How much trouble can you get in for accepting one offer and then backing out to accept another instead?

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It’s a free market! You can get hired and fired at will.

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You look like an asshole to company 1 and company 2 probably never finds out or cares. The earlier you back out, the less it matters

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Do what’s best for you, the only time I’d worry is if you have any interest in going for a job at the first company ever again

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