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Goes both ways. I make a point of working at well-funded tech companies and if a recruiter neglects to raise salary from the get-go I use it to my advantage to
by schoolornot 6y ago
Goes both ways. I make a point of working at well-funded tech companies and if a recruiter neglects to raise salary from the get-go I use it to my advantage to make them and the hiring manager squirm as they re-arrange the department budget to pay me an extra 20%+ over the initial offer. As you mentioned, time is money :) and interviewing sucks even more after you find the right candidate.
- pdimitar 6y agoTrue true, and I mostly did the same this time around. But the pandemic thinned my savings much earlier than I anticipated (I should have been able to coast on them all the way to Christmas) so at one point I was forced to play the numbers game -- while ignoring obvious bad signs -- much more than I wanted. Lessons learned though. I quickly started putting very steep conditions on the table in response to employers whose conditions I had reservations about. It worked. 99% bailed out, only 2 agreed with my conditions. But by then I had much better offers overall so it didn't help them.