Negotiating New Grad offers from Google and Pinterest?
I’m fortunate to have new grad offers from both Google and Pinterest(waiting to hear back from Cruise and Uber). The standard advice for negotiating is always “get a competing offer” but what is the best strategy once you actually have competitive offers? Should I just keep sending offers back and forth until they level out? Or if I slightly prefer one place should I try to drive up the other offer as much as possible before going back for a counter? These are both the initial offers with no negotiating: Google - LA so scaled down about 10% from MTV 105k base (w/ 15% Target Bonus) 90k GSU/RSU 10.5 relo + no signing TC 143k/year including target bonus Pinterest - SF 120k base 152,000k RSU(at current eval) 10k relo + 50k signing + 5k for a trip anywhere in the world lmao TC: 158k/year + 50k signing Also both say they offer refreshers but don’t give much info on what that could be. Any advice on the best way to negotiate would be amazing! Thanks so much
Google’s stock grant seems a bit low. Try to get Google to match Pinterest’s offer. If they don’t budge, get Pinterest to offer you more signing/stock/base and then accept the offer. Pinterest is close to IPO anyway and the signing bonus is substantial. Read this: https://haseebq.com/my-ten-rules-for-negotiating-a-job-offer/
Thanks so much! Google has definitely said they are open to negotiating w/ competing offers. Do you know if google considers the Target bonus when matching/beating offers? B/c considering the target bonus and 10% COL scale down the offers are pretty much identical outside of signing.