One software engineer's path to 40% salary raise

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22 pointselmyraduff6 comments

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.

Is this just advertising copy?

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.

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