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- Does meta ask for proof of competing offer? I have a couple of competing offers so I am ok with walking away from Meta. But I don't have the written offer yet. My recruiter is asking for data points and I gave her a total TC number that I would like but she keeps pushing and is saying there's a deadline for comp negotiation tomorrow. So when
- vote Competing Offer Would you leave Google to work for a larger start up who is willing to pay you $25k more? It’s hard because Google is a name brand and figuring out what’s more important.
- Faking a competing offer verbally 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
- Help me navigate getting a competing offer Timing is everything. I applied for a role at MSFT the first week of Jan. They just scheduled the hiring manager screen for next week. As an aside, I guess MSFT doesn’t move that fast :) I’ve completed 1 loop at Meta for a role and am finishing another loop tomorrow. I’ve gotten good feedback an
- vote Meta Competing Offers 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
- vote Should I give Google competing offers first? Should I just share out my current competing offers with Google to prevent immediate lowball, if I already know that it's on the high end of Google's pay band? e.g. 500k+ competing offers for L5. TC: 450k #tech #offers
- Proof of competing offer I have 3 VERBAL offers in hand and I am trying to negotiate with all 3 based on the verbal numbers. 1 of these companies is asking for proof of other numbers. But I only have verbal numbers so far. I tried emailing "hey so these are the numbers right?" so that I can get a screenshot of that email.
- vote Does Apple ask for proof of competing offer? If you answered yes, will a screenshot suffice or will they require you to forward the email? #apple
- How to negotiate without competing offers? (Meta) I passed HC at Meta. No numbers yet. Will update once I have the initial numbers. This is my first time interviewing at a FAANG. I interviewed at Meta because they reached out. Prepared well and got a down-level E4 offer. (Interviewed for E5). I didn’t interview anywhere else and don’t have compet
- Negotiating without competing offers What can I do to negotiate if I do not have other useful offers and original offer, oven though it's a low ball, is already 20% over what I am making now. Any advice is appreciated! YOE: 10+ TC: 300k
- Leveraging competing offers I accepted an offer from Company A in Nov 2021 as it was the best offer at that time and joined in Mar 2022 after all background checks & visa transfers. In the meantime, I received an offer from Company B in Feb 2022 with close to an 80% increase in base compensation, which I accepted anticipating
- Google asking proof of competing offer 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
- vote Competing offers 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
- Can Google L3 match L4 competing offers? I have a few L4 offers at around 280-340k in Seattle. Can Google L3 match? I like the team, but I won't take a paycut. TC 220, 1.5 yoe
- Lying abt having competing offers during salary negotiations Is it ok, to lie abt you hving multiple offrs while having compensation negotiations with HR? How do you lie? Or what you do/say when HR asks for proof? Blind tax- TC 230k #Compensation #tech #faang #facebook #meta #google #Microsoft #apple #Amazon #Netflix #software #salary #offer
- Competing offers How do companies verify a competing offer. Asking for a friend
- vote Show competing offer? Has anyone been asked to show a competing offer??? Also…. not looking to get HIGH offer. Just don’t want to be lowballed and stay in the middle of the band. Please share your experience. And name which companies have asked to see competing offers and which have not?
- vote Competing offers 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
- Recruiters/SDMs why do you ask for competing offer numbers ? and amazon team in particular. Why do we ask candidates for competing offer numbers? I get we need to schedule quickly if candidate already has an offer. it could also serve as datapoint on the candidate. But why ask for numbers during negotiation phase? Its already an issue where we are creating
- Negotiate offer without competing offers? Can we negotiate an offer in Meta without other competing offers? If yes, any tips? No offer yet, waiting for decision TC: 🥜 YOE: 7 #hardware #meta #offer #apple
- Create a fake competing offer? Everyone says recruiters will ask for proof of a competing offer if you say you have one, so is it possible to create a fake PDF of another companies offer letter? Is there any where we can find PDF’s of other big tech companies offer letters to just edit and submit as our own? #offer #tc
- Google wants proof of competing offers I sent Google a redacted email from a competing offer, but they want it without redactions, including name of recruiter in the email. Can sharing that with Google be used against me somehow? I don’t want to lose the other offer
- Google L5 engineer offer, no competing offers $330k per year TC. 39 YOE. Last 30 years at Microsoft except for 9 months at Facebook. No competing offers. Not a great offer, but I’m 59 and working at Google end of this month, so I’m happy. Just wanted to share the amount for others. Happy weekend! $100k more than Microsoft was paying so I’ll tak
- Competing offers Do recruiters in US ask for the competing offers as a proof when you say you have a offer coming up from say company X.
- vote competing offers. I recently did an onsite with a great company and one of the panelist suddenly asked me that if I have another offer. is it a good sign?
