Very interesting! In fact at an interview, I was asked upon leaving "Do you drink?" I thought it was an innocent question, aimed at if I socialized after hours. I ended up working there and indeed, the Branch Manager did drink on weekends, like a fish! Not a bad thing, as far as I was concerned, but all the Field Manager was an ASSHOLE! He had this intense, almost reptilian stare, which I have since learned to recognize as these are individuals to avoid as supervisors as they lack people skills, and considers everybody else as lowly peons or cretins. If I would have interviewed with him I would have never accepted the position.

My advice is to always ask before accepting a job: "What happened to the previous person who had this job?" Run, don't walk, run away if they tell you that the person left, and they do not elaborate on why.

that's an interesting article, but I think it's incomplete or short-sighted on several points.

- the interviewer not being familiar with your resume may not be his/her fault. it's taken a lot of beatings for us to get our recruiters to give us people's resumes more than an hour or two before the interview. actually, sometimes it's difficult to get the *time* of the interview that far ahead. give interviewers credit for trying.

- beware of cheerleaders. people who are really, really, really trying to sell you on the company. before I learned to distrust them, I took a job where they said they had a ton of stuff that needed doing, and even described it, and in fact there was absolutely nothing for me to do.

- the bigger the company, the more likely they are to have a highly organized HR department, the more restricted their interview questions will be according to legal guidelines, and the more incompetent and probably unpleasant idiots they will employ, many of which you will have to work with or for.

choose what's important to you. =)