Have I been ghosted? I gave a counter offer and haven't heard back in three weeks. Is this a bad sign? Should I just have taken the original offer? Any solutions?
Don’t worry - you should definitely negotiate and they’ll be expecting you to negotiate. Just follow up!
They could be keeping you on the back burner waiting for headcount or because the team is restructuring, happens a lot here. I would be prepared to walk.
Wait 2 more weeks, more headcounts would probably open up after comp day
Same thing happened to me, LOL
You should understand countering is always a gamble. You should always be ready to accept the negative outcome. All you can do now is give them a final date by following up n go for the other one if you think that could be next to GS offer
GS has horrendous candidate experience. If the hiring manager needs you badly they'll stay on top otherwise the candidate has to do it. But as others have said it's not because of a counter, could be because they need additional approvals on the money or they want to see if another candidate will come in cheaper and accept.
Follow up! It took me 6 mos from submitting an application until my start date.
Pretty fast!
OP, any update?
You’ll have to do some crawling to recover. I mean, the audacity it would take to not jump for joy at Goldman.