[hummingn3rd]

I am a bit confused by not talking about the salary right away, I have seen advice like yours and in this article about not giving the number fisrt but the opposite in other articles saying to leverage the anchoring bias by giving a high number first. That would help raising the following offers. Both approaches seem to make sense so I am not sure what to choose.

[Pooge]

I think it's fair to give it first if you're a Senior engineer and are able to receive offers quickly.

If you were looking for a $150k salary, you could drop an extreme anchor at $200k and they might even give you $180k.

[ornornor]

I’m also ambivalent because you risk investing in a time consuming interview process only to find out they’re offering .5 of what you deemed the minimum you’d take.

[1oooqooq]

are you a vc level with visibility of salaries in all the company orgs? if not, just stay silent or you will undercut yourself. working class never knows their value, by design.

[therealdrag0]

You can get a lot of data points online though from levelsfyi or blind.

[1oooqooq]

that shows you how cheap people are working for, not how much you are worth to the company. as i said, better not to say any number