If you can see the floor before the interview, you can sometimes get a vibe about the place. I once went to interview for a sales position. Aside from the interviewer being 30 mins late, it did allow me to sit and observe the situation. I realized pretty quickly this was not going to be the place for me. Very quiet except a handful of people on the phones cold calling. Many reps trying to push for contacts on the other end, just painful to listen to. And when they’d hang up there wasn’t really any interaction with co workers. Just quiet, and then another call. It all seemed very tense. I noped out of their real quick after the five minutes the interview took. Dodged a bullet.
I had interviewed for a call center job at another place that’s as a complete 180 from that. Yes it’s a call center job so it is what it is, but there was laughter on the floor, people talking to floor managers, just a completely different vibe that was more inviting.
Related to this one: I took a job where we each had our own office (which was cool). What was not cool was that the two offices on either side of my boss were vacant, and mine was going to be one of them.
I quickly learned that:
My boss was a VERY loud speaker
Every single phone call he'd make would be done on speakerphone
He would listen in on my phone calls, even if I closed the door to control volume/privacy, and would actually come into my office to interrupt the call if he didn't like the way I was choosing to handle the call.
I had to stick it out longer than I wanted to at that job because of stuff going on in my personal life, and I fucking hated it.