But I understand this is difficult, even impossible, to know during the interview process.
But I understand this is difficult, even impossible, to know during the interview process.
I think assuming management is greedy and selfish until proven otherwise is a good way to approach interviewing. Negotiating compensation will give lots of clues. Ask for more money, or a different TC structure and see what happens. For comparison, ask for something that doesn't cost anything.
True teammates are cool, but is he prepared to feed my family and adopt my children in case I get killed by a bus?
What is the extent of mutual sacrafice 'true teammates' are gonna do for each other? Or is it a manipulative boss getting you to sacrafice family for the sake of the business? Or is is a naive idiot getting both of you to sacrafice for the business?
Yoy responsibility is to family and yourself first. Jobs come and go.
Of course you'd want to maximize your pay. Any coworker who drinks the Koolaid and doesn't understand that isn't a coworker I'd want to be with.