I just interviewed a solid QA candidate. She seemed qualified for a job and had the right experience. It was no secret that she was interviewing in multiple places and got several offers because she deserved it. We started putting together an offer on the upper end of where we felt that she would land. The other company being a less exciting startup came in with an offer that was greater than ours because, frankly, they had to. That is the awkward situation where the candidate has to call someone back and say: “I am getting a better package from another company, what can you do on your end?” The moment is awkward because we, engineers, generally are not used to going back and forth. We have an answer and some data to back it up, the negotiation game makes everyone uncomfortable. What happened next? Next, we matched the offer. Later on we got another call: the other company is beating this offer by $8,500. The candidate said that she thought that we were a more exciting c
Mike Borozdin - Kubernetes @ Google. Previously: Dir of Eng @ DocuSign, Lead @ Microsoft. I help companies focus and engineers grow.