Job Offer Negotiation

Shoot to get another job offer. HR treats you much better when they know they have to compete for you - they'll speed up every step of the process, and they'll be more willing to negotiate. Also, you may end up liking the other offer more :)

Absolutely - there’s a ton of implicit biases at work whenever you go down this path. Comes down to, if you want them to work for you, make them an honest offer and let them decide if it works for them. Companies obviously can’t put out multiple offers for the same position at a time, so there’s a natural tendency for companies to be careful with offers and only put them out if they are sure they’ll be accepted. But in this kind of case, if it’s an offer the candidate would reject out of hand, t

It would be a very elaborate bluff to interview at another company, receive a bigger offer and not sign it.

Yup, followed by "Oh you've received other offers? We'll see if we can accelerate the process on our end".No thanks, I'll just go with the existing offer from a company that doesn't hoist neon red flags during their interview process.

This is the tough one that we all face, will asking them to move "slightly" cause you to lose the opportunity.Having been on the other side of the hiring process, I doubt it. Finding good candidates is hard, by the time that you are making an offer you are already much more invested in the candidate as a potential employee than you are in other candidates to whom you have not yet made an offer.But, (there's always a but!) if you are happy working there, and that's the result you wanted and

also, do you not ever tell a potential employer you have an offer from elsewhere, and to either offer more or you won't be in a position to accept their offer? if you don't, you should, it works.

Well, if I was the employer, i'd like my employees to come to me and tell me that they have better offers and discuss possible course of action BEFORE accepting any offers, rather than just accept the job and leave. This way if I want to make a counter offer, it gives me a chance to do it, otherwise I might admit I can't match the offer and wish him best of luck, no hard feelings.

good&important: No, job offers: Yes, better offers: Maybe

Sign the first offer, continue interviewing, if you end up switching companies just write a nice email to your recruiter/manager explaining the situation. It wouldn’t be the first or last time that it’s happened.IANAL, the above isn’t legal advice, yada yada.

One place wouldn't give me an offer until I agreed to take the job.I assumed it was a hard sell tactic (and red flag) and declined.