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Ask HN: Salary negotiations – should I bother getting a competing offer?
Long story short, I am unemployed. I went through most of Facebook's interview process before interviewing at any other company. I'm wondering if it's worth it to get other offers or just go with FB without negotiating.
I am at the onsite stage at FB and can push that back as much as needed. I am also in the middle of interviewing at Google (which takes ~2 months) and just started interviewing at Twitter and a couple other companies (that take ~1 month). Purely just to up my TC.
I am concerned about opportunity cost. I have two options: be unemployed for 1+ months and get a slightly larger salary at Facebook, or accept a smaller salary now and start working sooner. Advice?