I agree on that first point. The goal is not to attract the maximum number of job seekers. Driving away people who would be unhappy is good. I suspect that "al

I agree on that first point. The goal is not to attract the maximum number of job seekers. Driving away people who would be unhappy is good. I suspect that "always bringing politics into the job" and "bringing non work related stuff into the job" are not the real cause of your dislike. Can you confirm that you would reject both Google and Facebook due to being excessively political? We're far less political at work than they are. We didn't fire our Bernie supporter. There are no red flags. We exclusively fly the American flag. I keep seeing that people suspect a lack of a salary range indicates nefarious intent, but it's not like that. User rb808 had it right in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16555622 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16555622 when he commented that "if you put a typical range you wont get the best people. If you put a high number out you get every nutter in town applying." I did drop a few hints which you ignored, but the salary range spans more than 6 dB. Everybody seems to underestimate us, and glassdoor's obsolete data doesn't help, but that isn't totally a bad thing. I have no interest in wasting time on people who just spam all the job ads that offer large salaries. I get enough spammy stuff as it is... no, web development experience isn't going to cut it. The value that you provide to one company is not the same as the value that you provide to another company. Consider two companies and two developers. One developer does C++11 and one company wants that. One developer does C# and one company wants that. Applying to the matching companies, perhaps both people are offered $200,000. Applying to the non-matching companies, perhaps both people are offered $100,000. There is no reason to be offended or assume nefarious intent when you get a low offer during a career change. Heart surgeons and stock traders may both get paid well, but a heart surgeon who switches his career to stock trading should not expect prior experience and pay to be at all related to value in the new career.