Prashant Pitti, the co-founder of EaseMyTrip, shared a screenshot on Twitter of a message by a candidate who was selected for a job at his company. On the day of their joining, the candidate informed Pitti that they won’t be able to join his company as they received a better offer from another company.
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Posting the screenshot on Twitter, the EaseMyTrip co-founder asked for a solution to resolve this problem. He argues that after a candidate accepts an offer letter, every other potential candidate who had applied for the same role is rejected and a company is made to wait for months for the selected candidate to join.
Someone pls solve this hiring issue
This is hugely prevelant & ends up wasting so much time & resource
Once a candidate accepts offer-letter, companies wait for months & rejects all other potential candidates
But candidate decides on very last day, that they won't be joining pic.twitter.com/R9UfV45eMz
— Prashant Pitti (@ppitti) September 1, 2022
He further argued that it is unthinkable for an employer to reject a candidate after handing them an offer letter on the day of their joining. So why should candidates do the same?
Many people falsely equating this to, employers firing people. Firing and quitting happens all the time
Real equalizer would be, if employers also start to offer-letter and then on joining-date say NO to candidate, as they found better employee!
Would this be acceptable? Big NO
— Prashant Pitti (@ppitti) September 1, 2022
He further claimed that this is a recurring problem that is happening with many of the hired candidates, not just in junior levels but in senior levels as well.
Also it’s very common, 25-40% of the hired candidates, say they won’t be joining at the last minute.
And its not just the juniors, happening at senior level equally
If this is happening to an org as big as ours; I can’t even fanthom what’s happening at newly launched startups!
— Prashant Pitti (@ppitti) September 2, 2022
Don't accept offer letter, it's fine
But this is after accepting offer-letter & then not showing up the last minute (after making employers wait for months)
— Prashant Pitti (@ppitti) September 1, 2022
This started a massive debate on Twitter. There were some who asked employers to reduce the notice period and others who suggested that in such cases, employers should place a counteroffer on the table. There were also people who sided with the candidate claiming that saying yes to a better offer is a completely reasonable thing to do.
4) Every employee got chance to compare there salary with other and to achieve that level they have now tips and tricks to do it.
5) Like company/startup even employee wants there salary to be 3x 5x 10x and will only be achive by switching and getting more offers in hand— Akshay Bhatt (@akshaybhatt26) September 1, 2022
Every candidate is likely to be exploring multiple opportunities parallelly and all of them operating at different speeds. What would be the ideal thing to do if he/she receives a better offer after accepting one?
Better than resigning after 1-2 months.— Gaurav Tiwari (@gauravt168) September 1, 2022
Easy solution – All employers remove the stupidly long notice period to max 1/2 weeks. Solves both offer shopping issue & drop off issue. Once offer letter is given candidate will join in 1/2 weeks or offer is gone. Ball is/was always in employer’s court.
— Anmol ramraika (@aramraika) September 1, 2022
The problem is NOTICE PERIOD…!!!
The corporate world have such a long notice period which gives ample of times to to think and apply all the best and medium opportunities…
Even if I am at that stage if my life and i get offer from another company which have similar povs.— radhika. (@LonellyLemon) September 3, 2022
This is not new for me & Industry, I face similar challenges on weekly basis & we called "dishonestly". Most important, No-one can resolve this issue unless you are unable to read human mind or people what exactly they want ……In my case joining Attrition in less than 5% 👍
— Yogeshwar 🇮🇳 (@yogityagi13) September 4, 2022
The simple solution is reducing the notice periods to the minimum that’s needed. Documented processes that keep handovers short.
— Chetan Divekar (@DivekarChetan) September 1, 2022
Prashant give offer letter only on date of joining. Before that send just selection mail with salary breakup . I saw few companies doing this… Then a person who actually need a job will come and join and collect his/her offer letter. Otherwise try referrals where you can ask
— Pavan (@Gudivada__Pavan) September 1, 2022
Everyone will selfishly optimise pretty expected human trait, the whole industry can however collectively reduce the notice period to 2-4 weeks and save everyone the hassle
— pranav (travelcase.club) (@pranavsinghania) September 1, 2022
This taught me one thing tho, As applicants – it's our responsibility to inform the recruiters about our other applications which have probability of clashing with the current application. Both the parties will be more open, and the surprise bombs won't cause damage to receiver.
— Sarvesh Joshi (@_SarveshJoshi) September 6, 2022
Major bottleneck for a lot of organisations. Definitely a scope for someone to build a employee & employer commitment score card platform similar to a cibil score system.
— Lokendra Saini (@LokendraSaini_) September 1, 2022
Notice Period! The sole reason. 3 months of NP… you kidding me? Of course people will look for better offers. And if the company needs 3 months to transition off the resource then well they are not efficient at all. Rejecting on the last day is not ideal but fix the NP first!
— Teja Reddy (@tteredd) September 6, 2022
‘By God’s grace’…lol..I don’t have a problem understanding this behaviour. I’m not even surprised. What irks me is the way people start condoning, justifying and defending this.
— Ravi Kiran (@ravitwo) September 2, 2022
Happens with us every single day, happened today too that too with one of the most senior hire who turned down after we releasing appt letter citing competition clause, are u kidding me!! You are a brand, just think how difficult would it be for the growing unbranded startups
— Akshay Shah – Founder CEO, iWebTechno (@AkshayiWeb) September 1, 2022
What are your views on this issue?