Employment Contract?
Verbal offer given and was invited to come in for paperwork. I asked for electronic employment contract to be given to review, HR said no. What was your experience? Do I have the right to request and review it beforehand? I want to take the time to understand the contract before going in and signing. Current TC 115, 4 yoe Expected new TC 140. Non-FANG, SWE
Employment contract is different from an offer letter. If you received an email with your compensation, benefits,-and any options described, that is your offer. Contracts are typically reserved for execs and have things like severance included. Most employees don’t get them
Sounds super sketchy. Prepare for a lot of fine print (non-competes, everything you ever invented or will invent belongs to us, if you leave early you have to repay us back with interest, etc.) Or just a stupid/paranoid HR that don't want to release a company offer in the wild for other parties to see (eventually).
Yeah, that person was very pushy too.
Well, if they don't budge, just go there and tell them you'll need 30-60 minutes to review it before signing. Or bring a lawyer with you to review it. Or (if you decide to troll them), you can bring a friend, tell them he/she is your personal attorney and let them red line every other sentence, argue about stupid things with a serious face and say things like "I will not let my client sign such a preposterous .... I wouldn't even call it "a document! My professor cited verbatim this exact clause in his lecture about un-enforceable and unjust contracts!"
Uh they can’t even send a PDF? Sounds sketchy/
Just verbal, not even compensation in email. They want me to come in and sign right away.