What the review gives you
Red flags
Equity you can't value, nothing in writing, a deadline designed to stop you thinking, a title that moved instead of the money.
Questions to ask
Written so you can paste them straight into your reply, each with a line on what the answer tells you.
Your leverage
What is worth negotiating in your situation, in what order, with a script you can adapt.
What it deliberately won't do
It won't tell you your salary is 12% below market and it won't put a number on your equity. Credible pay benchmarks need hundreds of comparable offers for your exact role, level and city. Equity value depends on a valuation and preference stack that candidates are rarely shown. Tools that produce those numbers anyway are guessing.
It also won't tell you whether to accept. What it does instead is make sure that when you decide, you are deciding with the full picture rather than a partial one.
Why the days before you sign matter most
Almost all of your leverage exists in the short window between receiving an offer and accepting it. Once you sign, the questions get awkward and the answers stop mattering.
In the hiring stories on GotAJob, the people who did best in that window were specific: one moved a base from $165,000 to $195,000 plus a $35,000 sign-on by naming exact competing timelines, one turned a junior title into a senior one with a three-page document, and one kept a four-day week at full pay by simply asking.
Two others walked away, one after a company refused to share the valuation behind its equity, and one after two former employees described a roadmap that was rewritten every six weeks.
Common questions
Is the job offer review really free?
Yes. No signup, no credit card, no trial. To keep it fair there's a limit of 5 reviews per day per person, plus a total daily cap for everyone.
Will it tell me if my salary is too low?
No, and be wary of any free tool that claims to. Reliable pay benchmarks need hundreds of comparable offers for your exact role, level and city, and a confident wrong number could cost you thousands. Instead the review tells you where to check, what to ask, and how to open the conversation.
Will it tell me whether to accept?
No. That decision is yours and depends on things a tool cannot see. What it does is make the offer legible: what is missing, what is risky, and what is worth negotiating.
Can it value my equity?
No. Equity value depends on the current valuation, dilution history and preference stack, which almost no candidate is shown. Rather than guess, the review gives you the specific documents and questions to request, so you can judge it with real numbers.
Do you store my offer?
We don't store the offer text you write. We keep a small anonymous record of the role, country and a broad salary band to run the usage limits and to understand what people are weighing up. It is never linked to you.
When should I use this?
After you receive an offer and before you accept it. That window, usually a few days, is when almost all of your leverage exists and when the questions below are still easy to ask.
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