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> ” Now say you end up turning down their offer. They’ve spent over $24,000 just extending this single offer to you (to say nothing of opportunity costs), and n
by soneca 3y ago
> ” Now say you end up turning down their offer. They’ve spent over $24,000 just extending this single offer to you (to say nothing of opportunity costs), and now they’ll essentially have to start over from scratch.”
They definitely won’t start over from scratch. Most companies where I worked held on to reject one or two finalists until the selected one accepted the offer. Precisely to be able to go back and offer them the job without any significant cost if the first one in the ranking rejects the offer.
Since this final decisions are for minimal, very subjective reasons, I often saw a manager having second thoughts and kind of hoping the selected person to reject their offer so they can go with the other that, e.g. doesn’t have that experience in a stack, but seems nicer to work with.
In that scenario (not uncommon in my experience), the hiring manager has incentives to not raise the salary a bit.
But… otherwise is a very good, helpful article. Lots of good tips there.
- indymike 3y ago> They definitely won’t start over from scratch. Most companies where I worked held on to reject one or two finalists until the selected one accepted the offer. I've hired so many 2nd or 3rd choices when the first choice overnegotiated. In almost every case the person I passed over re-applied with us 3-6 months later. I'm not sure why, but I suspect that love of money does not always equate to a great software engineer.
- DonsDiscountGas 3y agoKnowing the market value of a person (including oneself) is a business skill, and distinct from the skill of software engineering. Being bad at this means either overestimating or underestimating the value. Most people are going to underestimate their own worth if they need a job, but it shouldn't be too shocking when people err in the other direction sometimes.
- snapcaster 3y agoHow do you know they aren't great software engineers if you were unable to hire them? I don't really understand what you're saying here