[eloff]

I'm so glad I turned down the job offer at Kraken. The reason I turned it down was because I felt that crypto was a bubble waiting to pop (back in March, but that's been my "wrong" opinion for the last 5 years or more.) The tech stack was nice, the pay was excellent, the product I would have been working on is comparable to Bloomberg Terminal, so it was pretty cool too. But I just thought the job might go away in the near future.

[jiveturkey]

If you've held that opinion for so long, why did you even apply to Kraken at all? What would have swayed you to accept their offer?

[eloff]

Partly as leverage in other negotiations, but there was definitely a price where I would have accepted, and they came close to it. I was tempted.

[mrweasel]

Maybe they didn't apply, but was approached with an offer?

[guessmyname]

In that case, user eloff is using the wrong terminology.

An offer, in the context of a job interview, always refers to a (paper) contract describing the job title, salary, equity, benefits and other clauses, and implies that the company is ready to hire the candidate.

However, if your assumption is correct, that the company approached eloff with an offer without an interview, that actually means an invitation to have an interview with the company, with no guarantees of getting the job, so when eloff says “I'm so glad I turned down the job offer at Kraken”, I read that as “I declined an invitation to interview with Kraken”.

I have heard many people use the word “offer” to describe an invitation to interview for a job, and it irks me every time.

[eloff]

It was an offer.

[Hendrikto]

Kraken likely laid off marketing and support staff, not mainly engineering.

[animitronix]

Give it a few more months

[gaws]

> I'm so glad I turned down the job offer at Kraken.

What job did you take instead?