and sometimes before starting ... at two weeks' out, they'd had to change the salary offer (down) because they had screwed up the salary calculation, expressed surprise I'd said I planned to use the unlimited vacation policy to take a fixed four weeks a year (they felt it was a lot), changed the offer from employee to contractor, referred me to their accountant for what was really the simplest of accounting queries, sent me an equity calculator with an assumption of a $10bn sale price, and some other weird stuff. Really should have known better, and only lasted a few months -- my old company reached out to check I was happy in the new role, and had me back within a fortnight of checking in.