My friend had this experience couple of weeks back. He was given a deadline of 2 days to accept the offer in middle of negotiations. Otherwise they would revoke the offer. The question is, are these HR gimmicks to close the hiring or are the really serious about these deadlines?
Usually gimmicks at large corps. Know a guy where the offer went from "need to hear back from you ASAP, Friday at the latest" to an open offer to join any time
Good to know. Which company was this for?
Yeah, amazon does it all the time but the problem is those offers ain’t da best
Tell him to try and let us know what happens
Actually he accepted a competitive offer and told Amazon about his decision. Amazon did revoke the offer instead of competing with it. So I don't know what would have happened if he had waited it out.