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In 2022, I applied to Trivago. What followed were months of interviews: multiple rounds, a take-home assignment, meetings with the team, and conversations with their senior engineers. Finally, the email arrived. Offer: $70K USD + visa sponsorship to Germany to join their

Interviewed a backend developer. Guy was at 21 LPA. We offered 28 LPA, roughly a 33 percent hike. He agreed and confirmed joining. Yesterday he emailed saying he got a 32 LPA offer elsewhere and now wants 36 LPA from us. Nonsense. Why agree in the first place. If you are still shopping offers just say it upfront. We stopped interviewing other candidates and waited through the notice period for the joining date. Now two days before joining, he came back with a new price tag.

I had an offer from an incredibly well-funded startup in early 2020 ($150M+ raised). I was supposed to join their ML team in April. I had already resigned and was serving my notice when COVID hit. HR called and said they were deferring my offer. Assured me the offer was safe and that they just wanted me to join once offices reopened. For the next couple of months we stayed in touch. Every conversation repeated the same thing: the offer is safe. The market was dead, so I spent the time doing research with an ex-advisor. We finally set my joining date: June 1st. In the last two weeks of May I had multiple calls with my future manager. We discussed MacBook configs, projects I’d work on, brainstormed approaches. I even shared my shipping address for the laptop. Two days before joining they rescinded the offer. That day I learned something important: Your employer will not hesitate to rescind an offer or lay you off if it benefits them. You shouldn’t feel guilty about optimizing for yourself either. Everyone is optimizing for their own interests. It’s a ruthless market. An employer has 100 / 1000 / 10000 employees. You only have one job.

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