Ask HN: How do you reject a startup job offer without burning bridges?
In the past month or so, I&#x27;ve had job offers from two wonderful startups (co-incidentally both are YC companies). While I&#x27;ve found both the companies and the teams highly motivated, I made my decision to join the slightly larger of the two startups, mostly because I come from a large enterprise software company and probably don&#x27;t have the confidence to join the smaller one at this stage.<p>Now, despite of me expressing the reason for rejection to the smaller company, they have been trying to convince me that I might be backing out due to imposter syndrome, which is clearly not the case. It has been three days and despite of me rejecting the offer, the co-founders of the smaller company have been calling me in.<p>Given the situation, how do I reject the offer without burning bridges ?