Got a verbal offer from Novartis and accepted during a call with the recruiter. The recruiter told me they do not send any digital or physical offer letters anymore but that a contract should be ready within a week. Is this a common practice nowadays?

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AstraZeneca did not send me one until we have negotiated all the salaries and verified vesting schedule. The offer letter was the final step.

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Will you be a contractor or consultant? Sounds like they’re drawing up an SOW not an offer letter. For full time u need a letter.

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Its a full time job. Recruiter told me they do not send offer letters anymore but that contract should be ready in about one week, I am guessing in WD.

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DocuSign contract is the norm now

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Thanks!

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Also got an offer verbally (from a different company); they wouldn’t send anything written until I had verbally accepted. Supposedly this is to combat people using an offer letter from company A only as a leverage tactic to get higher salary/better offer with company B.

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