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No, I would have asked them to go with that person. I knew current market value and asked that. I would not have accepted on original terms. Negotiation without counter offer is im…

S/W Engineer. That pay scale is current trend in most good IT companies. Most of my friends in similar experience/field getting this, and I asked for that range too based on curren…

HR is on holiday tomorrow. Can we do it on Monday?

Any argument against this? Jamespitts seems to make perfect sense here. @jamespitts, thanks for the valuable comments. As per my experience just asking $260K from the professional …

www.glassdoor.com may help.

That was the exactly the reason for lying, though can be justified for the game but you start to question your 'integrity' which is relative to the game you are playing.

Its $170,000 total package including stocks, salary etc. per year and not $1,700,000 and I am in Seattle, USA.

I lied about another counter offer at negotiation time and the new company bumped the total offer package from $170,000 (base $130,000) to $260,000 (base $155,000 ) to match the fa…