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Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Interviewing and Company Culture by alttab on Thursday October 06, 2016 @09:35PM (#12657542)
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.

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Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Interviewing and Company Culture by csa on Thursday October 06, 2016 @10:03PM (#12657623)
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.
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Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Interviewing and Company Culture by eropple on Friday October 07, 2016 @01:45AM (#12658460)
This is also often referred to as the "realtor problem", for those who've run into that one.
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Re:Ask a Female Engineer: Interviewing and Company Culture by alttab on Thursday October 06, 2016 @11:01PM (#12657834)
Point taken. For engineers, I can see this being the case.
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