Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Interviewing and Company Culture
by tomtang0514 on Thursday October 06, 2016 @08:33PM
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I've been in both situation. I first encountered (2) when I was looking for my first fulltime job back in college. I had little idea of how much I'm supposed to get paid so I told the recruiter: "I had no idea how much I worth, but one day I'll find out. And if I realized I'm low-balled, I'll left for another company immediately and all the resource your company spend on training me will go nowhere." It worked for me. But I guess it won't work for those really sketchy recruiters since all they care is take their commission.
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Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Interviewing and Company Culture
by deagler on Thursday October 06, 2016 @08:53PM
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Little ballsy, Raises a good point as well. I'll need to keep that in mind when I go for my first FT job
Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Interviewing and Company Culture
by alttab on Thursday October 06, 2016 @09:35PM
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Interestingly enough, recruiters get paid a % of the salary as a commission most of the time. This means they actually have an incentive to get you higher pay.
But they also can't keep bringing in people above a company's ask. It's a balance that has to be managed.
Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Interviewing and Company Culture
by csa on Thursday October 06, 2016 @10:03PM
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The biggest gap for the recruiter is between no and yes. The tiny increase they get for themselves for negotiating hard on behalf of their placement rounds to zero in most cases. If it costs them a placement, the opportunity cost is huge.