No, negotiate salary to get it as high as possible, then vacation time to get as much as possible, then stock options, then 401k match, etc., etc. With each one make sure they know that is the most important thing to you, so they think that if they give you more on one item they can make it up by not giving you as much on the next one. Of course then the next one becomes the most important thing in the world to you...
Of course, that's used-car buying tactics, so be careful. If you are talking to an HR guy it might be fine to make him mad, but sometimes I feel uncomfortable pushing that hard on my future manager like that.
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