I've never had a truly terrible experience at the offer stage, but I do have one sort of dodgy story. Interviewed at a startup, it was small but had just lande

I've never had a truly terrible experience at the offer stage, but I do have one sort of dodgy story. Interviewed at a startup, it was small but had just landed a VERY large customer in addition to series B so they were going nuts with the hiring. I daresay I did well during the interview and within a week we'd moved onto discussing salary etc. Now for the non-Australian readers here superannuation is your mandatory retirement savings/investment fund. Your employer has to pay you a minimum % of your salary on top of your actual salary to your super fund and you can't touch it until a certain age. In 99.99% of cases employment contracts here will state your salary PLUS super so they'll say something like "$100,000 plus superannuation of x% paid fortnightly/monthly/whatever". Back to the offer; We agreed upon a figure, lets say it was $100k + options + superannuation (I have no memory, this was many years ago) - notice all the plusses here everything we talked about was IN ADDITION TO the base salary. A few days pass and I've heard nothing so I flick an email to the hiring manager, and still hear nothing back. A few more days pass and out of the blue I get a Docusign request containing my contract, yay! Being young at the time I was just going to sign it immediately but I had a feeling in the back of my mind that I should double check, and sure enough they were trying to screw me over. The remuneration section read "$100,000 inclusive of superannuation and stock options value at $SomeAmount". They were trying to short change me somewhere in the ballpark of $30k by their own estimates. I called the hiring manager and of course he tried to pretend this was what we had discussed all along (it wasn't, because no one in Australia does that) so I told them to go jump. Turns out I dodged a bullet - their one large customer sued them (quite publicly at the time), and Accenture or someone similar swooped in after that fact and bought the survivors for pennies on the dollar, and then fired everyone.