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Comment on Ask HN: How to Deal with Lowballed Offers?

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Once I accepted lowball offer without negotiation due to harsh conditions (long out of job, morgtage, bad market). The company somewhat knew about my conditions and leveraged that.

While working there and making ends meet I kept calmly looking for job. In 4 weeks I reciprocated - received much better offer and fired my boss. In addition I didn't have to stay 2 weeks because boss forgot to force me to sign employment agreement. Being nice for their client I stayed for 2 days and then left for good.

So use to to your advantage. Keep looking for job and leverage their FAANG-y name to boost your market value.

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