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How to Negotiate Your First Engineering Salary
Lucas and Luna break down the specific strategies and scripts engineers can use to negotiate their first job offer in tech. Using the real case of a bootcamp grad who turned an $85,000 offer into $110,000 at a Series B startup, they walk through the exact preparation steps, the timing of when to bring up compensation, and how to frame counteroffers. Lucas shares a counterintuitive finding from a 2024 study on 10,000 tech offers: engineers who negotiate only on base salary leave equity and bonuses on the table. Luna presses on the emotional difficulty of negotiating when you feel lucky just to…
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