An interview isn’t always the best place to learn what it’s really like to work in a new office, but there are ways to find out.
An interview isn’t always the best place to learn what it’s really like to work in a new office, but there are ways to find out.
Jocelyn Greenky really hates fluorescent lights, so when she started a new job years ago, she showed up with a floor lamp a few weeks in and dragged it over to her desk.
“It did not go over well,” she says. That’s how Greenky discovered that every office has its own culture—and as a result, how sometimes even the smallest acts can look like a rebellion.