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Re:Ask HN: Feeling pressured to accept startup job offer qui... by BurningFrog on Saturday March 21, 2015 @11:07PM (#9245396)
I understand wanting a quick answers so they can offer the job to candidate B or C before they accept other offers.

But offering it to several people at once is not only really weird. It also a really poor algorithm. These people are bad engineers, and you do not want to work with them!

Your interviewing and skills insecurities are a whole separate topic.

When you go to a startup, you need to be ready for the job to end any day. If your current job is more secure, think about if you want to lose that.

Re:Ask HN: Feeling pressured to accept startup job offer qui... by DevX101 on Saturday March 21, 2015 @11:30PM (#9245452)
> These people are bad engineers

By OP's own admission, he's a bad engineer too. He should take it if the money is acceptable and he likes the company.

Re:Ask HN: Feeling pressured to accept startup job offer qui... by zem on Sunday March 22, 2015 @01:36AM (#9245730)
no, if you're a bad engineer you really want to work with people who are "doing it right", so that you can learn from them.