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One software engineer's path to 40% salary raise

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Re: One software engineer's path to 40% salary raise

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

No, this is an actual guest post from a real user.

I think it would be more convincing if it was on her blog and not on the Salary Fairy site.

Will a Medium post suffice?

https://medium.com/p/c7ea9cef0b01

The part where I offered on my own to write it is 100% true, by the way. They wouldn't even suggest what to say, and they put it up with virtually no edits. Which is amazing, since it could probably use a few.

Re: One software engineer's path to 40% salary raise

#7
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I don't understand, when the recruiters asked about your salary history, why give it? Just tell them how much you expect to make, and that is that.

That's probably good advice, but:

1) some people don't like to lie.

2) telling an actual lie during some parts of the recruitment project leaves you open to rare but unpleasant effects.