> Places that won't tolerate mistakes are arguably places you don't want to work anyway.
That's hardly helpful advice. You don't have recruiters telling job applicants that they do not tolerate mistakes. By definition, employees get no warning before being fired for making a mistake, which is hardly the situation for advice such as "you don't want to work there anyway". When that happens, all there is to do is gather all your stuff, rethink your life, and update your resume, and prepare to explain in the next job interview how your last job finished so abruptly. Neither of these steps is in your best interest.
It's on you to figure that sort of stuff during the interview process.
The interview is not just where they figure out whether they want to hire you, but where you decide whether or not to accept their offer.
You are allowed to interview the interviewers. In fact, you'd be a fool not to, since this sends a positive signal that you are interested but not desperate. Makes you seem like a quality hire.
It's a pain, but it's the reality that we're stuck with. If you go out of your way to hide failure or burn yourself out trying to never fail, how is that better? What's a realistic alternative to accepting that you're human and might make mistakes, and accepting that some places are simply too dysfunctional to be able to handle it?
That's really not the point. The whole point is that it's not possible to know with any degree of certainty whether a given position will have more or less tolerance towards mistakes. That can be determined by anyone in your organization, from CEOs to your own team members, and certainly that's not advertised by recruiters. It's something that you can only tell after you're already onboard and head-first into your job. And then what? are you going resign and job-hop to yet another unknown? That itself burns through a lot of goodwill, as you're trading your escape from potential burnout for a limited chance of avoiding that issue attached to a resume that labels you as unreliable and finicky.
It matters nothing if anyone claims that making mistakes is human nature. What it really matters is whether your organization employs people who weaponize mistakes. Another fact of human nature is personal ambition, and there are far too many people who don't mind throwing others under the bus to use them as stepping stones in their career paths. Some of those types succeed, others try until they succeed. What's your answer for that?
That's hardly helpful advice. You don't have recruiters telling job applicants that they do not tolerate mistakes. By definition, employees get no warning before being fired for making a mistake, which is hardly the situation for advice such as "you don't want to work there anyway". When that happens, all there is to do is gather all your stuff, rethink your life, and update your resume, and prepare to explain in the next job interview how your last job finished so abruptly. Neither of these steps is in your best interest.