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A colleague lost a hire over this. They found a great candidate and was ready to extend an offer once HR completed the background check. HR found out that the c
by snowwrestler 6y ago
A colleague lost a hire over this. They found a great candidate and was ready to extend an offer once HR completed the background check. HR found out that the candidate had lied about (inflated) their previous salary. Lying during hiring is a mandatory "no" by company policy; bye-bye candidate.
If the candidate had simply declined to disclose previous salary, they almost certainly would have been hired.
In general, I would be careful about lying during hiring. Hard to predict the consequences if it is ever discovered. There are plenty of examples of even senior people getting kicked over this sort of thing.
- wcerfgba 6y ago> HR found out that the candidate had lied about (inflated) their previous salary. How did they find out? I can't imagine they determined this from financial records so I intuit they must have been told by the candidate's previous employer, and if revealing an ex-employee's salary isn't illegal I would have surely thought it was pretty shady / frowned upon.
- 908B64B197 6y ago> HR found out that the candidate had lied about (inflated) their previous salary. Lying during hiring is a mandatory "no" by company policy; bye-bye candidate. What if he simply priced unexercised options or ESPP? Company car? That doesn't sound very professional from the HR rep. And that reflects poorly on the company.
- cvhashim 6y agoUnless he works for a public org where salaries are public information (public universities, usually government jobs, etc). It should be difficult to find this information. Private companies already like to keep a tight seal on what they pay so I’m surprised a simple background check can reveal such sensitive information.