This is written down so you can show it to whoever you'll actually talk it over with.

What happens if it doesn't work out? — Your real probation terms and notice, in plain numbers. Somebody deciding whether to leave a stable job is entitled to know the downside before they resign rather than after
Who else did you consider? — How many people were seen and roughly why this one. It isn't flattery — it tells somebody whether they were chosen or whether they were the last one standing
What's the worst part of this job? — There is one. Write it down. An offer page with no drawback anywhere in it reads as a brochure, and it gets believed like one
Will I be the only one? — Answer it directly for whatever the honest version here is — the only person in their discipline, the only one working remotely, the only one their age on the team. Being the only anything is worth knowing in advance
Is the number negotiable, and how? — Yes or no, and the mechanism. "Make us an offer" is a test some people are far better at than others, and it is not a test of the job
What's changed here recently? — A reorganisation, a funding round, a departure. Anything a new person would find out in week two belongs on this page instead

Two people who joined recently — Their details go straight to them rather than through anybody. We aren't told what was said and we don't ask afterwards
Including one who nearly didn't — Somebody who turned this down once and came back later. That is reliably the most useful conversation on offer and almost nobody thinks to provide it
Somebody who left, if you'd like — Where they're willing to. A company that can't put you in touch with anybody who left is telling you something without meaning to
Nothing gets back to us — Not the questions, not the tone, not whether you called at all. If that guarantee is worth anything it has to be unconditional

There is no deadline on this — Take the time you need. If that's three weeks because of something happening at home, it's three weeks, and nobody will ring you in the middle of it
Why there's no expiring offer — An offer that lapses on Friday is a pressure tactic rather than a hiring practice. It exists to stop you comparing, and the only reason to use one is that the comparison would go badly
What we will do — Check in once, at whatever point you asked us to, and otherwise leave you alone entirely
If you need it in writing for a lender — Say so and it's sent the same day, in whatever form the mortgage or the visa people actually want
If your employer counter-offers — Tell us and you'll get an honest view, including where taking it might be the right call. Sometimes it is, and pretending otherwise would be a poor start
If you need to talk to somebody at 9pm — Say so. Decisions like this get made in the evening and nobody should have to wait until office hours to ask one more question

It's a real offer, not an opening position — Set from the band and from where we think you sit in it, and you can have the reasoning if you want it
It does move, for exactly two reasons — New information about the job's scope, or something we got wrong about your experience. It doesn't move for how hard somebody pushes — which is the point, because then nobody has to push
We didn't ask what you earn now — And won't. It's a number about your last employer rather than about this job, and using it is how a low salary follows somebody for a decade
Everything that isn't salary — Pension, holiday, sick pay, notice, the lot — with numbers rather than adjectives. "Generous" is not a figure anybody can plan around
What can't move, and why — Say which parts are fixed. "Everything is negotiable" is never true, and finding that out at the last minute feels like a bait
Nothing here changes if you ask — Asking about the number, the holiday or the notice has no effect on the offer or on how you're thought of. That should go without saying and it demonstrably doesn't

We say thank you, and mean it — It costs a fortnight of process and it's a completely ordinary outcome. Nobody here will be told you wasted their time, because you didn't
One note in a year — One, not a sequence. If you'd rather not hear from us at all, say so and you won't — and that's honoured rather than logged as a preference to revisit
A reference either way — Where anything from this process would be useful to you somewhere else, ask and you'll have it in writing
You are not quietly marked down — For any future application. It isn't a policy anybody would ever admit to having, which is exactly why it's written here where you can hold us to it
Tell us why, if you're willing — Not so we can change your mind — that conversation is over. It's the single most useful thing anybody tells us and almost nobody does