know until I got into the company and realized she wasn't promoted but left 🤦🏿‍♀️

[jamesmitchell]

Great question! Never thought to ask that!😮

[dairoleon]

*This question is especially pertinent if you are looking at a job with demanding and/or very specific requirements.* NDT Inspector licenses, for example. They're expensive and require almost collegiate levels of math in addition to trade knowledge. Whenever I see a job opportunity requiring one, I have to ask why the position was vacated.