So if these candidates are so unsophisticated and misunderstand, do you really want to hire them anyway?
Maybe you should highlight in the interview process (if you do an interview with them) the potential in regards to equity, so on and so forth?
Maybe you should highlight in the interview process (if you do an interview with them) the potential in regards to equity, so on and so forth?
I'd still want to hire than engineer though. But when they decline, I'd rather them not tell me it's because the other offer was $10K higher. I'd rather they tell me they see more room for personal growth, more interesting technology, etc. There are reasons to decline, and that's okay -- but $10K is a really stupid one.
A great engineer is not expected to know how their impact
on a 25 person company will be different than a 200
person company. Moreover a great engineer may not yet
know that not having that impact may be a really
important loss to them.(your 10k point is entirely valid, of course.)