The Secret to Finding Your Ideal Workplace | Marion Campan | TED

1. Observe the recruiting process - how do they treat you, promptness of responses, how engaged are other interviewers etc. 2. Ask questions - what kind of people get promoted here? What are your core values? How is feedback delivered?

Company culture is ever-changing and is a very unstable thing to chase. Speaking from experience, I assure you: company culture is the first thing to be sacrificed when shareholders’ value is a priority. Don’t deceive yourself!

For higher educated people in smaller companies I would agree. For middle and low income workers in bigger companies I would rather disagree. You can have the most eloquent interviewer with all the nice wording and talking about all the core values but who has no idea about the team at all, and the team is very good at making the numbers look better than they are. Or the HR department is the harshest and most controlling but your future team does a wonderful job, friendly with each other and other teams in the company, with only the occasional gripe about the unspeakable lady from HR.

This was a perfect reminder as I get caught in the social media vortex out of panic. Thank you!

Thank you for posting this

I have a feeling, after being in the work force for many years - I would prefer a hybrid work culture - and working more from home more. But this isn’t doable in the education industry 😢

I think TedX is not rigorous enough! With all due respect to the speaker, the key assessment that one needs to do is of the boss that they will immediately work with! In large organisations culture is like an island. Each team has their own rules and culture. And it will change.. coming to values never ask them, they are for lip service for most enterprise.. I like the question about feedback but most hiring managers will lie. Just like the job description and actual job has a difference. Ask your interviewer and hiring manager about failure and how they react to it! When was the last time they failed and how they managed. It will tell you almost everything there is to know!

Amazing!! It’s exactly what I needed hear

Very useful! Thank you

Great speaker, thx a lot!

Great information...

Thank you!

Excellent, very useful

I completely disagree with everything that was said in this talk. This is only personal criteria, not a methodology. Company values are BS created by HR for recrutment, like Great Place to Work (paid) results. The people you have during interviews do not represent your daily job nor the company « culture » and even if all your colleagues are amazing to work with, if your manager (or its hierarchy) is inhuman, you will not like your job. My methology is more: take the salary first, because the rest of what you see during an interview can be faked because it’s only words… Then inside the company, choose if you want to stay and have the courage to leave (there is less rush when the money is there, it is work after all, not a hobby) 😉

Magnificent!

Awesome...

I used to work for Markforged when it was a tech startup. We had beanbag chairs in the break room, kegs with beer on tap, nerf gun wars, racing simulator competitions etc etc. Corporate brought some sensitive people on who were "offended" by it all. They wanted professionalism and structure... The writing was on the wall. It became another factory job. I quit shortly after that.

I just got 150 inbound job offers (long story...). How did I choose? I used the Japanese Ikigai model. Check it out. Far more substance than what this talk presented, which was very thin IMHO.

I just wanted to hear more about Tahiti 🏖️🙁

ask questions... but some companies expect you to already know some of this stuff before you apply for the jod... mission, vision, goals, company core values...