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Thanks. Note to self: If talking to external recruiter, 1) check if they are willing to keep my salary confidential and 2) get market salary info.

Also, looks like it is good to have a big salary to anchor the target salary higher. You are out of luck if you were working on your own startup for past 5 years with a low salary

In your experience, how common is that candidates lie about/inflate their salary to keep the anchor higher? Was any one caught doing this?

The recruiter I talked to is a technical recruiter under the company payroll. Not an external recruiter.

> just ask him, how your currently salary is influencing the decision making process, if your are the candidate or not.

I didn't ask him this. But, another recruiter did tell me that it is HR policy that company need to know this before coming up with offer.

> in Europe, people mostly don´t talk about salaries.

Good to know that.