Choosing a job. Or how not to get into a cowboy company

Recently, Habré has made frequent articles about interviewing techniques.
and the selection mechanism of applicants. It's time to talk about the choice of companies, so that they do not feel in the position " I am your seller - you are my buyer " (c) Dolphin
All of the following is my imho, based on personal experience, and does not claim to be the ultimate truth.

So, if you are not a fool, you want to find an interesting prestigious job and not get into the office (cowboy firm), then avoid the following companies:

• Companies with pronounced mimicry (coolness) in the title. For example, "Innovative Technologies", "Super Web Company", "Modern WEB Technologies", etc. Practice has shown that, as a rule, in such companies, except for delusions of grandeur, there is nothing else. The last of the listed companies, by the way, is real (ops, burned to the cantor). It consisted of two programmers, one designer, two secretaries engaged in recruiting flowable personnel and 5-6 notebooks on the phones, which phoned various companies with a proposal to attach mega-chips to their sites. He headed the whole of this procession bullish director-jock.

• Small companies located in a “non-prestigious place” or companies renting a place are almost in the garage, if this is, of course, an incipient Russian Apple. A successful company can afford to rent a good room and usually within walking distance of the metro.

• Companies in which you take on the principle: "Do you know this? And this? Excellent - you are right for us. ”

• Companies where you are suspiciously promised too much from the very beginning, ala girls in the Maldives and epaulets of a technical director in a few years.

• Companies with a bad site (you can see the validity of the layout and evaluate the design of the site itself). Let's just say that if an employer (interviewer) meets an applicant for clothes, then let’s look at his face as well. If you can’t find a company site at all, then just forget about it.

• Companies working or starting work on shit-projects (and). This is probably the most important point. Any shit project will fall apart sooner or later, which means that your services will most likely not be needed anymore. Frequent job changes will undoubtedly bring you experience, but later, by taking another job, you can never prove to anyone that you are not a “radish”. Be interested in your specific responsibilities and ask questions about what the company does.

In principle, that's all the points that are personally guiding for me at the moment.