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Entries for week beginning January 22, 2012

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January 23, 2012

Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued

“The first rule is what everyone tells you it is: Never give a number first” and other important info for engineers.

(Fun fact: The only time in my career I’ve ever offered an answer to the question “What sort of salary are you expecting?”, I gave myself a 33% bump over my then-current salary-and-bonus, and it was immediately accepted by the recruiter. I still wonder what I could have made.)

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