It also comes off a little entitled of the company. So what if you have some distribution? Maybe I don't agree with you about where I fall in the distribution.

It also comes off a little entitled of the company. So what if you have some distribution? Maybe I don't agree with you about where I fall in the distribution. A policy to set salaries without considering how far above average the candidate is is unsettling. It speaks of seeing people as fungible cogs. If one person won't accept our distribution-based-standard-offer, oh well, next... As a candidate I would see that and then begin to question whether other good people turned them down, and what caliber is the team I'd actually join.