The one I keep hitting is : 'this is a new role so we're still defining it' or it'll be to the tune of 'we're still defining it so make it yours!'
Which always translated to: the actual scope is undefined, we have no JTA, we really have nothing for you to do and what you will do is busywork and underneath your ability.
If the role is so pivotal to success, how is it not defined, and why must I endure 2 weeks of death-by-powerpoint just to get spun up?
Alternate translation: We will eventually ask and expect you to do more bullshit work than you ever wanted to do, so we're leaving your job description as vague as possible as a means to get away with it. Work, peasant.
Companies are so hidebound by diversity and meetings, they don't have the time or capacity to actually think about the job itself.
I've only had one position that was ever well-defined before I started, and that was a union contract job with AT&T. There was a very rigid description of what you could and could not do.
I typically get a solid foundation with contracts, but, now and then I get in on one that is a hot mess once on boarded.. or some things can't be said in interviews so it's a roll of the dice to begin with. I'm cool with helping to define the role but not at the expense of a month+ of standby to meet the shot-caller or only to find out the scope isn't anywhere near as cool as they sold it.
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