> We don’t negotiate during the hiring process. Our first offer is our last and best offer. If it’s basically in the right ballpark, then we encourage you to take it and we’ll adjust it later if we were off. But if we’re so far off that we’re not in the right ballpark, then clearly this isn’t going to work anyway. There’s no need to fight over a few percent: let’s just get started and adjust later.
Apparently they'd like to hire "10x engineers" (lol), but not quite enough to actually talk with them to determine a mutually beneficial compensation scheme. Their offer is the fair one, and a counter-offer is the engineer quibbling over a couple percent. If that's the case, why can't that few percent go the engineer's way? Nice to see that they've resolved the problem in their favor.
If a prospective employer gave me a non-negotiable offer and refused to countenance alternatives, I'd run far, far away from that paternalistic prison, no matter the offer or company.