Your reply: "I would not." (By the way, that sentence costs the hiring company thousands of dollars worth of sunk cost of recruiting and engineering time.) Bef

Your reply: "I would not." (By the way, that sentence costs the hiring company thousands of dollars worth of sunk cost of recruiting and engineering time.) Before this, you wouldn't have known to tell them to kick rocks until much later in the process. Perhaps the scenario will become more common, but I bet the equilibrium resets to better average pay.