You're right, I saw fast and loose tactics at the negotiating table and I started to conflate the article with something else. Still... While I'd like to believe that the alarm bells sounding at half the shit this CEO was saying would have precluded me from even considering, if I'm being honest, I'm not entirely sure I would've been immune. Confidence follows competence, so I've still got a long ways to go before I could trust myself to suss out such bullshit.
Dude if someone offers you $135k a year TAKE IT. I don't care if they look like the Hamburgler. You can afford to burn a few weeks figuring out that they're Nigerian scammers. Thing of it is, this is kind of a bad riff on the Dan Lyons book, only more whiny and less entertaining. Far more hit piece, far less think piece.
I loved that book, even if it's a bit scary. One of my friends got a job in sales for a marketing software company in Brooklyn, hawking their products to small and medium-sized companies. Sounds like Hubspot? He described to me their sales room, with their "constant happy hours" and a manager who deals cocaine to the employees, and I realized this all started to sound like Hubspot's Howler Monkey room.