I was just thinking that people usually talk about having better negotiations and in some cases only possibility of negotiation in case one has a competing offer. Let's take an example: assume I am negotiating at Google (this is the company I am interested to join). Google is known to low-ball in c...Read more
Hi Blind I have cleared HC for L4 at Google. All through the process I made my recruiter aware of my competing offers. I got offers in the range of 250 - 300 TC but all are verbal offers and no actual offer letter yet as I did not accept. Now google recruiter is asking me for proof of other competi...Read more
Which company's offers are best to leverage for negotiating a Meta offer? In the interview loop right now. Trying to figure which other companies I should interview for? If none of the choices, please comment the company name. Edit: Would prefer not to interview at Amazon as I have no interest in ...Read more
I am an applied scientist at Microsoft working in the LLMs space with a strong Ml background. I am interviewing for MlE at meta and google for L5 roles. Could some one tell which other companies that pay a lot and can be used for offer negotiations. I also have loops going on with databricks and a...Read more
I have offers from Google (L7 900k), Citadel (1.3M), Databricks (Senior Staff 1M), and Meta (E7 1.2M). I am awaiting numbers from Netflix and am curious if they always match competing offers. Are they still the highest paying company? Currently L7 SDE at Amazon (730k) Edit: YOE: 10
Keeping it simple. I have 3 offers in hand. Please help me pick the best one. My priorities: 1. Technology 2. Better WLB 3. Job security 4. Growth opportunities Current TC: 170K YOE: 6 Cisco is currently remote. Both Equinix and Shippo are fully remote. Since polls can’t be edited, following a...Read more
Anybody experienced with how this works? My current TC is fairly high due to getting into Amazon awhile back when their stock prices are low. Now that since its doubled my TC is high for what I do (300k TC) I dont believe Google can match or beat this but wondering anybody has been through this bef...Read more
Hey Blind I have an interesting situation here where I accepted a formal offer from company A with a start date X. Today I received a much better verbal offer from company B with the promise to send me an official offer on X+3 or later. I really respect people from A and don’t want to do bad for th...Read more
I'm a new grad going through the interview/offer negotiation process with a few companies. I am aware of the exact new grad offers offered by all these companies. Can I just lie and tell them I have offers from the other companies and drop the numbers from my head to negotiate? I see nothing wrong w...Read more
If you negotiated with Meta < 6 months, did they ask for proof for the numbers game? TC: still interviewing
I have an offer from Meta for E5 Enterprise Engineering at 275k CAD. I'm wondering if my competing offers need to be greater than Meta's offer or is it okay if it is equal to the Meta offer? I'm expecting Adobe to give me an offer but I doubt that it'll be greater than Meta's offer TC: 180k CAD Lo...Read more
Which companies does Google actually compete against when it comes to compensation for an offer? I know they compete hard against Meta offers, but what other companies? I have an interview with Google and I'm trying to line up competing offers TC: $0 YOE: 10
I’m a pgm at Amazon and have a competing offer from tiktok where I’ll be making more and also have a better title (sr pgm). I truly like my job, team and manager and wouldn’t leave if the offer wasn’t so enticing. I’ve heard people tell me to try leveraging the competing offer to get more from my cu...Read more
Anyone lied about competing offer during negotiation?
Apple HR mentioned about giving some verbal offer this week. Also got a call from another company about giving offer this week. I have discussed about interviewing with other companies during the interviews at both places. How/when do I initiate discussion about competing offer with HR. Do I wait ti...Read more
Hey, I got a verbal offer for meta l5. Currently in team matching so don’t have comp yet. I’m scared they will low ball and I don’t have a competing offer (got rejected from google). Come from a no name startup (not springboard, this is a roommates account. Mine is a small team and my vp is always...Read more
Google made me an offer for L4 but I also got a competing offer for L5 equivalent from a different company. Other company knows that I also have an offer from Google. They made me a verbal offer which is way over what Google made me. when sending the details via email they left out the numbers and o...Read more
During compensation negotiation Is validating a fake competing offer a common issue for HR and/or Recruiters?
Interviewing with meta, waiting for final round results, it’s been a few days. I have 2 competing offers. When is the best time to tell my recruiter? I don’t want to rush them in team matching (heard it can take forever), to just decide to reject me because I have other offers. I also want to ensu...Read more
Now that some companies are asking for competing offer proof, do you have to show them how much the other company offered? Or is it just proof that you have an offer is sufficient?? Update: For people who voted show TC… what advantage will the candidate have other than being able to match the fir...Read more