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    Salary Negotiation

    I know folks who"ve worked for Microsoft, and it is a very high stress job in a company with very low tolerance for bullshit and slackers. My current job is approximately zero stress, so someone from a pressure cooker like that would go cuckoo. Ah shit. Scratch that. PM me their resume if...
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    Salary Negotiation

    I"ve worked at all sorts of companies over my working life. Of the companies I"ve worked for, you"ve probably only heard of GM, HP and the Department of Energy. At the larger (Fortune 500) companies that I"ve worked at, promotion from within was the norm (except at the VP and C-level). At the...
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    Salary Negotiation

    I"m not sure that working for some big named company is really worth it on your resume. Google likes to underpay people because their name is fashionable. The cost of living near their HQ is very high, so either you"re going to spend 2 hours commuting each day, or you"ll pay almost all of your...