After multiple rounds of interviews, had anyone ever been offered a job that was a full level lower than the position you were interviewed for? What did you do?

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Yes. And sadly, I was so desperate to get out of my toxic situation that I took it. 1 year later, I still don’t have the promised promotion

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Yup. Same as SAD1. They threw 5k more at me but wouldn't give me the title. Took 6 months longer than they promised for the title and got treated even lower in the meantime.

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Same thing happened to me 👆 Don’t do it.

They do that so that they can pay you less while slowly adding the responsibilities of the original job that you interviewed for

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I actually got a better title than what I was expecting AND they gave me exactly what I asked for in salary without even countering. I was ecstatic. I later came to realize they bumped me up in title to make me an underpaid Sr rather than an overpaid AD.

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