Ask HN: Help with offer negotiation • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: Help with offer negotiation

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Post by andrewhillman » Wed, Jul 23, 2014, 9:18 PM UTC

verite wrote: post #4

verite wrote: post #3

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Thanks for your help! I am certain that they like me -- I mean, I have an official paper offer that I can sign. It is in Silicon Valley. I haven't disclosed salary history. I thought they may agree to 100k and 0.2%, and/or I could use that as leverage to ask for more salary instead. I would be happy with 100k and 0.2%, 120k and 0%, or anything scaled in between. I had already read that post.

Er, nevermind I guess. My (written) offer got rescinded.

While I was reading your 'ask,' I was thinking... too much info, someone at the company is going to see this. I hope this isn't the case and I am sure you will find another position.

Re: Ask HN: Help with offer negotiation

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Post by rgovind » Thu, Jul 24, 2014, 12:34 AM UTC

verite wrote: post #9

rgovind wrote: post #6

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Did they take it back because of this post in hacker news or because they didn't like the higher salary request.

i'm not sure i will ever get to find out why they took it back. but i think it is very unlikely that it is this post in HN. someone would have to be checking HN very religiously.

You should she them just to find out why :P Btw, now that you don't care, can you please tell which company this is.

Re: Ask HN: Help with offer negotiation

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Post by verite » Thu, Jul 24, 2014, 1:33 AM UTC

rgovind wrote: post #12

verite wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

i'm not sure i will ever get to find out why they took it back. but i think it is very unlikely that it is this post in HN. someone would have to be checking HN very religiously.

You should she them just to find out why :P Btw, now that you don't care, can you please tell which company this is.

This is a really frivolous reason to sue. I don't currently want to out the company; if in the future I do, it would probably not be in a random HN comment :).

Re: Ask HN: Help with offer negotiation

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Post by chadkruse » Thu, Jul 24, 2014, 2:15 AM UTC

> they claimed that this offer is in 75th percentile of comparable companies.

Empirical data is the best data: https://angel.co/salaries

Bummed OP had the original offer rescinded, but for anyone reading this in the future, a quick Google search for "startup salary survey" should bring up a few additional resources. I've filled a number of these out in the past and the data is always awesome. Lots of 'em are behind paywalls though, so beware.

Re: Ask HN: Help with offer negotiation

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Post by verite » Thu, Jul 24, 2014, 2:51 AM UTC

chadkruse wrote: post #14

> they claimed that this offer is in 75th percentile of comparable companies. Empirical data is the best data: https://angel.co/salaries Bummed OP had the original offer rescinded, but for anyone reading this in the future, a quick Google search for "startup salary survey" should bring up a few additional resources. I've filled a number of these out in the past and the data is always awesome. Lots of 'em are behind p…

I think AngelList is not strictly speaking empirical data -- it is what a company provides as advertisement, not what it is actually paying.

How one decides "empirical data", as well as "comparable companies" and "comparable candidate" are all subject to very broad interpretation.

For instance, GlassDoor has way lower salary numbers than AngelList. But they have their share of problems too -- while the numbers are empirical, they are often dated (and have no account of equity compensation)