I was just informed by a recruiter that an org that had offered me a job was taking said job off the table because I was raising red flags after the interview process had ended by asking too many questions, and it seemed as if I was dragging my feet.
Here's the timeline of events:
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Monday, January 10th: Final Interview
Tuesday, January 11th: Offer Received (I asked if there was another rep on the team that I could connect with to get a more solid understanding of day-to-day). I had many follow-up questions on the offer letter that I took to the Recruiter (questions on stock sharing, benefits, etc.).
Wednesday, January 12th: Connected w/ rep on the team to walk through day-to-day and their experience in the role.
Tuesday, January 18th, 8:23 AM: Recruiter reaches back out to me via email to "check in on your offer and see if you had more questions for myself or the team."
Tuesday, January 18th, 5:54 PM: Responded to the email asking if there was any flexibility on the start date
Wednesday, January 19th, 9:02 AM - Recruiter: "What date did you have in mind."
Wednesday, January 19th, 5:37 PM - Me: "Actually, never mind, the original date should work. To confirm XK Base + YK Variable Comp = ZK OTE?"
Thursday, January 20th, 5:39 PM - Recruiter: "Are you available for me to give you a call tomorrow?"
Thursday, January 20th, 8:30 PM - Me: "Absolutely [Recruiter], I'm available anytime after 2 PM.
Friday, January 21st, 8:49 AM - Recruiter: "Great, I can give you a call around 2:30 PM. Does that work for you?"
Friday, January 21st, 10:53 AM - Me: "Yes, that works for me."
*All of the above was via email
Friday, January 21st, 2:30 PM - Call w/ Recruiter: Asked more questions about timeline and benefits. I asked her to walk me through the timeline again since it had been a week since we last spoke. I asked if we could look at moving the start date up one week. The Recruiter said she would ask the team if that was possible. I said not a big deal; I was just curious if it wasn't too much of a pain so I could leverage their benefits for the month of Feb.
Friday, January 21st, 3:16 PM - Unscheduled call back from Recruiter.
Recruiter, "The team feels like because it's been a week and a half and you haven't been great at communicating your questions that maybe this isn't a good fit and that they are going to explore moving forward with other candidates instead."
Me, "Oh, really? That is really surprising. I wasn't aware that there was a clock on the offer. I would love to challenge them on that thought process if possible."
Recruiter, "Ummm, I'll check with the team and get back to you."
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I'm curious if anyone has any experience with this. I very much intend on following up with the hiring managers to challenge their thinking on this, but I would love any advice on how to best frame my line of questioning.
Am I in the wrong on this? I was never told there was a clock on the offer (granted, I knew there probably was one). I left my old gig to take this position earlier this week and was just waiting to get a few housekeeping-type questions answered before signing the offer letter. The start date was supposed to be 2/7, so I didn't think there would be a ton of urgency.
Do I dare go over the hiring manager's head to a Director that I had established a great rapport with during the interview process?
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