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You're right, but I imagine there is wiggle room - both in scheduling interviews from 5PM to 7-8PM, as well as trading day job business hours needed for interviews for "working late" (really making up the time) for stuff that isn't meetings or synchronous.

If you're hustling toward a $300-600k/yr gig, I think a lot of temporary insanity can be tolerated in furtherance of that goal. Remember also that salary increases compound over your working career.



Works well in theory but not in practice. Your peers/managers will soon notice and figure something’s up especially if each of the interviews has 5-6 rounds(which is what you’d usually expect for a position paying $300k-$600k)

> Remember also that salary increases compound over your working career.

Not true. As demostrated by 2021-2 outrageous offers where the market is now correcting itself.


> Not true. As demostrated by 2021-2 outrageous offers where the market is now correcting itself.

Are many people taking salary cuts? Layoffs?

Enough so to bring them back to where they started?




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