> But if you've been interviewing you should have an intuition for what you can expect. Indeed. I have talked to recruiters at companies like Stripe, Square an

> But if you've been interviewing you should have an intuition for what you can expect. Indeed. I have talked to recruiters at companies like Stripe, Square and Facebook who say they are willing to negotiate up to U$480k to hire a person with my experience and skills. Unfortunately, the invitations were coincidentally scheduled during my on-call shift, so I missed some of the interviews, which resulted in early rejections. I can probably talk to them again, if Apple is unwilling to negotiate a bit more. Maybe I should do that now: get offers from one of them and tell Apple, because, as someone else said in this thread: “You need two offers before joining any tech company.”