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This is a tricky situation, TBH. Think about it from the other side: company invested HR and other resources to seek out talent, managed to arrange to hire you
by veyron 15y ago
This is a tricky situation, TBH. Think about it from the other side: company invested HR and other resources to seek out talent, managed to arrange to hire you a few months ago, and assumed that you would work for them. From the company perspective, assuming they had to hire N people, you took a slot. Furthermore, because it is so late in the hiring cycle, it will prove to be hard to hire another qualified person.
It is not a terrible taboo. You are expected, as soon as you accept an offer, to stop pursuing other job opportunities. That being said, the company will be more understanding if you ended up taking an offer that was _SIGNIFICANTLY_ better than your current offer. If they have a shred of decency they will not share this information with anyone [and certain people such as COO and HR staff may be obliged not to discuss the situation as part of their contracts], so they won't hurt your chances at other firms. You can bet your bottom dollar that they won't reconsider you, though.
You should talk directly to the people who interviewed you [no email, letter, etc]. especially if the firm is much more reputable and the pay is significantly higher, they may be sympathetic.
But before doing it, make sure that is what you want to do. It may, in some circumstances, make sense to take on a job that pays less or is less reputable if you think you have a better opportunity to shine (I've turned down job offers from lots of much more reputable places in lieu of an offer that put me in a more senior position).
- andrewstuart 15y agoYes, more money and a big name company should mean precisely zero if you are at the beginning of your career. You should be taking the job that allows you to best practice, learn and hone your craft, whatever that is. Big name companies are often some of the least dynamic, most boring and slow moving places to work. Money comes later if you work hard early in your career.
- akronim 15y agoA big name company with a good reputation at the start of your career is a good social proof, since you would have beaten a lot of people to the role, and have been exposed to a successful way of doing things. Other things are important too but it means far from zero.
- andrewstuart 15y agoAgreed, not zero but company name and pay should mean relatively little at the beginning of your career. Be driven primarily by challenge, fun and learning. If you get all that then use company name and salary as the next determining factors.
- president 15y agoThanks for the reply veyron. The second offer is definitely much more enticing than the first in terms of benefits and projects that I would really like to work on. That isn't to say that the first was horrible, just in relative terms. I forgot to mention in the text, but the new offer came unexpectedly a few weeks after I had already accepted the first one. I guess I shouldn't have expected any chances of even doing business with the first but I'll man up and give the recruiter a call.