'My Salary Is More Than Your Funding,' Woman's Brutally Honest Answer To Job Offer Goes Viral
When Roshan Patel, founder and CEO of healthcare startup Walnut, reached out to a software engineer to check if she would be interested in working for their company, he was taken aback by her brutally honest response. So taken aback, in fact, that he is still thinking about it nearly two years later.
What would you do if a startup's founder reaches out to you with a job offer? You would either accept or reject it, right? While a woman indeed did the latter, her way of rejection has gone viral recently.
"Still Thinking About The Rejection 2 Years Later"
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Recalling the incident in a Twitter post, Roshan Patel, who is the founder and CEO of healthcare startup Walnut, shared how he still remembers the reply a woman who rejected his job offer gave about two years ago.
He had reached out to a software engineer to check if she would be interested in working for their startup, and he was taken aback by her brutally honest response. So taken aback, in fact, that the founder tweeted yesterday that he is still thinking about it nearly two years later.
Still thinking about this exchange almost 2 years later. pic.twitter.com/YI9b3NZtIV
¡ª Roshan Patel (@roshanpateI) April 26, 2023
The software engineer's straightforward response is now going viral on Twitter.
"My Salary Is More Than Your Funding"
The conversation occurred in September 2021, shortly after Walnut raised funding in a pre-seed round. Soon, its founder and CEO Roshan Patel began reaching out to potential job candidates for hiring.
In the process, he reached out to a woman who was a software engineer, and wrote: ¡°I run a startup increasing access to healthcare by making it more affordable. We just raised a pre-seed round and are looking to hire talented engineers. Any interest in chatting?¡±
The woman replied to Patel that her current CTC is more than Walnut¡¯s pre-seed round. ¡°Hi Roshan, I just checked on Crunchbase and my current salary is more than your entire pre-seed round,¡± she replied.
The tweet already has 2.7 million views and more than 20,000 likes. Here's how Twitterati is reacting to the post.
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Roshan Patel was among the headlines last month as well when he created a fake Linkedin profile using AI and claimed to get a funding offer within 24 hours.
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Reactions To The Post
Think you came a small way since. https://t.co/YZH7qkpt3C
¡ª Tom W Brown (@SimplyTom) April 26, 2023
Doubtful. Unless they were offering 10%+, lots of engineers are making $1M+
¡ª max (@mSanterre) April 26, 2023
¡ª Zack (@2ack0falltrades) April 26, 2023
How dare people try to earn money to survive - absolutely terrible ?
¡ª Roque Deleon (@roqueadeleon) April 26, 2023
Her response was out of pocket but turning down a job strictly because of money is perfectly valid and doesn¡¯t make you a terrible person just because of that
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