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Offer negotiation
Negotiating is not a red flag — it is a standard, data-driven step that employers anticipate, and recruiters in large technology companies rarely open with their best number. This lesson covers how compensation is actually constructed, which of the three levers moves most easily, the five things that genuinely put an offer at risk, and the arithmetic you need to compare two offers without fooling yourself.
What you'll be able to do
- Decompose an offer into base, bonus, equity and sign-on, and price each correctly
- Compare two offers on year-one and four-year totals rather than on headline numbers
- Choose which lever to push, and phrase a counter that a recruiter can take to finance
- Avoid the five behaviours that actually jeopardise an offer
Before this: the-debrief-and-the-decision
The rest of this lesson is in the app
Negotiating is not a red flag — it is a standard, data-driven step that employers anticipate, and recruiters in large technology companies rarely open with their best number. This lesson covers how compensation is actually constructed, which of the three levers moves most easily, the five things that genuinely put an offer at risk, and the arithmetic you need to compare two offers without fooling yourself. This walkthrough runs about 28 minutes, with runnable code you can edit and re-run as you read.
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