u/AviatorNine

I have 7 years experience as a BSA. working as a senior level jack of all trades/plug every hole, extremely technical position from concept to finished workflow etc. Lots of ai exposure, Ive owned product builds professionally and self hosted software that I’ve built at an enterprise level (database set up, row level security, onboarding wizards), the whole 9. I’m good at what I do, and opposite of how this is coming across, I truly am humble about it, I’m just lost for words right now and kind of pissed off.

day one: recruiter tells me the band is 110-120k, incentives, etc. on call number 1.

i interview with the hiring manager, then a panel, then:

company flew me to another state for a final round. put me up, wined and dined me whatever. did the interview with the directors and a vp of the initiative.

i get home and they offer me:

110k base, 8% annual incentive target, 10k relocation sign on.

i counter:

125k base, 10% incentive target, 15k relo, and a title change to “senior” level. and I say why and I also say my priorities are base pay and title tho… so I am closable with some work in my target areas.

they respond:

110k base, 8% incentive, no title change, but add 5k to relo… so 15k now.

i call her this time and speak to the recruiter and i say thank you, i appreciate the increase in relo, yada yada, when we first spoke you said the range was 110-120 and with my direct experience in this specific thing you guys need, and my response about my priority being focused on the base, i was surprised to not see the movement there. i understand the title change and incentive are company level based and that’s fine, but if we could align somewhere in the middle on 115.

she said “if we move it to 115 would you move forward today” I said “yes I’d be happy to sign on today”.

she called me back 30 minutes later and said they were going with another candidate and ended the call. my jaw was on the floor.

I have 7 years experience as a BSA. working as a senior level jack of all trades/plug every hole, extremely technical position from concept to finished workflow etc. Lots of ai exposure, Ive owned product builds professionally and self hosted software that I’ve built at an enterprise level (database set up, row level security, onboarding wizards), the whole 9. I’m good at what I do, and opposite of how this is coming across, I truly am humble about it, I’m just lost for words right now and kind of pissed off.

day one: recruiter tells me the band is 110-120k, incentives, etc. on call number 1.

i interview with the hiring manager, then a panel, then:

company flew me to another state for a final round. put me up, wined and dined me whatever. did the interview with the directors and a vp of the initiative.

i get home and they offer me:

110k base, 8% annual incentive target, 10k relocation sign on.

i counter:

125k base, 10% incentive target, 15k relo, and a title change to “senior” level. and I say why and I also say my priorities are base pay and title tho… so I am closable with some work in my target areas.

they respond:

110k base, 8% incentive, no title change, but add 5k to relo… so 15k now.

i call her this time and speak to the recruiter and i say thank you, i appreciate the increase in relo, yada yada, when we first spoke you said the range was 110-120 and with my direct experience in this specific thing you guys need, and my response about my priority being focused on the base, i was surprised to not see the movement there. i understand the title change and incentive are company level based and that’s fine, but if we could align somewhere in the middle on 115.

she said “if we move it to 115 would you move forward today” I said “yes I’d be happy to sign on today”.

she called me back 30 minutes later and said they were going with another candidate and ended the call. my jaw was on the floor.

I have 7 years experience as a BSA. working as a senior level jack of all trades/plug every hole, extremely technical position from concept to finished workflow etc. Lots of ai exposure, Ive owned product builds professionally and self hosted software that I’ve built at an enterprise level (database set up, row level security, onboarding wizards), the whole 9. I’m good at what I do, and opposite of how this is coming across, I truly am humble about it, I’m just lost for words right now and kind of pissed off.

day one: recruiter tells me the band is 110-120k, incentives, etc. on call number 1.

i interview with the hiring manager, then a panel, then:

company flew me to another state for a final round. put me up, wined and dined me whatever. did the interview with the directors and a vp of the initiative.

i get home and they offer me:

110k base, 8% annual incentive target, 10k relocation sign on.

i counter:

125k base, 10% incentive target, 15k relo, and a title change to “senior” level. and I say why and I also say my priorities are base pay and title tho… so I am closable with some work in my target areas.

they respond:

110k base, 8% incentive, no title change, but add 5k to relo… so 15k now.

i call her this time and speak to the recruiter and i say thank you, i appreciate the increase in relo, yada yada, when we first spoke you said the range was 110-120 and with my direct experience in this specific thing you guys need, and my response about my priority being focused on the base, i was surprised to not see the movement there. i understand the title change and incentive are company level based and that’s fine, but if we could align somewhere in the middle on 115.

she said “if we move it to 115 would you move forward today” I said “yes I’d be happy to sign on today”.

she called me back 30 minutes later and said they were going with another candidate and ended the call. my jaw was on the floor.

Basically the title. I’m staying in uMotown. Have an interview tomorrow afternoon. Want to explore a little. Not interested in food or speakeasies. looking for where the people are And vibes.