Once had an interview with a person who liked to counter everything I said. She seemed very focused on finding ways to respond negatively to each comment I made, to a degree that made me wonder if I was interviewing for the team whipping girl role, with "ability to soak up boss getting her negativity out of her system without it affecting me personally" being a primary qualification. I turned down the job because of this. Why work for such a disagreeable, difficult manager when life is so short? I later interviewed for a different role at the same multinational. Got in. Was a very well regarded employee for 4 years, was promoted twice. Cue the multinational ritual of the reorg. Cue yours truly suddenly in disbelief at who her new manager was. She was every bit as much of a disagreeable jerk (to me and to a very small handful of other strong women in the org) as I'd observed during the interview. It provided plenty of evidence that I was 100% right to turn down that role originally. Her female reports who were afraid of their shadows or "working their physical assets to succeed" shall we say, were seen as acting appropriately female and were not targeted, but business-minded and technically-minded mid-career women took arrows constantly. Within 18 months, I was written off as a failure despite having been identified as top 2% (not a typo) of division staff by two previous managers previously. Moral: Life's too short to put up with petty games. Unless you've been unemployed for 6 months and are desperate, don't work for jerks. The latter includes those who game-play in interviews, for whatever reason they're doing it, if the game-player is your prospective manager.