[hackerboos]

Turning down a job at a startup and not moving to London, UK.

I successfully interviewed at a startup in London who made me an offer. I miscalculated how expensive London was going to be, which led us into strange negotiations were a recruiter thought I'd expect a certain salary but I turned it down after running the numbers. They started 'nickel and diming' over 5k which at first they said was no problem at all and the next day it apparently was.

I had to turn it down as it would have left me worse off than staying on 2/3s the salary in a smaller city.

The stock options were also really bad. Stay for 4 years and get max 120k GBP. This was at < 20 employees.

Anyway I turned it down and took a much safer job and at a much bigger company in Canada. The tech stack isn't quite what I'd like but there are a lot of passionate and motivated people here making strides in the right direction.