I'd say you can usually tell a good bit, but only if you visit the office and ask to see the working environment you will be working in. For me, I have certain things I look for, yours may be different. For example, negatives for me include seeing alot of people in suits, or seeing people who have generally blank empty looks on their faces. Positives are things like cube toys, smiles, and other evidence of personality.
In bad places to work, people will be stressed out and totally without any personality at all. They have been beaten down by the company and it shows. Better places to work have personality and interesting people working there. Fun interesting people will bail out on bad companies pretty early (leaving only the blank stare people) so seeing them around is a pretty good indicator that it's a good place to work. -Cameron On 10/5/06, Mary Jo Sminkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was just wondering, to you and to the others who mentioned corporate > > culture as an important benefit. I very much agree, but how would you > > be able to measure this as an outsider considering a job offer? > > You can't always, but you can ask about company activities, and ideally speak > to some of the other employees there. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Introducing the Fusion Authority Quarterly Update. 80 pages of hard-hitting, up-to-date ColdFusion information by your peers, delivered to your door four times a year. http://www.fusionauthority.com/quarterly Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:216861 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
