Thats fair comment UKT, i think most of us, i am, more concerned the lad is presently on hourly pay and his hours are X, what we are wondering is once on salary will the hour gradually creep up to X+10 or so, lowering his actual hourly rate the more hours he ends up doing.
£27k for 40 hours doesn’t sound a great top line, but when you split it down to hourly rate it isn’t bad going at all, if it gradually became 55+ hours, and many of us have been there and have the T shirt, told one thing at interview during the job sale, which turns out to be entirely different once committed.
The last thing people want is a history of jumping job too quickly, and unscrupulous employers know this.