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Pretty much. I had one (out of about ten) company ever offer more from negotiation, and that was only because I had a counter offer from another place. And it

• Mehdi2277 6y ago
  I've had 3 jobs since college. First one I unintentionally negotiated the internship although did not negotiate the later full time conversion. 2nd/3rd jobs both were negotiated. 2nd job was around 20% increase while 3rd job was 17ish percent. I only had offers from 3 places for the 2nd/3rd job. So 2/3 were successful negotiations. The 17ish percent was also an easy negotiation as I basically just said the current offer number wasn't enough to make me leave my current role and the recruiter immediately jumped to that so they had a 2nd offer ready as a backup. The last company I couldn't get them to budge at all although to there credit they were near the top end of the pay band data I found in levels for the role. The companies were 1 small startup (first one) and then 3 big N type companies. I think startups tend to be negotiation friendly and have poorly defined pay bands anyway. big N is sorta used to them for candidates negotiating with multiple offers (or vs there current role).