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Well, it's a different culture here in Scandinavia. Personally, I couldn't care less if anyone wanted to look up my salary - whether it is a recruiter or someon

Well, it's a different culture here in Scandinavia. Personally, I couldn't care less if anyone wanted to look up my salary - whether it is a recruiter or someone else. I have my own valuation of my time and skills and if a potential employer can't meet that, there's someone else who will. Having this mindset will help sift out companies that you probably wouldn't want to work for in the first place.

walshemj 10y ago
But it reduces your ability to negotiate its also acts to keep the lower orders in their place as an atypical candidate my have started out at a lower salary and so be les likely to progress to the same level as some one born with a silver spoon in their mouth
- Svenskunganka 10y ago
  It's easy to say that without looking at the countries we're talking about here. The nordic countries are the closest places on earth to "everyone born equally". We all have access to the same education and healthcare, whether our parents have money or not (since it is fully government-funded through taxes).
  - kalleboo 10y ago
    Not to mention the strength of unions and collective bargaining (maybe not in tech in particular though)
    - Broken_Hippo 10y ago
      In a way, that goes both ways. In Norway, management is as likely to have a union as the employee. The factory my spouse works at, negotiations are usually done between the unions. A little over half the employees have a union, and from what I understand folks can choose their union. You might have a different work contract than the person standing next to you because of different unions or one having a lack of a union.
- manarth 10y ago
  > it reduces your ability to negotiate It can also increase your ability to negotiate: "This person does the same job as me. That work is value at $X, so I should also be paid $X."
klausjensen 10y ago
I do not think about it in relation to recruiting at all, in a much broader perspective. With regards to what I consider to be private information, I just do not think it is the job of the government to publish it. (I am Scandinavian as well, by the way, although I have chosen to leave - excessive taxation being one on a list of reasons).

walshemj 10y ago

But it reduces your ability to negotiate its also acts to keep the lower orders in their place as an atypical candidate my have started out at a lower salary and so be les likely to progress to the same level as some one born with a silver spoon in their mouth

Svenskunganka 10y ago
It's easy to say that without looking at the countries we're talking about here. The nordic countries are the closest places on earth to "everyone born equally". We all have access to the same education and healthcare, whether our parents have money or not (since it is fully government-funded through taxes).
- kalleboo 10y ago
  Not to mention the strength of unions and collective bargaining (maybe not in tech in particular though)
  - Broken_Hippo 10y ago
    In a way, that goes both ways. In Norway, management is as likely to have a union as the employee. The factory my spouse works at, negotiations are usually done between the unions. A little over half the employees have a union, and from what I understand folks can choose their union. You might have a different work contract than the person standing next to you because of different unions or one having a lack of a union.
manarth 10y ago
> it reduces your ability to negotiate It can also increase your ability to negotiate: "This person does the same job as me. That work is value at $X, so I should also be paid $X."

klausjensen 10y ago

I do not think about it in relation to recruiting at all, in a much broader perspective. With regards to what I consider to be private information, I just do not think it is the job of the government to publish it. (I am Scandinavian as well, by the way, although I have chosen to leave - excessive taxation being one on a list of reasons).