[chimeracoder]

> The reason I have withdrawn the offer is that it made me clear that the person does not understand their worth to us - hence would likely be a trouble later on.

Or just doesn't have much experience with (salary) negotiation, which, for most roles that aren't sales or HR, isn't necessarily a problem. The people who do this for a living (employers, recruiters, etc.) are always going to know the rules and the social norms better than the ones that don't (most employees).

I don't really know what you mean by "ridiculous" in that situation, so it's hard to draw any conclusions, but I will say that most good engineers are pretty bad at negotiation skills, and IMHO withdrawing an offer is quite an extreme move.

[glofishx]

Let me add to all this that we first did an informal negotiation with the prospective employee with a quite lengthy back and forth that led us to put those terms in writing.

But only when he had the official letter did it occur to him to ask for a larger office (it is not possible as he should have seen during the visit, travel funds (???), extra time off and more salary. It was extremely annoying.