I agree with almost everything in this post with the exception of taking others for burgers and asking them about their salary (directly or indirectly).<p>Most people will not feel comfortable sharing their salaries or salary scale (company information) with someone they don&#x27;t know or just met. Thankfully there are sites such as Payscale and Glassdoor where people share salaries anonymously so you can lookup the salary scale&#x2F; range for a company.<p>Even if you can&#x27;t find it for company A that you are intending to work for you can always do a comparative market analysis; look up salary info for company B or C who are in Tech and in the same area&#x2F; domain and you can use this information to at least get a baseline or as leverage in the negotiation.<p>In fact this is something I blogged about a few days ago <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dreamjobexec.com&#x2F;7-tools-help-get-tech-dream-job-hint-linkedin-job-boards-not-list&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;dreamjobexec.com&#x2F;7-tools-help-get-tech-dream-job-hin...</a>