A company is not sensitive to the few thousand dollars a candidate is afraid to ask for, because the fully-loaded cost of employing them dwarfs it.

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• Negotiating hard costs a candidate nothing, because the person on the other side is spending a budget rather than their own money and will not hold it against them. PMPatrick McKenzie23 Jan 2012
• Asking a candidate for their salary history is a way to justify paying them below market, so a candidate should never name a number first. PMPatrick McKenzie23 Jan 2012
• A company's staff-engineer bar should be set against the best companies in the industry rather than against its own history, which is what makes title inflation a real cost. TPThuan Pham1 Apr 2026
• Because one person has more leverage than ever, a team can hire fewer people and give the ones it hires better salaries. DMDanny Martinez29 Sept 2026
• A stated company value that nobody would take the other side of is a platitude, not a choice. TLTobias Lütke18 Sept 2025

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