Interviewed at several companies but either didn't get an offer or got a low offer (close to my original TC or slightly higher) and didn't get what I wanted. In every interview my design rounds were solid (even G interviewer was so happy and surprised that with my low yoe I had such solid design) but I didn't have enough time to prepare for LC. So I created some numbers that I wanted and went ahead asking for those numbers, claiming that I had such offer from Fb (I didn't even interview with Fb, because at that time they didn't want to interview me for E5). Eventually I got 3 E5 offers with those numbers that I asked for. I don't feel bad at all. I just feel I got what I deserved without LC madness. Old TC: 180k TC I asked for: 330k, yoe at that time: 4 Current TC: 420k, 6 yoe Update: Didn't know this would become a fire post, so wanted to say this: I didn't post this to brag. I simply posted it because at first (and after passing the interviews) I was honest about what I wanted and was confident about my abilities but no one was willing to pay what I asked for without a competing offer. Since I didn't have a high offer to use it, I faked one to get what I wanted and it worked. They knew I was worth it, they just wanted to play dirty, so I did the same. If you are confident about your abilities, play the game.
Not at all. You bluffed and they didn’t call you out on it. I don’t see how that is unethical. They could choose not to give you that.
Did you actually create fake offer letters or it was all just verbal stating you had all other offers?
Companies aren’t allowed to ask for offer letters. It’s just verbal. Most companies would be able to assess if you received an offer or not.
@xmekdot, I don't know if that's true or not but I can tell you that my Google recruiter asked for my Amazon offer letter in 2019...
Employers have their games and we have ours. Bold but effective. Congrats.
Honestly tho. Don’t recruiters reach out to their recruiter contacts at these companies to check if such and such offer is going out?
I hope that's collusion and illegal
Wtf do you think this is, a frat house ? Recruiters aren’t allowed to share personal information about candidates even to other people in the same company.
What a bad ass
420 TC says all ... enjoy 😉
Been there did that. Got a top offer at FB
Not clear how well did you do in the interviews. You say you aced design but bombed all LC ones? Sounds unlikely to get offers after that
Not bombed LC ones, but for example G feedback was that for coding rounds I missed a few edge cases. The algorithm was right. I got similar feedback from other companies (the ones that actually shared some feedback).
dayum, why aren't more people doing this?
Great! Good job giving it back to them!