Comment by d--b

The advice here about hiding negative things is not good. It will only get you in the same mess again.

When I moved to a big corp to a small org, I said politics were bad and middle management was horrible and I got screwed over and I hated it. And pretty much everybody I talked to responded something like “yeah I am with you, we’ve all been through this shit”.

They interview you as much as you interview them. If they don’t get why you were miserable in your former job, you probably don’t want to work for them. Unless there is considerable money on the table and you’re happy to do the grind.

It’s also easier to come across as a team player when you express yourself freely rather than if you fake positivity all around.

What you have to do though, is to show a positive attitude about what you want next. “I am so excited about this because in my previous job I didn’t have that”

You do have to talk about the bad things in a distanced joyful manner. Like “my former boss really made me think of Steve Carrel in The Office”. Things like that.

Godspeed.