Ask HN: How to Deal with Lowballed Offers?
How do you negotiate if you received a super low balled offer from a FAANG or similar company. Is it good move to accept the offer due to the brand value?
While working there and making ends meet I kept calmly looking for job. In 4 weeks I reciprocated - received much better offer and fired my boss. In addition I didn't have to stay 2 weeks because boss forgot to force me to sign employment agreement. Being nice for their client I stayed for 2 days and then left for good.
So use to to your advantage. Keep looking for job and leverage their FAANG-y name to boost your market value.
Companies will try to take advantage of people who don't value themselves enough because if the person is happy to make 100k even though their peers are making 120k then most companies will try to make that happen. They aren't going to give you 120k just cause others already make it. Usually their range for a position will be broad so they can play these games.
In the end never accept a lowball offer just cause of the name of a company, you'll never get the value out of the name brand if they don't pay you it in compensation.