Having reviewed the counteroffer that @vPilotSchenck's dev friend sent, it's very much a "bullet dodged." There was nothing egregious about it, and the company comes off incredibly poorly as a result.
https://twitter.com/vPilotSchenck/status/1374779418300841984
The response was reasonable. The edge case I’d have understood would have been an emailed counteroffer that made the employer question the candidate’s professionalism or judgement.
I’m talking “8x market rate” or opening with “Dear Shitpoodles.”
I’m talking “8x market rate” or opening with “Dear Shitpoodles.”
The company now has spent more than the salary difference just getting to the offer stage, so it’s dumb financially. And they’re in a small sector so it’s reputationally moronic.
This may sound weird to folks who’ve never run a company, but $5k a year to a company means orders of magnitude less than it does to an employee. Businesses run on burning piles of money.
The only way I can square this is if the company had another first choice candidate who declined, then came back around and accepted. Then they used the counter as a pretext to pull the offer. Still remarkably poor form.
And with love and respect to @vPilotSchenck’s friend: the counteroffer negotiated against himself enough that a “sorry, we can only do $110k” would clearly have been accepted.
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