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@westcoastjustin- I did email at the beginning of this week. HR said I will def get offer my way soon/shortly. @fsk I hear you @vinit pretty big company. Top

@westcoastjustin- I did email at the beginning of this week. HR said I will def get offer my way soon/shortly. @fsk I hear you @vinit pretty big company. Top 10 tech companies globally right now @dudul: I confirmed many times that this is good to go. They sent me the 'offer' (salary, start date, etc) in an email. They said they are fully confirmed when I officially accepted the offer (again via email). They got the background check going after that. Given this is a new team they said paperwork would be delayed so I assumed that was normal. I spoke to someone else who accepted the offer and said their process was sketch too - he/she didn't see the full offer either (but got more paperwork than myself at least), though this person is starting before me.

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jotux 12y ago
This is not twitter -- there is a reply button below every comment.
- techyvibes 12y ago
  Ha, touche. Fair enough.
- fsk 12y ago
  Yeah, because I look at my own comments page, and wouldn't have noticed you posted a reply unless I came back to the OP. Regarding OP - Did you give notice at your last job? If so, and this falls through, you learned a valuable lesson. 1. Don't give notice at your last job until your offer is confirmed and all the details are sorted out. For example, they might have an overly broad non-compete you want to negotiate (matters in NYC), and you won't know til you get the contract. I saw one non-compete clause that said "You can't work any financial software job in NYC.", which I refused as overly broad. 2. If you're concerned about the offer being revoked, ask for a signing bonus or for them to guarantee the first 1-3 months' salary, so you don't get screwed when they flake on you. 3. I've had several job offers that included options in the verbal offer, but they never came though with a formal option grant letter. You need to get that sorted out if it matters to you. Fortunately, those startups failed, so it didn't matter that I got no options. I had one offer revoked because their financing round fell though, and they had to do layoffs instead of hiring.
  - techyvibes 12y ago
    I have given notice, yes. I know, stupid. 1. Wouldn't the broad terms invalidate the clause? 2. Agreed. 3. so there was no 'verbal' offer - the offer came in an email format with the salary, options, compensation breakdown, start date. Then we chatted on phone to negotiate offer. I know the email holds no legal soundness but given the company's name and me asking three times 'so All confirmed on your end?' and receiving responses like 'we are SO excited you're on board! Yes absolutely, all confirmed on our end' I think HR might just be swamped. Time will tell.. Very soon.
  - techyvibes 12y ago
    One more thing - when you refused that as overly broad, did they modify it? Did you end up taking the gig?
    - fsk 12y ago
      They did modify that clause.
      - techyvibes 12y ago
        Thanks for your help!

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jotux 12y ago

This is not twitter -- there is a reply button below every comment.

techyvibes 12y ago
Ha, touche. Fair enough.
fsk 12y ago
Yeah, because I look at my own comments page, and wouldn't have noticed you posted a reply unless I came back to the OP. Regarding OP - Did you give notice at your last job? If so, and this falls through, you learned a valuable lesson. 1. Don't give notice at your last job until your offer is confirmed and all the details are sorted out. For example, they might have an overly broad non-compete you want to negotiate (matters in NYC), and you won't know til you get the contract. I saw one non-compete clause that said "You can't work any financial software job in NYC.", which I refused as overly broad. 2. If you're concerned about the offer being revoked, ask for a signing bonus or for them to guarantee the first 1-3 months' salary, so you don't get screwed when they flake on you. 3. I've had several job offers that included options in the verbal offer, but they never came though with a formal option grant letter. You need to get that sorted out if it matters to you. Fortunately, those startups failed, so it didn't matter that I got no options. I had one offer revoked because their financing round fell though, and they had to do layoffs instead of hiring.
- techyvibes 12y ago
  I have given notice, yes. I know, stupid. 1. Wouldn't the broad terms invalidate the clause? 2. Agreed. 3. so there was no 'verbal' offer - the offer came in an email format with the salary, options, compensation breakdown, start date. Then we chatted on phone to negotiate offer. I know the email holds no legal soundness but given the company's name and me asking three times 'so All confirmed on your end?' and receiving responses like 'we are SO excited you're on board! Yes absolutely, all confirmed on our end' I think HR might just be swamped. Time will tell.. Very soon.
- techyvibes 12y ago
  One more thing - when you refused that as overly broad, did they modify it? Did you end up taking the gig?
  - fsk 12y ago
    They did modify that clause.
    - techyvibes 12y ago
      Thanks for your help!