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Companies are often times weasels. They will try to figure out your current salary and offer some small increase.

In my experience you need to have leverage before negotiating, so I remain “negotiable” and never tell my current salary until an offer is on the table. Once they want you comp can be more easily negotiated.

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People should know that even if you never tell them your current salary, they can often just look it up: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29834753

I know they can. I see no reason why I should volunteer information they can find on their own with a little effort on their part. If I have to research a corporation to get a job, they can damn well do some due diligence before trying to hire me.

That’s good to know. However, if someone wants to recruit me, they will need to offer significantly more than my current gig. Otherwise, I will simply not accept the offer.

Yes but if `negotiations` fail in the end because the max they can offer is lower than your acceptable minimum, both company and you end up wasting valuable time because now both of you need to do entire loop again.

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