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When they start describing the dysfunction in their team or the org as a whole. One interviewer talks about a "legacy team" that needs help "modernizing" and "migrating to the cloud", and then you talk to the "legacy team" and they don't think they need any help. Or they're just a collection of acquisitions with no standardization. Or they try to avoid talking to corporate IT about anything. Or they regularly get woken up at 3am on-call. Or they deploy less than once a week, or need someone to manually validate it and schedule it and have all-hands-on-deck. Or you ask about test coverage and they laugh. Or they have one database for 100 services. I don't find a ton of huge deal breakers, but a lot of "ehhhhhh......." things. The biggest deal breakers are attitude and culture, whether the business creates abusive demands on employees, signs of poor leadership, disorganization. And pay. The business shows you what they really think of you in their offers.