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I accepted a counter a few years back where they matched a very large raise (40%+) and then promoted me. I liked my leadership and while a part of me wonders where I'd be if I accepted the PwC offer, I've had a lot of success at my firm and have continued to be promoted and advanced.
Rare instances do counter offers result in a future positive experience. In today’s market there are more candidates than jobs so people are very easily replaceable.
You can accept the counter but they will likely open a confidential search to backfill you. Currently working on 2 confidential searches for backfill.
Counters are more often a temporary bandaid than ownership of a mistake they correct by paying what someone else would.
Again some end up in a positive way, but devils advocate- at the end of the day you interviewed (likely on company time) behind their backs and they should reward you for it?
If you could bake in a guaranteed employment period of accepting the counter that could be a start.
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No they won't. Why people parrot this garbage I will never understand. A business countering to keep you means, in most cases, they value you.
It depends.
But anybody who says it's 100% bad to take a counter offer is wrong. I personally know of multiple cases over the years, and they stayed and got promoted after as well.
But that is not enough for me to tell you how your workplace culture is or how your specific team will take it.
Most counters come with a 12-month claw back now; essentially that’s Accenture’s insurance, and yours, that you’re going to be around for at least another year.
Mine was 24 months. And I’m going to break it.
Highly dependent on the personalities in your team. Some may really want you to be sufficiently and some may forever hold it against you that you put them in that position.
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