Exploding offers are bullshit

1 · Erik Bernhardsson · March 16, 2016, 4 a.m.
I do a lot of recruiting and have given maybe 50 offers in my career. Although many companies do, I never put a deadline on any of them. Unfortunately, I’ve often ended up competing with other companies who do, and I feel really bad that this usually tricks younger developers into signing offers. On numerous occasions, I’ve gotten an email halfway through the interview process Erik, I'm very sorry, but I'm not going to move forward with the interview process. Another company gave me an offer a...