Turned down the higher offer because the interview loop for the other one didn't feel like a performance
Offer A paid about 15% more. The loop for it was four back-to-back rounds where I got interrupted mid-answer twice and one interviewer spent the whole debrief on his phone. Offer B paid less, but in the system design round the interviewer stopped and said "actually, we hit almost this exact problem in an incident last quarter, here's what we got wrong." Small thing. Told me more about how the team actually talks to each other than anything on the careers page. Took B. Ask me in a year if the math was right, but I don't regret how I decided.
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AnonymousAnon This is the read I wish I'd trusted earlier in my career. I took the higher number once specifically because a panel member being distracted felt like a small thing, and it was a pretty accurate preview of how meetings went there.