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I have yet to encounter a company that doesn't follow the "pay as little as we can get away with" policy.
by ido 17y ago
I have yet to encounter a company that doesn't follow the "pay as little as we can get away with" policy.
- byrneseyeview 17y agoDo you mean that they chronically underpay people (and thus that you could predict success by looking at companies that pay their employees a lot)? Or are you just observing that all else being equal, companies want to pay less, and workers want to make more, and they either meet at a mutually acceptable value or refuse to do business with one another.
- ido 17y agoThe second. Could be that my experience is not representative, but after asking what my salary expectations were, every company I ever worked for wanted to pay me a bit less than that. I am also sure they would have done so regardless of how much I asked for, it's standard haggling practice as far as I can tell.
- byrneseyeview 17y agoWell, yeah. Unless your negotiating tactic is to name the lowest price you would ever accept, they have to assume that they can offer you less than you originally said.
- angelbob 17y agoNVidia's engineering department doesn't seem to, to give one example where I've worked. They expect long hours, and they expect to pay a premium over market price for them.
- nopinsight 17y agoMy small startup-like company doesn't. We pay 20-30% more than the prevailing market rate and did attract top software engineers in the city. (This is also because the work involves game development and a new interesting platform.)
- joeyo 17y agoCostco seems to pay more than other retailers in their sector, especially when you factor in benefits.