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Re:I don’t want to be a software developer anymore by heimidal on Thursday November 23, 2017 @01:05PM (#15766763)
Counteroffers are widely regarded as a terrible thing to offer -- it sets a precedent that anyone, at any time, can attempt to hold your company hostage for more money. Most organizations with much industry experience will pass on any sort of counteroffer.

And it's likely that she _absolutely did_ waste people's time -- the company may have passed on other candidates to hire her and had to start over.

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Re:I don’t want to be a software developer anymore by dastbe on Thursday November 23, 2017 @04:28PM (#15767913)
How are they holding the company hostage? You either agree to a salary or you don’t, and if you want to mitigate the risk of even having to discuss salary, you overpay. I realize from a mgmt perspective it sucks to lose someone you invested a decent chunk if change searching for, but it’s on you to mitigate that risk.

In some sense, they wasted their own time by not overpaying.

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Re:I don’t want to be a software developer anymore by Consultant32452 on Thursday November 23, 2017 @08:31PM (#15768933)
You might have a point on a longer time scale. This is three weeks. She likely hadn't even gotten her first pay check. Her market value did not change that much in three weeks.
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