Perm offer(s) - take the first one available, or stall for as long as possible

[LondonPM1]

Depends on what dodgy industry 1 is in.

However I would stall until you see if you can get an offer from 2.

Then take 2 then take 1.

Forget Amazon. Incidentally because of their drive to recruit more females I have come up in their crosshairs 3 times in the last 5 years and every single time I make it clear I'm not interested.

Wouldn’t pay of 1 vs 2 vs amazon be a consideration surey?

If there was a massive pay increase then that changes things considerably

I’ve heard only bad things about amazon. They work you hard and burn you out and the pay is not great

[SueEllen]

Depends on what dodgy industry 1 is in.

However I would stall until you see if you can get an offer from 2.

Then take 2 then take 1.

Forget Amazon. Incidentally because of their drive to recruit more females I have come up in their crosshairs 3 times in the last 5 years and every single time I make it clear I'm not interested.

[velcro]

Stall 1 until you get an offer from 2.
Forget Amazon, they won't have made a decision by Christmas...

[vwdan]

I think the middle of COVID in September 2020 answer is different to normal - i.e., take whatever you've got on the table because you don't know where your next meal is coming from.

Take the offer, and either stick with it or **** them off if something better comes along.

It's not great, I wouldn't usually advocate it but I don't think nows the time to be worrying about much more than getting a paycheque.

[dsc]

I know this is a perm related thread, so feel free to move to general.

As some (most?) contractors here I started applying for perm jobs to avoid having to live off my savings. Basically went through a month of hitting apply to most things which I was a fit for. Landed a few interviews, currently at different stages with three companies:

1. Offer from a small company which does business in an industry I wouldn't normally touch with a bargepole. Pay is OK for perm, wfh unless you have to go to site to test things. Not crazy about the company myself and this would definitely not by my first or even second choice.

2. Big, fairly well known European company, owed by an even bigger US company, application went really fast, in two days they arranged a date for a call, had it today and they want the final stage probably by the end of this week. Work they do seems interesting and it would look good on a CV.

3. Amazon - dragging their heels, but I reckon they have thousands of CVs. Should have the final stage interview(s) within a month.

I've told company 1 that I'm waiting to hear back from two other companies, I can probably stall them till the end of the week but that is it, maybe delay the start by a week as well. Company 2 knows about offer from 1, so might move quickly, or might decide to bin me, who knows. Company 3 probably doesn't give a tulip about my situation, so I doubt they would speed things up. Preference is back to front, so 3, 2, 1.

Any advice? Take offer 1, carry on with 2/3 and just leave if smth works out? Or stall 1 till 2 offers (IF they offer), then maybe leave 2 as well if 3 offers (that would be a mess).

Original plan was to take whatever, then switch to a contract, but I'm 95% sure my industry won't offer contracts for a very long time (if ever again).