As a contractor, I always knew I was walking into a firefight, so interviewers rarely sugarcoated it.
It was usually once I was inside the company, and I'd put out a few fires, that upper management decided I would be a good fit to run the (usually horribly mismanaged) team I was in, and "offered" to promote me.
This strip is pretty much how every one of those interviews went. The big boss would usually list all of the benefits, or what he considered benefits, of me being a team/group/department manager, and I'd respond with "thanks for the warning".
Sorry. There are only cons and con artists.
As a contractor, I always knew I was walking into a firefight, so interviewers rarely sugarcoated it.
It was usually once I was inside the company, and I'd put out a few fires, that upper management decided I would be a good fit to run the (usually horribly mismanaged) team I was in, and "offered" to promote me.
This strip is pretty much how every one of those interviews went. The big boss would usually list all of the benefits, or what he considered benefits, of me being a team/group/department manager, and I'd respond with "thanks for the warning".