Gergely aka The Pragmatic Engineer recently highlighted a case of a rescinded offer. I was wondering how you would have dealt with this case if you were the hiring manager
That's a great dilemma. I'll ask it on LinkedIn on Sunday, curious to see what others will answer :)
My answer:
First of all, my goal would be not to get to that situation from the beginning. I had cases where together with my manager we decided to wait for a role we had budget for, amid business uncertainty. If you have a critical leadership offsite coming up in 2-3 weeks, you should know about it, and delay extending offers until decisions are made.
Assuming it still happens - I would be super pissed off at my own manager (and probably their manager too). I would try to talk with the most senior person I can, to understand how we got there, and what can we do to never have this situation again.
And if that person gave a notice in another job - I would ask for giving them at least a month of compensation (probably a futile try, but still worth doing).
Then of course it's our job to break the news in person, and not in an email! Ideally by the most senior person to show how deeply sorry we are, but also in a separate call by the hiring manager.
Gergely aka The Pragmatic Engineer recently highlighted a case of a rescinded offer. I was wondering how you would have dealt with this case if you were the hiring manager
Rf. https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/the-pulse-131
That's a great dilemma. I'll ask it on LinkedIn on Sunday, curious to see what others will answer :)
My answer:
First of all, my goal would be not to get to that situation from the beginning. I had cases where together with my manager we decided to wait for a role we had budget for, amid business uncertainty. If you have a critical leadership offsite coming up in 2-3 weeks, you should know about it, and delay extending offers until decisions are made.
Assuming it still happens - I would be super pissed off at my own manager (and probably their manager too). I would try to talk with the most senior person I can, to understand how we got there, and what can we do to never have this situation again.
And if that person gave a notice in another job - I would ask for giving them at least a month of compensation (probably a futile try, but still worth doing).
Then of course it's our job to break the news in person, and not in an email! Ideally by the most senior person to show how deeply sorry we are, but also in a separate call by the hiring manager.
Thanks for the mention! :-)
You are welcome, it's an interesting concept!
Lots of wisdom here. Thanks for the mention, @antonzaides
Thanks Itzy! I was surprised by the interesting debates that resulted from those :)