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I appreciate the detail you put into your review. We are definitely a small company but the work we do touches critical data with some of the largest institutions in the world. In practice that means we have to be stringent (both technically and ethically) on our hires both during the interviews and especially in the reference checking phase of our process. In this case, the first red flag was that your first reference submitted (of 2) was a personal friend. That alone did not disqualify you as you mentioned but it certainly put us all on guard. Then, during your salary discussion you represented that a leader in the company had made you an out of band salary offer. In retrospect, I should have first checked that it was accurate before sending it for papering. When I followed up with the person you mentioned, it was made clear to me that you had lied about the offer. In your note, you call this 'negotiation.' As you mentioned, we're small so trust is incredibly important here. We can't have people any position -- much less one where they will have access to production financial data -- if they aren't truthful about simple things before they have even joined the company.