- Competing offer Happy New Year, everyone! I never used a competing offer to negotiate before. Based on your experience,what companies require to see the written offer in order to match? I'm puzzled because most companies don't send written offers until verbally accepted.
- Competing offers Is it a good thing to tell a recruiter that we have other offers ? Because if we tell that they will only look to match the competing offer (which might be less than the original offer they thought of giving) Is it necessary to tell the details of competing offers while negotiating? If yes how much
- competing offers how can competing offer help negoiating for a better offer? how can they make sure that I really have other offers?
- competing offers when you have competing offers are you expected to share the written offers? they say confidential and i dont feel comfortable sharing #offer
- Competing offer Hello Blind Community, I got offer from X company and I signed it also. After few days I got offer from Y company which fits better. How do I say No to X company now? Should I reveal the name to X about Y? Both companies are big tech and with X I had a very good experience throughout, would not l
- Competing offers. Hello everyone, stupid question though but I keep seeing on blind about getting a competing offer to negotiate. I was wondering do you actually need to show that offer to the employer to ask for more? I mean how does it work. Thanks
- Competing Offers? May be a dumb question, but it’s been quite some time since I’ve been on the job hunt. I see a lot of folks mention negotiating better offers if you have competing offers - do recruiters just take your word for it that you have other offers, or do you have to furnish proof of said offer? Seems like
- Competing offer What is the fastest way to get a competing offer to negotiate with a current tech offer?
- vote Inflate competing offers Is it ok to inflate competing offers so that you can negotiate a better offer? Wonder if companies like Google or FB will have a way to verify 😅 Have you inflated competing offers?
- How to compete without competing offers? Title says it all. I’m negotiating with google right now. Any advice would be very helpful Tc 280 Yoe 3.5 #engineering #software q#swe
- Meta offer, no competing offer 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
- vote Lying about competing offer Would love to hear a recruiters point of view on this. Is it in our interests to just lie and say we have a competing offer for 10-20% more, or can that work against us? #tech #recruiting
- vote Negotiating without competing offers? I passed HC and senior exec approval at Google for L4, starting the team match process this week. I haven’t interviewed anywhere else, I just took the Google interviews when the recruiter reached out because well, it’s Google! Will it be possible for me to at least negotiate higher than my current
- Competing offers In most threads about negotiating TC, the advice is to have competing offers so one can negotiate. My question is that if we are in the interview process with various companies, we won't necessarily get offers from them around the same time. So, let's say I have an offer from company 1 now. But I'm
- Recruiter asking for competing offer letter Recruiter asking for competing offer letter. I signed an NDA tho, am I allowed to share it? How do I negotiate with multiple offers?
- Competing offer Got an offer from fb. Now, I have an unexpected opportunity within google to be TLM on a good project. Google offer not official yet, but do I tell fb? Will they ask for proof?
- Fake Competing Offer During compensation negotiation Is validating a fake competing offer a common issue for HR and/or Recruiters?
- Best Company to get competing offer from I’m looking to interview for the purpose of getting a competing offer, not necessarily to work somewhere else but just to play it off another offer. What good companies are there for this purpose? Aka, low interview bar to meet, high comp, but not necessarily a good place to work. Edit: I currentl
- Recruiter asking for Competing Offer Letter Negotiating with a competing offer for Salesforce. My recruiter is asking for my offer letter from the competing offer. Should I go ahead and share the screenshot or only give a breakdown of the competing offer verbally? Is it even legal for them to ask for an offer letter? Will they be verifying wi
- Negotiating competing offers How should I go about negotiating competing FAANG offers if I want to maximize TC? Should I just ask for max compensation for my level, or should I bring up the competing offers?
- vote Did Google stop matching competing offers recently? A lot of people here on Blind had Meta E4 and Amazon L5 offers that were 100k higher than Google's. And Google wouldn't move on their numbers. What's going on? TC 220
- Competing offer procedures I am current ICT 8 YOE with TC close to 280K. I have the following two offers (both in bay areas) Google L4 TC 245k (150k/300k/30k) Amazon L5 TC 280k (160k/220k/170k) I am very surprised at googles offer. I want to get some ideas on what I can negotiate next. For people who have competing offers
- Competing Offer Proof Do Tesla and Amz require Competing offer proof like email/ screenshot/ documents? (For analyst position)
- Competing Offers I got an offer from a Healthcare company for a FT position with benefits. Now a telecom company is offering me 5k above that on a 30 months contract. 401k will be after one year. Which offer is better? What are the advantages and disadvantages of contract vs full time? I have never worked om contra
- competing offer I got two offers i want to negotiate a better deal based on these with one of these two companies. do I need to give proof of the other offer to bargain? or is it just my word about the numbers that is enough?