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0 pointscamjohnson267y ago0 comments

I have been interviewing recently and started turning down any coding assignment that will take more than a couple of hours. To get a reasonable number of offers to enable you to negotiate requires going through the interview process for several companies since some percentage of them will turn you down. After a phone screen I don’t have enough information about the role to be able to potentially waste 10-20 hours on a toy problem.

A few companies gave a simple api project or a timed hacker rank and those feel reasonable. An entire web app with database, rest api, front end and CI pipeline following production code best practices does not.

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wonderwonder7y ago· 2 in thread

Negotiating a salary is a situation I have never been in as I have always told them up front before interviewing how much I want to get paid after finding out the salary range. Whenever a recruiter calls, I ask the salary first and tell them where I want to be on that range before even sending a recent resume. Not that negotiating for more if I have several offers would not be great, just not something I have experienced. I interview, they already know my number as I have already asked the hiring salary range and told them what I want. If I pass the interview they offer me my original request and we move forward. I could see how if one was interviewing with multiple companies and had multiple offers how one could seek to play them against one another for a potentially higher amount. Just hasn't happened to me.

pjc507y ago

First you have to find out the salary range, and a horribly large number of companies are secretive about this.

scarface747y ago

That’s the easy part - don’t apply blindly.

I’ve always gone through local recruiters that have relationships with the hiring manager. They know the salary range, the interview process, and where other candidates fail because they get feedback from both the candidate and the hiring manager.

dragonwriter7y ago· 1 in thread

> To get a reasonable number of offers to enable you to negotiate

You only need 1 offer to negotiate.

the_jeremy7y ago

While technically correct, I think most people agree that it is better to field several offers simultaneously so you can choose the best culture fit for yourself as well as being able to provide a concrete example of someone offering you a higher salary to most easily justify your counter-offer.

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