--- title: 10 Developer Job Interview Red Flags | daily.dev description: Some companies imply that constant overtime is just ‘part of the job’ Some companies will expect developers to put in more hours than is fair. 'Rockstar... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/10-developer-job-interview-red-flags-ycfjcache twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: 10 Developer Job Interview Red Flags | daily.dev og:description: Some companies imply that constant overtime is just ‘part of the job’ Some companies will expect developers to put in more hours than is fair. 'Rockstar... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/10-developer-job-interview-red-flags-ycfjcache og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/YcfJcaCHE.png og:image:alt: 10 Developer Job Interview Red Flags og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # 10 Developer Job Interview Red Flags **[Honeypot](https://daily.dev/sources/honeypot)** · 9 min read · 129 upvotes · 13 comments ## Summary Some companies imply that constant overtime is just ‘part of the job’ Some companies will expect developers to put in more hours than is fair. 'Rockstar required!' has become a part of start-up jargon that many developers are now rolling their eyes at because it’s one of those terms that doesn’t mean anything. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@eli\_mcgarvie** · 7 upvotes > Company turnover or team turnover is probably the biggest giveaway. Ask the interviewer or team lead how long the team members have been around. **@fmeloooo** · 2 upvotes > actually it doesn't matter to me if they pay 100k. **@nachum\_freedman** · 1 upvotes > the amount of times this list is true is disgusting.. **@arashida** · 1 upvotes > Excellent tips to pay attention for! **@desdevol** · 1 upvotes > Even if you are likely to know this, we tend to forget some of them. Good article to help juniors get to know the hiring culture. --- Tags: [#general-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/general-programming), [#interview](https://daily.dev/tags/interview) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/10-developer-job-interview-red-flags-ycfjcache) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"10 Developer Job Interview Red Flags","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/10-developer-job-interview-red-flags-ycfjcache","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/10-developer-job-interview-red-flags-ycfjcache"},"datePublished":"2021-11-17T14:57:27.566Z","dateModified":"2026-03-15T03:28:05.927Z","description":"Some companies imply that constant overtime is just ‘part of the job’ Some companies will expect developers to put in more hours than is fair. 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Good article to help juniors get to know the hiring culture.","datePublished":"2021-11-24T01:08:23.795Z","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/YcfJcaCHE#c-CZh8hPbtX","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Desmond Lee","url":"https://daily.dev/desdevol","image":"https://avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/42801236?v=4"},"interactionStatistic":{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":1}}]} ```