Super interesting to read and get the hirers' perspective, but there's a lot here that feels really creepy and manipulative to me as a potential employee, and I think I'd drop out of the funnel the instant someone tried one of these things on me. (Which, maybe, win-win? Maybe I'm not the employee you're looking for.)<p><i>> Sometimes a candidate’s current company will counteroffer, which throws a big wrench in everything. The good news is that you can follow a few simple steps to position yourself well before a counteroffer is made:<p>> - Candidates are less likely to reneg once they officially sign, so get them to sign your offer before they tell their employer.</i><p>Good news! Employ your mark's commitment bias to advance your own position at their expense.<p>Similarly the section just a bit later on exploding deadlines — first a few tactics on how to use exploding deadlines yourself, and then just a few sentences later, with no shame, arming the candidate with phrases to push back on exploding deadlines from other companies...<p>I can't recommend strongly enough, patio11's classic on salary negotiation: <a href="https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/" rel="nofollow">https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/</a><p>But I think I might start recommending this one to job-hunters too. As a way of saying "this is what you're up against, be aware what some people will try to do to you to get you to compromise your negotiating position."
Aside: One of the worst trends we have going is emojis in articles, commit messages, readmes and PRs. Emojis are great for chat when you want to express emotions. When it comes to reading text anywhere else:<p>- It distracts from years of training we have in recognizing characters of a particular language and word shapes<p>- It takes an extra second to process the symbol since we're not used to it. For example, "Notice a _bug_emoji_ ? Send us an email." [1]<p>- It draws eyes to the Emoji's first because they're foreign symbols and they're painted in color.<p>- Notion is one of those products that encourages this. I really don't see the benefit. Perhaps in labels it is ok - since its a symbol that's used to categorize things, and it is not prose.<p>[1] <a href="https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-election-forecast/#byline" rel="nofollow">https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2020-election-forecast/...</a>
>> early-stage startups who have raised enough money to hire their initial team<p>Is it just me who sees this as backwards? raise money => hire => build? shouldn't you have done something before you raise money, or is this my old-fashioned ideas colliding with the new "growth hacker" startup mentality?