I'm going to back Justin. I establish rapport with new potential coworkers during the interview, and I ask very direct questions. Sometimes I'll frame them in a humorous way, and other times, I'll be very straight-forward. It depends on the demographics and attitude of the person that is interviewing me.

And remember, you're better off having a question or two about how the company works during an interview.

Regarding the article, which by the way, is quite good, I have to say that I had to learn what I REALLY wanted from a company. I once worked for a company that never disclosed anything to its employees, so we'd get big announcements through the NEWS. That's a bad feeling. I honestly thought that I wanted to work for a company that disclosed everything to its employees, so I made a point of working for a company that did just that.

Turns out, I didn't want to hear every single stupid detail about every single meetings. Bored me stiff. I just wanted a nice summary of what's going down.

I've yet to find a happy medium, but I've learned that both extremes of the information disclosure scale are not to my liking.