Hi, hoping to get some advice :)
Can you still negotiate an offer even if the hiring manager has said the company is held to strict salary bands and they offer you the upper end? If so, how do you go about it? I just don't want to scare them off especially after they already told me that.
Thank you!

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I personally would take them at their word, and understand their offer to be the best and final, and I would only ask for more if I had another offer on the table flr more, but liked this company better.

It's an employer's market, the only leverage you have is a real second offer.

I’m terrible at negotiating so just take pleasure in knowing you can’t be worse than me. Early in my career I was once prepping to negotiate so all I kept repeating in my head over and over again was “that is very generous but I will only accept $10 (made up) for this role” or something like that. Anyway HR called me and wa alike “congratulations blah blah blah we would like to offer a starting salary of $30” to which I replied “that is very generous but I will only accept $10 for this role” HR was silent for a moment and then luckily pretended not to hear it.

You can do whatever you want to do

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