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I once interviewed for a startup during its "hyperspeed growth" period (can't remember what specific jargon they used but it was something like that). Got a goo
by benwad 4y ago
I once interviewed for a startup during its "hyperspeed growth" period (can't remember what specific jargon they used but it was something like that). Got a good offer, handed in my notice, then the recruiter called again and said the offer was actually about 10% lower. I was a bit put out but I was relatively inexperienced in this negotiation stuff so accepted it. Then when the first day came, I was put into a team entirely different from the one I applied for - I applied for a Python ML engineering position, got put into a Java data engineering team. Naively I accepted this, hated it, managed to change teams (after ~4 months) to something more like my expertise, but eventually left the company because the management culture was generally toxic.
First impressions may not be everything, but I wish I'd gone with my gut on that one.