I botched the salary expectations part in my recruiter screening (accidentally said over what the role range was). I thought that would end my chances. But after resetting my expectations first, the recruiter is still moving me on to the next interview.

My question is, will the senior managers i interview with now hold a bias against me for asking for too much initially? Company is PwC

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As a non-partner who has done countless interviews at different consulting firms. I was never aware of any of that.

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Sounds like you didn’t botch it!

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If it was too high they would have told you. I recently had an interview where I said my expectations and they told me (a couple days later) that our salary expectations did not align and that they wouldn’t move forward with me. You’re probably fine.

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True yeah it slightly sucks. But this is a PM role and breaking into PM has been hard, at least for me. So I don't mind taking a pay cut for now. I'll use this role and PM experience to leverage getting a bigger comp in a couple years.

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