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83 points MediumD | 3 comments | 24 Jun 25 00:00 UTC | HN request time: 0.633s | source
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dpflug ◴[24 Jun 25 02:32 UTC] No.44362378[source]▶
Y'all are getting multiple job offers?
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SOLAR_FIELDS ◴[24 Jun 25 03:04 UTC] No.44362539[source]▶
That is the best way to max your salary. Interview with as many companies as possible, get as many offers as you can, and pit them against each other.
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blharr ◴[24 Jun 25 03:18 UTC] No.44362597[source]▶
For the first interview that you get an offer, what exactly do you tell them to keep them from moving on to someone else?

Most don't extend employment offers out for months in my experience, or at least they really try to get you to agree off the bat. I imagine someone job searching is getting an interview once a week or so. Several times, I've had delays of weeks to months after just submitting an application to get the interview. So how do you just have multiple offers to juggle at any one time?

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SOLAR_FIELDS ◴[24 Jun 25 03:22 UTC] No.44362606[source]▶
You plan about 4-6 weeks and communicate early on that you are talking to several companies, and that you plan on evaluating offers on X date. Companies will shuffle things around to meet your date if you give them time. If they aren't flex you don't want to work for them anyway.
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BrouteMinou ◴[24 Jun 25 04:05 UTC] No.44362762{3}[source]▶
No. I am not going to "shuffle things around". You are playing the hard to get, good for you.

For my part, I have hundreds of other candidates to choose from.

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1. esseph ◴[24 Jun 25 05:56 UTC] No.44363214[source]▶
You are hiring a cog to fit in the machine then, nothing more.

And that's fine for some people who are just "passing through" with no concept of ownership of anything. A lot of people probably.

But you're also going to miss out on people that take extreme ownership of success and failure that have really dedicated themselves to various crafts over their life and career.

You will never, ever, ever get the performance and gains by hiring a cog compared to hiring a craftsman.

Just depends on the org priorities.

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2. jvanderbot ◴[24 Jun 25 11:51 UTC] No.44365146[source]▶
This isn't necessarily true. You can hand craft a highly independent and empowered team at a large company (pets not cattle), and still have hundreds of candidates to sift through. At JPL, we did this. We were very careful about hiring, but did have many, many qualified candidates to choose from.

But I will say, we were also careful to accommodate candidate schedules as much as possible, but yes, we did pass on folks who were asking for significantly more than others. It's a balancing game.

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3. esseph ◴[24 Jun 25 20:29 UTC] No.44370687[source]▶
Familiar with JPL datacenter, I was working at USDA NITC DISC under OCIO during the competition for certain other gov contracts.

Sounds like you're not there anymore, but Thank You.