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Ask HN: Negotiating a consulting contract with large company
I am thinking of doing a contract with a largish startup (500) as the project is interesting and they are in the environmental space.
I have run into issues during the contract negotiation where there seems to be no flexibility at all: start date fixed (in 2 weeks), hourly rate non-negotiable, termination clauses non-negotiable (they have immediate termination and I have no termination for convenience). The rest of the agreement is also one-sided to the extreme.
The process is off-putting, but I am not sure if this is just the big company processes and power establishment or reflective of the value they have placed on me (and that I perhaps did not convey properly).
I have other projects and they are better paid, but this one is interesting.