[letitbeirie]

Do you mind if I ask what you do exactly? It would be interesting to know whether:

- you have a specific skillset and experience that give you a negotiating position not enjoyed by most, or

- most developers are significantly underestimating their negotiating position

[toast0]

Some of those negotiations seem like a pretty hard bargain (can they give different 401k vesting terms to some employees and not others?), but your position when you've got an offer is pretty strong.

They've invested a significant amount of time finding you, and assuming you're good at what you do, it's going to take a lot to find another acceptable candidate.

Nobody wants to have to report that the candidate didn't start because of something relatively minor, so restart the hiring machine.