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Negotiating hard works fantastically well for people who work in information technology.
It doesn't unless you're part of the absolute minority even in IT. You need to be really qualified for this.
I also again want to emphasize that not giving your expectation is not the same as negotiating hard.
Your run off the mill network guy or admin will not have success with this.
Source: Work in IT and manage people
I would argue that experienced quality - or even serviceable - IT is the absolute minority, to begin with.
There are organizations that aren't one bad day in IT away from starting a company-ending death spiral, but they're not typical.
Many CEOs and HR professionals underestimate that risk, but that underestimation is a self-correcting problem over time.
IT professionals may lose the current opportunity by negotiating, but their next opportunity isn't (statistically) far in the future.
As a bonus, employers who are averse to having IT employees negotiate tend to be lousy employers
It is, but the point still stands that you need to be extremely sought after to make it work WITHIN IT.
If you're applying for a CISO position and have 20 yrs experience it might work. That's the level we're talking about.
If you're a sysadmin and are applying for management of 50 windows clients you'll be out the door with that kind of negotiation.
In my opinion the vast majority of interviewers will not take shit like that unless you're extremely qualified and money probably wouldn't be an issue to begin with.
I've conducted interviews in multiple countries in several continents.
If it works for you keep going of course. I just don't see that to be realistic or viable advice for most people reading here.
Fair point. My experience is with cloud admins. With so much going to the cloud, there's so much unmet demand for cloud administration.
Even so, most Windows sysadmins I've met have been able to land cloud jobs after a few attempts - and they tend to be great at it. The professional principles of a good senior sysadmins translate well to the new cloud ~~bullshit~~ stuff.