Comment by Amit Sharma on "How To Crack Your Next Software Developer Job Interview: An Actionable Guide"

You need tobe transperent about your current salary. If your current is below market standards, you can mention the same as your reason for higer expectations. Also good companies generally have bands. They will give you salary based on your experience level & expertise. Your current salary doesn't matter. One more way to make sure your salary meets market standards is to get get multiple offers and negotiate.
Generally the hiring companies want you to join as early as possible. But your current employer may want you to serve the complete notice period. But companies generally agree for early release if you're not a very critical resource and not any critical release depends on your presence in the company. But in the worst case scenario you can tell your future employer that you can join only after serving the complete notice period, which they generally agree for.

I'd also highly suggest going through the following resources:

Salary Negotiation: Make More Money, Be More Valued — by Patrick McKenzie, works at Stripe

Fearless Salary Negotiation Website — Proven salary negotiation strategies and tactics for Software Developers

I also learned some very useful tactics from Ramit Sethi's resources on salary negotiation. In his book for example, there's a chapter on salary negotiation. I'll cite one useful sentence that absolutely helped me not tell my current compensation first, so that I could prevent bias and still not hurt relations with the HR over the call ( because remember HR across companies do what they do 4-5 times each week. Software engineers on the other hand, do this every 2-3 years ). Ramit says Don't make the first offer

That's their job. If they ask you to suggest a number, simile and say "Now come on, that's your job. What's a fair number that we can both work with"

More than anything, through these resources I learnt to use an acceptable language that is neither rude nor docile, which immensely helps while talking to negotiate.

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