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by riffic 1931 days ago
> Undue pressure to accept an offer letter

These are called "exploding offers". It's horrendously shady.

edit: I once got one with a limit of one hour before expiration. I was completely naive and took the position anyways. What a complete nightmare.

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One piece of advice I saw recently - if you are interviewing, FAANG companies supposedly have a longer offer acceptance window. Smaller startups often have a smaller window. Also FAANG companies and larger companies and organization usually have a longer interview process. So the advice was to interview at the larger companies first, and then at the smaller startups who can turn on a dime quickly. It makes a lot of sense, but I never thought about it until recently.
That window is normally complete bs and I’ve always been able to extend it by a few weeks. No need to be a dick about it, just ask and if they are actually serious they’ll wait