I've turned down a few.<p>One was an early stage YC company that lowballed me, offered me 90K + 10,000 options (or something equally worthless). I attempted to negotiate (I was making 115K + vested stock in public company at the time) and the CEO told me I was an idiot for not accepting it "because the equity was worth way more than the salary." They're still around, but as far as I can tell, not making a ton of progress on their exit. I see their job ads on here all the time. I wound up turning down the offer because it was a lowball and also because the CEO revealed himself to be a total dick. Really glad I missed that one.<p>Another was a company where I applied for one position. I walked in the door for the interview, they started asking me questions, and I realized they were interviewing me for a different position. At that point, I kind of mentally checked out and decided I'd use this as an opportunity to practice my interviewing skills and instead of being interviewed, I pretended I was interviewing them. Halfway through, I told the recruiter (who came to check up on me) that I had to leave early, and she convinced me to stick around for one more interview. They knocked everyone else off the list and brought in the CTO, and then halfway through that the CEO comes in and says, "Look, we like you, we want you to work for us." They made me a pretty solid offer (about 20K more than I was making at the time).. Unfortunately, it wasn't a position I neither wanted nor was willing to take. I declined politely. They thought I was negotiating, but I really had to put my foot down and say "thanks but no thanks."<p>I initially felt bad about turning it down, but after I declined the offer, they told me so many blatant lies about the position that I quickly realized it wasn't the place for me.<p>I once got two competing offers from two different companies. One of them I liked a lot, the other paid more. I countered with the first one, and he said he'd match salary but couldn't match benefits (no health insurance). He swore up and down that if I got the job, he'd get health insurance, but I just didn't believe him, so I wound up having to accept the second offer. That's not the kind of perk you spend company money on because one employee asked for it.<p>Finally, I got another offer from yet another company. I was prepared to accept the offer, when I heard through the grapevine that the manager that hired me had decided to quit and his last day would be the day I started. I noped out of that one, fast.<p>Fun times.