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		yitchelle on July 1, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Software Engineer’s Guide to Negotiating a Rai... Interesting tactic. Do you mention the 5% raise in your offer letter? I wonder how this would affect the mindset of the candidate?

jrs235 on July 1, 2015 [–]

Yes we do mention it in the offer letter. Again, we start at their low end of their range though. We want them to know that "if things work out" they'll get a raise.

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