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Re:Ask HN: Feeling pressured to accept startup job offer qui... by jordanb on Saturday March 21, 2015 @10:43PM (#9245310)
> If you accept before then, they have to employ you

I've never seen a job offer that doesn't explicitly disclaim any implication that it's a binding agreement to employ you.

Maybe in California it's different but in Illinois it's unheard of that a company would legally obligate themselves to employ an engineer with their offer letter.

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Re:Ask HN: Feeling pressured to accept startup job offer qui... by ams6110 on Saturday March 21, 2015 @11:45PM (#9245484)
Every offer letter I've ever received certainly had escape clauses. If it were binding it would be called a "contract" not an "offer."

That said, many startups are clueless about HR policies and employment law. My bet is that they just really don't know what they are doing.

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