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If they want to pay you a decent salary, travel reimbursement is within the single digits percentage range of that. If they are not willing to pay <10%, what sh
by pizza 8y ago
If they want to pay you a decent salary, travel reimbursement is within the single digits percentage range of that. If they are not willing to pay <10%, what shows you they are willing to pay 100% of a decent salary?
edit: additionally, by displaying that you are willing to foot the bill for travel, you are showing that you are desperate, which is something they can further leverage in your negotiations IF they ever even consider you.
- sqs 8y agoThis is exactly right. You don’t want to signal that you consider this even remotely acceptable (unless you have no other options—in which case I’d suggest maybe you’re underselling yourself). Source: hired dozens of engineers, interviewed hundreds of engineers
- mcv 8y agoAlso, if they're unwilling to pay for travel, it could be because they have a lot of candidates and paying for all of them would be too much, especially considering they'll probably hire only a few of them. And that raises the question whether you want to shell out that kind of money for only a small chance to get hired. I would ask for more long distance interviews until they're certain enough they want you, that they're willing to pay for travel.