Rushed & disorganized interview process, which left me not feeling confident in accepting a really good offer. After admiring their branding & work for years, I decided to pursue higher offers from bigger companies with more benefits & consumer facing work instead. The work was going to be mostly HCP facing & ultimately I want to diversify my portfolio, which I made known. I really wanted it to work out & loved the people I interviewed with, but they gave me the run around on titles, I didn't interview with who I'd be directly reporting to daily, the benefits were just ok & overall they didn't take enough time to sell me with only two, 30 minute interviews. Thinking about my late, 80 hour nights at a privately held company of the same size & comparing benefits, growth, accounts, I decided a bigger company is better for me.
When I politely declined the offer & thanked the team for their time & consideration, the recruiter I had been working with flipped an unprofessional switch & was incredibly rude, aggressive & nasty. He tried guilting, belittling, & bullying me into changing my mind for 15 minutes. He even went so far as to mansplain how counteroffers work (wrongly), which affirmed my gut decision to turn down an offer that didn't feel right. "Are you sure you want to burn this bridge?" If that's The Bloc's response to declining an offer, then unfortunately yes. Best of luck to them.
