The art of salary negotiation for designers, women and more

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I’ve been on the offering end of 50+ jobs over 14 years as a hiring manager in design firms, startups, and large tech companies. Over the years, I noticed that almost all the women accepted their first offer while men would tend to negotiate for more money about 2/3 of the time. These are highly unscientific data-points and they also inspired me to spend more time trying to change the…