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Recruiter: Congratulations! Everyone loved you so we are looking to move forward with an offer. The level we are hiring you at pays, $x salary and $y in RSUs
by mywittyname 5y ago
Recruiter: Congratulations! Everyone loved you so we are looking to move forward with an offer. The level we are hiring you at pays, $x salary and $y in RSUs with a 4 year vest.
Candidate: Well, I have an offer from FB for $x++ salary and $y++ RSUs.
Recruiter: Let me speak with the hiring manager and see what we can do.
Looks like recruiter are updating that last line to be something like,
Recruiter: Can you forward me a copy of that offer letter and the name of the person who sent it so that I may verify its authenticity? After that, I'll speak with the hiring manager and see what we can do.
- luffapi 5y agoAnd the correct move there is to say: “Actually, I’m very close to going with this new offer. I really clicked with the team. If Google wants to counter, I can wait till tomorrow to make my decision”.
- smorgusofborg 5y agoThat sounds like illegal wage fixing to me. Companies should not be able to disclose this kind of information to each other and twisting an employees arm to consent to such disclosure is questionable. Employees don't get enough information to do similar tactics to maximize their salaries so the end result is keeping salaries artificially low. I think constant wage fixing has actually backfired for big tech. The savings in pay they have made might be an impressive number but it is very little compared to what they leave on the table whenever they fail at a software eating the world project, and they end up with a lot more competition from companies that can afford to match their compensation despite operating in much smaller markets and having very little profit relatively.