> but I don't think they are treated as gospel Sorry, untrue. Literally several examples of offers turned down because of this even when apart from this 'raise

> but I don't think they are treated as gospel Sorry, untrue. Literally several examples of offers turned down because of this even when apart from this 'raise the bar' person everyone were strongly in favor of hiring. This happens all the time and employed engineers are none to happy about this. BTW from the number of your posts here, would that be an unofficial job requirement ?