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Agreed, but it depends a lot on how much you value your time.

When starting out, you are usually not going to be low balled as you are cheap. Your time is not worth as much either and you are trying to climb the ladder.

Once you get to proper level of compensation, your time becomes much more valuable and the number of offers that meet that level of compensation become much lower. This means your best call is probably to move to talking money first.

Of course, you might miss out on some opportunities but you'll save a lot of time.



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