Most candidates spend the interview process trying to prove themselves and forget that the process runs both ways. By the time an offer arrives, the only information left to evaluate is the compensation package, which means every signal about culture, stability, and leadership that appeared earlier in the process gets ignored simply because nobody was looking for it.
That is a mistake, especially at the senior level. An interview process is one of the few times you get direct, unfiltered access to how a company actually operates, not how its website or careers page describes it. The signals are there. Most candidates just are not reading them.
