I've applied to three jobs in three years. Offered one but declined, not offered the second, the third stopped calling me after the first interview. When they asked about salary I didn't mince words, and I suspect I asked for something 50% higher than they can pay. Oh well. I think I made the right choice on the first one. It would have been a fine job and fine pay and under two hours to Adirondack Park, but I think it would have been mind numbingly dull. I asked about the one interesting thing happening in my line of work. "We can always contract that out." So no investment in their staff. Teams isn't the problem, it's the volume of meetings. Four one hour meetings ruin an entire day. Four one hour meetings is four hours of productivity that day. One single meeting and I get eight hours of productivity.