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Re:Ask HN: What should i answer to a question about salary? by vonmoltke on Friday September 26, 2014 @11:06AM (#8372997)
Interesting. I will keep that in mind the next time the issue comes up.

The particular case I mentioned was complicated because: a) the initial offer was knowingly less than I currently made; b) I previously worked for the parent company of the company making the offer and the offer was the same salary grade and almost the same salary I had when I left 2.5 years before. I'm not sure I would have tried to negotiate even if I thought I could get them up 30% - 40%.

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Re:Ask HN: What should i answer to a question about salary? by kris-jagasia on Friday September 26, 2014 @11:14AM (#8373037)
Ah. From being on the other end of hiring decisions, my general advice would be to aim high on initial conversations and gauge reactions + adjust downwards from there. You can always adjust down, hard to adjust up!
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Re:Ask HN: What should i answer to a question about salary? by vonmoltke on Friday September 26, 2014 @12:00PM (#8373258)
Yeah, unfortunately they never asked me what I wanted or expected.
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