My LinkedIn Offer Letter, How To Speed Negotiate?
Looking for some advice on the next steps in the process after I received my offer letter, details below. SWE, 1.5 YoE, no competing offers. I need to start negotiations immediately. I already have the numbers that I would sign with. How do you start negotiations? Schedule a call with the recruiter to talk about the offer? Send an email with your request? Do you immediately tell them your ideal numbers or play cute and let them come up with the first advancement numbers? The holiday season is making things a bit difficult. The start dates can either be December 16th or January 13th. I would HIGHLY prefer December 16th as LinkedIn has a company wide paid shutdown from December 23 - January 2 and my current employer only gives 2 days off. Because of this I have until December 3, AT THE LATEST, to sign the offer and put in my two weeks notice. Thats next Tuesday. Is it possible to negotiate in this small time frame? Would it be wiser to just push my start date til January to allow for more time/possible money? Offer Details - TC: ~186k Base: 130k RSU: 175k Bonus: 10% Sign On: 10k ------------------------------------ Numbers I'd Sign With - TC: 204k Base: 140k RSU: 200k Bonus: 10% Sign On: 25k
If you have no competing offer then you have no leverage. The only move you have is to give them the ultimatum. Tell the recruiter that if they can offer that much, you can sign and join immediately. But don't tell them about the holiday shutdown reason. Usually recruiters want to close the deal ASAP. But it also depends on the hiring manager.
That’s not much of an increase, it should be pretty easy to get imo.
You think just scheduling a call with the recruiter and telling them my sign numbers is a good idea?
The numbers you gave should be well I’m range so I can’t imagine it would be that hard to approve. That said if you actually have no competing offers then they might not budge. Honestly I think you could go higher and ask for like 145-150k base. And more equity, like 220k maybe.
Email and call your recruiter ASAP. Everyone is off tmr. Happy Thanksgiving!
Good tips here so I'll just say big congrats and good luck on the negotiations!
OP, were you able to reach out to your recruiter ?
YoE and role ? Any competing offers ?
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