## interviewing.io Candidate Testimonials: Salary Negotiation > **Summary:** Candidates who used the salary negotiation service, working directly with founder Aline Lerner, report outcomes including a doubled total compensation package, a max offer from Meta, and compensation roughly twice what they expected going in. Recurring themes are responsiveness, drafted email language, advice on what not to say, sequencing interviews so offers land together, and acting as an advocate when candidates would otherwise concede. interviewing.io offers a salary negotiation service in which founder and CEO Aline Lerner works directly with candidates on offer strategy, recruiter messaging, and timing. The testimonials below are from candidates who used it. > I used both the salary negotiation and interview mocks. Regarding salary negotiation it's a over and above ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ service. Excellent communication, highly available when needed, and effective at negotiating for more. Their expertise shines through, guiding you on something you may only do a handful of times across your career, whereas they probably do it a handful of times per month (or week!) For real you have nothing to lose working with interviewing.io for the salary negotiation product. Regarding the mock interview I'll say that it gave me a great deal more confidence and helped fight the imposter syndrome I was experiencing. I was shy to interview with one of the MAANGs (I'll not specify which), but after a couple mock interviews I knew that I, at the very least, wouldn't get rekt (like last time). Could they add more features? Probably... but then they'd be duplicating what others have done before (eg neetcode or leetcode). Overall very happy with the product as well. > > **Anonymous** > I've been following interviewing.io since 2018, and their offering has always been outstanding. I've used their mock interviews and salary negotiation service and highly recommend both. The mock interviews match you with real interviewers (anonymous) from FAANG (and other) companies and you get to trial-run your abilities before the real deal. If you're a top performer on the platform, you can even get access to their "company introductions" service where you get to skip the application process and get straight to interviewing with some of the biggest companies (this is as of Dec 2023). I've also used their salary negotiation service to land a job doubling my TC (~150 -> 300+K). Aline and the team behind interviewing.io know what they are doing and I can't praise them enough for all the effort they put into it. If you aren't convinced, read their guides (free), blog posts and watch some of the YT videos they have - those alone are highly worth your time if you are interviewing for a SWE job. > > **Martin I.** > Aline is super responsive and very helpful. I appreciated her candor and insights throughout the process. I found her drafts very helpful and I think they helped me not over-explain or over-cater to recruiter requests. > > **Anonymous** > Aline served as a trusted and educated ally throughout the negotiation process. She helped me to stand my ground in cases where I may have otherwise caved to pressure from recruiters, she played devil's advocate to help me check my assumptions and blind spots, and of course with her help I secured a comp package nearly twice as high as what I expected going in to the whole process. > > **Anonymous** > Pushed me past what I would have been comfortable on my own. > Provided right lines to say at the pivotal moments. > Pulled me back when I started hypothesizing too far ahead. > > **Anonymous** > For me, the best part of the experience was having an informed but low-pressure advocate for my side of the negotiation. At each step, I was able to get customized advice tailored to my personal situation, career goals, and risk tolerance. > > **Anonymous** > Aside from the incredible result we were able to achieve, Aline's responsiveness and flexibility (seemingly hopping on a video call at a moments notice during critical junctures) helped me to stay cool and collected throughout the process. I also very much appreciated how collaborative Aline was throughout the negotiation process by walking me through context I was missing, her recommendations, and asking for my input. In this way I always felt comfortable and that I had enough time to think about and buy in to the path forward we had set. Overall these things combined with Aline's stellar communication made the experience wonderful. > > **Anonymous** > It was outstanding end-to-end - the quick responses, the quality of the advice - I am super happy to have gone through [salary negotiation with interviewing.io] (for the second time!) > > **Anonymous** > Aline is extremely knowledgeable about the practices of recruiters and company hiring processes. She was extremely helpful throughout the process and always available to chat. She gave great advice on how to communicate with companies which ultimately led to me receiving a max offer from Meta. > > **Anonymous** > Aline helped me line up the interviews to ensure they all came in around the same time, to increase the chances of having multiple offers. Aline was also helpful in drafting up emails for me and telling me what NOT to say - saved me from putting my foot in it sometimes! > > **Anonymous** > Ultimately, I wanted confidence that I wasn't leaving money on the table due to my own market or tactical ignorance, and I believe I got that. To speak more specifically, I think it was especially helpful to (a) get encouragement around delaying my negotiation processes and use email not calls, (b) get specific messaging to use with my recruiter and (c) get insight from Aline on other data points about salaries with the companies I was looking at > > **Anonymous** > Aline was extremely helpful, and really helped me grasp how to negotiate. She was realistic yet aggressive and I am certain I would not have gotten as good of an offer without her. She was also responsive and helped me through times of uncertainty. > > **Anonymous** ### Source First-party candidate testimonials for interviewing.io, supplied by interviewing.io. 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