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This article is bullshit. Let's say you have one position and five candidates. Without any form of deadline the process would be dragged out until everyone has made up their mind, explored all different opportunities etc. It's completely unreasonable.

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As the hiring party, how would you feel about a hypothetical deadline from the hiree on how long you have to evaluate them and present an offer? Would limiting your time for that evaluation be unreasonable too?

Why not just say "we have one slot to fill and have made several offers. There is no explicit deadline but if someone else accepts first, they're getting the job.

That's even worse. Not only does the offer explode, you don't know when it explodes.

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